Tata Building India School Essay Competition

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Areas of Study :
Topic on Nation Building
Level :
School level
Scholarship Funded by :
Tata group of companies
Provided to :
Indian Students of classes 6-12

Tata Building India School Essay Competition is India's largest school essay writing competition organised by Tata group of companies to motivate and nurture young minds across India. The essay competition provides a unique platform to encourage young leaders of tomorrow to showcase their expressions in writing, on a host of subjects related to nation building. Started in 2006, this national level contest is conducted annually in different languages across the cities of India. The idea of the competition has been very well received by both the students and the teaching fraternity reflected by the overwhelming response from participating schools and students. The competition would be conducted across 180 cities, 7000+ schools and will cover approximately 3.5 million students.

Structure of Essay Competition

The essay competition is a two-phase activity across all the participating schools in the country for students of classes 6-12. The first phase consists of exposing these young minds to inspirational Tata-linked films which stimulate them to think about the nation. Following this, students are asked few questions based on the films shown.

To ensure a level playing field, the students are divided into 2 participating categories across all languages.

Junior level for classes 6-8 and
Senior level for classes 9-12

Each year a different topic on the theme of nation-building is selected and participants are required to submit an essay between 500-600 words. The underlying theme of the topic is always nation building. The topics are carefully chosen for students to be creative, insightful and genuine.

Rewards and Recognition

The winners are rewarded at each level, the school level winners are amplified at school and special functions are held to felicitate city level winners at regional level. The national level winners are felicitated in Delhi.

Prizes at the school level include certificates, medals and special Tata Building India merchandise. The city winners and the runners-up receive gifts like Digicam / Handycam / MP3 player, Certificates and trophies. The national level winners receive laptops as the grand prize.

How to Participate in Tata Building India School Essay Competition

Tata Building India School Essay Competition is open to all schools in a particular city where this competition is being conducted.
To check the cities coverage log on to www.tatabuildingindia.com
Students cannot participate on their own in this competition. Only schools can participate. Request for participation can be made at the official website.
The English/ Hindi/ regional language version competition will be only conducted in schools where the medium of instruction is necessarily English/ Hindi/ regional language respectively
There is no entry fee
A student can participate only once from his own school. Valid Identification & contact details has to be produced in case of a request from the organizers
The Competition (film screening & essay writing) has to be conducted only in the school during the schedule timings. Entries can be disqualified for not following the given procedure
The essay topics are different for each year. Entry will be considered valid only if the essay is written on the given topic
The organizers retain the right to make any changes to the event, its format, date, rules and in any matter related to this event without any prior notice
Entry to the competition for schools is by invitation only and organizers reserve the right to accept or reject any application to registration and / or entry to the proceedings
By entering the competition, the participants & attendees permit themselves to be photographed/ recorded by electronic, online and print media for telecast, publications & contacted by their given email ids and other display usage of the organizers
All national/state level winners will be provided stay and return travel for the national award ceremony only from the city of victory i.e. their city of participation
Organizers will arrange for the prize distribution for winners & runners up through their event management agency. Any loss of prizes during transit or due to any other reason would not be organizer's responsibility & hence wouldn't be liable for replacement
Once you participate in the competition you indicate your acceptance for the format, prizes & decisions including judging of essays on school, city & national level which will final and binding
All decision taken by the organizers will be final & binding on all issues related to Tata Building India School Essay Competition

Judging Process

The essays of the students are screened at 3 levels: School level, City level and National level. The essays are judged on the parameters of relevance to the topic, structure, creativity and communication of the idea.

Further, one-time, need-based special Tata Building India Scholarships will be awarded to a few students from each city based on defined criteria and other terms and conditions.

School Level
Essays at the school level are short listed by the identified judges within the school, the school level winners are identified in both categories
City Level
The essays of the school level winners across the schools from each city are collected and evaluated by a panel of 3 judges from the academic and the journalism fields, two winners in each category are short listed for city level recognition as winners from the respective cities.
National Level
The city level winner's essays in both categories from each city are finally judged by an elite panel comprising of eminent people to choose the national winners. It would be of interest to note that the essay is written by the child only once and is evaluated at three levels.

Contact Details

Phone : 022-66657891, 66657564
Email: Contact I
Website: www.tatabuildingindia.com

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