Prime Point Foundation, a non-profit trust promoting the communication awareness has been conducting various programmes and workshops regularly with the participation of eminent personalities.  The Foundation has also been instituting awards every year for the students.  

'LASER SOFT AWARD' FOR THE ESSAYS ON 'INDIA VISION'  

During March 2003, the Foundation had announced an essay contest for the college students of Tamilnadu and Pondicherry on "India Vision 2020 - Role of youth in building strong India".  In response to our announcement, the Foundation  had received 250 essays from 109 Institutions located in  55 centres.  Highest number of entries were received from Annamalai University.  Out of 35 essays received from this University, 29 essays were submitted by Department of Education alone.  Dr.  Mrs Mamota Das, Professor and Head, Department of Education is also being honoured for 'motivating' the highest number of students to participate in this contest.

The Foundation had received 25 entries from 23 Chennai colleges in this contest.  Though we had announced the contest for Tamilnadu and Pondicherry colleges, we did not receive any single entry from Pondicherry.

The essays were evaluated by a team of Jury with Prof. Y S Rajan, an eminent scientist and co-author of the book India 2020 (with His Excellency President Dr Abdul Kalam) as Chairman and Mr T Kannan and Mrs Lakshmi Sriram as members of the committee.  Mr R Nurullah, a senior journalist of the City has functioned as the 'Administrator of the Award'.  The Foundation places on record the valuable services rendered by Mr T Kannan as a Jury, who passed away after completing the works. 

The Foundation is presenting cash awards for the first and second prize winners under each of Tamil and English category.  The Foundation is also presenting Rs.500/- each to ten best essays (5 under Tamil and 5 under English).

The following are the award winners:  

Tamil

First prize - cash award of Rs.5000/-

Mr S Vadivelan, III Year Diploma in Teacher Education, District Institute of Education and Training, Pudukkottai

Second Prize - cash award of Rs.3000/-

Mr N Srinivasa Gopalan, IV Year B E, St. Josephs College of Engineering, Chennai 600118 (since completed the course)  

English

First Prize - cash award of Rs.5000/-

Ms V S Meenakkshi, II Year B E, Valliammai Engineering College, Kattangulathur,  603 203

Second Prize - cash award of Rs.3000/-

Mr T Raj Pravin, III Ph D., Tamilnadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641 003

These awards are sponsored by Laser Soft Infosystems Limited, one of the leading Banking software developers of India.  

INDIA VISION AWARENESS PROGRAMME JOINTLY WITH SRI KRISHNA SWEETS  

From 15^th August 2003, Sri Krishna Sweets will be distributing phamlets through all their Chennai outlets.  All the School and College students are eligible to participate.   They may have to write in 10 lines what / how they would like to contribute for achieving India Vision in any one of the six areas viz. (1) Rural development, (2) Science and Technology application, (3) Industrial growth,  (4) Primary health and education, (5) Increasing efficiency in work and (6) Harmony in society.  This campaign would motivate the young students to think in terms of their own personal  'contribution to the Nation building', instead of giving mere suggestions and advices.  Best entries will receive the awards from Sri Krishna Sweets, one of the leading Corporates of Tamilnadu  

INDIA VISION CLUB  

The Foundation has already launched a website http://www.indiavision2020.org and this website would contain only articles which are positive in nature.  Any student may join the India Vision club through this website and discuss the strategies.  Prof. Y S Rajan has also agreed to monitor  the discussions and guide the students wherever required.