Objective of Swachhata Pakhwada 2021
Cleanliness is an important quality of life. In fact, it is a habit which is often considered just next to godliness. Cleanliness is a habit not related to the wealth of a person, rather it is a habit which depicts the qualities a person is enriched with. To make the students aware of such a necessary quality of life, we have come up with online competitions for the students.
Outcome of Swachhata Pakhwada 2021
These activities will make the students
Understand about cleanliness and its advantages in our lives
Also motivate them towards imbibing this quality in their everyday life as well.
To think out of the box and to inculcate the idea in the most effective way.
To innovate on different means and ways for clean environment.
To gain application, analysis, and synthesis skills.
General Instructions
All participants will be awarded a certificate of participation by the ONGC Foundation. Separate intimation will also be sent to each of the winner.
Participants must submit their student Identity-Card. Submissions without documents will lead to rejection.
There is no entry fee and no purchase necessary to enter this competition.
No responsibility can be accepted for entries not received for whatever reason.
All decisions and results announced by the jury of this completion are final.
The winner agrees to the use of his/her name and image in any publicity material, as well as their entry. Any personal data relating to the winner or any other entrants will be used solely in accordance with current (India) data protection legislation and will not be disclosed to a third party without the entrant’s prior consent.
Category 1
Project Development Competition (A group event)
Participants: Pursuing Under graduation or Post graduation
ONGC Foundation invites college going students to participate in Project development competition.
Poster Specifics
You need to submit detailed project proposal (in developed concept) in one of the above given topic.
It should provide a brief overview of the problem, solution, costs, and benefits on chosen topic.
It should address the issue clearly.
Project should have at least of around 2500 words.
Project title should be catchy and unique.
Topics
Design and development of a waste management system through Community Participation in Urban Areas
Bringing Attitude and Behavioural change in rural community to accept the constructed toilets and ensuring sustainability of water use in those toilets.
Format Requirement:
File type: Pdf format
File size: Less than 20 MB
Font: Times New Roman
Font size shall be 12 points
1.5 interlinear space
Margins of 2.54 cm on top,bottom and both sides
It should include name of the Participants, Address, E-mail ID, Contact Number, Name of the College/Institute, address and email id in the cover page of the proposal.
The quality of language will not be a decisive factor, as long as the text retains its clarity and coherence.
Scoring of the Project Development
The Project will be assessed majorly on the following factors-
Content – Originality
Clarity
Structure
Impact:
Overall impression
Process of Selection
15 top shortlisted candidates will be called for virtual presentation to showcase their proposed project developed and top 5 will be final winners as below.
Prizes
ONGC Foundation will honour each of the winner in each category with cash prizes as under:
The winner of the competition: Rs. 25000/-
First Runner Up of the competition: Rs.
Rs. 15000/-
Second Runner Up of the competition: Rs. 10,000/-
Consolation Prizes: Rs. 5000/- each (Up to two prizes)
Total Prizes in no. – 5
Submission Guidelines for Project development:
1. It is a group event (Project required to be submitted by a group of 4 college students)
2. Participant (a group) is allowed a maximum of ONE entry. (please don’t send same project repeatedly
Project will be reviewed and considered only if submitted in the mentioned format as below;
Title
Introduction
Objectives: What are the overall intended outcomes of this project?
Project Background: What problems, challenges, or opportunities exist that create a need for this project?
Project Scope: What are the steps or stages of the project? What elements are included in this project? How will the objectives be reached through this project?
Category 2
Essay Writing Competition
Participants: Class 10th – 12th
Topics
Essay 1
Sanitation Workers: ‘Unsung Heroes’ in the fight against COVID 19
स्वच्छता Karmi : COVID 19 के खिलाफ लड़ाई में गौन योद्धा
Essay 2
Cleanliness : Tourism a boon or a bane
स्वच्छता : पर्यटन एक वरदान या अभिशाप
Structure of the Essay Competition
The Essay Competition consists of written submission either in Hindi or in English language. It has to be submitted on the portal of the ONGC Foundation before the mentioned deadline. Each participant can submit only ONE Essay on any one of the topics mentioned above.
Only original essays will be considered for the competition. Previously published essays are excluded.
Any form of plagiarism will result in disqualification of the essay.
Length of Essay
The essay shall be no longer than 1500 words, footnotes included. There is no down limit, although essays shorter than 900 words are not encouraged.
Format Requirement:
Typed on a A4 size electronic page
Font: Times New Roman
Font size shall be 12 points
1.5 interlinear space
Margins of 2.54 cm on top, bottom and both sides
The List of References shall include all cited texts throughout the Written Submission.
Scoring of the essay:
The essays will be assessed majorly on the following factors-
originality of content
clarity
brevity
structure and
overall impression.
The quality of language will not be a decisive factor, as long as the text retains its clarity and coherence.
Decision of the judges will be final in all situations. There is no obligation on the ONGC Foundation or the judges to explain the decision made.
Prizes
ONGC Foundation will honour each of the winner in each category with cash prizes as under:
The winner of the competition: Rs. 10000/-
First Runner Up of the competition: Rs. 7500/-
Second Runner Up of the competition: Rs. 5000/-
Consolation Prizes: Rs. 2000/- each (Up to three prizes)
Total Prizes in no. – 6
Submission Guidelines (Essay Competition)
Each participant is allowed a maximum of ONE entry. (please don’t send same project repeatedly)
All essay write-up submitted to this competition must be your own and should not be copied from anywhere else.
The content must be related to the topic and makes it easier to understand the theme.
Any essay not related to the topic will not be considered as a valid entry.
This competition will be judged by renowned academic experts
Decision of the judges will be final. There will be no obligation on the ONGC Foundation or the judges to explain the decision made.
How to Register?
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE SWACHHATA PAKHWADA 2021.
Important Dates
Submission Start Date: 12th July 2021Last Submission Date: 14th July 2021
Declaration of Results: by 21st July 2021
Contact
Email: pm@ongcscholar.org
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