Udupi District Starts Decorating Polling Booths by Painting Walls With Kambala, Yakshagana & Many Other Images

The Udupi district administration has got the walls of polling booths at the government higher primary school in Hanumanthanagar-Nittur in Udupi, attractively painted by about 30 drawing teachers on a pilot basis city on March 7. The move came in after responding to Election Commission of India’s call to celebrate elections as festivals.

The administration has planned to decorate with paintings the walls and interiors of 1,111 polling booths in the district that are located in school buildings. Services of art teachers in schools were being utilised for the work. The theme of the artworks revolves around the tradition and culture of the district, thereby encouraging voters to actively participate in the democratic process during the upcoming elections to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. Some of the art forms to be painted on the walls include Kambala, Yakshagana, Udupi saree, Warli among others.