Essay Contest
IITD Notices
Role of Civil Society: All India Essay Contest for College Students
From: "Forum of Free Enterprise" <f...@vsnl.net>
Dear All:
Please find attached details of the 56th All India Essay Competition for college students for favour of publication in your esteemed publication.
Thanking you,
Sincerely,
S. Divakara
Director-General
THE 56th ALL-INDIA ESSAY COMPETITION FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS
1. The 56th All- India Essay Competition for College Students (2012-13) is sponsored by
Jyoti Limited, Vadodara and conducted by the Forum of Free Enterprise, Mumbai,
with the object of encouraging the youth to think and write on economic subjects. The
subject: "THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA".
2. Eligibility for participation: Only full-time college students (graduate, post-graduate,
full-time management and IIT students) are eligible to participate.
3. The essay should be presented from the following perspective :
India has been developing rapidly since 1991 and is aspiring to be a developed country
within a generation. This will call for rapid economic development, involving inter alia,
modernization and globalization of our economy. The focus will also shift towards
urbanization. Sustainability and inclusiveness will be inevitable facets of this
development process. For this purpose, India will have to consistently improve its overall
governance - not just of the fiscal system, but also of administrative and regulatory
institutions. Expanding and improving the entire infrastructural framework (both physical
and social) will also come to assume top priority. This framework will have to cover
not only transport and communication, but also education, medicare and the overall
well being of the community.
In most of these fields economic and social development as well as in overall
governance and institution-building, the role of the State has been found wanting and
will become even more inadequate as we move forward. Illustratively, the State has
failed miserably in delivering public services to the citizens; and there are issues and
challenges of making the State and public administration perform their tasks effectively
and with transparency.
Hence the role of civil society in the development of India will become increasingly
important and relevant. The scope, coverage and spheres of activities and responsibilities
to be performed by the civil society need to be well-defined. There has to be equitable
and legitimate balance in the functioning of all the institutions of our maturing democracy
for achieving the goal of sustainable, inclusive and equitable economic development.
Today's youth is tomorrow's future and the youth is the most dynamic segment of our
emerging society and must increasingly assume this responsibility as it is their future
which is at stake.
4. Rules of the Competition are :
. The length of the essay should not exceed 2,000 words and the number of words
used should be indicated on the last page of the entry.
. The entry, duly typed or computer-printed (preferably 14 point-font) in double space
on one side of the paper, with a minimum of one-inch margin on all sides on A/
4 or foolscap size white paper, should be sent in triplicate.
. The student's name, course of study, residential and college addresses and e-mail ID
should be given on the right hand top corner of the first page of the entry and it should
carry the student's signature on the last page and the initials on all other pages.
. A student can send only one entry. There is no participaiton fee.
. The entry sent directly by the student should be accompanied by a bonafide
certificate or it can be sent through his/her college. The entry becomes the property
of the Forum.
. The entry (IN TRIPLICATE) should be sent to the address given below by
registered post or courier before October 31, 2012.
The Director-General (56th All-India Essay Competition)
Forum of Free Enterprise, Peninsula House, 2nd Floor,
235, Dr. D.N. Road, Mumbai 400001.
. The envelope bearing the postal cancellation mark of October 31, 2012 will be
accepted even if received in November. Queries, if any, can be made at (email:
f...@vsnl.net) (telefax: 022- 22614253).
5. Panel of Judges: Ms. Sumaira Abdulali, Chairperson, Awaaz Foundation,
Dr. Ratna Magotra, Cardiac Surgeon & Trustee, Public Concern for Governance Trust,
Mr. Paramjeet Singh, IRS & President, Dharam Bharti Mission. All the panelists are
eminent citizen activists.
The panel's decision will be final and binding in all matters, including as to how many
and which prizes are to be given. No correspondence whatsoever will be entertained in
this regard. The results are expected to be announced before the end of March 2013.
6. First Prize Rs. 8,000; Second Rs. 6,000; Third Rs. 4,000; Fourth Rs. 2,000 and
up to four Consolation Prizes of Rs. 1,000 each.
S. Divakara
Mumbai, July 16, 2012. Director-General
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate;