Illaya Ragam Carnatic scholarship

Five students were selected for the Rs.36,000 `Illaya Ragam Carnatic’ scholarship offered by Reliance Communications recently.

N.C. Bharadwaj (class IX), Sunil R. Gargyan (class VI), G. Abilash (class VI), S. Anjani (class VI) and R. Shyam (class VI) were selected by a panel of judges such as vocalist Ravi Kiran, veena artiste Revathy Krishna, violin artiste Kanyakumari and percussionist Ghatam Karthik.

The final session of the programme, at Ragasudha hall in Mylapore, came at the end of a month-long selection process.

Of the 400 applicants, 16 were shortlisted in various categories.

Reliance officials said the scholarship would be paid in four quarterly instalments of Rs.9,000 to each candidate.