A ceremony took place in the Fine Art Gallery to grant prizes to winners of the “Beautiful Mongolian Script-2013” national contest organized by the weekly “Khumuun Bichig” newspaper at the MONTSAME news agency.
The 17th contest was organized in five categories with participation of some 1,000 people from the city and all aimags except Sukhbaatar province.
At the ceremony, the Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag handed the prizes to the winners and congratulated them on success. He Expressed thanks to the “Khumuun Bichig” newspaper for contribution to passing on the traditional culture to young generation, and said he will do efforts to make the Mongolian script a state official script. Launching this work, all diplomatic credentials of Mongolian Ambassadors, birth certificates and education certificates and diplomas are written in Mongolian script, he added.
Four pupils who won the contest among secondary school students were awarded governmental scholarships for studying in the Mongolian State University (MSU) and the Mongolian State University of Education (MSUE).