Students gave vent to their ire against corruption through creative expression at a contest organised by The Hindu Group in association with Neyveli Lignite Corporation to mark Vigilance Awareness Week.
Painting, cartooning and poetry contests were held on the theme: Eradicate Corruption - Build a New India .
Students of classes III to VI, who participated in the painting contest, gave shape to their ideas on three topics: Together let's make corruption free New India , Avenues of corruption and Stop corruption ’.
The topics for cartoon art for students of classes VII to X were: Corruption-free India: My country, my responsibility , Common man and corruption , and Break the corruption chain .
Poetry recitation in Tamil was also conducted for students of classes VI and VIII on the topics: Corruption-free India , What I will do to stop corruption? and Save mother India from corruption .
The objective was to spread social awareness about anti-corruption among youth.
Addressing the prize-winners, Rangarajan Srinivasan, Additional Deputy General Manager - Vigilance, NLC India Ltd, said the people’s right to question the ways in which public tax money was spent was being exercised well since 2005 after the Right to Information Act came into being. An act of corruption by an individual would cause negative perception of the organisation they worked for. Students need to know the importance of taking decisions that did not cause loss of public money.
M.K. Indira, Superintendent of Post Offices, India Post, Srirangam Division, distributed prizes to winners. The top three prize winners in the competitions were:
Painting: G. Sharwanthika Sai, RSK Higher Secondary School; Akshitha Chelladurai, BVM Global; and R. Akshita Laxmi, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Matric HSS.
Cartoon: A.D. Sowmithra, SRV Matriculation HSS; S.K. Nidhyaraghavi, Montfort School; and S.M. Subashini, RSK HSS.
Poetry: Harini P, St. Fathima Girls’ HSS; Abi P, St. Fathima Girls’ HSS; Suji Bala, RSK HSS.
