The ongoing Chandigarh Rose Festival entered in its successive 2nd day

Published on February 27, 2011 by News Desk   ·   3 Comments  Print This Post

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Chandigarh,

The ongoing Chandigarh Rose Festival entered
in its successive 2nd day after its ceremonial inauguration yesterday.
Inspite of Light Shower and cloudy whether, both the venues at rose
Garden as well as Leisure valley remained  thronged with visitors
through out the day.  Amidst the beautiful gloomed roses, the entire
venue of Rose Garden had many cultural activities both by the local as
well as artists from the other states who entertained the visitors
with their traditional folkdances and music.
The most popular, the rose prince and princess competition was
organized by the Engineering Department. Apart from the other events
like Anatakshari Competition, Photographic competition and kite flying
competition were also held at Rose Garden. The main attraction in the
kite flying competition was the longest kite with 105 different
colored kits in one lead brought by a group from Ahmadabad. The center
of attraction amongst the children was the world’s smallest kite
besides  Japanese and Indonesian Kites,  exhibited in the competition
by professionals from Ahmadabad .
The Leisure valley too witnessed the huge crowed of all ages to
spend their weekend at maximum.  The Government College of Art
Chandigarh has set up a workshop at Leisure Valley to provide tips on
sketches and painting etc to the visitors as well as to the budding
artists.  The Home Science College has put a stall where students are
giving tips to people to wear attire as per their body types.  A
variety of special plant exhibition has been put in the Leisure Valley
had a special attraction for the visitors.
The variety exhibited in cut flowers, Flowers and plants grown in pots
section are Antirrhinum, Aster, Stocks Double, Stocks Single,
Carnation, Candytuft, Dahila Double, Dahila PomPom, Sweet Peas,
Gladiolus, Gerbera Double, Gerbera Single, Lupin, Larkspur, Marigold,
Pansy, Verbena, Salvia, Brachycome, Cineraria, Carnation, Dahlia,
Dianthus,Geranium, Kale, Nemesia, Nasturtium, Petunia Double Hybrid,
Petunia Single Hybrid, Phlox, Rose Hybrid Tea, Rose Floribunda, Any
other
flower, Collection of different Foliage plants, Collection of Cacti,
Collection of Succulents.
The Tourism Department will organize a nite in which Priyani Vani,
Sa-Re-Ga-Ma fame, Udhey Dahiya, Renowned Comedian will give a live
performance including Dance performances by Rishika Kaushal & her
troupe at Leisure Valley from 7:00 pm onwards. Tomorrow there will be
Rose Quiz and On the spot painting competition at Ros Garden, followed
by Prize distribution ceremony at 3.30 pm.In the evening Bollywood
singer Mohit Chauahn will live performance at Leisure Valley. The
passes of the musical events are available at Tourist Information
Centre ,Sector 17.
The results of Photography, Kite flying and Antakshi competitions are
hence forth
In the Photography , Professional category, the first prize was won by
Suresh Kumar and second and third by Sunil Sharma ang Choginder Gupta
and consolation prize  have been bagged by Arvind Singh, Jaspal Singh
and Kapil Sethi.
In Amateur Category the first prize to Sameer Kaushal whereas second
and third position has been bagged by Madhup and Shilpa Sethi. In the
consolation category Rohit Kwatra, Sourav Sharma and Bhaviya Batra.
In Kite flying senior category, the  first and second position have
been bagged by S.K Goyal and Naveen Sharma respectively  and
consolation by Ankit whereas in junior Category, first position has
been bagged by Rayan, second and third by Prabnool singh and Rohit
respectively.
In Antakshri competition , Dev samaj College for Educational Sector 36
bagged first position. Panjab University and GCG-11 bagged the second
and third position respectively.

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