Eight children to compete for Bal Shree awards

Eight Bihari children would represent the state at regional-level competition, to be held later this year in Kolkata, for selection of children for the national-level competition for the prestigious Bal Shree awards.

Those qualifying from Bihar are: Satish Kumar (Patna) and Rishi Raj (Munger) under the painting category, Subhi (Patna) and Aakansha (Darbhanga) under performing art category, Sarika Soumya (Muzaffarpur) and Divya Bhardwaj (Katihar) under creative writing category and Animan Thakur (Patna) and Raj Babu Kumar (Gopalganj) under the science category.

Selection of these children was made through a state-level competition held in July in which 69 participants from all the nine divisions of Bihar took part.

They will now compete for the prestigious `Bal Shree' awards for the first time after the state set up its Bal Bhawan christened `Kilkari' last year. Instituted by the National Bal Bhawan in 1995, the award, meant for children in the age group of 9 to 16 years, aims at identification and promotion of creativity among children in art, science, writing and performing art.

Kilkari director Jyoti Parihar said that the selected eight children would be felicitated by the state government on November 14. She said that a three-day training programme was also organized for the selected children in which experts from different fields imparted specialized training to them. link