Survey of India, the National Mapping Agency of Government of India, established in 1767, has done pioneering work in this activity of establishing national framework and preparation of maps depicting information on the surface of the earth. The Geodetic & Research Branch of Survey of India, deals with precise horizontal, vertical, gravity observations and sea surface measurements.

Establishment of Geodetic Triangulation Stations has been done by dedicated officers and staff of Survey of India, by making observations and measurements on ground, over a time period. This operation of making observations is known as Great Trigonometric Survey (GTS). Accurate Measurement of the Arc of a Meridian by laying the base line at St. Thomas Mount, commenced on 10^th April 1802 under the leadership of Col Lambton. Befittingly, 10^th April of every year is remembered as the NATIONAL SURVEY DAY, signifying the commencement of precise geodetic work by this illustrious Branch of Survey of India.

To Commemorate Bicentenary Celebrations of this day, many activities are programmed. The Department of Science & Technology, to which Survey of India belongs, has patronized this programme, with the intention of creating awareness among the public as a whole, the need for accuracy in data collection – Geodetic, Topographic, Cadastral, Demographic etc., truthful depiction of the collected data, in a user friendly manner – pictorial, numerical, descriptive or graphic.

2. INVOLVING CHILDREN IN THE PROGRAMME:

Children are the best messengers. They can grasp better, assimilate faster, think and respond positive. They are the focus of science popularization activities. Learning becomes easier through solving of problems in individual mode or group mode. Participation in activities involving use of multiple faculties (observations, hands-on experiments, logical analysis etc.) enhances their self – confidence. Participation in competitions helps their personality development. Psychologically, they get a feeling of proving themselves or satisfaction of doing something useful for the society and this leads to strengthening of their esteem. In addition they are able to appreciate role of science in development process.

Hence the programme envisages addressing large number of children in all corners of the country and involve them in this awareness programme with the following objectives:-

• Encourage activity based learning.
• Create awareness among children the need of truthful collection of data for map making.
• Create awareness about applications of maps in daily life.
• Knowledge about upcoming technologies for truthful depiction of collected data in a user friendly manner- art and science of map making.

1. SURVEY OF INDIA GREAT ARC LAMBTON CUB CONTEST: The competition is on Landscape/ Panoramic Mapping. This will be open for participation by children who are studying in class I to Class V during the academic year, in any school, in India. This is for INDIVIDUAL participation and comprises only ONE ROUND. Details are given at Annexure ‘A’ and Appendix ‘P’.
2. SURVEY OF INDIA GREAT ARC LAMBTON JUNIOR CONTEST The competition is on Mapping of an area. This will be open for participation by children who are studying in class VI to Class VIII during the academic year, in any school, in India. The participation will be in teams of three students from any of the classes per team. It comprises of TWO ROUNDS – School level and State level. Details are given at Annexure ‘B’ and Appendix ‘Q’.
3. SURVEY OF INDIA GREAT ARC LAMBTON SENIOR CONTEST: This will be a Quiz and Activity Competition. This is open for participation by children studying in class IX to Class XII in any school in India, during the academic year. The participation will be in teams, consisting of THREE STUDENTS FROM ANY CLASS per team. Details are given at Annexure ‘C’.

5. The TOP FIVE Teams of SURVEY OF INDIA GREAT ARC LAMBTON SENIOR CONTEST in the National level will be participating in the Exchange programme with United Kingdom(UK), expenditure for which will be fully borne by the Department.

6. ORGANISERS: The competition is organized by Survey of India assisted by NCSTC(DST), NRDMS (DST), State Education Departments and Non Governmental Local Organizations.

8. The State level liaison officers from Survey of India, co-ordinators from NCSTC, District level coordinators, Educational authorities, Various Scientific bodies functioning for promotion of Science at State level, Local NGOs etc. are requested to mobilize maximum participation.

9. Preparatory work to be done before the commencement of the programme:- It is essential that the purpose of the programme is brought to the knowledge of the target group and the resource persons, before the commencement of the programme by:-

1. Broadcast about the programme in scientific programs of AIR and Doordarshan for 2 – 3 weeks.
2. Conducting one day workshops for resource persons and school teachers at various locations in each state for creating awareness.
3. Deputation of resource persons for mobilizing teams at nooks and corners of the country.

Annexure ‘A’

The Competition is on Landscape/ Panoramic Mapping. This will be open for participation by children who are studying in Class I to Class V during the academic year, in any school, in India.

