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
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With Regards,
M Muthu Selvi,
Officer, Allahabad bank and Secretary, All India Confederation of the Blind.
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