Shankar International Children's Competitions 2018

About

K. Shankar Pillai (July 31, 1902-December 26, 1989) was a famous cartoonist. He brought out a political magazine called ‘Shankar’s Weekly’. Under the auspices of this magazine, a competition called the Shankar’s International Children’s Competition was organized in 1949. 

It invited paintings and writings from children in India. Children sent about 3,000 entries. The following year the competition was thrown open to children from all over the world.

Today, the competition has grown and about 160,000 entries are received from over 160 countries. The entries are judged by an international jury. The prizewinning entries are compiled in a volume called the ‘Shankar’s Children’s Art Number’.

Eligibility Criteria

• Gender- Any

• Region- Global

• Class/ Age- Students born after 2002

Rewards

The entries will be judged by the organizers with the help of a jury. The judges' decision will be final. The following prizes are offered:

• The President of India's Gold Medal for the best painting/drawing.

• The Shankar's Award for the best written work.

• 15 Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Gold Medals for the next best paintings/drawings/written work.

•  About 300 Silver Medals and 300 prizes.

•  Certificates of Merit to deserving entries.

•  Results will be announced in September. Prize winners will be informed individually.

•  The best entries will be published in Shankar’s Children’s Art Number. Selected entries will also appear in the monthly magazine for children, Children’s World.

• All competitors are entitled to a copy of the Art Number, at a concessional price. They can reserve their copies by mailing the attached coupon.

How to Apply

• The interested competitors can send their entry only through offline mode. 

• Each entry must be certified by the guardian or teacher as original work. 

• The participants have not to fill any online application form. 

However, every entry should carry the following information in English and in BLOCK LETTERS, at the back of the painting/drawing or at the end of the written work:

•  First Name/Last Name

•  Surname

•  Boy or Girl

•  Date of birth

•  Nationality

•  Full postal address

•  email ID and mobile number

•  Subject/title of the entry

NOTE: The candidates have not to pay any fee for participating in the Shankar's International Children Competition 2018.

Submission of Entries 

Students are free to choose the topic or the subject they are interested in.

FOR ART WORK

• The drawings can be in any medium. 

• Computer printouts/lino-cuts/batiks/scanned images will not be accepted.

• The size of each entry should NOT be less than 30 x 40 cm.

• A competitor may submit any number of entries. They should NOT be mounted/framed.

FOR WRITTEN WORK

• Only entries in ENGLISH will be considered. Translations from other languages do not qualify for the competition.

• Entries may be in the form of poems, plays, short stories, essays, descriptive writing, and the like.

• A competitor may submit any number of entries. They should be in a neat handwriting or typed.

Submission of Application Form

After providing the details given above, the participants have to send the entries through the mail. All the entries should reach the following address before last date:

Shankar’s International Children’s Competition

Nehru House

4, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg

New Delhi - 110 002

The entries sent by air cargo will not be accepted. Written entries can also be mailed in MsWord format at sicc.cbt@gmail.com.

For more Information, click the link given below;

http://www.childrensbooktrust.com/sicc.html

Important Dates

• Last Date for Indian entries- October 31, 2017 

• Last Date for Foreign entries- December 31, 2017.