2. The format of the competition, schedule etc. are given below:-

1. This is for INDIVIDUAL participation.
2. The competition will be held in only ONE ROUND.
3. A school may register for any number of entries.
4. The Competition involves in drawing of a Panoramic or landscape map of the school and it’s surroundings, by the participant, using ink/pencil or any such drawing material, on a drawing/chart paper of size 25cm x 25cm, which will be supplied by the organizers to the registered participants. The slogan at the bottom of the drawing sheet also must be completed by the participant. Information regarding name of the participant, class, school, rural/urban, name of village, Taluk, District, State/Union Territory etc should be filled up as per the layout enclosed at Appendix ‘P’ and duly authenticated by the school authorities.
5. REGISTRATION OF ENTRIES:- The schools may register their entries in the proforma for entries directly or through the local coordinators/liaison officers listed in Annexure ‘D’ by 10August 2002
6. CONDUCT, COMPLETION AND SENDING OF ENTRIES:

1. The competition will be conducted on 05 Sept 2002 at the respective school premises from 1000hrs to 1200 hrs. for only registered participants.
2. The Head of the Institution will ensure completion of the entry in all respects as per the specimen at Appendix ‘P’.
3. The entries may be packed properly in bundles without folding the entry forms.
4. Each bundle must contain a letter from the head of the institution indicating total number of entries from the school and number of entries in the packet.
5. The packet should be superscribed "SURVEY OF INDIA GREAT ARC LAMBTON CUB CONTEST" and dispatched to the CONVENER. at the following address or handed over to the local coordinator .
6. LAST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF ENTRIES: Entries should be dispatched by 06 Sept 2002 and reach the organizers/ coordinators by 10 Sept 2002 at the address stated above. Organisers reserve the right to reject entries received after 10 Sept 2002.

The Competition is on Area Mapping. This will be open for participation by children who are studying in Class VI to Class VIII during the academic year, in any school, in India.

2. The format of the competition, schedule etc. are given below:-

1. The participation will be in teams of three students per team from any of classes from VI to Class VIII.
2. The competition will be held in TWO ROUNDS.
3. A school may register for any number of entries for the FIRST ROUND in the specified form.
4. The FIRST ROUND of the Competition involves in making a SKETCH MAP of the locality where the participant lives. The map is to be made using ink/pencil or any such drawing material, on a drawing/chart paper of size 25cm x 25cm, being supplied by the organizers to registered participants through the schools. The slogan at the bottom of the drawing sheet also must be completed by the participant. Information regarding name of the participant, class, school, rural/urban, name of village, Taluk, District, State/Union Territory etc should be filled up as per the layout enclosed as Appendix ‘Q’.and duly authenticated by the school authorities.
5. The VENUE for the FIRST ROUND of this competition will be the respective school premises. The school authorities will ensure completion of entry with all information as indicated.

1. CONDUCT, COMPLETION AND SENDING OF ENTRIES:

1. The competition will be conducted on 05 Sept 2002 at the respective school premises from 1000hrs to 1200 hrs. for only registered participants.

1. LAST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF ENTRIES: Entries should be dispatched by 06 Sept 2002 and reach the organizers/ coordinators by 10 Sept 2002 at the address stated above. Organisers reserve the right to reject entries received after 10 Sept 2002.

1. EVALUATION AND RESULTS: The organizers will arrange to announce the results of FIRST ROUND by 02 October 2002 and intimate the selected schools.
2. SECOND ROUND:- Selected teams from each Taluk will participation in the Second Round.

1. Date: 14 & 15 November 2002.
2. Venue: In a central place in each state to be intimated later to selected schools of participants.
3. Expenses for travel and food : Expenses for travel for participants and one accompanying staff member from the school of participants, limited to Sleeper Class rail fare or actual incurred, whichever is less. Bus fare by Express Class will be fully reimbursed. Food will be organized at the venue.
4. CONTEST:- The participants will be given a drawing sheet by the organizers, on which the map of the venue should be made by the participants. Participants must bring other material for the drawing. In addition there will be a oral Map reading competition.
5. Programme:- Besides the contest, there will be a film show on the event etc.
6. Reporting at the venue:- Participants with accompanying staff member should report to the organizers at the intimated venue by 0900 hrs on 14 November 2002. They will be relieved by 1600 hrs on 15 Nov 2002 for proceeding back to their schools.
7. Sending of Entries by the organizers: Organisers will dispatch the entry of all participants in the venue to the Convener by 15 November 2002 with a letter indicating the venue, list of participants.
8. Results:- The results will be announced by 26 January 2002.
9. Prizes: All Participants will be given a participation certificate. Prizes and scholarships will be awarded in suitable function to be announced later.

