Port Blair, Sept. 10: The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) organized a nationwide art competition in which 11,000 students participated from around 100 cities from all over India and excellent entries were received from different parts of the country. INTACH received entries in English, Hindi and regional languages including Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Malayalam,Odia,Tamil and Telugu.

Out of 11,000 entries INTACH selected 15 National Winners and 103 Regional winners. And INTACH A and N proud to announce that one regional winner is from our islands. Master K. Abhi Raj of 8th standard from Khalsa Public School who drew the Gallows at Viper Island was declared the regional winner.

Today Shri Santosh, volunteer INTACH A and N Chapter handed over the Trophy and certificate to the winners and gave away certificates to participants of the competition from different schools. Shri. Suresh Ray, Vice Principal, Khalsa Public School received the trophy and certificates.