write a letter to the mother land in 1000 words
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India's Department of Post is holding a letter writing competition for the Indian diaspora. The International Level 'Dhai Akhar Letter Writing Campaign' will begin on 1st July 2018 and the last day for posting a letter under this campaign is 30th September 2018. Only handwritten letters sent by post will be accepted. A scanned copy of the letter can be submitted on the MyGov portal latest by 30th September 2018 (23:59 IST), however, it is compulsory that a hard copy of the letter bearing dispatch postmark of not later than 30-09-2018 be sent by post.The theme of the Dhai Akhar Letter Writing Campaign is “Letter to my motherland / मेरे देश के नाम खत”. This campaign is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s song “Amar Desher Mati”. This letter can be written in English, Hindi or any official Indian Language mentioned under the 8th schedule of the constitution of India. The languages under this schedule are, Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telgu, and Urdu. The campaign will have two categories, one for participants who are upto 18 years of age and the other with participants above 18 years of age.
The letter is to be handwritten on a plain A-4 size paper with a word limit not exceeding 1000 words. The entries are to be sent to Assistant Director General (Philately), Department of Posts, Room No. 108, Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi-110001.