Mangaluru: Yearly competition of ‘goodudeepa’ organised by Namma Kudla was held on Friday at Shree Gokarnanatheshwara Temple, Kudroli.
Traditional, modern and model types of goodudeepas were made by hundreds of participants. Goodudeepas representing Yakshagana, Mangaluru Dasara, temples, tourist places, tourist ship and other such creative creations attracted the people.
Cardboard, pencil, match stick, leaves, tree bark, sugar cane and such things were used for the preparation f the goodudeepa.
Gold medal was presented for the first and second place winners and silver medal was presented to the third prize winners on the occasion.
‘Namma Tuluver’ award was presented to social worker Urmila Ramesh Kumar for her service to the society, Yakshagana artist and knwn as Yakshagana Charlie Chaplin Seethram Kateel was felicitated with Namma Kudla award and Namma Kudla Prateeba Puraskara was presented to CA achiever Yashaswini K Ameen.