The National War Memorial will be located near India Gate
Creative juice alert. A crowd-sourced design is what the government wants for a much-awaited war memorial near Delhi’s iconic India Gate.
“This will be a two stage contest. Competitors will be required to submit their Stage 1 entries onhttps://www.mygov.in/, and the top nine entries selected from the Stage 1 submissions will be eligible to participate in the Stage 2 of the contest,” said a statement from the Defence Ministry.
Nine shortlisted entries will win $ 2,000 each, and the design that’s selected will score $30,000.
No time for doodling, sorry, dawdling. Doodle away.
The deadline for online submissions is September 15. Scroll down for more details that could help.
The memorial for 22,500 soldiers who were killed in the line of duty will be located in the heart of the capital. Last year, the government sanctioned 500 crores for the project and a museum that will be housed nearby.
A statement from the government last year said, “The memorial will promote a sense of patriotism in the minds of visitors, and will award an opportunity to citizens of this vast nation, to express their token sense of gratitude to the brave soldiers, who laid down their lives for the motherland.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had tweeted, “The National War Memorial will be a perfect tribute to our brave soldiers who have given their lives for the nation.”
The government stressed that the memorial will honour not just those who died during war, but soldiers killed in counter-insurgency and anti-terror operations.
From The Government:
Competitors are advised to carefully study the design brief and the associated documents provided below, and register themselves at http://nationalwarmemorialofindia.org/ and athttps://www.mygov.in/ with the same email ID and contact numbers to participate in the contest.
For any queries please contact: [email protected]
The last date for online project submission is 16th September, 2016.