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Organisation : ONGC Foundation
Competition Name : Swachhata Pakhwada 2020 Online Competition
Applicable For : School Children
Competition Period : 1st July – 15th July 2020
Website : https://www.ongcscholar.org/#/competition

ONGC Swachhata Pakhwada

Hey Kids, are you a student/artist/photographer who has mad-skills with a marker, crayon, colour, pen or camera? Hey, parents and guardians: do you have a child who loves to draw or colour or write or photograph?

Related / Similar Post : Swachhta Pakhwada Competition Result 2020

ONGC Foundation in association with ONGC is organising a poster, collage making, photography and essay writing contest under Swachhata Pakhwada 2020.

Objective

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 children aware of such a necessary quality of life, we have come up with online competitions for school children.

Outcome

These activities will make the children
** 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.

Poster Design Competition

Participants:
** Group A: Class 5th-8th;
** Group B: Class 9th-12th

Theme :
Zero Garbage School Campus and those words must be on the poster.

It’s the little things that can make a big difference, so with little effort on your behalf, you can make a big difference to Environment & participate in Clean India Campaign (Swachh Bharat Abhiyan).

Poster Specifics :
** You need to submit a brief write-up of around 100-150 words.
** In addition to needing the words “Cleanliness, Starts with Me” – #ItsmyDuty! on the poster, Use #SwachhtaPakhwada #SwachhBharatAbhiyaan in your posters.

Format Requirement :
** Size of the final poster – 30 cm X 42 cm (A3) only, in portrait/landscape format
** Resolution – 300 dpi
** File type – High Res JPEG or PDF
** Colour Mode – CMYK (in case of digital poster)

Collage Making Competition

Participants : Class 9th- 12th

Theme : Zero Garbage School Campus and those words must be on the poster.

Collage is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

A collage may sometimes include magazine and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paint, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper.

Collage Specifics :
** You need to submit a brief write-up of around 100-150 words.
** In addition to needing the words #ItsmyDuty! on the poster, use #SwachhtaPakhwada #SwachhBharatAbhiyaan in your posters.

Format Requirement :
** Size of the final poster – 30 cm X 42 cm (A3) only, in portrait/landscape format
** Resolution – 300 dpi
** File type – High Res JPEG or PDF
** Type – Mixed Media

Essay Writing Competition

Participants : Class 9th – 12th

Topics :
** Alternatives to Single use Plastic
** Cleanliness – Our Attitude & Behaviour

Structure :
The Essay Competition consists of written submission ONLY 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.

Length of Essay :
The essay shall be no longer than 1000 words. 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

** articipants’ name, class and other details should not be anywhere inside the document, so that it can be judged anonymously.
** The List of References shall include all cited texts throughout the Written Submission. It should be listed at the end of the essay.

Scoring of the essay :
Following criteria may be used in assessing the documents
** originality of content
** clarity
** brevity
** overall impression.

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.

Photography Competition

Participants :
** Class 9th – 12th

ONGC Foundation invites students & amateur photographers to promote and present through the medium of photography. This is a chance to have your displayed while supporting cleanliness at the same time.

Photographs Subject: People, Place and Cleanliness

Format Requirement :
** Photographs should be captured in High-Resolution (1080HD) .jpeg/.png format only
** Mobile and Professional Camera.

Submission Guidelines (Photography) :
** One participant can submit up to 3 photographs only.
** All photographs and material submitted to this competition must be your own and should not be copied from anywhere else

** Any photograph not following this theme will not be considered as a valid entry.
** All decisions and results announced by the jury of this completion are final.

** You should not post any photograph that do not comply to ONGC Foundation’s Terms and Conditions
** This competition will be judged by renowned photographers.

** Participants’ name, class and other details like watermark, labels, logos should not be anywhere inside the photograph, so that it can be judged anonymously.

Submission Guidelines

** Each participant is allowed a maximum of ONE entry. (please don’t send same poster repeatedly)
** Poster cannot include copyrighted characters from comics, cartoons, television programs, movies, newspapers, magazines, etc.

** Material such as pencil, oil pastel, colour crayons, watercolour and mixed media of these can be used.
** The Poster must be attractive in terms of design and neatness of presentation.

** The content or idea must be related to the topic and makes it easier to understand the theme.
** Entries received will be the subject matter of organisers and best entries will be released on our social media handle.

** Please do not send your original drawings directly to the organisers, unless asked for. Online participation only.
** Decision of the judges will be final. There will be no obligation on the ONGC Foundation or the judges to explain the decision made.

** Participants’ name, class and other details should not be anywhere inside the poster or sheet, so that it can be judged anonymously.

Prizes

ONGC Foundation will honour each of the winner in each category with cash prizes as under
** The winner of the competition – Rs. 5000/-
** First Runner Up of the competition – Rs. 3000/-
** Second Runner Up of the competition – Rs. 2000/-
** Consolation Prizes – Rs. 500/- each (Up to three prices)

Total Prizes in no. – 30

All participants will be awarded a certificate of participation by the ONGC Foundation. Separate intimation will also be sent to each of the winner.

Important Dates

** Submission Start Date – 7th July 2020
** Last Submission Date – 10th July 2020
** Declaration of Results – 15th July 2020

Contact

For more details contact
** Kunal Gupta – 7000133051
** Suraj Mahato – 7004431014