NATIONAL ESSAY

WRITING COMPETITION
Organized by SanghARSH in colloboration with
Centre for Social Justice*

On behalf of Team SanghARSH, we are pleased to announce that we are conducting

an Essay Writing Competition on themes that demand emphasis, analysis, problem

identification and constructive recommendation on a plethora of social issues that

we come across in our daily life.

Exciting prizes will be given to participants who put in the their effort, skill and

constructive thinking to come out with good articles and suggest positive measures

for the betterment of society with respect to the chosen theme.

The best articles of the competition will be published in the prestigious

Journal of Counterview.org

Two Lucky Participants will

Certificate to all get an opportunity to intern Registration Fee
the Participants! with Centre for Social Justice Rs. 200/-

/iSANGHARSH/ /MISSION_SANGHARSH/ MISSIONSANGHARSH@GMAIL.COM

*IDEAL
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ABOUT MISSION SANGHARSH:

“Mission SanghARSH” is a student run non-profit

volunteer based organization aimed at

humanitarian adventures striving towards

helping people in times of need. The

organization owes its inception to a group of law

students from Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. One such adventure

being carried out in a very well organized and efficient manner is blood donation.

Team SanghARSH facilitates direct donor-donee interaction through its already large

and still continuously diversifying network of blood donors in various cities and

various localities throughout India, and prompt action by members of the said

network. Their modus operandi is simple yet effective. As soon as any demand arises,

team SanghARSH verifies the information received and then communicates the same

to its donors in that particular city or locality. Its donors fulfil the said requirement

by directly communicating with the donee or his/her attendant in the hospital. This

way the donor gets to communicate directly and conveniently without any third party

intervention and the donee gets his/her blood requirement fulfilled quickly and free

of any cost whatsoever.

The aforementioned being the principal function

of SanghARSH, the organization is also

functional in various other strata of societal

needs. Recently, a clothing drive was

successfully completed by the team where

clothes were collected from Nirma University, National Institute of Cooperative

Management and Godrej Garden City to be distributed to the needy before the arrival

of winter season. Apart from this, organization takes up initiatives such as taking

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classes for better learning of school kids, spreading awareness, filing RTIs regarding

various social issues like school education, roads and many more such activities to

bring about societal welfare. Recently they have also been called upon by Lions Club

Ratangarh Orioon for a felicitation ceremony in Salasar, Rajasthan for their National

Level Blood Donation operations.

The organization looks forward to further diversify its operations especially those

pertaining to blood donation in order to continue and multiply its already impressive

growth and operational efficacy.

ABOUT CENTRE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

Centre for Social Justice is a socio-legal, Non-Governmental Organization

(NGO) initiated by Institute for Development Education and Learning (IDEAL). CSJ is

one of the first organisations of its kind in India that uses the judicial system to fight

for the rights of marginalised people.

CSJ first began operating through a

network of law centres across Gujarat

in 1993. CSJ is registered under the

Societies Registration Act (1860) and

Bombay Public Trust Act (1950).

Today, CSJ has expanded to several states, including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan,

Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka and

responds to nearly 3,000 cases a year.

CSJ centres consists of lawyers, paralegals and researchers who are passionate about

making a difference. They affect change every day ensuring minorities like women,

Dalits, tribal and other socially vulnerable groups get access to the rights guaranteed

to them.

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CSJ intervene at various points: from

providing legal aid, helping

document complaints and leading

fact findings, filing cases, contacting

relevant authorities, pushing

entitlement claims, spreading legal awareness, public advocacy campaigns, to

training young lawyers and paralegals, identifying violations of civil liberties and

serving as a watchdog for human rights abuses.

Vision

To strengthen human rights culture & an all-inclusive pluralist society, free of

violence, injustice, discrimination, prejudices and stereotyping.

Mission

To use law for social change to ensure access to justice to vulnerable communities

and to secure social justice, equity and equality, and fraternity.

To promote an enabling policy and legislative environment that respects, promotes

and protects human rights of vulnerable communities.

THEMES OF THE COMPETITION

The themes are listed as follows

● Plight of Pavement Dwellers: How to shelter the unsheltered-a critique of laws

policies and judicial response
● Organ Donation: A chance to live posthumously legal issues involved
● Improper Speed Breakers: An impediment to safety through the lens of law
● Need for Awareness on RTI and its enormous potential
● Shortage and Wastage at the same time: The Blood Donation Paradox legal and
ethical issues involve

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GUIDELINES FOR THE SUBMISSION

● The manuscript shall be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 300

words in MS-Word Document. The manuscript should be of 2000 to 3000
words.
● The contributors are permitted to submit a co-authored entry for the journal
provided it should not exceed a maximum of TWO authors in each case.
However, both authors are required to pay the individual registration fee.
● The journal strictly encourages and entertains Original work and any kind of
plagiarism shall lead to disqualification of the paper.
● The contributors to the journal are requested to follow ANY UNIFORM CITATION
STYLE for the article.

● The authors are requested to submit their work in:

➢ Times New Roman Font
➢ Font Size : 12
➢ Font size for footnotes : 10
➢ Line Spacing : 1.5
● All submissions must be accompanied by a COVER LETTER in a separate MS –
Word Document with a short introduction of Author in not more than 200
words along with the Title of the Article, Author's full name, Affiliated
Institution/College/University/School details and the Authors' Contact number
and E-mail id.
● Submission are to be made in electronic form only and are to be sent to
missionsangharsh@gmail.com
● The rest of the submission should not contain any reference to the identity of
the author in order to enable anonymous screening and peer-review.
● All participants should strictly abide by the guidelines. Any deviance should
lead to disqualification.

Note: Organizers reserve the right to amend any of the condition of the event.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Last Day of Registration - 30th September 2018

• Last Day for Submission - 5th October 2018
• Result Announcement (tentative) - 15th November 2018

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REGISTRATION DETAILS

• Registration Fee - RS. 200/-

• Mode of Payment - Paytm (+91-8871177637)
• Registration Link - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdZn-
88BDcQNpNqnWIHjSUpJONFifUl_s3ht1iQsGRwEyd_w/viewform?usp=pp_url

PRIZE DETAILS

• Rank 1 & 2 - Internship with CSJ

• Rank 1 to 3 - Publication in Counterview.org by CSJ
• Rank 4 & 5 - Exciting Prizes

CONTACT DETAILS

- Event Coordinators –
Harshit Singh Jadoun +91-9106715298 14bal084@nirmauni.ac.in
Amay Jain +91-7014094937 14bal085@nirmauni.ac.in
Rohit Jain +91-8871177637 15bal097@nirmauni.ac.in

- SanghARSH Coordinators –
Arpit Kacholiya +91-9723606243 13bal082@nirmauni.ac.in
Harshad Joshi +91-9414929229 13bal081@nirmauni.ac.in

- Other Details –
WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ISANGHARSH/

WWW.INSTAGRAM/MISSION_SANGHARSH/

MISSIONSANGHARSH@GMAIL.COM

Note: All the news and updates relating to competition will be communicated through the
Facebook page of "Mission Sangharsh"