National High-Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) is a joint venture between Govt. of India (through ministry of railways) and participating state governments (Gujarat & Maharashtra).
NHSRCL is mandated to build India’s first high speed rail (commonly known as Bullet Train) between Mumbai & Ahmedabad.

With the construction of High-Speed rail corridor, India will join the elite club of 15 nations having this sophisticated technology within our reach. This project will bring a world-class cutting-edge technology to the service of this nation along with the transfer of technology from Japan.
Mumbai – Ahmedabad High Speed Rail will cover distance of 508 Km in approximately three hours while covering twelve stations in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Union territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli.

The High-Speed Rail (HSR) project apart from being a technological marvel, would afford many quantifiable benefits like saving in travel time, vehicle operation cost, reduction in pollution, job creation, reduction in accidents/ enhanced safety, imported fuel substitution, and reduction in pollutants. The project will also boost the infrastructure and add to the growth of economy.

NHSRCL is organizing a contest for the name and mascot for India’s first high speed train. Name and Mascot should represent the true nature of high speed rail and all the socio-economic benefits that will come with the introduction of this technology in India.

There will be two separate entries for
1) Train name
2) Mascot design

The selected entry will be awarded a cash prize and five consolation entries will be awarded as follows
a) Mascot design: Winning prize: INR 1,00,000/- and five consolation prize for INR 10,000/- each
b) Train set name: Winning prize: INR 50,000/- and five consolation prize for INR 5,000/- each

The last date of submission is 25th March, 2019.

For any queries, wirte to:
Nishank Bhanu
Asst. Manager
Email: amcomm@nhsrcl.in (link sends e-mail)
Phone: 011-28070101

Link to participate

The Department of Consumer Affairs runs a “Jago Grahak Jago” multimedia campaign to create awareness amongst consumers about their rights, redressal mechanisms available to them as well as their duties. “Jago Grahak Jago” tagline is a household term now. The entire population of the country is consumer someway or the other. Creating awareness among the vast population of the country is always a challenge. With active participation of the citizens of the country, this Department can meet the challenge. To better understand the issues being faced by the present day consumers and the multimedia campaign being carried out by this Department so far. The participant may visit this Department’s website www.consumeraffairs.nic.in and its twitter handles- @consaff and @jagograhakjago.

‘Sayani Rani’ used to be the mascot of ‘Jago Grahak Jago’ campaign since long. However, there have been views to have different mascot for the campaign.It is therefore proposed to get mascot(s) developed on the theme of “Consumer is King/Queen”. The mascot expression can be that of a confident consumer, inquisitive consumer, protesting consumer and counselling consumer,etc. This Department is therefore organizing a mascot designing contest on the theme of “Consumer is King/Queen”.

Submission of Entries:-

• The last date for submission of entries would be 28th July, 2017.
• The entries should be original work of the participant(s) and must not infringe the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party.
• An entry could be an individual or a team project.
• Every entry should be accompanied by a brief explanation. An individual can send multiple entries.
• The results will be placed on the website of the Department tentatively within 8 weeks from the last date of receiving the entries

Prizes would be as follows:

1st Prize: Rs. 50,000 and a certificate of appreciation
2nd Prize: Rs. 25,000 and a certificate of appreciation
3rd Prize: Rs. 10,000 and a certificate of appreciation

For further information and technical guidelines, click here