Differently-abled excels in K’galla arts and crafts festival

B. W. Eheliyagoda Kegalle special correspondent

This is the first instance that such a large group of contestants won a large number of prizes along with certificates. Several handicapped artistes showed special aptitudes in their fields of contests at the Kegalle district annual literary and arts festival.

Those handicapped contestants who won either the first, second or third places were successful in obtaining a pension for themselves. In the recently concluded literary and art and craft festival in Kegalle a large number of participants succeeded in winning valuable prizes.

The literary festival was conducted in all three languages.Poetry and prose, folklore, music and songs were included on a very competitive basis and there were a lot of competitors for the open competitions where both male and female of all age groups participated taking a keen interest in all literary activities.

Over sixty contestants succeeded in obtaining the first, second or their places in different fields of contests in English, Tamil and Sinhala languages. In Sinhala media 27, in Tamil media 21 in the English media 12 competitors succeeded in winning valuable prizes and certificates.