Making Odisha proud outside the State, Goutam Dev Mohanty has clinched the Mr Karnataka title at a bodybuilding competition held in Bengaluru.
Goutam, who currently works as an electronics engineer at a private firm in Bengaluru, bagged the Mr Bangalore title and later won as Mr Karnataka taking part at a State-level bodybuilding event there.
With clinching these two titles, he has qualified to participate in national bodybuilding competition.
Goutam, the youngest son of Gouri Shankar Mohanty and Sucheta Mohanty, hails from Lakshmannath village in Baleswar district. His grandfather Atal Bihari Mohanty was a veteran freedom fighter.
After successfully clearing his engineering degree from the Bhubaneswar-based Silicon Engineering College in 2005, Goutam is currently living in Bengaluru.