MyGov Soil Health-A Key to Nation’s Prosperity Short Film Making Competition 2017

Organisation : MyGov
Competition Name : Soil Health-A Key to Nation’s Prosperity Short Film Making Competition 2017
Contest Last Date : Nov 28,2017
Applicable For : All citizens of India only
Terms & Conditions : https://www.contest.net.in/uploads/28420-Flim.pdf
Website : https://www.mygov.in/node/271851

Short Film Making Competition :

** Since SOIL is known as the soul of infinite life, continued maintenance of good soil health is vital to agriculture production and nation’s economy.

Related : MyGov Soil Health-A Key to Nation’s Prosperity Poster Making Competition 2017 : www.contest.net.in/28152.html

** Despite the indisputable role of soil for the health of Human being, animal and plant life, there has been very little concern about soil health care. Soil health is the capacity of the soil to sustain biological productivity, maintain environment quality and promote plant and animal health. It is the fitness of the soil for specific use.

** The emerging complex challenges of maintaining good health of the precious, scare and shirking soil resource for sustained high productivity under the current and projected unprecedented pressure are enormous, but their cost-effective, eco-friendly, farmer-friendly and scientifically sound solutions will be amply rewarding in terms of food security, environmental safety and over all human welfare.

** To maintain soil resource in good health, mass awareness among the farmers and others stakeholders about the value of the soil health is of utmost importance. Government of India has been implementing a scheme on Soil Health Management (SHM) to take care of soil test based nutrient management at farm level.

** All citizens or stakeholders are invited to participate in raising awareness about the soil health care-A Key to Nation’s Prosperity. You can do this by creating Short-Films (Animation Films, Mobile Films or any other Films produced with broadcast quality) on

one of the themes mentioned below:
Main-Theme: Soil Health-A Key to Nation’s Prosperity

Sub-Themes: 1. Save soil, save humanity
2. Healthy soil, better human health
3. Healthy soil, wealthy farmer
4. Protect soil & enhance food production
5. Integrated Nutrient Management for healthy soil & enhancing farm income
6. Maintaining adequate level of nutrients is key of healthy soil
7. Organic farming & Soil Health
8. Impact of Soil health card in the field at farmer level
9. Awareness generation of Soil health testing among farmers

Language: Hindi and / or English
Duration: 2 Minutes
Last date: 28th November, 2017

Prizes :
First Prize: Rs. 10,000 /-
Second Prize: Rs. 7,500 /-
Third Prize: Rs. 5,000 /-

Terms and Conditions :
** The Competition is open to all citizens of India only.
** The participants must upload their Short Film on YouTube and share the URL of the same on .mygov.in. Entries submitted through any other medium/ mode would not be considered for evaluation.

** Top three winners will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 10,000/-, Rs. 7,500 and Rs. 5,000 respectively from the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

** The award winning short-film would be the intellectual property of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India and the winner cannot exercise any right over it, after acceptance of the award. The winning short-film is meant to be used by Government of India for promotional and display purposes and also for any other use as may be deemed appropriate for the initiative.

** None of the entries must contain any provocative, objectionable or inappropriate content.
** The short-film must be in either Hindi or English language only.
** Multiple submissions by the same participant would not be considered. Comments and uploaded file should be in one submission only.

** The participant must be the same person who has made/produce the short-film and plagiarism would not be allowed.
** Please note that the short-film must be original and should not violate any provision of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957.

** Anyone found infringing on others’ copyright would be disqualified from the competition. Government of India does not bear any responsibility for copyright violations or infringements of intellectual property carried out by the participants.

** Participant must ensure that his/her MyGov profile is accurate and updated since the department would be using this for further communication. This includes details such as name, photo, complete postal address, email ID and phone number. Entries with incomplete profiles would not be considered.

** Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare reserves the right to cancel or amend all or any part of the Contest and/ or the Terms & Conditions/ Technical Parameters/ Evaluation Criteria.

** However, any changes in the Terms & Conditions/ Technical Parameters/ Evaluation Criteria, or cancellation of the Contest, will be updated/ posted on the MyGov platform. It would be the responsibility of the participants to keep themselves informed of any changes in the Terms & Conditions/ Technical Parameters/ Evaluation Criteria stated for this Contest.