TTIA 2021

14 September 2021
Dear Sir,

Sub: Requesting nominations for Tinka Tinka India Awards: Year 2021.

The time has come to invite entries for Tinka Tinka India Awards for the year 2021. Theme for the national awards for this year is Telephones in Prisons/ जेल में टेलीफोन.
This is to request you to kindly circulate it in your department/ prisons for maximum participation.

Warm regards

Dr. Vartika Nanda
Founder, Tinka Tinka Foundation
9811201839
tinkatinkaorg@gmail.com

Tinka Tinka India Awards: 2021 (7th Year)

Inviting entries from all the prisons in India
Special awards for inmates exhibiting profound creative talents
and administrators doing extraordinary work towards prison reforms.

These exclusive awards for inmates and administrators are annually announced by Tinka Tinka Foundation. The awards are aimed to encourage inmates to exhibit their creativity, highlighting the issues of jail reforms and human rights. To this end, the Foundation invites inmates and officers/ administrators to send their entries for the year 2021. Kindly note the details mentioned below:
Award Categories:
• Tinka Tinka India Awards for Painting: Paintings should be sent on the related theme
• Tinka Tinka India Awards for Special Talent: Inmate/s who have made significant contribution to jail life
• Tinka Tinka India Awards for Administration: For prison officials/ prison staff who have gone beyond their call of duty in bringing positive change in the lives of inmates through prison reforms
Award Criteria:
• Paintings should be on an A4 size sheet, bearing name of the participant (up to five entries per inmate)
• Any special contribution by inmates for the welfare of other inmates or for the prison system can be added in the Special Talents category
• Applicants should send brief details of the work in not more than 200 words
• Administrators may send their profile along with the details of their outstanding contribution towards prison reforms
Who all can apply:
• All inmates and children of inmates living in prison
• Prison officials and the staff

 Points to Note:
• Decision of the jury will be final. The jury would include senior members from prisons/ police/ judiciary/the civil society. Awards will be announced on 9 December 2021 on the eve of Human Rights Day

• Forms should be mailed at tinkatinkaorg@gmail.com

How to apply:
Duly filled form/s should be sent along with the entry

Last Date of Submission:
10th November, 2021

Background:

• Tinka Tinka India Awards, 2020: Released by Shri K. Selvaraj, DG, Prisons, Haryana
• Tinka Tinka India Awards, 2019: Released by Shri Sulkhan Singh, former DG, Uttar Pradesh and Shri Anand Kumar DGP/ IG Prisons, Uttar Pradesh, in District Jail, Lucknow
• Tinka Tinka India Awards, 2018: Released by Dr. A P Maheshwari, Director General, BPR&D and Shri Bhupendra Singh, Director General, Rajasthan Prisons at Central Jail, Jaipur on December 9
• Tinka Tinka India Awards, 2017: Released by Shri Ajay Kashyap (IPS), Director General, Tihar Jail, in Jail No. 1, Tihar Prison Complex on December 9.

(Dr. Vartika Nanda)

Founder & Managing Trustee

Tinka Tinka Foundation

Contact: 9811201839

( www.tinkatinkaprisonreforms.org)

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