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The document announces the 15th annual Heartfulness Essay Event organized in collaboration between Shri Ram Chandra Mission, the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan, and the Heartfulness Education Trust. The event invites youth to write essays in English, Hindi, or regional languages on topics related to human values. Students from classes 9 to 12 can write 500-word essays, while undergraduate and postgraduate students can write 750-word essays. Top essays at the national and state level will receive prizes and certificates. The goal is to encourage youth to develop their inner being through reflective writing.

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Information Pamphlet

The document announces the 15th annual Heartfulness Essay Event organized in collaboration between Shri Ram Chandra Mission, the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan, and the Heartfulness Education Trust. The event invites youth to write essays in English, Hindi, or regional languages on topics related to human values. Students from classes 9 to 12 can write 500-word essays, while undergraduate and postgraduate students can write 750-word essays. Top essays at the national and state level will receive prizes and certificates. The goal is to encourage youth to develop their inner being through reflective writing.

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HEARTFULNESS ESSAY EVENT 2019

Organized by
SHRI RAM CHANDRA MISSION
in collaboration with
UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRE FOR INDIA AND BHUTAN
And
HEARTFULNESS EDUCATION TRUST

Shri Ram Chandra Mission is a non-profit educational and spiritual service organization. It promotes
heart-based living through meditation as a means to universal peace and harmony. It is one of 1600
NGOs associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information. The All India Essay
Writing Event has been the flagship event of the partnership between the United Nations Information
Centre for India and Bhutan ( UNIC ) and Shri Ram Chandra Mission ( SRCM ) for past 14 years. This
year marks fifteen years of this partnership. It has been decided to name this event as the
HEARTFULNESS ESSAY EVENT from this year on.

Under a collaborative initiative SRCM and the Heartfulness Education Trust have developed
educational programs for youth aimed at bringing about an understanding and acceptance of
universal human values. A program for training of teachers to enable them for delivery of
Heartfulness Way education has also been launched. These programs are also being offered by SRCM
to schools and colleges , besides the Essay Writing Event. Details are available on :
www.heartfulness.org/education

An Invitation to the Youth

Youth is a time of possibilities. It is a period in life filled with opportunities waiting to be realized,
provided we are prepared. While education helps us to develop our physical and intellectual
capabilities to their optimum extent, and prepares us to thrive in a competitive world, there is one
aspect of our development that does not often receive the attention due to it – the development of
our inner Being. Without the synchronous development of body, mind and heart our evolution as
human beings remains incomplete. It is therefore balance in addition to excellence that the youth
must strive for - the balance between mind and heart, the outer and the inner, between thinking and
feeling. Through Heartfulness Essay Event, we invite you to tap into your inner space, tune in to the
soft voice of the heart that never fails to guide and inspire and, express in words your feelings on the
topic. We encourage you thus to begin the practice of referring to the heart early in life.

Topics:

Category 1 [Classes 9 to 12] Word Limit 500

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. (Albert Einstein)

Category 2 [UG and PG] Word Limit 750

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. (Swami Vivekananda)


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LANGUAGES OFFERED :
National Level : English, Hindi
Regional Level: Any one language from Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam,
Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu as per state wise eligibility list.
Rules and Guidelines

a. The interested institutions will be required to register their participation.


b. In each State 2 or 3 language options will be offered which are locally relevant, out of the
approved 11 languages. To find out about the option of languages offered to a participating
institution, the students need to check with Essay Event Coordinator of their institution. State
wise list attached.
c. The institute needs to register participation in the link provided at
www.heartfulness.org/essay-event. A mail of confirmation will be sent by the team once the
authorization process is done. The details of the participants is required to be uploaded for
the registration of the participants once the essays are written by the students.
d. All essays along with a complete list of participants from a participating institution must
be submitted to the institution’s designated authorities by September 19, 2019.
e. The top 5 essays need to be selected and marked in each language. The Participant
Information Sheet duly signed by the candidate is to be submitted attached to the essay.
f. All entries must be on A4 size sheets. Essays may be hand written in black or blue ink or
computer typed in black in Calibri script in respect of essays in English and relevant script
in respect of essays in Hindi and regional language. For all options only Font size 12 should
be used. All entries must have the prescribed Participant Information Slip firmly
attached to them. The participant must write the number of words on the last page and
sign at the bottom of each page. Submitted entries must not bear any score or marks
awarded at the institution level evaluation.
g. Students are permitted and encouraged to read and research the topics. All submitted pieces
must nonetheless be the original work of the student and any references or quotations
therein must be duly acknowledged. Plagiarism from books or internet will not be viewed
favorably.
h. There are two categories of participation and students must necessarily write on the
topics given for their applicable category only. They should write only in one language.
i. The word limit for Category 1 is 500 and Category 2 is 750 and must be strictly adhered
to. Students must refrain from making illustrations/sketches of any kind.

To fulfill the purpose of this Event, the essay must reflect the participant’s personal
understanding of the topic based partly on some of his or her own experiences. Essays based
entirely on material copied from books and internet are not desirable.

Essays must be submitted by participants to their school/ college coordinator. The


institution authorities are required to submit or despatch the essays to our local
representative :

Name of Local Representative : ____________________________________________

Contact No of Local Representative : ________________________________________

Local Address for Posting : ________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

For clarifications or any other help please write to us at: [email protected]

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Prizes in each Category:

National Level: Top ten essays, written in ENGLISH and HINDI

State Level: Upto Top Ten essays in Regional Language (if applicable) in addition to essays in
English and Hindi

Merit Certificates: An E-Certificate of Merit will be awarded to the selected essays shortlisted for
state level.
Certificate of Participation : E-certificates will be awarded to all certified participants whose list is
forwarded by the institution.

Sponsored Institution Award :

Diamond Award – to the Institution of the National Level First Prize Winners – Rs. 75,000 (4)
Platinum Award – to the Institution of the National Level Second Prize Winners – Rs. 50,000 (4)
Gold Award – to the Institution of the National Level Third Prize Winner – Rs. 25,000 ( 4 )

Brighter Minds Commendable Initiative Award : To the top 5 institutions for highest number of
participation – Rs. 10,000 each

Institution Appreciation Certificates :

Gold Institution certificate –Above 90% participation of students from the Institute.
Silver Institution certificate – 80-90% participation of students from the Institute.
Bronze Institution certificate - 60-79% participation of students from the institute.

Certified Evaluator Certificate : To teachers willing to help us by being a certified


evaluators for the event. ( Please contact our coordinator if you are interested ).

Students may be required to undertake a telephonic interview to qualify for the final award.
The Evaluation team will have the discretion to award or disqualify the essays received.

The certificates awarded will be certificates signed by the Director of the UNIC and the
President of SRCM.

The Winners of First, Second and Third National level awards of both Categories will be invited on a
paid trip to the inauguration of the Heartfulness Global Center at Kanha Shanti Vanam, Hyderabad in
January 2020 . along with one parent and the teacher or Principal from their institution. The awards to
the student Winners and the Institution winners will be presented during the inaugural function in the
presence of the 35,000 + gathering.

Important Dates

Last date for submission of essays by participants to their institution : 19 September 2019
Last date for submission of all essays along with the selected top 5 essays by institution to SRCM
coordinator : 30 September 2019

Declaration of results: December 2019

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