51st  Rose Festival wind up with the great Light & sound show

The Voice of Chandigarh: 

Cultural function, performances and competitions marked the conclusion of the three-day Chandigarh Rose Festival at Rose Garden, Sector 16, Chandigarh with the Adviser to the Administrator Dharm Pal, IAS distributing various prizes to the winners of all competitions held during the Rose Festival.

Anup Gupta, Mayor, Chandigarh, Nitin Kumar Yadav, IAS, Secretary Local Government, Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh, other senior officers and councilors of MCC were also present during the occasion.

The Adviser to the Administrator, Chandigarh was the chief guest on the occasion and distributed prizes to winners of various competitions, participants of cultural events, band parties as well as gardeners. The Adviser lauded the efforts of all the team of officers to make the Rose festival success. Councilors and all senior officers were present during the prize distribution function.

On the occasion of the Rose festival there were so many programs that were performed on the third day.

The third day was started with yoga session followed by Morning Raga, which is a classical performance by Swar Ragini mestro Pt. Subhash Ghosh.

After this various folk dances were also performed by different groups to showcase various cultures of India and performances include Devrath folk dance, Bhangra, kalbelia, ghoomar. After this renowned Magician Pardeep Kumar had performed a very great magic show for everyone and all this performances enthralled the public alot.

And finally very beautiful the light and sound show just melted the hearts of the audience by its attractiveness. 

During the day function various competition were held including on the spot painting competition. The results of the on the spot painting are as under:

Group ‘A’ (Age 5-8 Years)    

1^st Prize   :                   Riaan S/o Manoj Kumar

2^nd Prize    :                 Amyra Sharma D/o Umesh Sharma

3^rd Prize     :                 Salansh Mehta S/o Ankush Mehta

Consolation Prize:       Ritanya D/o Mani Shankar     

Group ‘B’ (Age 8-11 Years)

1^st Prize    :                  Dhvani Arora D/o Gopal Krishan

2^nd Prize    :                 Jagatveer Singh S/o Sarbjit Singh

3^rd Prize    :                  Agamjot Kaur D/o Harmanpreet Singh

Consolation Prize :      Sanvi Chauhan D/o Rav Chauhan     

Group ‘C’ (Age 11-14 Years)                      

1^st Prize     :                 Bhavini D/o Gaurav Malhotra                         

2^nd Prize  :                   Sanvi D/o Sandeep Kapita

3^rd Prize   :                   Mishthi D/o Sachin Kaushik

Consolation Prize :      Japneet Kaur D/o Lachhman Singh   

Group ‘D’ (Age 14-17 Years)

1^st Prize    :                  Dhriti Puri D/o Dhiraj Puri

2^nd Prize  :                   Abhishek Kumar S/o Ramesh  Sah

3^rd Prize    :                  Harshita D/o Suresh Kumar

Consolation Prize:       Lakshitta D/o Rohit Kakkaa

Group ‘E’ (Differently able children (p) no age bar)

1^st Prize                       Leeza D/o Deep Kumar

2^nd Prize                      Aarti D/o Siya Ram

3^rd Prize                       Sakshi D/o Devinder Singh

Consolation Prize:       Chandani

Group ‘F’ (Differently able children (m) no age bar)

1^st Prize                       Pragati  Bharwal D/o Nand

2^nd Prize                      Gungun D/o Bhaiya Lal

3^rd Prize                       Kishan S/o Rajdev Dass

Consolation Prize:       Armaanpreet S/o Sikander Singh

 Another major attraction was the Antkashri competition in which various children participated. There were four groups in the final round and the results are as under:

1^st    Jasagam Kaur & Rohan Atwal (GGDSD College Sector 32, Chandigarh)

2^nd       Kaushik & Manisha (GCE, Sector 20-D, Chandigarh)

3^rd       Chayanika Garg & Upagya Chandel ( PGGCG, Sector 11, Chandigarh)