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Thank you for the overwhelming 4000+ responses

Winners of Season 4

Digital Illustration

1st
Debasish Panja
2nd
Prateeti Paul
3rd
Aindree Sen

Hand Drawn Sketch

1st
Jely Jamatia
2nd
Trishit Das
3rd
Shyam Sundar Bose

Design Featuring Utkarsh Pipes

1st
HRITHIKA DAS

AI Generated

1st
Apurba Das
2nd
Sanchita Saha
3rd
siddhartha paul

About the contest

Durga Puja is the heartbeat of Bengal - a celebration of art, culture, and creativity. To honour the talent of Bengal's people, Utkarsh India's Virtual Puja Pandal Contest is back with Season 4 - now an award-winning campaign, named the Best Festive Campaign of 2024! This year, along with Digital Art and Hand-Drawn entries, we're introducing an exciting new category - Al-Generated Pandals!

- Win prizes worth 1.2 lakhs
- Trophies & Certificates
- Showcase your creativity to the entire Nation

Design. Submit. Win.
Let your art light up this Puja season!

CATEGORIES TO PARTICIPATE IN

DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION 2D/3D ART IMAGE OR VIDEO

HAND DRAWN SKETCH

PANDAL DESIGN FEATURING UTKARSH PIPES IN ANY OF THE ABOVE CATEGORIES

AI-GENERATED PANDAL CONCЕРТ

Rewards

DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION 2D/3D ART - IMAGE/VIDEO

1st Prize
40,000 Cash Prize
2nd Prize
20,000 Cash Prize
3rd Prize
10,000 Cash Prize

HAND DRAWN SKETCH

1st Prize
20,000 Cash Prize
2nd Prize
10,000 Cash Prize
3rd Prize
5,000 Cash Prize

PANDAL DESIGN FEATURING UTKARSH PIPES IN ANY OF THE ABOVE CATEGORIES

Winner
10,000 Cash Prize

AI-GENERATED PANDAL CONCЕРТ

1st Prize
3,000 Amazon Voucher
2nd Prize
2,000 Amazon Voucher
3rd Prize
1,000 Amazon Voucher

All winners will receive trophies and certificates

Process

Register to participate

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Work as per the flexible guidelines provided

Design your pandal in one of the 4 catagories

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Submit your design with a short description on the landing page

Evaluation by Industry Experts & Celebrity Judges

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Winner Announcement (Prize Distribution)

CONTEST TIMELINE

11th August 2025

REGISTRATIONS START

13th August 2025

DESIGN SUBMISSIONS START

20th September 2025

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE

21st Sept - 4th Oct 2025

ALBUM POSTING & JUDGING PERIOD

8th October 2025

WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT

Judging criteria

Concept & Cultural Relevance: 35 points

Visual Creativity & Detailing: 35 points

Regional Spirit & Symbolism: 20 points

Social Media Engagement: 10 points

OUR ESTEEMED JUDGES

Abin Chaudhuri

Renowned Architect

Priyanka Sarkar

Actress

Buddhadev Mukherjee

Artist

Utkarsh Bansal

ED, Utkarsh India

2022 Design Gallery

2023 Design Gallery

2024 Design Gallery

About Utkarsh India

Utkarsh India Limited is a leading manufacturer and exporter of Steel Structures, Steel ERW Pipes and Polymer products for Infrastructure, Domestic, Municipal and Agricultural applications. With over four decades of experience, Utkarsh India has wide capabilities in manufacturing galvanized Steel Structures for Road Safety, Illumination, Power Transmission and Distribution, Telecom, Railway Electrification and various other structural applications. Utkarsh India is also a major player in Domestic & Agricultural Pipes & Fittings segment.

Utkarsh India wants to identify and encourage the architects of tomorrow who can help India move forward and help them in a small way to achieve their dreams.

Terms & conditions

Participants must be from India

Utkarsh India is entitled to reject any application for any reason at any point of time.

Only designs in aforementioned categories will be accepted by participants.

The decision of the jury is final and irrevocable.

Irrelevant and vulgar photos will be removed and the user will be banned from the page.

In any situation, Utkarsh India can discontinue this contest or modify the rules/regulations or terms and conditions without any prior notice.

A person with valid contact details and proven citizenship will only be eligible to get the prizes.

Pandals or Participants Images can be used by Utkarsh India for promotional purposes.

The contest policies, acceptance status of participation and prizes are all subject to changes as per Utkarsh India.

No participant can send in multiple entries.