Annual Essay Prize Competition-2011 by IIPA

Annual Essay Prize Competition-2011

Essay conducted by: Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA)

Length of the essay: Approximately 5000 words (All essays must be typed in double space on one side of the paper only and those entries which do not adhere to the stipulation can be rejected)

Prize value:

• First Prize: Rs.5,000/-
• Second Prize: Rs.3,000/-
• Third Prize: Rs.2,000/-

Choose any one topic!

• Role of Audit in Democratic India
• Judicial Accountability and Democracy
• Food Security, Food Inflation and the Public Distribution System
• What the Next Five Year Plan should Focus upon – Five Priority Items
• Information Technology for the Masses: Bridging the Digital Divide

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Essay requirements:

• It should be based on personal research or experience of the competitors
• Show evidence of original thinking and scholarship as well as a critical analysis of the subject.
• Broad generalizations should be avoided.

Selection process: Essay’s will be short-listed by a body of judges selected by the Executive Council of the institute.

Note: Any essay which receives an award shall become the joint intellectual property of the author and IIPA.

SEND your essay (superscribing on envelope - “Annual Essay Prize Competition 2011”) through registered post to the Director, Indian Institute of Public
Administration, Indraprastha Estate, Ring Road, New Delhi-110002,

Last date of submitting the essay: August 31, 2011        

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