By: Vijay Kumar Verma, Group Editor-ICN
More than 7 lac students from about 16,000 schools participate
SHIMLA: Suresh Bhardwaj, Minister of Education, Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Himachal Pradesh presided over the State Level Painting Competition held under National Awareness Campaign on Energy Conservation organized by SJVN at its corporate centre Shakti Sadan, in Shimla, on November 13, 2019. Officials from Government of Himachal Pradesh, K.K Pant, Principal Secretary (Education) and Dr Amarjit Kumar Sharma, Director Higher Education also graced the occasion.
In her welcome address, Director (Personnel), SJVN, Smt. Geeta Kapur extended warm welcome to the chief guest and congratulated the participants.
In his speech, Suresh Bhardwaj, applauded the efforts of Team SJVN in organizing this State Level Painting Competition successfully. He appreciated the efforts of students, their parents & teachers in propagation of message of Energy Conservation. He insisted that younger generation can propagate the message of energy conservation far and wide, which will definitely lead to a better future.
Karan Kumar from DAV School Lakkar Bazar Shimla and Anmol Verma from DPS Manali bagged the first position in group A & B respectively, while Dhanvi from DPS Manali, and Sakshi from DAV Lkkar Bazar, Shimla bagged the second position in these groups. Arushi from DAV School Totu and Harshita from Dayanand Public School, Shimla bagged the third prize.
The competition was organized under the aegis of the Ministry of Power and Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). SJVN is the Nodal Agency for organizing Painting Competition at School & State Level in Himachal Pradesh.
Every year, the Painting Competition is organized under two categories- Category ‘A’ for 4th to 6th class students and Category ‘B’ for 7th to 9th class students. SJVN in association with Directorate of Education, Himachal Pradesh invited paintings from all Schools of Himachal Pradesh.It is organized in three phases – School, State and National level. For the first phase of the Competition, all the invited schools conduct a painting competition at the school level and submit two paintings to SJVN. In the second phase of the competition, 50 best paintings are selected from each category (A & B). All the 100 participants are then invited for the State Level Competition.
This year, in Category A, 414866 students of 10104 schools participated, while in Category B, 313010 students of 5773 schools participated in this competition.
For both the Categories, First prize of Rs 50,000, Second prize for Rs 30,000, Third prize of Rs 20,000 and ten Consolation prizes of Rs 7,500 each is awarded to the winners. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners of both Categories of the State Level Painting Competition become eligible to participate in the National Level Painting Competition which held in New Delhi during December 2019.
