responsible citizenship

On the occasion of the 74th Republic Day of India on 26th January 2023, The National Service Scheme (NSS) cell at Birla Global University (BGU) inviting Nominations to participate in the "#IAmResponsibleCitizen_India Campaign and the Reel making contest from 21-31 January 2023 to promote Responsible Citizenship behavior among students, parents, and the public in general and to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030.

Campaign Theme: Responsible Citizenship

ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to very less number of contribution of Reels, the event has been kept on hold. Interested or registered participants will be communicated on a later date regarding further updates. However, the initial submissions will be prioritized.

Who can participate

An Indian Citizen can nominate his/ her name or on behalf of another person or a group to participate in the Reel making contest on the theme #IAmResponsibleCitizen

reel SUBMISSION CATEGORIES (No registration fees)

CATEGORY 1: Students of standard 8, 9, 10

CATEGORY 2: Students of standard 11 & 12

CATEGORY 3: Students, faculties, and staffs of Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar

CATEGORY 4: Interested individuals in general (Any Responsible Citizen)

AWARDS

Active Citizenship Award (Round 1): 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Consolation prizes for each category.

Social Transformer Award (Round 2): 1st, 2nd, 3rd among all categories.

(The awards will be based on the Reel-making Contest under the theme “Responsible Citizenship” towards achieving SDG2030 Goals.”)

IMPORTANT DATES AMD ANNOUNCEMENTS

ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to very less number of contribution of Reels, the event has been kept on hold. Interested or registered participants will be communicated on a later dates regarding further updates. However, the initial submissions will be prioritized.

The Last Date of Registration is extended till 27th January 2023.

The last date of Final Reel submission is remain same: 28th January 2022.

Steps to follow

STEP 1: Register your name immediately to participate in the contest (Registration ends on 24. 01. 2023). Only registered persons can upload the final Reel as mentioned in step 3.

STEP 2: How to creat Reel

Recollect your memory reflecting some of your good, better, and best deeds that help you to realize as a Responsible Citizen.
You can repeat similar deeds and create a reel. You can also demonstrate some of your social behaviors to your family members and involve them and create a reel.
You may also use some of your pictures, revealing some of your good deeds to make the reel with a meaningful story reflecting the theme of the campaign.
Also, one can use his/ her skills to reveal the realization that you are a Socially Responsible Citizen.

STEP 3: After completing the registration process, you will receive the final reel submission link through e-mail.

STEP 4: The participant is also required to submit a name of the reel and a short caption stating the summary of the submitted Reel.

REEL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

ELIGIBILITY: All citizens. Individuals below 15 years are recommended to take guidance from their teachers, mentors, or their guardians in making the REEL
REGISTRATION: Quick Register for the campaign by visiting the Link: https://forms.gle/61uuojZ6DYvUp2pKA
REEL SUBMISSION THROUGH E-MAIL:
- For any issues during submission, please your entries to nss@bgu.ac.in. No entries through WhatsApp not acceptable.
- While submitting through E-mail, mention the following information about you or your group. The rule for Reel making is same for all.
- Title of the Reel, Name of the Participant (s), E-mail ID, WhatsApp Number (The number will be used for quick and important announcements by the organizer),
- Join the Responsible Citizenship WhatsApp Community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LsTUvgJkfAxDQb0umZuONT , Managed by Team NSS, BGU.,
- Reel Caption (a brief writeup on your Reel),
- Participation Category (Choose from the defined categories of participation),
- Class studying (If student), School/ College/ University name (If currently studying), Age of the participants (In the case of group participants, indicate the age of each participant,
- Occupation (Retired Person/ Service/ Business/ Homemaker/ Students/ Others (Mention).

REEL LENGTH: Minimum 60 Seconds, Maximum 150 Seconds
INDIVIDUAL/ GROUP PARTICIPATION: Individuals can submit a maximum of 03 (Three entries) and A group of a maximum of 5 individuals can submit a 02 (Two entries).

REEL CONTENT: Collection of some responsible moments or deeds that you realize as a self, as a family, as a member of the community, or as a citizen of the society at large.
The moment can be captured using mobile tools – camera, free editing services by different reel-making applications. The message from your REEL can help others to make a positive difference in life.

