20,000 cash prize will be given to the first poet in the competition, 15,000 and 10,000 cash respectively to the second and third.
The umbrella organization of Khaling Rai community, Kirat Khaling Rai Utthan Sangh, will hold a poetry competition in Khaling language. The association is going to organize a poetry competition on the occasion of its 24th anniversary.
The association has informed that the tournament will be held in Kathmandu on October 10. According to the organizers, the first poet in the competition will be awarded 20 thousand rupees in cash. This award is sponsored by actor Dayahang Rai.
Similarly, social worker Kusma Khaling will give 15,000 in cash to the second-placed poet. Producer Amod Rai will give 10,000 in cash to the third-placed poet.
Likewise, 7 best poets will be awarded a consolation prize of 5,000 cash each. Media worker Sanjay Yangbang has sponsored 10,000 (for two people) while poets and activists Sushma Ranahama, Deepa Mewahang Rai, singer and arranger Devesh Rai, director Kiran Chamling and poet Bam Banian have sponsored prizes worth 5,000.
association has organized poetry competition in mother tongue for the second time. "Our aim is to preserve the language through poetry," said Bal Bahadur Khaling Rai, president of the association. It is said that there will be three Khaling speakers and the rest non-Khaling speakers in the jury of the
poetry competition.
