President Lalit Kala Academy and sand artist  Sudarsan Patnaik

Konark: A Balaji Vora Prasad, Vijaywada, Andhra PradeshKonark: Balaji Vora Prasad’s sand art adjudged as the best art piece at the International Sand Art Festival which came to an end on Wednesday. The Festival which came to an end Wednesday was organized by the state culture and tourism department on Chandrabhaga seabeach. This year the Festival attracted artists in large number from across the world and the footfall was quite encouraging this year.

In the double male category the first prize went to Bulu Mohanty & Promod Biswal from Puri. The second prize in the category was bagged by  Jitendra Kishore Jagadev and Santosh Kumar Nayak also from Puri. The third prize went jointly to Badal Tarai of Puri  and Maheswar Sahu of Ganjam along with Rajeswar Mohapatra of Puri  and Om Prakash Barik of Cuttack
GROUP (FEMALE) CATEGORY
1. Sarita Gochhayat,Puri
2. Madhuri Lipsmita Swain, Puri
3. Saraswato Bhoi, Puri
4. Diptimayee Pari, Puri
5. Juliyet Pradhan, Puri
GROUP (MALE)
FIRST PRIZE
1. Banambar Pattanaik
2. Gopinath Maharana
3. Ajit Kumar Sahoo
4. Susanta Kumar Sethi
SECOND PRIZE
1. Tarani Nayak
2. Tuna Behera
3. Balakrushna Satapathy
4. Kartik Nayak
THIRD PRIZE
1. Rakesh Sana
2. Chandan Pattanaik
3. Harekrushna Behera
4. Rahul Sardar