Annexure ‘C’

This contest is for participation by students studying in Class IX to Class XII during the academic year, in any school in India. The format and schedule is as under:-

1. The participation will be in teams of THREE STUDENTS in each team from any Class from Class IX to Class XII of the same institution.
2. It will be conducted in FOUR ROUNDS.
3. REGISTRATION:- A school may register any number of teams for the preliminary round. Registration of teams must be done directly with organizers or through the local coordinators/liaison officers in the proforma by 10 Aug 2002.
4. Preliminary Round:- It will be a written quiz with 15 map based questions and 5 questions on general geography. Concerned map will be printed in the quiz form itself. Two slogans, to be completed by the participants in English or local language

2. SECOND ROUND:- The SECOND ROUND will involve many activities and written quiz.

(a) The activities will be :-

1. Collection of samples of soil from each taluk by the designated number of teams for preparation of District Soil map on a base map to be supplied by the organizers at the venue.
2. Collection of samples of water from each Taluk by the designated number of teams for preparation of District Water map on a base map to be supplied by the organizers at the venue.
3. Land Use Mapping of respective Taluks for preparation of District Land use mapping.
4. Collection of details of various Scientific Institutions in the Taluk for preparation of Computer based District Map of Scientific Institutions, with their details in a data base.
5. Map reading.

1. Date and time:-The State Education Officer and the District Coordinators of NCSTC and the State level Survey of India Officer will conduct the competition on 14^th November and 15^th November 2002. The teams may be accompanied by one staff member from the concerned school. Arrangement for stay and food will be done by the state level organising committee. Expenses for traveling from and to the location for the teams and accompanying staff member will be met by the organisers. Minimum of Sleeper class rail fare or Express bus fare will be reimbursed, limited to actual incurred.
2. CONDUCT OF THE COMPETITION: The participating teams will be provided with reading material and instructions for the competition, well in advance. The material (map of district and state), will be provided at the venue. They will depict the information collected on the respective maps/ computer. The map reading test will be carried out on the spot by the organizers. The written quiz will be of 25 questions based on a map, to be answered in 20 minutes at the venue.
3. Evaluation , selection and Results:-All items of activity should be sent by the Survey of India Liaison officer to the Convener by 16^th November 2002, duly evaluated. The scrutiny will be completed and results intimated to schools by 6^th December 2002.

3. THIRD AND FOURTH(final) ROUND: This will be held at REGIONAL CENTRES on 17^th, 18^th, and 19th January 2003.

(a) Activities and competitions:- The selected teams in this round will have following activities:-

1. Preparation of Village map by GPS and Computer

1. Collection of data:- Data in respect of item No.(i) will be collected by selected teams from 20^th December to 10^th January as per instructions to be issued in due course. The teams will record the data and bring to the venue.
2. VENUE FOR THIRD and FINAL ROUND:- The Venue for the THIRD and FINAL Round will be Five regional Centres to be intimated in due course. The FOURTH round will be conducted in a teleconferencing mode from the same venue for selected teams after THIRD Round on 19 January 2003.
3. There will be 50 teams at each venue for THIRD ROUND. The competition will be similar to the SECOND Round with activities as listed above. Arrangement for accommodation will be made by the organizers. The expenditure on travel, food etc. will be met by the organizers. Travel will be by SLEEPER CLASS Rail fare or DELUXE fare by bus limiting to the actuals.
4. FINAL ROUND:- It will be held on 19 January 2003. 5 Teams will be selected out of the participating teams at each Regional Centre and will be involved in the FINAL Round in a teleconferencing mode. It will be a competition with 3 rounds as follows:-

1. Third Round:- Ten Geography related Questions to be answered within 1 minute by selected member of each team.

The TOP 5 teams in the Senior Group will represent India in the competition with British teams. They will be going to England for participation in the competition being organized at Britain to celebrate the occasion. Entire expenditure on this will be borne by the organizers.

10. SUMMARY:

LAMBTON LAMBTON LAMBTON

CUB JUNIOR SENIOR

First Round

Dates 05 Sept 2002 05 Sept 2002 05 Sept 2002

Teams 5,00,000(ind) 1,00,000(*3) 10,00,000(*3)

Venue School School Own time(school)

Second Round

Dates - 14 &15 Nov 02 14 &15 Nov 02

Teams - 5,000(*3) 5,00,000(*3)

Venue - State Centre State Centre

Third & Final Round

Dates 17,18&19 Jan 03

Teams 50(*3)x5

Venue Regional Centre

Appendix ‘Q’

(refers to para 2(b))

Appendix ‘P’

(refers to para 2(a))