On the final day, chief justice Khilraj Regmi, former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Maoist vice-chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai visited the exhibition.[break]
More than 4,000 people visited the five-day long exhibition including President Dr Ram Baran Yadav, Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal and chairman of the Constituent Assembly Subas Chandra Nembang.
The exhibition displayed 141 photos short listed for the award from among 4,989 photos submitted by nearly 600 amateur and professional photographers for the competition.
Similar exhibition will be held in Biratnagar, Pokhara and Nepalgunj in near future, according to program co-ordinator Bikash Karki.
Yalu Joshi won the Photo of the Year award while Bikram Giri, Rajendra Manandhar, Kapildev Khanal, Ramesh Tamang and Nayantara Gurung Kakshapati won the best photos in daily life, nature and wildlife, news, tourism and photo story categories respectively.
Mega Bank Photo Competition 2067 is the biggest photo competition with total prize worth Rs. 400,000 open for amateur and professional Nepali photographers organized by Photojournalist Club (PJ Club), a non-profit organization promoting photojournalism in Nepal.
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