REEL LANGUAGE: Submissions can be in either English, Hindi, or Odia language.
REEL QUALITY: The resolution of the Reel video should be 1080 X 1920 pixels.
REEL CAPTION: The caption provided by the participants should be less than 140 characters without containing any Hass tag (#) and (@). A common set of hashtags will be added by the organizer.
REEL ORIGINALITY: Plagiarized content lead to disqualification of the contest participation
REEL FORMAT: As per the reel format, the video should be made vertically, not horizontally.

REEL EVALUATION GUIDELINES & RESULT

All submitted reels will be scrutinized

The videos in no manner should contain any content which showcases hatred towards any religion or community, gender, caste, or politically oriented vibe in any form. Also, there shouldn’t be the use of any abusive or explicit content in the reel video or any other objectionable matter, and subject to disqualification. The organizer reserves the right to bar entries containing any infringing, threatening, misleading, false, abusive, harassing, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, inflammatory, scandalous, pornographic, or profane content.

Round 1:

Result declaration of top 5 contestants (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Consolation prizes) in each category (Total 20 in four categories) on 31st January 2023.
The evaluation parameters are - Alignment with the theme, Originality, Creativity, Clarity of the message, and overall Presentation.
All the entries will be evaluated by a bench of juries. The decision of the jury will be final.

Round 2:

All 20 selected Reels will be posted online on common social media public platforms (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin) managed by the organizer under the theme of “Responsible Citizenship” and #IAMRESPONSIBLECITIZEN_INDIA Campaign by the organizer.
Selection of the final round will be based on the popularity of each posting, which will be measured based on social media likes and retweets (for Twitter postings), likes (for Instagram and Facebook, and Linkedin postings) as of 28th February 2023, 11.59 PM. (The Completion of the 2nd round)
The final top scores will be calculated by giving equal weightage to all four social media platforms using the weighted average method.
The winners will be declared based on the following:
60% weightage to the points given by the Jury members in the 1st round.
40% weightage to the social media likes.
The top 3 Popular Reels will be awarded as the winners of the Final round and will be awarded the title “Social Reformer” in the Reel Making contest under the theme of Responsible Citizenship.

PARTICIPATION CERTIFICATE: All participants will be provided with a participation certificate – E-Copy.

CONFIDENTIALITY DECLARATION: All personal information will be kept confidential.

REGISTER FOR CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION BY CLICKING HERE

CAMPAIGN RESOURCES

What is Responsible Citizenship

A demonstrated reel on #IAMRESPONSIBLECITIZEN_INDIA

HOW TO MAKE REELS

Campaign Organizing Committee

Dr. Suvendu Kumar Pratihari, Chairman-cum-Coordinator, NSS
Prof. Lopamudra Nayak, Convener, NSS,
Dr. Siddharth Misra, Campaign Coordinator
Prof. Ashna Siddiqui
Dr. Sonika Suman
Prof. Suresh Gole
Dr. Snigdha Mohapatra

Campaign coordination Committee

Mr. Somesh Das, NSS Volunteer
Ms. Archita Bhuyan NSS Volunteer
Mr. Somesh Das, NSS Volunteer (Co-Coordinator)
Ms. Archita Bhuyan NSS Volunteer (Co-Coordinator)
Mr. Ritwik Mohanty (Co-Coordinator)
Mr. Anup Dey (Member)
Mr. Aditya Ranjan Moharana (Member)
Ms. Monalisa Panda (Member)
Mr. Asutosh Panigrahi (Member)
Ansuman Routray (Member)
Anuska Padhi (Member)
Mr. Hitesh Patro (Member)
Ms. Saumya Shree Senapati (Member)
Ms. Seina Mohanty (Member)
Mr. Adish Jain (Member)
Mr. Naman Khandelwal (Member)
Some more names will be updated soon

CONTACT

For queries, connect the campaign office at 8327723200, 9437696100, 9178330490, 9668894003; E-mail: nss@bgu.ac.in (National Service Scheme (NSS) at Birla Global University Bhubaneswar (bgu.ac.in))

National Service Scheme (NSS), Birla Global University, ID CO Plot no. 2, Institutional area, Gothapatna, Bhubaneswar,-751029, Tel: 0674-7103001-10 (Ext 208), www.bgu.ac.in