Event details
Event Name | “Yoga My Pride” Photography Contest |
Duration | 13th March 2025 to 30th April 2025 17.00 hrs |
Contest Link | https://innovateindia.mygov.in/yoga-my-pride-2025/ |
Contest Hashtagfor Promotion | Country specific hashtag YogaMyPride_Country Eg: #yogaMyPride_India |
Contest Categories | Female Categories
Male Categories
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Prizes | For each of the above categories:
Stage 2: Global prizes |
Contest Timelines
- The entries can be submitted from 13th March 2025
- The deadline for the submission of the entries is 30th April 2025 17.00 hrs.
- In order to participate in this contest, all the entries must be received by this deadline, as per the aforementioned guidelines.
The shortlisted applicants may be contacted by MoA/concerned Indian Missions in the other countries, for verification of any information, if required.
Award Categories and Prizes
- The contest is proposed to be organized in six categories, as below:
S. No | Female Categories | S. No. | Male Categories |
01. | Youth (Below 18 years) | 04. | Youth (Below 18 years) |
02. | Adult (18 years and above) | 05. | Adult (18 years and above) |
03. | Yoga Professionals | 06. | Yoga Professionals |
- The winners will be announced within the aforementioned six categories.
- For the contest, the Yoga Professionals are defined as follows:
- Certified Yoga Trainers/Instructors, by reputed Yoga institutions in their country, or certification agencies.
- Those with undergraduate or postgraduate degrees in Yoga and/or Naturopathy, from recognized universities or universities’ affiliated institutions, are called Yoga professionals for this contest. The age group for such professionals is 18 years or above, of age at the time of submission of their entries.
- Prizes will be announced in each of the aforementioned six categories:
A. Country-Specific Prizes
India
- First Prize – INR 100000/-
- Second Prize – INR 75000/-
- Third Prize – INR 50000/-
Other Countries
To be determined and communicated by local country Missions.
Evaluation Process
Country-level evaluation will be conducted in two stages as provided below,
- Shortlisting of entries
- Final evaluation
- The entries will be shortlisted by the screening committee, based on the contest guidelines to provide a filtered number of entries to the final evaluation panel for consideration and selection.
- The winners will be selected from the shortlisted entries, by an evaluation committee consisting of prominent Yoga experts Constituted by MoA and CCRYN for Indian entries and by respective Indian Missions in foreign countries.
- Once country-level winners are decided, the top 3 entries in each category will be evaluated by an evaluation committee to decide on the global prize winners.
Suggestive Evaluation Criteria
Marks can be given on each criterion ranging from 0-5, where 0-1 will be for non-compliance/moderate compliance, 2 for compliance, 3 and above depending on the performance. The following criteria and the accompanying scoring are only indicative/suggestive and may be revised as deemed appropriate by the respective evaluation and screening committees.
S. No | Suggestive Criteria | Maximum Marks (Out of 50) |
01. | Correctness of the yoga pose | 10 |
02. | Appropriateness of the slogan to the photograph | 10 |
03. | Quality of the photograph, (Colour, lighting, exposure and focus) | 10 |
04. | Creativity and clarity of expression and inspirational power | 10 |
05. | Background of the photograph | 10 |
| TOTAL MARKS | 50 |