Mangaluru Nov 25: Kalotsava – 2017 was held at Sandesha Foundation for Culture and Education from 22nd to 25th November, 2017. Mrs. Kavitha Sanil, the mayor of Mangalore City Corporation inaugurated the programme on 22nd and encouraged and invited the participants to be shining examples in the society.
Altogether 1,082 students from 60 Schools (17 from Higher Primary, 26 from High School, 10 from P U C and 7 from special schools) participated in Classical Dance, drawing, folk dance, keyboard, western dance, solo singing, Western Singing and Western dance, patriotic song, etc.
23rd November became a special day as the students from Special Schools participated in group dance, drawing, fancy dress, singing Competitions. Mr. P M Castelino the past Mayor of Mangalore City Corporation, distributed the prizes for the special children. Manasa special school from Pamboor, Udupi district bagged overall championship in Special School category.
The closing function was held on 25th at noon., in which Mr. Ashwin Jossy Pereira of ICare group of companies and Mr. Sunil Menezes, the General Manager of MCC Bank, were the guests. In the Higher Primary section, Lourdes Central School, Bejai bagged overall championship, whereas in the High School Section Canara (CBSE) High School and in the PUC section St. Aloysius P U College bagged overall championship.