Mangaluru: A sea of students hailed the campus with a wave of excitement and celebration at ‘Yuva-Parivarthan’, a two-day inter-college cultural extravaganza here in the city on Saturday. The event will conclude on Sunday.

Organized by Srinivas Group of College, there were at least 16 varieties of competitions – spread over two days. The college which bags overall championship will take back Rs 1 lakh cash prize.

In the fashion show competition, nearly 60 aspiring models walked on the ramp – to win the coveted ‘Campus Princess’ award – which was held for the first time in Mangaluru in a large scale. The top three winners were selected to directly take part in the Miss India contest, which will be organized by Miss India Organisation in association with Fashion ABCD.

Adding up to the high glam quotient, the event was judged by Miss Asia World – 2013 Srishti Rana, who made it big in the field of glamour and fashion industry. Prasasthi, student of Srinivas College won the fashion show competition while Prarthana of Besant College was the first runner up. 

Earlier, Minister B. Ramanath Rai, MLA J R Lobo and Jayaram Bhat MD of Karnataka Bank made a visit to the event.

CA A. Raghavendra Rao, president of A Shama Rao Foundation and Srinivas Group of Colleges and Vijayalakshmi R Rao., Director, Mitra S. Rao., Secretary, Padmini Kumar, Aditya, Trustees of the Foundation were present on the occasion.