ANS: Akshita Pathak, a finalist of ‘Shri Ram National Poetry Competition 2021’ enthralled the audience by reciting poetry in the national final competition organised by National Poetry Association of All India Literary Association in Delhi on 14 November.
All the finalists, including Akshita were felicitated by presenting a certificate of honour and cash prize of Rs 5100 (five thousand one hundred), while special awards were given to the first three winners.
Akshita, a class X student of Delhi Public School, Bokaro Steel City was the lone representative of the state of Jharkhand to make it to the championship round of the competition.
Around twenty-two thousand participants took part in the Poetry Competition organized in four phases at the All India level to take the compositions centered on the colossal personality of Shri Ram, a symbol of national pride, by the National Poet Sangam among the masses. Out of which, only 21 participants were selected for the final national competition.
The finalists of this prestigious competition from across the country include Akshita Pathak (Bokaro, Jharkhand), Shwetanshu Kumar Mishra (Goraksha, Uttar Pradesh), Mudita Vashisht (Chandigarh), Prerna Mukund (Bangalore, Karnataka), Divyansh Jha (Raipur, Chhattisgarh), Somi Majumdar (Kolkata, West Bengal), Gurshit Kaur Khanuja (Chhattisgarh), Abhishyant (Sonipat, Haryana), Usha Sheena (Chamba, Himachal Pradesh), Vibhuti Gupta (East Delhi), Rajnandini Tiwari (Howrah, Pt. Bengal), Prateek Vyas (Mumbai, Maharashtra), Priya Sangwa (Ajmer, Rajasthan), Parth Sharma (Kota, Rajasthan), Aastha Dubey (Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh), Udyansh Pandey (Gorakhpur), Sakshi Singh (Rae Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh), Aarav Sharma (HP), Mansi Dubey (Mumbai, Maharashtra), Sachin Tripathi (Rewa, Madhya Pradesh) and Pankaj Rana (Noida, Uttar Pradesh).