Held in eight different languages, the fifth and sixth editions of India’s largest school essay competition attracted over 2 million students, each from across 150 cities and over 5000 schools in India. And the winners got lucky as the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee met and interacted with the national winners of the fifth and sixth editions of the ‘Tata Building India School Essay Competition’ at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi. The winning students also got an opportunity to take a tour of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The sixth edition (2011-12) of the competition was about ‘How can you make the world you live in -- your home, your city, your nation -- a cleaner and greener place’. The winning essays featured impactful, thought provoking and radical ideas of the young minds of today.
Congratulating the winners, Pranab Mukherjee said, “I would like to congratulate students for organizing this essay writing competition. We are simply fascinated by your ideas expressed here. The constitutional promise of equality, liberty and justice can be realized when dreams of young minds are translated into reality.”
Tata Building India School Essay Competition gives students a platform to pen down their thoughts and ideas on nation building.
