MyGov Tagline Contest For OGCF Oil & Gas Conservation Fortnight 2015

Competition Name : Tagline Contest For OGCF Oil & Gas Conservation Fortnight 2015
Applicable To : All Citizens of India

Tagline Contest For OGCF 2015 :

Keeping this in view, participants are requested to suggest Tagline for the campaign to be taken up during OGCF about using cleaner fuel across the country.

Last date of submission is 21st December, 2015.

Prizes :

The winners of the contest will be awarded cash prizes as follows:
1. First Prize: Rs. 10,000/-
2. Second Prize: Rs. 5, 000/-
3. Third Prize: Rs. 3,000/-

Terms and Conditions :

** The Competition is open to all citizens of India only.
** All entries must be submitted to the creative corner section of www.mygov.in. Entries submitted through any other medium/ mode would not be considered for evaluation.
** The winning tagline would be the intellectual property of the Government of India and the winner cannot exercise any right over it, after acceptance of the prize. The prize winning tagline is meant to be used by PCRA for promotional and display purposes, Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials and also for any other use as may be deemed appropriate by the PCRA.
** The tagline must not contain any provocative, objectionable or inappropriate content.
** A participant may submit maximum three tagline.
** Please note that the tagline 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. PCRA does not bear any responsibility for copyright violations or infringements of intellectual property carried out by the participants.
** The Employees of PCRA as well as their family members are not allowed to take part in this connection.
** Participant is to make sure that his/her MyGov profile is accurate and updated since PCRA would be using this for further communication. This includes details such as name, photo and phone number. Entries with incomplete profiles would not be considered.
** PCRA 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 to 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 them informed as to any changes in the Terms & Conditions/ Technical Parameters/ Evaluation Criteria stated for this Contest.

Evaluation Criteria :

1. All entries received by PCRA would be assessed by screening committee for an initial evaluation. After such Screening, all approved entries would be assessed for prizes by the selection committee for final evaluation.
2. Evaluation would be done on the basis of popularity on MyGov.in site and factors outlined in this section by a selection committee. Once the entry is submitted on MyGov.in, Other User can like the entries.
3. Once an entry is submitted, the person who submitted the entry can share an auto generated Tweet/post stating that s/he has shared an entry in MyGov.in. And similarly those who Like every entry can share an auto-generated Tweet/Post stating that they liked a particular entry.
4. The submissions would be evaluated on the basis of elements of creativity, originality, composition, technical excellence, simplicity, artistic merit and how well they communicate the theme of the scheme
5. The decision of the selection committee would be final and binding on all the contestants and no clarification would be issued to any participants for any or their decisions.
6. The disqualified entries shall not be used by PCRA for any purpose and PCRA shall have no Intellectual rights over the same.

Background of OGCF:

PCRA was established in the year 1978 under the aegis of Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas with a vision “To become a Centre of Excellence for Conservation of Hydrocarbons & Environment Protection for Sustainable Development”. For the past many years PCRA Celebrates Oil & Gas Conservation Fortnight (OGCF) from 16th -31st January every year. This year theme of the OGCF is clean fuel and creating awareness about the clean fuel among the masses. In India, bio-mass is used on a large scale as domestic fuel, particularly in rural areas.

This has an adverse impact on environment with higher GHG emission contributing to climate change. Kerosene, LPG, PNG, bio gas are other fuels used as a domestic fuel by the people. Though solar and wind are the cleanest source of energy available. So far, there are certain limitations in using them as a domestic fuel. As such, it is important to educate masses about using cleaner fuels. When compared with bio-mass, LPG has calorific value of 11800 KCAL/KG against 3800 to 4000 KCAL/KG of wood.

Moreover, high polluting fuel (Wood/Agricultural Waste) is consistently associated with Acute Lower Respiratory Infection (ALRI) and fever. Half of the world’s population uses solid fuel for energy and cooking resulting in 1.5 million deaths annually, approximately one third of which occur in India alone. More deaths are linked to childhood pneumonia or acute lower respiratory tract infection.

Women who cook over solid fuel stoves are 3.2 times more likely to develop COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease), 1.9 times more likely to develop lung cancer, 3 times more likely to have TB and 2 times more likely to experience still births, over women who use cleaner fuels. Hence, it is important that the people are made aware and educated to use LPG as a substitute to bio-mass. Bio-gas is another useful fuel which can be promoted in rural areas.

Natural gas is cleaner than LPG, as its emissions are lower than equivalent quantity of LPG. However, natural gas is available in the form of PNG in limited cities of the country where people are required to be educated for shifting to use of PNG from LPG. Similarly, in the transport sector, CNG is much cleaner fuel compared to petrol/diesel. Awareness campaign for using CNG is required in places where it is available.