Subject: Project Veer Gatha Edition 3.0

🔸Gallantry Awards have been instituted by the Government of India to honour the acts of bravery and sacrifice of the officers/personnel of the Armed Forces, other lawfully-constituted Forces and Civilians.

🔸These gallantry awards are announced twice in a year on the occasion of Republic Day and Independence Day.

🔸In order to disseminate the details of acts of bravery and the life stories of these brave- hearts among the students, it has been proposed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) that school students may be motivated to do projects/activities based on gallantry award winners.

🔸Accordingly, the first edition of Project Veer Gatha was organized in 2021 and he second edition was organized in 2022.

🔸The MoD in coordination with MoE has now decided to launch Project Veer Gatha Edition 3.0 which is proposed to be culminated with the prize distribution ceremony in January, 2024.

🔸Interdisciplinary and art-integrated activities Poem, Paragraph, Essay, Painting, Multi Media Presentation etc. may be considered as project activities for the students.
🔸Categories- Grades 3-5,
Activity- Poem/ Paragraph (150 words)/ Painting

🔸Grades 6-8, Poem/Paragraph (300 words)/Painting/ Multi-Media Presentation

🔸Grades 9-10, Poem/ Essay (750 words)/ Painting/ Multi-Media Presentation

🔸Grades 11-12, Poem/ Essay (1000 words)/ Painting/ Multi- Media Presentation

🔸Suggestive topics-
*My role model is (Gallantry Award winner) __. The values which I have learnt from his/her life are………………….

*__(Gallantry Award winner) gave the supreme sacrifice for our nation. If given a chance for keeping his/her memory alive , I would like to………….

*Rani Lakshmibai came into my dream. She wanted me to serve our nation by ………………
1857 Mutiny has been marked as First war of Indian Independence.

*The life story of __ (name of the freedom fighter) motivates me to ………………

*Role of Tribal Uprising in Freedom Struggle

🔸Timeline for Conducting Activities by Schools affiliated to CBSE: upto 15th September

🔸Activity to be done-
*Conduct of Activities at the School Level: Students will execute project activities under the overall supervision of the schools.
*Evaluation of entries submitted by schools to be done at the District level as per the Rubrics given in Annexure I.
*Schools to upload 01 best entry per category, a total of 04 from each school, at the mygov portal : https://innovateindia.mygov.in/veer-gatha-3/
*Schools upto class 5, 8 and 10 can also submit total 4 entries in any of the applicable categories.

🔸Registration and Submission of Entries:
*Please note that this year the schools affiliated with the Board would be required to submit entries for Veer Gatha 3.0 on mygov Portal only. The detailed procedure for registration and submission of entries is attached as Annexure II.

🔸Please note that the My Gov Veer Gatha 3.0 Portal will be open for submission of entries upto 15th September 2023. Schools should not wait for the last date for submission of the best entries.

🔸Best entries from the participants at MyGov Portal, will be selected for awards as per the following details:
 National Level – 100 winner (Super 100). No Veer Gatha Winner (at National Level) of earlier versions will be included in 100 winners (at National Level) of Veer Gatha Project (3.0).
Category: Class 3rd to 5th = 25 winners
Category: Class 6th to 8th = 25 winners
Category: Class 9rd to 10th = 25 winners o Category: Class 11th to 12th = 25 winners
 State / UT Level – 04 Winners (one from each category) at State / UT level irrespective of Board (Will not include students selected in Super 100)
 District Level – 04 winners (one from each category). These will not include students selected in Super 100 and the students selected at State/UT level.
Decision of the Evaluators / Jury shall be final and no further correspondence will be entertained in this regard.
Award:
i. 100 selected entries will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 10,000/- by the Ministry of Defence.
ii. Each of the 100 winners will be invited for Republic Day Celebration at Delhi.
iii. All students whose entry is uploaded on the Veer Gatha portal will get an E- certificate of
Participation.

🔸Websites for Reference:
The following links can be referred by schools:
i. Website https://www.gallantryawards.gov.in/awards to know in detail about the brave- hearts.
ii. NCERT book on Param Vir Chakra Awardees at the link:
https://ncert.nic.in/pdf/publication/otherpublications/veergatha.pdf

🔸FAQs: FAQ’s are annexed as Annexure III.