MHRD Announces Gurutsav 2014

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Gurutsav 2014


The Ministry, therefore, announces an Essay Writing Competition, and invites entries from the students to share inspiring stories about their teachers. This Competition will be conducted on 1st September 2014. The entries are invited in English and all the 22 Scheduled Languages. (Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithali and Dogri). A practice round will be conducted on 29th & 30th August to acquaint participants with the process. The competition round will be held on the 1st September, 2014. Winners will be announced on the 3rd September 2014 and felicitated on 5th September 2014 at Delhi.

There will be three categories i.e. for Classes I-V, VI-VIII and IX-XII. The categories will represent girls, boys and differently abled girls and boys. In all, four winners will be chosen from each state/UT. Each of the best entries will get a chance to win a prize of Rs. 5,000.

Classes I-V & Visually impaired

For classes I-V and for visually impaired students, a 2 minute audio/video recording may be sent either by email or by uploading on mobile within an hour of announcement of the Essay topic.

Classes VI-VIII

Students of classes VI-VIII will write a 500 word essay in 1 hour (1 hour and 30 minutes for differently abled; they may also use amanuenses if needed).

Classes IX - XII

Students of classes IX – XII will write a 1000 word essay in 1 hour and 30 minutes (2 hours for differently abled; the differently abled students may also use amanuenses, if needed).The topic of Essay Writing Competition will be announced half an hour before the scheduled time of start of the Competition.

Prior Registration, open from 27th -29th August 2014, is compulsory for this activity. Registration can be done in the following ways:-

  1. Using internet application by clicking on the link “Registration for Essay Writing Competition - Gurutsav” and following instructions thereafter.
  2. Giving a missed call at ( 9015910123 ) and following instructions thereafter.
  3. Calling a toll free no. ( 18002005188 ) and following instructions thereafter.

Schools can also register students in bulk by following any one of the above ways/modes using single Mobile No./Email-id. However, in such a case a maximum of 30 students (10 from each category) can be registered using single Email-id/Mobile No.

Schedule

1. The practice session will be held on the 29th & 30th August, 2014 between 9:30-10:30 AM on the topic to be announced half an hour before the appointed time i.e. at 9:00 AM.

2. The open competition will begin on Monday, the 1st of September, 2014. Topic will be announced at 9:00 AM on the link “Essay Writing Competition – Gurutsav, 2014” available at the MHRD website. Topic will
also be announced at 9:00 A.M.
by sending text messages / IVRS at the registered mobile numbers.

3. Submission of the entries shall be open for fixed duration as per the schedule given at the Annexure II.

4. The winners shall be announced on 3rd of September 2014.

Quality

1. The entries should not exceed the word limit as mentioned.

2. The entries/ writings must be original.

3. The principals need to ensure that the entries being submitted by the students are not plagiarized. If at any stage the entries submitted are proven to be plagiarized, the prize will be withdrawn.

4. Students can refer to as many resources as they can avail, however the entries submitted must be in their own language.

5. Provisionally selected essays will be open to public to comment on plagiarism, if any, between 3rd -4th September.

6. Final entries shall be selected by a panel of experts.

7. No further communication will be entertained on the selected essays.

8. Plagiarism, if detected at any point of time, will lead to disqualification of the student/withdrawal of the prize

For the students

1. You need to think a lot about your teacher/s. The essay you write must be related to a real teacher who has taught/coached/mentored/counselled you in school.

2. You need to make your notes before writing the essay, as you will have only 30 minutes before writing the task.

3. Focus on the writing task and stick to the word limit.

4. The window will be open only for a certain period of time so do not waste time on collecting more material.

5. Your understanding, point of view and evidence to support the same is more important than facts and dense information.

Procedure for participation in the competition

Online mode

On the day of the competition go to the link “Essay Writing Competition – Gurutsav-2014” on the website http://mhrd.gov.in/. The topic will be given on the same day at 9.00 am.

Click on "Start Writing ". Enter your registration number and start writing your essay.

Using email

After completing the work capture/click the photograph of your written page or scan and send the same through email. For classes I-V, and for visually impaired students, audio/video of not
more than 2 minute duration can be sent through the email as an attachment to ministryhrd1@gmail.com.

Please note that the responses will not be accepted after the expiry of prescribed time limit.

Add 30 minute for classes I-XII for email.

Unregistered responses will not be accepted. Blurred or distorted images which cannot be read will not be evaluated.

Please mention the following details in the subject line: Name of Participant, Registration No., Language of Essay, Gender (Male/Female), Father’s/Guardian’s Name, Class, School Name, District, State, Category (SC/ST/OBC/Gen), Whether family income less than Rs 6,00,000/-, Whether differently abled and Mobile Number. If this information is not provided in the subject line the application will be summarily rejected.

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Courtesy: Ministry of Human Resource Development