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President Pratibha Patil today awarded first prize to 15-year-old Robin Singh for his Logo design at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi today. The function was organised to award the winners of a logo design competition of the Rashtrapati Bhavan's green initiative 'Roshni' on World Environment Day.

The drawing of Robin Singh, a student of Kendrya Vidyalaya BSF school in North Kashmir's Bandipore district, was adjudged the winner among 3,276 entries. Hailed from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh Robin Singh was given a certificate and 10,000 rupees in cash.
Nine-year-old Vibhu Prakash, a class 4 student of Air Force School,Panchavati, Delhi Cantonment, received the
Special Encouragement Prize comprising a certificate and 5000 rupees in cash.

AIR correspondent adds that `Roshni' is a green innovation concept encompassing environment management and empowerment of local communities to create eco-friendly sustainable urban habitats through participation of stakeholders and convergence of partnership programmes. 

The award was initiated by the President on July 25, 2008 and the programme aims to make the President's Estate a green, energy efficient and zero waste model township for all other habitats across India.

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