Mygov.in - Poster Designing Competition for a Healthy Lifestyle

India is experiencing a rapid health transition with a rising burden of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Common NCDs such as cardio vascular diseases (CVDs), diabetes, cancer and respiratory diseases account for major portion of mortality and morbidity due to NCDs. It is estimated that NCDs account for 60% of total deaths in India. The good thing however is that all these diseases are preventable through making a choice for healthy lifestyle.

There are common preventable behavioural risk factors of NCDs such as tobacco & alcohol use, physically inactive lifestyle, a diet high in sugar, trans-fats and salt inter-alia. Unhealthy lifestyle increases the risk of high blood pressure (hypertension) and increased blood glucose level. It is recommended that a healthy lifestyle can prevent onset of the above mentioned diseases.

NCDs are chronic in nature and may require long term treatment or management. For effective management of these diseases, early diagnosis becomes an essential component therefore management of preventable risk factors and frequent screening for early diagnosis of these diseases are key strategies for effective prevention and management of common NCDs.

THE COMPETITION
We want your participation in raising awareness about the Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) or as we call them - the lifestyle diseases and how simple changes in our current style of day to day living can save us from disease like cancer, diabetes, hypertension and poor oral health. And you can do this by designing a POSTER, which promotes the theme provided below.

Main Theme: Adopting healthy lifestyle to prevent occurrence of disease like cancer, diabetes, hypertension, cardio vascular diseases, stroke and respiratory diseases.

Sub-Themes: You have to prepare a Poster incorporating healthy lifestyle practices. You can choose any one, more than one or all of the themes from the following:
• Healthy lifestyle practices
• Eating healthy
• Being physically active and fit
• Screening for early detection of diseases

Language: Hindi and/or English

SIZE of POSTER
A4 size in digital format

Last Date
30th April, 2017

PRIZE
One FIRST Prize – Rs.25000/-
Two SECOND Prizes  – Rs.15000/-

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https://www.mygov.in/task/poster-designing-competition-healthy-lifestyle/

Kalpana Chawla Memorial Award 2017

Biyani Girls College Started its journey in the year 2005 with the mission to bring changes in the society by the power of education. The directors visualized the better nation and realized that the nation can rise only when the woman is educated and they dreamt to have women empowerment through technical education. Their dream is today actualized when thousands of girls studied in Biyani Girls College have achieved great success in their career.

Kalpana Chawla was one of the role model for Biyani Girls College. They instituted Kalpana Chawla Memorial Award in her fond memory. The father of late Kalpana Chawla, Shri B.L Chawla also joined his hand in this noble venture of Biyani Girls College. He has always believed that there is a Kalpana in each girl. He appreciated the idea of discovering more Kalpanas and motivating them to achieve success in their careers.

2017 Kalpana Chawla Award will be given to meritorious girls of 12th standard appearing for Exams in year 2017 from any board all over India.

Venue: Utsav Auditorium, Biyani Girls College, Sector-3, Vidhyadhar Nagar, Jaipur-302023 .

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YMCA and Toonz Academy - Poster Designing Competition 2017

Young Women's Christian Association of Trivandrum, in order to commemorate its milestones and achievements over the past 100 years (1917-2017) has planned yearlong celebrations and going to conduct Poster Designing competition in association with Toonz Academy.

The Poster Designing Competition is being held with the objectives of enhancing creativity among youngsters and identifying their talents. All Higher Secondary and Degree students, are invited to join the competition to be held on 22nd April 2017 at YWCA Hall, Spencer Junction, Trivandrum

There is no entry fee for the competition & it's absolutely FREE...!

For any queries, please feel free to contact us at 9249494908.

Last date for receiving of application: 16th April 2017

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EssayHub Essay Writing Contest - Last Date 30 April 2017

EssayHub is organising Essay Writing Contest for Students.

The passionate team at EssayHub is very dedicated to securing the academic success and growth of future generations. Not only do we provide excellent essay writing services alongside a wide variety of educational blog posts, but now have also chosen to present you with an essay writing contest. Everyone is more than welcome to participate in this essay contest as long as they fulfill the necessary requirements.

