Saturday, October 17, 2009

All India Essay Writing Competition on Sir Syed Ahmad Khan Winners Declared


Tahir Ashraf Siddiqui

Jyotsana Gautam

Bharat Bhatti


ALIGARH: Tahir Ashraf Siddiqui of National Law Institute, Jodhpur, Rajasthan bagged the first prize of All India Essay Writing Competition on Sir Syed Ahmad Khan organized by the Aligarh Muslim University, while Jyotsana Gautam of Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla and Bharat Bhatti of Delhi University got the second and third prizes respectively.
The Essay Writing Competition carried cash prizes of rupees twenty five thousand for first, rupees fifteen thousand for second and rupees ten thousand for third position. Besides these cash prize of rupees five thousand are given to individual participants each from different states as state topper.


In addition to the above, prizes for the best essays from each state have also been announced. The winners are – Vivekanand Kumar, St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi (Jharkhand), Amit Laddha, Gujarat National Law Institute, Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Tarique Ashraf Siddiqui, National Institute of Technolog Kurukshetra (Haryana), Mushtaqul Haq Ahmad Sikander, Univesity of Kashmir (J & K), Shaikh Sadab A Gulab, Nowrosjee Wadia College, Pune (Maharashtra), Mahmood Alam Siddiqui, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), Bhupinder Singh Bedi, Punjab University, Chandigarh (Punjab), Anusha N., Jaya Engineering College, Thiruninravur, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Abhishek Kumar, Chanakya National Law University, Patna (Bihar), and Asma Shahid from Raza P.G. College, Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) and Arina Khan, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (Uttar
Pradesh) shared the prize of state topper from UP.
The prizes will be given away to the winners at the Sir Syed Day Commemoration Meeting to be held on October 17th at 10 am at University Athletics Ground.