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Tata Group Launches 9th Edition of India’s Largest School Essay Competition- Tata Building India School Essay Competition

Dec 09, 2014   18:34 IST 
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

-- A unique platform to encourage young leaders of tomorrow to showcase their views on subjects related to nation building.

-- Targeting 3 million students across 7000 schools, 200 cities and 12 languages.

 

The Tata group has announced the launch of the ninth edition of Tata Building India School Essay Competition. A national-level contest, Tata Building India School Essay Competition is India’s largest school essay writing competition held in different languages across the cities of India. This year, the competition will reach out to nearly 3 million students, from over 7000 schools spread across 200 cities. The competition will be held in 12 languages namely English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi and Assamese.The theme for this year’s competitionis ‘Clean India’ and young minds will be encouraged to express their thoughts on a topic based on this subject.

 

Started in 2006 as an English-language essay contest, the Tata Building India School Essay Competition is organised every year to motivate and nurture young minds across India and encourage them to think on the lines of nation building. The 2014-15 competition will be conducted across the country from Jammu to Tirunelveli and Guwahati to Rajkot.

 

Speaking about the competition, Atul Agrawal, Vice President - Corporate Affairs, Group Corporate Communications, Tata Services said, “We are delighted with the overwhelming response from schools across the country for the Tata Building India School Essay Competition every year. Through this thought provoking and large-scale platform held in multiple languages, Tata group aims to encourage the students to think positively and innovatively in the direction of nation building. We believe that nurturing these young minds at the right time will contribute to their journey of becoming nation-builders of a happy and prosperous India.”

 

To ensure a level playing field for students, the competition is conducted across two categories - Junior level for Classes 6-8 and Senior level for Classes 9-12. Each year a different topic on the theme of nation building is selected and participants are required to submit an essay in 500-600words.The essays are judged on the parameters of relevance to the topic, structure, creativity and communication of the idea, and prizes are awarded for school, city and national level winners.

 

The Tata Building India School Essay Competition 2014 – 15 will be a two-phase activity in participating schools.The first phase consists of screening inspirational Tata-linked films which stimulate the students to think about the nation. Followed by this, the topic of the essaywill be shared with the students and they will be required to write an essay on a given topic, based on the theme for this year – Clean India.

 

About the competition:

Started in 2006 with 6 cities and 100,000 students in the English language, the competition has grown manifold to become India's largest essay competition to touch nearly 3 million students across 200 cities and 7000 schools in 12 languages. The English edition of the competition will engage around 2,200 English-medium schools spread across 60cities, while the Hindi edition will be conducted in 1600 schools across 46 cities in north and central India. Other regional language editions will be held in respective states, where the language is the state language, across150to 500 schools for each language.

The major cities include Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Indore, Goa, Nagpur, Bhopal, Vadodara, Surat,Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Manipal, Coimbatore, Kochi, Trivandrum, Vijaywada, Madurai, Visakhapatnam, Hubballi (Hubli) Puducherry, Kozhikode, Shimla, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Allahabad, Jammu, Udaipur, Varanasi, Amritsar, Ajmer, Kanpur, Chandigarh, Meerut,Agra,Delhi-NCR, Jaipur,Kolkata, Jamshedpur, Darjeeling, Patna, Guwahati, Siliguri, Ranchi, Cuttack, Shillong, Gangtok, Rourkela, Jabalpur and others.

 

Judging process

The essay is written by the students only once but is evaluated at three levels:

 

  • School level: Essays at the school level are evaluated by judges within each school.Winning entries from each school qualify for city level evaluation.

 

  • City level: The essays of school level winners in each city are evaluated by a panel of judges from the field of academics and journalism, among others. The best essays win city-level recognition.

 

  • National level: The best essays from each city are finally judged by an elite panel comprising eminent people to choose the national winners in each language (state level winners in case of regional languages).

 

Prizes

  • The winners at each level are rewarded and special functions are held to felicitate the city level winners and the national level winners. Prizes at the school level include certificates, medals and special Tata Building India merchandise. The city level winners and the runners-up receive prizes like Cameras and Music Players, Certificates and Trophies.The national level winners receive laptops as the grand prize.

 

  • The crowning moment for the national winners and the runners-up is an intended visit to Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi and an interaction with a national level dignitary.

 

For more information, please log on to www.tatabuildingindia.com, or https://www.facebook.com/TataBuildingIndia

 

About the Tata group:

The Tata group’s core purpose is to improve the quality of life of the communities it serves globally, through long-term stakeholder value creation based on leadership with trust. Founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868, the Tata group is a global enterprise headquartered in India, and comprises over 100 operating companies, with operations in more than 100 countries across six continents, exporting products and services to over 150 countries. The revenue of Tata companies, taken together, was $103.27 billion (around Rs 624,757 crore) in 2013-14, with 67.2 percent of this coming from businesses outside India. Tata companies employ over 581,000 people worldwide. Good corporate citizenship is part of the Tata group’s DNA. Sixty six percent of the equity of Tata Sons, the promoter holding company, is held by philanthropic trusts, thereby returning wealth to society. As a result of this unique ownership structure and ethos of serving the community, the Tata name has been respected for more than 140 years and is trusted for its adherence to strong values and business ethics. Each Tata company or enterprise operates independently and has its own board of directors and shareholders, to whom it is answerable. There are 32 publicly-listed Tata enterprises and they have a combined market capitalisation of about $134.8 billion (as on November 20, 2014), and a shareholder base of 3.9 million. Tata companies with significant scale include Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Global Beverages, Tata Teleservices, Titan, Tata Communications and Indian Hotels.

 

For Further Information please contact:

 

Tata Sons

Sarika Kapoor Chokshi / Arushi Agrawal

66657891/66657564

skchokshi@tata.com / arushiagrawal@tata.com

 

Rediffusion/Edelman

Hirak Kapasi /Lennon D’Souza

9167167833/9619763172

hirak.kapasi@edelman.com/
lennon.dsouza@edelman.com


 
 
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