Dear Colleagues, You may be aware that we had announced All India Madanlal Khandelwal Essay Competition, 2013 in the month of May and last date for receipt of Braille essays was given 31st August. Some of our friends have been approaching us to extend the date and accordingly we are pleased to announce that the date has been extended upto 15th September so that more blind brothers and sisters in junior and senior groups could participate. You are therefore requested to inform the interested persons in this regard on priority basis. For your convenience we give below the rules and regulations and topics for junior and senior groups and hope you will motivate blind brothers and sisters to take part in the competition.
1. There will be two groups of competitors—one Junior group up to the age of 25 years and the second Senior group from the age of above 25 years. 2. The participants can write on the following topics: Junior group (Hindi): “Swarg mein sthit Louis Braille ke naam ek patra.” Junior group (English): “A letter to Louis Braille in his heavenly abode.” Senior group (Hindi): “Drishtibadhitaon ke liye Riyaten—Samanta Ve Samaveshan ke liye khan tek Sarthak?” Senior group (English): “Concessions for the blind Vs. equality and inclusion.” 3. The essay should be written by the blind participants in Hindi, English, Tamil, Marathi and Kannada. 4. Essays should be written in uncontracted Braille in Indian languages. For English, the essays should be written in contracted Braille (grade-2). 5. Essays should be written by Braille slate or Braille typewriter/Perkins Brailler. In no case should the essays be entered on the computers and converted into Braille through a translation software. 6. Essays should be written on one side of the sheet only and each page number should be marked in continuation at the top right-hand corner. 7. Minimum length of the essay for junior group should be between 600-800 words and for senior group between 800-1000 words inclusive of applicant’s name, age, address phone No., topic of the essay. The essays not written as per the prescribed word limits shall not be included in the competition. 8. The Competition has certificates and three cash prizes of Rs. 6000, 4,000 and 2,000 for junior group and Rs. 8000, 5000 and 3000 for senior group in each language. Thus, in each language there shall be 6 cash prizes for the winners. 9. The essays must be completely original in nature. 10.The essays in each language shall be examined by reputed persons and their decision shall be final and binding for all. 11.For determining the best three entries in each language group the following shall be kept in mind: i. Content ii. Language and style iii. Braille proficiency and neatness 12.On each envelope language of the essay and junior or senior group should be mentioned. With Kind Regards J. L. Kaul Secretary General All India Confederation of the Blind Mob: 9810684208 website: www.aicb.in -- With Regards, M Muthu Selvi, Officer, Allahabad bank and Secretary, All India Confederation of the Blind. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..