If I would be of any Gallantry award winner Then what would I have done for my nation?
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India has given birth to several bravehearts who have placed the nation above their own life and served her in various capacities. Such real-life heroes are honoured with Gallantry Awards, instituted by the Government of India, and are given away twice a year. But how many of us know about their bravery? To make students more aware of these inspiring stories, the Ministry of Education, Department of School Education and Literacy, along with the Ministry of Defence, launched the Veer Gatha Project and it commences from today, October 21.
Specifically for students from Classes III to XII, this project honours the sacrifices and acts of courage of the "officers/personnel of the Armed Forces, other lawfully-constituted Forces and Civilians", as per a circular issued by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on October 14 for those schools who are affiliated to the Board. The project will go on till November 20, 2021.
As per the circular, students from Classes III to V
will be required to write a poem or a paragraph
of 150 words or paint a picture, while Classes
VI to VIII can do the same but in 300 words and
use multimedia presentation as well, Classes IX
and X can go up to 750 words and Classes XI
and XII can touch 1,000 words. There are two
topics that remain the same across the board
- 'If I had been (Name of the Gallantry Award
winner), what would I have done for my nation?'
and '(Name of the Gallantry Award winner)
motivates me to....
Between October 21 to November 20, 2021, schools have been instructed to conduct the activities and between November 1 and 30, they have been asked to upload one best entry from each category (totally, no more than four entries per school) and upload it on the CBSE's Veer Gatha portal. As many as 25 best entries (six from each category and seven from the Class XI to XII category) will be selected. The winners will be awarded a cash prize Rs 10,000 and invited to the 2022 Republic Day celebrations in Delhi. What a prize to win!
Explanation:
In a notification issued to all CBSE affiliated schools on Thursday, the board said, “In order to disseminate the details of acts of bravery and the life stories of these brave hearts among the students, it has been proposed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) that school students may be motivated to do projects/activities based on gallantry award winners. Accordingly, the Ministry of Education, Department of School Education & Literacy, is organising the Veer Gatha Project from 21st October to 20th November 2021. The project shall be open to all schools in all states and Union territories including all schools affiliated to the CBSE.”
Under the project, students will submit entries in the form of poems, essays, painting, multimedia presentations and any other creative format.
For classes 3rd to 10th, the students have to submit an entry on the topic, “If I had been (name of the gallantry award winner) what would I have done for my nation?”. And, for classes 11 and 12, the topic is “(name of the Gallantry Award Winner) motivates me to………”.
The schools will conduct the activities between October 21 and November 20, and upload one best entry per category, and a total of four from each school at the CBSE Veer Gatha portal. “Twenty-five selected entries will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 10,000 by the Ministry of Defence. Each of the 25 winners will be invited for the Republic Day Celebration at Delhi,” the notification added.
The CBSE, in a tweet, said the project aims to “communicate to the students about our country’s brave-hearts, and details about their acts of bravery and their life story”.