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NIWE with the support of MNRE has scheduled eight events (each event are scheduled for a week duration) to commemorate the 75 years of India's Independence (Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav).
The first event, Painting and Essay Competitions for students was conducted successfully as scheduled from 31st May to 4th June 2021.
Due to pandemic restrictions, the competitions were planned to conduct through online, enabling large number of students to participate. The announcement about the competitions along with following instructions were hosted in NIWE website and circulated through Social Media pages.
A good response of 682 students from all over India registered for the competitions. The following were the categories, themes and registration details of the competitions;
| S.No | Categories | Themes | No. of Registration | State wise Registration | Event Date |
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| Painting Competition | |||||
| 1 | Up to 7th standard | Salutations to Wind- Vayu Vandhanam | 240 | Tamil Nadu-154 Kerala-83 Karnataka-2 Andhra Pradesh-1 | 31/05/2021 |
| 2 | 8th to 10th Standard | Wind energy for the great future | 267 | Tamil Nadu- 263 Andhra Pradesh-2 Karnataka-1 Gujarat-1 | 01/06/2021 |
| 3 | 11th & 12th standard | Energy Transition & Wind Energy | 64 | Tamil Nadu-63 Andhra Pradesh-1 | 02/06/2021 |
| Essay Competition | |||||
| 4 | 11th & 12th standard | Let Wind do the task | 72 | Tamil Nadu-70 Kerala-2 | 03/06/2021 |
| 5 | Undergraduate students | Think outside the Barrel- Wind Energy & Electric vehicles | 39 | Tamil Nadu- 35 New Delhi-2 Chattisgarh-1 Andhra Pradesh-2 | 04/06/2021 |
As large number of students have registered for the competitions, to conduct the events smoothly, the competitions were conducted in live online mode in different timings having maximum of 100 students per slot, the competent authority of NIWE has constituted a Monitoring Committee with the following NIWE staff;
| For Painting Competition | |
| Mr.Saravanan, Deputy Director (Technical) | Member |
| Mr. Krishnan, Assistant Director (Technical) | Member |
| Mr. Yelachuri Srinath,Assistant Director (Technical) | Member |
| Mr. S. Arul Selvan, Assistant Executive Engineer | Member |
| Mr. S. Paramasivam,Assistant Engineer | Member |
| Naveen muthu. R.Junior Engineer | Member |
| Mr. R. Vinod Kumar, Junior Engineer | Member |
| Mr. Sankar Rao, Junior Engineer | Member |
| For Essay Competition | |
| N. Raj kumar, Additional Director | Member |
| A.Hari bhaskaran, Deputy Director (Technical) | Member |
| J. Bastin, Deputy Director (Technical) | Member |
| A.G.Rangaraj, Deputy Director (Technical) | Member |
The Monitoring Committee members along with the organizing team monitored and conducted the competitions as per the schedule and instructions in a live online mode without any malpractices. The participants were then asked to email their Paintings and Essays and the initial screening process was done. The verified Paintings and Essays were sent to the Jury Committee on 07/06/2021 by blinding the identity of the participants for unbiased evaluation.
Following are the members of Jury Committee constitute by the competent authority of NIWE representing Ministry, Industry, Academia and NIWE.
| Dr. Kumaravel, Managing Director, Wind Guard India | Member |
| Dr. Prabir Kumar Dash, Scientist D, MNRE | Member |
| Dr. Rishi Muni Dwivedi, Associate Director, IWTMA | Member |
| Mr. Joel Franklin Asaria, Deputy Director, NPC | Member |
| Mr. Boopathi, Director & Head, R&D, NIWE | Member |
The each Jury Committee members scrutinized all the Paintings and Essays and awarded marks for each participant based on originality, creativity and relevance to the given theme for each category. The marks were consolidated and convened Jury Committee meeting online on 15th June 2021 at 1600 hours to get concurrences of the Jury members about the consolidated marks awarded by each Jury member and to finalize the top 3 winners for all the categories of the competitions conducted. After the Jury Committee meeting, minutes of the meeting (MoM) has been prepared, which was approved by all the members of the Jury. The competent authority of NIWE has approved the MoM.
As approved by the competent authority of NIWE, all the winners would be awarded cash prize of Rs.1000/- for the First Prize, Rs.750/- for the second prize and Rs.500/- for the third Prize along with the Certificates and all other participants would be awarded with participation certificates.
The winners list recommended by Jury Committee are tabled below;
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| 7th Category |
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| 8th to 10th Category |
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| 11th & 12th Category |
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