Category Society, Literature, Arts, Sports and Culture

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“31 October” — Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day): Marks the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Rashtriya Ekta Diwas, also known as National Unity Day, is observed annually on October 31 to commemorate the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallahabhai Patel, a pivotal figure in India's struggle for independence, the Iron Man of India, and the architect of a united India, and to honour his pivotal role in fostering national and political integration and unity in India. The day underscores in maintaining the sovereignty, peace and integrity of the nation, encouraging citizens to pledge in unity in diversity.

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National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Act, 2025: Strengthening India’s Anti-Doping Framework by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

Doping refers to the use of prohibited substances or methods by athletes to artificially enhance their performance in sports. This includes taking banned drugs such as anabolic steroids, stimulants, or hormones, as well as using methods like blood doping or gene doping to gain an unfair advantage over competitors. Doping violates the principles of fair play and sportsmanship, as it gives athletes an artificial edge rather than relying on natural ability, training, and skill. It also poses serious health risks to athletes, including cardiovascular problems, hormonal imbalances, liver damage, and psychological effects

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Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP) 3.0, 2026

The Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme (DILRMP) is a Government of India initiative launched in 2016 to modernise land record management, improve transparency in the maintenance of land records, and reduce the scope for land and property disputes.

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Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) (2004): Residential Schooling for Marginalised Girls and the Class 8 peak

Launched in August 2004, the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) scheme was designed in response to measurable gender, rural, and social disparities in upper-primary education. Its target areas were Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs), defined using 2001 Census thresholds of rural female literacy below 46.13% and a rural literacy gender gap above 21.59 percentage points.

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Khelo Bharat Niti 2025: Can India Build a Sustainable Sports Economy?

Ever since Independence, India's sports policy has, at best, been viewed primarily through the lenses of international competition and national prestige and, at worst, through the lens of public scrutiny following disappointing performances on the global stage. India has often been described as a "sleeping giant" in world sports, a country with immense talent and demographic potential, yet constrained by persistent logistical, infrastructural, and institutional challenges.

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National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme 2.0: A Federal Lens on Regional Disparities in Skill Development (2022–2026) 

India's demographic dividend is the biggest economic asset that the country has but a long-standing mismatch between academic learning and industry demanded skills has been a longstanding issue of restricting the employment of the youth. The Government of India's primary intervention has been the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS), a flagship Central Sector Scheme (CSS) of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), which was started in August 2016 under Apprentices Act, 1961 and relaunched as NAPS 2.0 in FY 2022-23 to expand the outreach, easy disbursal of stipend and increase penetration into Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).

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National Mission on Cultural Mapping (2017): Weaving India’s Heritage into a Digital Tapestry

Jawaharlal Nehru once described India as an ‘ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and experience had been written, with no succeeding layer ever wholly erasing what had gone before.’ The National Mission on Cultural Mapping (NMCM) - a Ministry of Culture initiative launched in 2017 to translate India's artisanal & village-level heritage into a national database - takes this Nehruvian idea as its working premise (Ministry of Culture, 2026a). After nearly a decade of the scheme running and roughly 97 percent of its village target reportedly covered, making it a valuable case study in the sustained & data-driven implementation of a large-scale rural mission.(Ministry of Culture, 2026b).

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