School students raised voices against corruption through creative expressions on drawing sheets at a painting competition jointly organised by The Hindu and the Life Insurance Coporation of India (LIC) at Veda Dharma Rakshana Sabha Auditorium of Sri Krishna Guruvayoor Mandir at Seethammadhara on Wednesday.
Around 580 students from 32 schools in the city took part in the competition organised as part of the ‘Vigilance Awareness Week’ being observed across the country.
“Corruption can only be checked when people refuse to yield to the demands of bribes and then India will be among the top countries in the world,” said Y. Jyothi, a 10th class student of GVMC School, Kaparada, who took part in the competition.
Based on the theme ‘corruption-free India’, the young minds gave their artistic best to depict different forms of corruption, raising a voice against it. Judges T. Jagadeesh and Ravi Teja from Department of Fine Arts of Andhra University said the participants understood the concept well and tried their best to vent their ideas.
“If you are caught violating traffic rules, choose to pay the fine, collect the receipt with the promise of not repeating it again. Never try to escape by paying a bribe,” said ACP (traffic) K. Prabhakar while giving away prizes to the winners. He urged students to raise voices against corrupttion.
LIC Senior Divisional Manager P. Ramesh Babu advised the young minds to work to achieve a corruption-free society.
Winners’ list
The competition was held in two categories—juniors (from Stadard V to VII) and seniors (from Standard VIII to X). Apart from three top winners, three consolation prizes were also given away in each category.
In the junior category, S. Siddharth of Little Angels School bagged the first prize while R. Mounika of Prerana Vidyaniketan and M. Bhavani of Keystone English Medium School came second and third respectively.
The consolation prizes went to Sowmya Ranjan Mohanty of Sri Prakash School (Kappulupada), K. Kavya Sudha of KV-NAD and Aakriti Ishika of DAV Public School.
In senior category, Sai Satwik of Sri Prakash School (Pendurthi) bagged the first prize while Y. Jyothi of GVMC School (Kapparada) and C. Sampath of Sri Krishna Vidya Mandir seized teh second and third places respectively.
The consolation prizes were won by P. Harathi of GVMC School (Kapparada), S. Vaishnavi of Little Angels School and Ch. NS Pavan Kumar of Keystone English Medium School.
