New Delhi: Tinka Tinka Foundation will release national awards for inmates and jail staff on 9th December. The theme for awards this year is Telephone in Jails. This is the 7th year of celebrating and honouring creativity in jails. Nominations for these awards were invited in September this year, with 10th November as the last day for accepting the forms.
This year there were three categories, namely Painting, Special Mention, and for the jail staff. Foundation received more than 400 nominations for these awards. From 2021, Tinka Tinka Bandini Awards have also been merged with these awards, with 2 women chosen under this category.
Names of the awardees will be announced on 8th December, and the awards will be given the next day on the eve of Human Rights Day. The program will be a mix of online and offline modes.
This year, the jury consisted of Shri Sudhir Yadav, IPS (Retd.) and former DG, Delhi Prisons, Shri Arun Kumar Gupta, IPS (Retd.), former DG, West Bengal Prisons, and Dr. Vartika Nanda, Founder, Tinka Tinka.
In 2020, awards were released by Shri K. Selvaraj (IPS) DG, Haryana Prisons, Shri Ajay Kashyap (IPS) Former DG, Tihar Prisons, Shri Anand Kumar DGP, and IG Prisons, Uttar Pradesh.
Background: Tinka Tinka Foundation has curated two national awards exclusively for prisons, Tinka Tinka India Awards and Tinka Tinka Bandini Awards. These are the only awards that are solely dedicated to inmates and jail staff. Started in 2015, this is the 7th year of celebrating creativity in jails, through these awards. Every year, a prison-related subject is chosen as the main theme. In 2019, the theme was ‘Radio in Jails,’ and in 2020, the chosen theme was ‘Covid-19 and Prisons’. More than 110 inmates and 37 jail staff have received Tinka Tinka India Awards between 2015 to 2020.
15 September, 2021: Tinka Tinka Foundation invites entries for India Awards – 2021
Tinka Tinka Foundation has invited entries from prisons across India for its 7th edition of Tinka Tinka India Awards for the year 2021. These awards are annually conferred on inmates exhibiting profound creative talents and administrators for doing extraordinary work towards prison reforms. These are the only such awards in the country that are being given to inmates since 2015.
Theme for the national awards this year is Telephones in Prisons. This topic ishighly relevant in the present context ss visitations were stopped in the prions.
Incidentally, Tinka Tinka has been instrumental in making telephone facility available for women in UP Prisons. Last date for submission of entries is November 10, 2021.
Eligibility
Tinka Tinka India Awards are given in three different categories- Painting, Special Talent and Tinka Tinka India Awards for Administration.
Award Criteria
All inmates and children of inmates living in prisons, along with prison officials and the staff can apply for these awards. Applicants have been requested to mail their forms and entries at tinkatinkaorg@gmail.com.
Award Announcement Date
Awards will be announced on December 9, 2021 on the eve of Human Rights Day.
Tinka Tinka India Awards: A background
Tinka Tinka India Awards is Tinka Tinka’s series of annual awards exclusively conferred to inmates and jail administrators who have made significant contributions across jails. In 2017, Tinka Tinka India Awards were released by Shri Ajay Kashyap (IPS), Director General, Tihar Jail, in Jail No. 1, Tihar Prison Complex. In 2018, the Awards were released by Dr. A P Maheshwari, Director General, BPR&D and Shri Bhupendra Singh, Director General, Rajasthan Prisons at Central Jail, Jaipur. In 2019, the Awards were released by Shri Sulkhan Singh, former DG, Uttar Pradesh and Shri Anand Kumar, DGP/ IG, Prisons, Uttar Pradesh in District Jail, Lucknow, while in 2020, they were released by Shri K. Selvaraj, DG, Prisons, Haryana.
