DRDO National Level Essay Competition; Submit Entries Before 5 December

New Delhi: Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence is conducting National Level Essay Competition to celebrate its 60th year. DRDO will celebrate diamond jubilee in 2018. The essay competition is aimed at motivating the 'the students of this country towards defence technology along with awareness about the achievements and progress made by DRDO for nation building in the past 60 years in various areas of military technology.' Interested candidates can submit their entries before 5 December 2017. Details can be found at drdo.gov.in.

The competition will consist of two categories: students of class 9-12 will belong to category 1 and those pursuing graduation and postgraduation will be in category 2. While for those in category 2 the maximum word limit is 2000 words, for other candidates it will be 1000 words.

The topic of the essay is 'DRDO: Achievements and Way Ahead' and candidates can either use Hindi or English as a medium of essay writing.

60 essays will be considered and each winner will be awarded an honorarium cash of Rs.2000 and a certificate. Names of the winners will be published on DRDO website.

Entries must be submitted at the online portal of MyGov website before the deadline.

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