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63 schools in Kerala to join Reliance NDEC '09

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THIRUVANANATHAPURAM, KERALA: Reliance World, the retail arm of Reliance ADAG, recently announced that it has planned to organize National Digital Elocution Competition (NDEC 2009). It is in a bid to mobilize talent for the competition and is looking at as many as 63 schools in Kerala this year.

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The talent hunt is aimed at brining in students from across 1100 schools in the country for the fourth edition of the National Digital Elocution Competition (NDEC), the annual creative talent hunt to promote creativity amongst school children using cutting-edge technology.

Reliance World plans to ensure the participation of talented school students from smaller towns and cities in the state. In the national level, schools in Raipur, Amaravati, Sanghli, Gandhinagar, Jamnagar, Howrah, Guntur, Rajamundhry, Salem, Thanjavur, Dharwad and Hubli and also other major towns and cities can participate in NDEC 2009.

The company is leveraging the online medium and its technological back-end to mobilize school talent in smaller towns and cities.

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It is a known fact that students from smaller towns and cities are constrained due to unavailability of adequate resources or financial constraints to participate in talent hunt programmes at the national level. At NDEC 2009, school students would be given the opportunity to match their elocution skills on a platform that integrates cutting edge technology and interactivity.

Students are encouraged to use interactive platforms like VDO Contest and Video Conferencing to showcase their talents across boundaries. In Kerala, Reliance World is targeting participation of over 600 students from more than 63 schools across the State.

Nationally, Reliance World is expecting over 10,000 entries in this years contest, said a company official.

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According to Sunil Buch, head of marketing and corporate sales, Reliance World, “The biggest USP of this national talent hunt is that it allows students across the country participate irrespective of their location, thus providing a level playing field to compete. The digital platform of this contest offers great width and engagement levels not only to students but parents and teachers as well.”

NDEC 2009 is open to students in Class V to X with Class V to VII forming the Junior Group and Class VIII to X forming the Senior group. The topics for this years contest are 'If I were a PC' for junior group and 'Staying safe on the Internet... my online playground' for senior group. All students can visit any Reliance World outlet and complete the registration process.

All submissions should be made in English and not exceeding two minutes. The last date to submit entries is January 20, 2009. All entries would be open for online voting on msnindia.com throughout the month of January. Reliance World would announce the 26 Semi Finalists - 13 in each group - in the first week of February.

The national semi finals would be held on February 9 where 10 finalists - 5 in each group - will be selected. The finals of the event would be held in February 2009. The semifinals and finals would be held using Video Conferencing at Reliance World in the respective cities.

Sunil added that this year, Microsoft would be partnering with Reliance World to organize NDEC 2009.

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