The Reserve Bank of India today announced subjects for its Inter Bank Hindi Essay Competition 2015-2016. These are:

1. वित्तीय समावेशन की मुहिम और प्रधानमंत्री जन-धन योजना
2. पेमेंट बैंक की अवधारणा - वित्तीय समावेशन के परिप्रेक्ष्य में
3. ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में बैंकिंग – अवसर और चुनौतियां

With a view to encouraging original writing in Hindi on banking subjects, the Reserve Bank conducts Inter-Bank Hindi Essay Competition every year. Employees, except Rajbhasha officers and translators, of all public sector banks (including Regional Rural Banks sponsored by them), financial institutions and Reserve Bank of India are eligible to participate.

The competition is conducted separately for the participants whose mother tongue is: (i) Hindi; (ii) Marathi, Punjabi and Gujarati and (iii) other than those mentioned in (i) and (ii). Three prizes - in the form of cash awards of ₹11000, ₹ 7000 and ₹ 5000, respectively, for first second and third prize – are awarded in each category.

Participants may send the essay - of about 3000 to 4000 words and indicating their mother tongue on it - on any one of the three subjects to:

General Manager
Rajbhasha Department
Reserve Bank of India
Central Office, C-9, Second Floor
Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra (East)
Mumbai-400 051

Last date for submission of the essay is November 16, 2015 (Monday).

The rules for the competition are given in Annex 'A'. The format of the certificate stating that the essay is original and not sent elsewhere for award or publication to be submitted by the participating officers/employees is in Annex 'B'.

Alpana Killawala
Principal Chief General Manager

Press Release : 2015-2016/752