MHRD announces year-long National Essay Competition all over India

On the 70th anniversary of “The Constitution Day of India“, Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced the ‘National Essay Competition’ as part of year-long ‘Nagrik Kartavya Palan Abhiyan’ on November 26 throughout the country.

The portal https://kartavya.ugc.ac.in/ will primarily be used for holding monthly essay competitions for students as well as other activities like quizzes, debates, poster making, etc. pertaining to Nagrik Kartavya Paalan Abhiyan. The topics of the essay will be based on one Fundamental Duty every month.

The essay topic for each month will be announced on the 26th of each month. Students who wish to participate in the competition will have to register for the competition by the 10th of the next month. Each participant will be allotted an exam center on the 16th of the next month and essay writing competition will be held on the 26th of the next month. For example, the registration for this month began on November 26 and the essay writing will be held on December 26.

Instructions to be followed:

• Participants must be students of some Higher Education Institution (HEI) in India.
• There shall be no costs on the participants
• Students can write essays in either Hindi or English.
• The competition will be of 2 hours duration and candidates will have to write essays online.
• The evaluation of the essays will be blind and will be done by experts who would be identified in advance.
• There will be four prizes worth Rs. 15000, Rs. 12,000, Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 7500.

It has been decided by the Government to run a Nagrik Kartavya Palan Abhiyan from 26^th November 2019 to 26^th November 2020, to create mass awareness about the Fundamental Duties as enshrined in our Constitution. The cycle will conclude in October 2020 when the last essay writing competition for the initiative will be held.