An All India Darshan Academy Poetry Fest is organized every year in memory of the great poet, Sant Darshan Singh Ji Maharaj, with an aim to encourage students to develop their creativity i.e. recitation of poems as well as composing poems. In this connection, the following activities will be conducted in the current academic session 2024:

Poetry Recitation

The poetry recitation is organized in the following 9 categories:

Group 1: Nursery, LKG, and UKG
the poem for recitation to be selected from any of the class text books
Group 2: Class I and II
the poem for recitation to be selected from any of the class text books
Group 3: Class III to IV
Group 4: Class V and VI
Group 5: Class VII and VIII
Group 6: Class IX and X
Group 7: Class XI and XII
Group 8: Teachers
Group 9: Parents and Grandparents
For Groups 3 to 9, the poems for recitation to be selected from any of the class text books or a poem by Sant Darshan Ji Maharaj.
Poetry Writing
Group 1: Class III to IV
Group 2: Class V and VI
Group 3: Class VII and VIII
Group 4: Class IX and X
Group 5: Class XI and XII
Group 6: Teachers
Group 7: Parents

All students are encouraged to participate in the Poetry Writing Competition. The participants can compose poems on any topic from the Darshan Academy Spiritual Curriculum Books either in Hindi or English. Entries need to be submitted in a neat handwriting in original, or a typed one on A4 sheets.

Awards: The best three entries in each group in each Academy are awarded at the Academy level.