TIO, New Delhi
The Megaevent of online competition of poetry organized at national level held from July 20 to August 15 and was completed in three phases. More than 70 participants from across the country participated through registration for the first phase. All participants sent self composed poems on theme “relation/Rishta”. The selected participants for the second phase were given the Jury GMP sessions (Grooming, Motivation, Poetry). Kshitij is famous for its GMP sessions. Ms. Bhawna Gautam gave Grooming session.Mr.Tarun Guliani and Dr.Manoj Madan gave motivation and poetry sessions respectively. After the GMP sessions, 15 contestants were selected for finals by the jury, Which included Bandana Bose, Shravya Dubey, Shetanshu Rajat, Raghavendra Singh, Akhil Tiwari, Jitendra, Shivani Singh, Kanika Khemani, Vaishali Gupta, Geeta Arora, Kiran Bala, Radha Shailendra, Monica Chopra and Vicky Prajapati.
In the final phase, poems of all 15 participants were presented to members of Kshitij for online voting on Facebook group. The winners were selected on the basis of continuous voting for five days . Kanika Khemani (Bangalore) secured first place, Bharti Khatri (Noida) secured second and Geeta Arora (Prayagraj) third.
Kshitij’s founder Ranjeeta Ashesh said that this is the third successive celebration of Jashn-e-Kshitij and about 4 thousand people voted for the finals .Shee thanked her team – Anurag, Ansh, Prince, Sachin, Shubhang, Deepa, Rupinder , Shashank, Vaibhav, Kamal, Dr. Vivek and Richa for smooth conduction of this grand event. Along with this, she also told that all the winners will be given incentives in the form of trophy, certificate along with an amount of 2500, 1500 and 1000 rupees respectively. Apart from this, radio, magazine, social media interviews and promotional coverage to all the winners will also be a priority for the winners from Kshitij.
