Road Safety Month 2022

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  List of Winners of Road Safety Contests

KSCSTE-National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC) is conducting various activities during Road Safety Month from 18^th January to 17^th February 2022. Due to the pandemic, events will be conducted through the online platform. The main aim of this event is to create Road Safety Awareness among School/College students and General Public.

BROAD THEMES

KSCSTE-NATPAC invites participation for various awareness activities under the following broad themes of Road Safety. 

• Safety of Vulnerable Road Users
• Safe Roads and Road User Behaviour 
• Teen and Young Age Driving
• Safety gears - seatbelt, helmet, booster seat 
• Traffic violations
• Green Mobility:Public Transportation, Non-mtorised vehicle transport, water transport and electric vehicle

ROAD SAFETY CONTESTS

Road Safety contests are planned to be conducted among students in the school/college and the general public. There is no registration fee for participating in the contest. Details of the activities are given below:
 

     Upper Primary Level (Standard 5 - 7)

• Painting Competitions
• Slogan creation
• Poem Writing
• Story Writing

    High School Level (Standard 8 - 10)

• Painting Competitions
• Story Writing
• Slogan creation
• Poem writing
• Essay writing
• Virtual quiz

    Higher Secondary School Level (Standard 11 - 12)

• Painting Competitions
• Story writing
• Slogan creation
• Poem writing
• Essay writing
• Virtual quiz

    College Level 

• Painting Competitions
• Story writing
• Slogan creation
• Poem writing
• Photo contest
• Essay writing
• Troll Creation
• Virtual quiz

   General Public

• Painting Competitions
• Story writing
• Slogan creation
• Poem writing
• Essay writing
• Troll Creation

EVALUATION

Road Safety Awareness activities will be screened/competed at three stages - Primary screening, Secondary screening and State level screening. 

The interested students/general public can register in any activity by filling the Online Participation Form 

Primary Screening: The school/college authorities will evaluate the activities of the students and forward the details of topper under each activity to the e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for secondary screening before 30.01.2022.

The school/college authorities will receive an e-mail with online registration form to upload pictures/documents of the activities performed by the topper under each category. The last date for uploading top entries from each School/College is 04.02.2022.

Secondary Screening: All the registered entries received from schools/colleges will be scrutinized and screened by the screening committee. Entries for State level screening/competition will be shortlisted at this stage. All shortlisted entries will be provided with certificate of appreciation.

State level screening: The shortlisted entries will be again screened and evaluated by the State level committee. Top three entries under each activity will be provided with prize and certificate which will be announced in the Valedictory Session on 17.02.2022.

IMPORTANT DATES

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CARRYING OUT THE ACTIVITIES
 

General Instructions

• One participant can register in a maximum of five activities.
• All the shortlisted entries will be considered for promoting road safety awareness among specific road user target groups and general public by KSCSTE-NATPAC. 
• All the School/College students shall participate in the activities under the guidance of Teacher/Faculty advisor who shall be nominated by the head of the institution.
• A guideline for each activity needs to be strictly adhered. If not, such entries will be disqualified.
• All the activities shall be related to road safety, but restricted to the broad themes of the activities.

   1.Painting Competition

• Drawaing/painting must be in A4 or A3 size.
• Drawing/painting can be made with a pencil, crayon, watercolour, oil paint, etc.
• The name, age and address must be mentioned in the painting.
• Contest entries must be submitted in either JPG/PDF format with good quality.
• The file size should not exceed 7 MB.
• Computer generated image won't be acceptable.

   2. Story Writing

• The story must be written in English/Malayalam. 
• File format: file must be uploaded as a pdf/doc/jpg. 
• Maximum word-limit:1000-1200 words. 
• The story must have a title.
• The content should be mainly focused on themes.
• The story must be original and not published/awarded before.

   3. Slogan Creation

• The number of slogans can vary from 1 to 3 per participant. 
• Slogans must be written in English/Malayalam.
• Maximum word limit 10 -15 words.

   4. Essay Writing

• Maximum word-limit: 1200-1500 words. 
• Any practice of plagiarism will lead to disqualification
• The article must be hand-written /typed in English/Malayalam. 
• The article needs to be submitted in pdf/doc/jpg format. 
• There will be a restriction of one article per author.

   5. Poem Writing

• Poems must be written in English/Malayalam. 
• Any plagiarized work will be disqualified along with any other work submitted by the entrant.
• File format: file must be uploaded as a pdf/doc/jpg. 
• Poems must not have been published/self-published/published on a website/broadcast/been selected for any other competition. 
• The poems must have a title and in the range of 8-24 lines (excluding title).

    6. Troll Creation

• Trolls can be either in English/Malayalam.
• The troll should carry a social message within the broad themes of Road Safety.
• The troll should not contain any personal criticism or abuse directed towards any specific person or institution.
• The troll should be the competitior's own creation and must not be a copied one.
• There should be an appropraite image quality.

    7. Virtual Quiz

• You can attempt only once.
• There are a total of 15 questions.
• Each question carries one mark.
• No negative marking for wrong answers.
• Questions are of Multiple Choice. 
• The quiz can be attempted only once 

ABOUT SAFE SAVARI

Safe Savari is an online learning portal from NATPAC. This is the place to get road safety concepts right. NATPAC provides both classroom-based and digital content-based training programs for school children and the general public on Road Safety. Anyone can access road safety digital content anywhere, anytime by logging into the portal. These contents are also available through Safe Savari mobile application as well, which can be downloaded from Google Play Store. The road safety-related materials, training contents, and videos are also available in the portal.

All shortlisted entries will be published in the Safe Savari website (www.safesavari.com) of NATPAC and also used for the preparation of road safety materials by KSCSTE- NATPAC.
 

­Address for Correspondence

Office of the Director
KSCSTE - NATPAC ­
(NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND RESEARCH CENTRE)
K.Karunakaran Transpark, Akkulam, Thuruvikkal (PO), Thiruvananthapuram, Pincode: 695 011, Kerala, India.

Phone: + 91 471 – 2779200
E- mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Note:  The Director, KSCSTE-NATPAC reserves the rght to modify, alter or cancel the above said road safety activities/programs and its decessions in this regard will be final.