Painting competition on Kalam's b'day

Puducherry, Oct 15 (UNI) The Puducherry Oviyar Mandram and the Southern Railway today jointly organised a painting competition on a running train to mark the 75th birthday of President A P J Abdul Kalam.

As many as 753 students participated in the competition for which a special train was arranged from Puducherry to Villuppuram.

The participants were given an outline of a picture which they had to colour according to their imagination before the train reached Villuppuram.

All the participants were given certificates at the Villuppuram Railway Station and brought back to Puducherry in the same train.

Lok Sabha MP M Ramadass, Puducherry Municipal Chairperson Sreedevi, MLAs Anbazhagan, Lakshminarayanan and Anand also participated in the event.

The Novelty Educational Trust had carved the face of Dr Kalam on an area of 1,000 sq ft at the Ouppalam Grounds. As many as 50 girl students coloured it.

Puducherry Lt Governor Mukut Mithi and Chief Minister N Rangasamy greeted the President on his birthday today.

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