Khadi Mahotsav - Essay Writing Competition

Description of the Activity

Khadi is the fabric of freedom struggle and Father of nation. Mahatma Gandhi developed the concept of Khadi as a means to provide employment to the unemployed rural population and make them self-reliant.

Our Hon’ble PM has given the mantra of ‘Khadi for Nation, Khadi for Fashion’ and Khadi is now seen as a fashion statement. It is now used in denims, jackets, shirts, dress material, stoles, home furnishings and apparel accessories like handbags.

With an objective of promoting Khadi and Village Industries, Handloom and handicraft products, ODOP products and products of various traditional and cottage industries manufactured locally or by SHGs and to further promote the idea of “Vocal for Local” campaign and ‘AtmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ envisioned by the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Govt. of India has initiated a special campaign “Khadi Mahotsav”. The campaign will be organized across the country during 2nd October to 31st October every year.

The campaign is aimed at sensitising the youth towards Khadi, ‘Vocal for Local’ and make them aware about their benefits to our economy, ecology & women empowerment and to encourage the public at large & youth in particular to buy Khadi & other local products and inculcate in them pride for local products.

In this pursuit, KVIC and Dept. of School Education and Literacy (DoSL) in collaboration with MyGov is hosting a ‘Khadi Mahotsav Essay Writing Competition (for School Students)’.

Process Flow:

The Dept. of School Education and Literacy (DoSL), Ministry of Education, Govt. of India in collaboration with KVIC conducted an Essay Competition in various schools across district, and State/UT level as per the guidelines/terms & conditions and recommend Top three deserving performers of the competition in Category-1 (Class 6 to Class 10); and Category-2 ( Class 11 and 12) in each of the 12 languages (as per the annexure enclosed) through their Nodal Officer at State Level.

**The Nodal Officer of each State/UT will upload the details of top 3 performers in respect of Category- 1 and Category II in each of the 12 languages in MyGov portal by 20th November 2023.

It may please be noted that the state nodal officers should upload top three deserving essays from their state in each language. If in any state the entries are received, in say only 5 languages, then top three deserving essays of these five languages should be uploaded. If on assessment the nodal officers feel that even though essays are received in any language but none of the essays is upto the mark/ standard and is not deserving, the same should not be uploaded. Only deserving and good quality essays (top three from each language in which entries are received, as per their assessment) should be uploaded.

The process flow, inter-alia containing the details of students to be captured in the form for uploading the data by Nodal Officers, in respect of both categories are enclosed.

The competition is being held in two categories and the modalities/ framework and topics for the essays etc have already been shared with Min of Education. The same may please be referred to by the nodal officers.

Gratifications/ Rewards:

Top three entries in each language (at national level) will be rewarded with the prizes as below:

* The rewards will be given in the form of KVIC e-coupon which will be redeemable on KVIC e-commerce platform www.khadiindia.gov.in subject to the condition that the winner has to purchase Khadi and V.I. products worth minimum of Rs.100/- from www.khadiindia.gov.in and further the winner has to declare a list of 5 to 10 items, which he/she would replace with local products, in the KVIC ecommerce-platform viz., www.khadiindia.gov.in.

Terms and conditions:

1. The competition is open only for Indian Citizens.
2. The Essay can be submitted in any of the 12 Indian languages:
   1. English; 2. Hindi; 3. Assamese; 4. Bengali; 5. Gujarati; 6. Kannada; 7. Malayalam; 8. Marathi; 9. Odia; 10. Punjabi; 11. Tamil; 12. Telugu
3. The length of the Essay must not exceed 1000 words for Category 1 and 1500 words for category 2. The time limit is 90minutes for Category 1 and 120 minutes for Category 2.
4. The participants must be the same person who has written the essay. The Essay should reflect original thinking and presentation.
5. The nodal officers should ensure that the entry should be original. Copied entries or plagiarized entries should not be considered under the contest.
6. Please note that the Essay 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. KVIC or MyGovplatform does not bear any responsibility for copyright violations orinfringements of intellectual property carried out by the participants.
7. Mention of the Author’s name /email etc., anywhere in the body of the essay will lead to disqualification.
8. KVIC and MyGov Platform reserves the right to verify original documents such as proof of age, institution/ University of study, etc., before awarding the prizes.
9. Nodal officers/DoE is to make sure that they also enter accurate and updated data regarding the essays being uploaded and the participants on MyGov portal since KVIC will be using this for further communication. This includes details of the participants such as Name of student /Gender/ Class/ Mobile no./ Email id /Address /School Name & address /State /Language/ Marks Obtained /Answer script of students in pdf format. Entries with incomplete profiles would not be considered.
10. KVIC reserves all the rights and any dispute, amendments, or issue related to this competition/guidelines/evaluation criterion, etc., shall be decided by KVIC which will be final and binding.
11. KVIC reserves the right to cancel or amend all or any part of the competition/guidelines/evaluation criteria etc., at any time.
12. If any entry is found to violate any of the guidelines, it will be removed from the evaluation process without giving any intimation or explanation to the participant.
13. For verification purposes original documents may be asked by KVIC at any given point of time during the Competition process.
14. KVIC shall have an exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and irrevocable license to copy, store, edit, distribute, transmit, and publish competition entries.
15. The decision of the Jury will be final and binding on all participants.
16. Non-conformity to guidelines will lead to disqualification of the participants.
17. The Dept. of School Education and Literacy (DoSL), Ministry of Education, Govt. of India in collaboration with KVIC will conduct Essay Competition in various schools across district, and State/UT level as per the guidelines/terms & conditions and recommend Top three deserving performers of the competition in Category-1 (for Class 6 to Class 10); and Category-2 (for Class 11 & Class 12) in each of the 12 languages (as per the annexure enclosed) through their Nodal Officer at State Level.
18. The Nodal Officer of each State/UT shall upload the details of top 3 performers in respect of Category- 1 and Category II in each of the 12 languages in MyGov portal by 20th November 2023.
19. DoSL will get the uploaded answer sheets of each language evaluated by common faculty/expert and recommend top three performers in each of 12 languages in each of the category to KVIC with copy to MyGov by 25th of November 2023.
20. Jury consisting of two representatives each from KVIC, DoSL, Ministry of MSME and DC (Handicrafts/Handlooms) shall select/approve top three performers in each of the 12 languages by 29th November 2023.
21. KVIC will disburse the winning amount to the selected winner(s).
22. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of the Indian Judiciary.