{"id":7235,"date":"2017-10-05T06:34:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T06:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=7235"},"modified":"2017-10-05T06:34:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T06:34:44","slug":"kokuyo-camlin-and-isha-foundation-announce-the-school-winners-in-the-creative-contest-of-rally-for-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=7235","title":{"rendered":"Kokuyo Camlin and Isha Foundation announce the school winners in the creative contest of \u201cRally for Rivers\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bangalore,\u00a0October 3rd<\/sup> 2017:<\/strong>Kokuyo Camlin and Isha Foundation announced the school winners of the creative writing contest on the theme —`\u00a0Saving Rivers: India\u2019s Lifeline\u2019 <\/strong>in the 26 city campaign \u2013 \u201cRally for Rivers\u201d organized by teams of Kokuyo Camlin & Isha .The creative writing contest was part of the `Rally For Rivers\u2019 campaign, which was envisaged by Sadhguru, Founder of Isha Foundation\u00a0to creating awareness among all Indians on the rapid depletion of rivers across India. The campaign started from Coimbatore and finally concluded in Delhi on 2nd<\/sup> October 2017 in a glittering event at Indra Gandhi Indoor Stadium. The events in all 26 cities have been attended by Sadhguru and dignitaries including Chief Ministers and other important guest. The Chief Guest for the Delhi event included The Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu, Dr Harsh Wardhan, Mr. Amitabh Kant \u2013 CEO NitiAayog, and many others. Kokuyo Camlin was represented by Saumitra Prasad \u2013 Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

More than three lakh students from across 1500 schools in 26 cities of India participated in this mammoth activity. Last week the event in Lucknow was attended by UP Chief Minister Shri Yogi Aditynath.<\/p>\n

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Saumitra Prasad, Chief Marketing Officer, Kokuyo Camlin Ltd said,<\/strong> \u201cWe are proud to be associated with Isha Foundation for this important initiative for the country \u2013 \u201cRally for Rivers\u201d and overwhelmed by the level of participation we received from students for the creative writing contest across the country.\u00a0 Some of the ideas suggested by these students were extremely thought-provoking and very insightful. \u00a0We conducted this activity to raise awareness about depletion of rivers among the students but the short essays submitted by them showcased their maturity,\u00a0environmental consciousness and empathy they felt about conserving our great rivers… We are thankful to schools principals, teachers and students who made this awareness campaign a grand success.\u201d<\/p>\n

The writing contest was eligible for students of the 5th<\/sup>, 6th<\/sup>\u00a0and 7th<\/sup>\u00a0class only.\u00a0 The school children were asked to pen down a short essay on the topic of `Saving Rivers: India\u2019s Lifelines\u2019 <\/strong>in\u00a0not more than 40 words in stipulated time of 15 minutes.\u00a0 Every class had one winner, which was jointly decided by the teacher and the event organizers. Three entries from each school (one each for 5, 6, 7th<\/sup>\u00a0standard) was short-listed by the school principal and a specially appointed jury. In every state \u2013 three winners were decided by a Jury and they attended the event with Sadhguru and other eminent personalities. Prizes worth Rs 3,000 were given to each state winner.<\/p>\n

The state winners a religible for national online voting contest and 3 national winners will be selected based on online voting. Prizes worth Rs 25,000 will be given for each national winner.\u00a0 All state winners are goingto get opportunity to attend a creative writing workshop at Isha Yoga Center with an eminent author.<\/p>\n

About Kokuyo Camlin Ltd<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Kokuyo\u00a0Camlin\u00a0Limited\u00a0www.kokuyocamlin.com<\/a>\u00a0(formerly known as\u00a0Camlin\u00a0Limited)\u00a0 is in the business of\u00a0 marketing and selling of art materials and stationery products under flagship brands \u2018Camel\u2019 and \u2018Camlin\u2019 which have been in existence for more than 80 years . The company offers a wide range of products such as Fine Art materials, scholastic colors and stationery, hobby products, office products, writing and drawing instruments, adhesives and notebooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bangalore,\u00a0October 3rd 2017:Kokuyo Camlin and Isha Foundation announced the school winners of the creative writing contest on the theme —`\u00a0Saving Rivers: India\u2019s Lifeline\u2019 in the 26 city campaign \u2013 \u201cRally for Rivers\u201d organized by teams of Kokuyo Camlin & Isha .The creative writing contest was part of the `Rally For Rivers\u2019 campaign, which was envisaged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7238,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235\/revisions\/7238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}