To commemorate the upcoming birth centenary year of its founder Shri Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, the Kolkata branch of Renaissance Artists’ and Writers’ Association(RAWA) decided to organize a Prabhat Samgiit singing competition.

To elaborate on the competition and create awareness, members of the Grand Prabhat Samgiit Festival (GPSF) 2022 committee organized a press conference. The press meet was addressed by Acharya Citibodhananda Avadhuta, Secretary, GPSF, and Ms. Susmita De, Joint Secretary, GPSF,

Registrations for the competition will start on 15^th of Dec 2021 and will continue till 10^th March 2022, while auditions for the same will start on 15^th Feb 2022 and finish on 15^th March 2022. During the auditions, Rabindra Sangeet, Nazrul Geeti, and various other Bengali, Hindi, or Sanskrit devotional songs can be sung by the contestant to prove their singing talent.

Age groups have been divided into junior and senior for the competition; ages 7 to 70 can be participants for the same. There will be three more rounds after the auditions – qualifier, pre-final and final for the contestants which will be followed by an awards ceremony on the 8^th of May 2022.

The finale of the competition would be adjudged by noted singers Haimanti Shukla, Sriradha Bandopadhyay, and Monomoy Bhattacharya.

The 1^st prize winner from the junior group will be winning Rs. 50,000 and senior group winner will be receiving an award of Rs. 100,000 at the end of the competition.

To encourage singers, cash prizes will be awarded in the pre-final stages as well.

Contestants interested can visit www.rawakolkata.org and enroll in the competition by paying a donation of Rs.250.