Winners of 22nd National Photo Contest announced

INVC Bureau

New Delhi. Winners of the 22nd National Photo Contest, organized by Photo Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcastong on the theme “Badhte Kadam: A vision of hope” have been announced.

Shri Devendra from Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh and Shri Narayan D Patel from Vadodara, Gujarat have bagged the first prize for their pictures Empowering village and No title in Black and white & Colour section respectively. The Second prize for the contest went to Shri Santosh Kumar Jana of Midnapore, West Bengal and Pravesh Chaursia of Indore for their picture Badhte Kadam and Education for all in Black and white & Colour section respectively. Shri Dibyendu Dey Choudhury and Shri Shyamal Das of Kolkata were announced winners of the third prize for their picture Hopes and Dreams and Towards Market in the Black and White and Colour section respectively.

S/Shri Avijit Datta, Buddhadeb Saha, Subhashis Basu, Supriya Biswas, Chetan Soni Kuntal Kumar Roy, Jayanta Roy, Nimai Chandra Ghosh, Saurabh Mittal, Kailash Mittal, Sandipan Majumdar, Somenath Mukhopadhyay, Abhijit Dey, O.P. Soni, Kaushik Padaria, Kaushik Majumdar, Anindya Majumdar, Anil Kumar Vastal, D.N. Baraskar and Jayanta Shaw got the commendation award.

A total number of 1575 photographs were received from 391 participants from 24 States and UT’s. A high level Jury comprising noted photographer Shri G.B.Mukherji from Delhi, eminent photographer Shri Jyoti Bhatt from Gujarat, Professor S. Pradeep Kumar, Head of the Department of Photography & Visual Communication, JNTU College of Fine Arts, of Andhra Pradesh, Shri T. Narayan, National Photo Editor of the Hindustan Times Group and Shri Debatosh Sengupta, Director, Photo Division screened all the entries and selected the three prize winning entries as well as the ten commendation prizes in each section keeping in view of the quality, spontaneity as well as the theme of the Photo Contest.

The first prize carries a cash award of Rs. 25,000/-, second prize Rs.20,000/- and third prize Rs. 15,000/- and commendation award Rs. 5,000/- alongwith a plaque and citation.

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