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E-mail: nfbkarnat...@gmail.com Phone No.: 23152072 Mobile: 99804 44655 Fax No.: 23489031 Regd. No. 4866 NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND (Affiliated to World Blind Union) Karnataka State Branch # 18, 14th Cross, Cholurpalya, Vijaynagar, Pipeline, Near IBP Petrol Bank, Bangalore. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dated: 06.03.2010 To The heads of all organizations of and for the blind in Karnataka Sub: Information in regard with 5th Onkyo Braille Essay Contest in the Region of Asian Blind Union Dear counterparts, I have pleasure to inform you that the secretariat of Asian Blind Union (ABU) has declared 5th Onkyo Braille Essay Contest. The blind persons of 21 member countries of Asian blind union are eligible to participate in this contest. This is therefore requested to you to kindly disseminate this information among the deserving and interested blind persons as widely as possible. The detailed rules and procedure for the Contest are as under: (i) The participants can write on any one of the following topics: a) Which do I prefer more—books in Braille or recorded books—why? b) In a developing country like ours what system of education is more useful for blind children—residential schools or inclusive education? Give reasons. c) Climate change—meaning, implications, suggested solutions. d) Militancy—real causes and prevention. e) How to bringing Braille within easy reach of the Blind. (ii) The Essay should be written by the blind participants in English or Hindi in Braille on Braille slate or Braille typewriters and not on computers. (iii) Minimum length of the Essay should be 800 words and maximum length of Essay should not exceed 1000 words including name address of the participants. (iv) There will be two groups of competitors—one Junior group up to the age of 25 and the second Senior group from the age of 26 onwards. (v) The Essays must be completely original in nature. (vi) In determining the best five entries, consideration should be given firstly, to the story line closest to the topics given above, secondly, the impact and credibility of the experiences, thirdly, the accuracy and neatness in using Braille and fourthly, style and language skills. (vii) Entries of Braille essay must be reached to the all India confederation of the blind, sector-5, Rohini, Delhi-85 on and before 30th April 2010 Receipt of the entries after prescribed date shall not be entertained. (viii) The Result of the Contest would be announced by Braille Mainichi Newspaper Co. Ltd., Japan by early November, 2010. (ix) Prizes:- one best essay from any of junior and senior group shall be awarded with prize of 1000 US$ and memorial souvenir. Second prize of US$ 500 and memorial souvenir shall be awarded to two participants one from each group. Third prize of US$ 200 and memorial souvenir shall be given to four participants (two from each group) Positive response to this request shall be highly appreciated. With kind regards, Gautam Prakash Agarwal President, NFB, Karnataka To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