There is absolutely no fee to enter this contest at EssayHub.com. You might be wondering why we are doing this. We believe that we should reward our community for their customs as well as offer them a chance to earn some money by using the knowledge they have gained from our educational blogs. Such an event allows one to test their capabilities while also getting a reward so why not give it a try yourself? There is nothing to lose in this scenario, except the opportunity to see if your work is truly amazing.

Essay Contest Instructions & Guidelines

• Have a registered working email address that is yours and only you have access to.
• Any individual choosing to participate in this contest must be undergoing High School or higher level education (university, college )
• Every submission must meet the minimum word count requirement of 500 words to 1000 words max.
• All work for this essay contest must be written in English.We understand that the world is multilingual and we would enjoy reading such interesting works in their original language, however it would make conducting such an event nearly impossible.
• Documents must be sent in Word or Doc type files as to allow easy access to them to the email address support@essayhub.com with subject line Essay Writing Contest.
• The email submission requirements need you to place your name in the work itself and in the text of the email letter itself. Example: Essay Writing Contest - Joseph Smith.
• Avoid continuously looking to debate whether you should be the winner or trying to convince the judges why you think you deserved to win. All judging is done anonymously and based SOLELY on the quality of the essay writer’s work. This allows for only the best essays to win.
• We DO NOT accept the submission of any kind of scholarship essay.
• Plagiarism is a no go. All those found guilty will be disqualified without being notified. No excuses, no exceptions. There are many referencing guides available on our website for you to use in case you get stuck.
• In the case of a resubmission from a previous contest it will not be taken into account and regarded as plagiarism.
• All submissions must be given in by the 30th of April 2017 11:59 PST at the latest. Make sure to include your correct contact information so we may get a hold of you if you have won. The event begins on the 17th of February 2017 at 12:00 PST.

Registration Process Requirements

• Double check to make sure you can respect and fit the above given requirements.
• Fill in the application form and follow its instructions.
• Lastly submit your essay online following the requirements given in the instructions.

Available Topics For Our Essay Writing Contest

Participants are free to choose amongst any of the 10 available topics as these are frequently encountered and quite controversial.

• Is the American Dream still alive?
• Can money buy us happiness?
• What could be done to improve the educational system?
• Is taking written exams the best way to test one's knowledge?
• Violence in video games, should teens play them?
• Have technological advancements reduced our appreciation of human emotions?
• Can peer pressure be good for self development?
• Are the elderly entitled to free bus rides in our country?
• Can our personal achievements and knowledge ever be examined without being bias?
• To what extent do team sports influence our communication skills?

How The Winner Will Be Chosen

Following the expiration of the given deadline, the hand picked team of judges will evaluate all of the submitted essay contest topics and determine the top three winners. We hope you understand that the time to review all the entries can vary according to the number of submissions. It is estimated that it takes approximately 2 weeks for a thousand plus custom essays. As this is our first attempt at such a type of essay writing contest we ask you to be patient in terms of the grading period. As soon as everything has been decided by the judges we will notify the winners via the provided email addresses. This process is intended to help the winners claim their prizes.

All works are graded anonymously in order to ensure fairness in deciding the winners.

Prize Pool Distribution For The Top Three

The prize pool for this essay contest was set at $1000. It will be distributed amongst the top three winning writers in the following manner:

• 1st Place - $500
• 2nd Place - $300
• 3rd Place - $200

Each of the top three winners will be given the opportunity to have their work published and shared across a large variety of social media outlets in order to help promote the author's talent. We kindly ask all participants to follow-up on information being posted on EssayHub.com as that is where we will initially release the winner list through the means of a special blog post. The winners will be contacted first of course to see if it is acceptable for their names to be released in this post as well as if we have permission to share their work on various platforms.

If you are one of the winners it is best advised to respond to the notification as soon as possible so that we may have you taken care of in a timely fashion.

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