Mangaluru : Alva’s College won the overall championship in Media Manthan 2020, the media fest, organised by the PG department of Journalism and Mass Communication, St Aloysius College (Autonomous).

The tenth edition of the two day fest saw the presence of senior journalist P. Sainath, who besides delivering an endowment lecture on the first day, conducted a workshop on the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) project.

Popular radio jockey RJ Arpith was the chief guest at the valedictory. In his address, Mr Arpith said that the present day students had a lot more opportunities and possilities that students some years back lacked. However, it is important to make the best use of all those opportunities to add value to all the work students do, especially in the digital platforms, he said.

Regitrar of the College Dr Alwyn D’Sa presided over the function. St Aloysius College students were the runners up.