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Open Call: Veer Gatha Project 4.0 (India)

Deadline: 30 October 2024

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) in collaboration with Ministry of Education (MoE) has now decided to launch its Project Veer Gatha 4.0 during 2024-25.

Project Veer Gatha was instituted under Gallantry Awards Portal (GAP) in 2021 with the aim to disseminate the details of acts of bravery of the Gallantry Awardees and the life stories of these brave hearts among the students so as to raise the spirit of patriotism and instill amongst them values of civic consciousness. Project Veer Gatha deepened this noble aim by providing a platform to the school students (students of all schools in India) to do creative projects/activities based on gallantry award winners. As part of this, the students framed different projects through various media like art, poems, essays and multimedia on these gallantry award winners and best projects were awarded at national level by Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Education. The project has been coterminous with Republic Day Celebrations each year. Veer Gatha has been a phenomenal success with8 lakhs participation in Veer Gatha 1.0 conducted in 2021-22, 19.5 lakhs in Veer Gatha 2.0conducted in 2022-23 and 1.37 crore in Veer Gatha 3.0 conducted in 2023-24. Hon’ble Raksha Mantri and Hon’ble Minister of Education have commended Veer Gatha as ‘heralding of a revolution amongst the students of India’.

Interdisciplinary and art-integrated activities like Poem, Paragraph, Essay, Painting/Drawing, Multi Media Presentation etc. would be the activities to be done by individual students as a Project.

Categories

  • Class 3rd to 5th
    • Activities: Poem/Paragraph (150 words)/Painting/Drawing.
  • Class 6th to 8th
    • Activities: Poem/Paragraph (300 words)/Painting/Drawing/Multi‑Media Presentation.
  • Class 9th to 10th
    • Activities: Poem/Essay (750 words) /Painting/Drawing/Multi‑Media Presentation.
  • Class 11th to 12th
    • Activities: Poem/Essay (1000 words)/Painting/Drawing/Multi – Media Presentation.

Topics

  • My role model is (Gallantry Award winner) __________. The values which I have learnt from his/her life are………………….
  • __________ (Gallantry Award winner) gave the supreme sacrifice for our nation. If given a chance for keeping his/her memory alive, I would like to………….
  • Rani Lakshmibai came into my dream. She wanted me to serve our nation by ………………
  • 1857 Mutiny has been marked as First war of Indian Independence. The life story of ______ (name of the freedom fighter) motivates me to ………………
  • Role of Tribal Uprising in Freedom Struggle.

Funding Information

  • Each winner will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 10,000/- by the Ministry of Defense.
  • There will be winners at every level. The number of winners to be declared is as follows:
    • National Level – 100 winners (Super 100). No Veer Gatha Winner (at National Level) of earlier versions will be included in 100 winners (at National Level) of Veer Gatha Project (4.0).
      • Category: Class 3rd to 5th
      • Category: Class 6th to 8th
      • Category: Class 9rd to 10th
      • Category: Class 11th to 12th
    • State/UT Level: 08 Winners (two from each category) at State/UT level irrespective of Board (Will not include students selected in Super 100)
    • District Level: 04 winners (one from each category). These will not include students selected in Super 100 and the students selected at State/UT level.

Eligibility Criteria

  • School students all over India.

Evaluation Criteria

  • The Project Veer Gatha 4.0 will have 3 levels: District level, State/UT Level and National level:
    • Evaluation at District Level: The State Nodal Officer/SPDs will appoint District Level Nodal Officers for evaluation of entries at District level. The District Nodal Officers/District Education Officer will engage DIET and other officials of the concerned State/UT/district for the evaluations at district level.
    • Evaluation at State/UT Level: The responsibility of evaluation at State/UT level will be of the Nodal Officers of States/UTs or SPDs. The Nodal Officers of States/UTs or SPDs will engage DIET/ SCERT/ other education officials of the concerned State/UT for the evaluations at State/UT Level.
    • National Level Evaluation: Evaluation at National Level shall be conducted by National Level Committee which would be constituted by Ministry of Education, Government of India.

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