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Science Cities have been set up by Ministry of Culture through National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), an Autonomous Organisation under the Ministry of Culture.

Delhi Police have also launched a special drive `Operation Milap’ to reunite missing children with their parents through the Anti Human Trafficking Units (AHTU)

Uttar Pradesh launched an operation named ‘Operation Smile’ in the month of September, 2014 to identify, track, locate, rescue and rehabilitate children who went missing and found to be subjected to abuse and exploitation.

RPF has been conferred with the ‘Service of Excellence Award’ by the Ministry of Home Affairs for the efforts in rescue of missing children under operation “MUSKAN’’ drive.

The Khoya Paya portal is a citizen based website to exchange information on missing and found children. It has been developed by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY)

‘Vatsalya – Maatri Amrit Kosh’, a National Human Milk Bank and Lactation Counselling Centre at the Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC),

“Vatsalya – Maatri Amrit Kosh” is established in collaboration with the Norwegian government, Oslo University and Norway India Partnership Initiative (NIPI).

“Vatsalya – Maatri Amrit Kosh” , is a national human milk bank and lactation counseling centre that will collect, pasteurize, test and safely store milk that has been donated by lactating mothers and make it available for infants in need. In addition, this facility will protect, promote and support breastfeeding of their own healthy mothers by providing lactation support to mothers through dedicated lactation counsellors

Mothers Absolute Affection (MAA) programme to create awareness regarding breastfeeding as being the most cost-effective way of enhancing the child’s immunity,

The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), known as Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI),


The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), also known as Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI), is a worldwide programme of the World Health Organization and UNICEF, launched in 1991following the adoption of the Innocenti Declaration on breastfeeding promotion in 1990


The initiative is a global effort for improving the role of maternity services to enable mothers to breastfeed babies for the best start in life.

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Ashgabat Agreement

Ashgabat Agreement, an international transport and transit corridor facilitating transportation of goods between Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. 

The Ashgabat Agreement has Oman, Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as founding members.

Kazakhstan has also joined this arrangement subsequently.

India and Pakistan also joined the Agreement

Turkmenistan, as depository State of Ashgabat Agreement,

Minority Affairs Ministry



“Hunar Haat”, are being organised by the Minority Affairs Ministry to provide an opportunity, as well as domestic and international exposure to the master artisans from across the country


Padho Pardesh, is a scheme for providing interest subsidy on educational loans taken from Banks by
minority students for higher studies abroad.


The initiative of Hamari Dharohar is aimed at preservation of rich heritage and culture of minorities, by
supporting curation of iconic exhibitions, calligraphy, preservation of old documents, research and
development, restructured Multi-sectoral Development Programme or Jan Vikaas Karyakram, for area
development programme.


Nai Roshni is a scheme for Leadership Development of Minority Women by providing knowledge, tools
and techniques for interacting with Government systems, banks and intermediaries at all levels,
concessional loans by National Minorities Development & Finance Corporation.

First organised census of Indus Dolphin begins in Punjab


Punjab government along World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-India are conducting first organised census of Indus Dolphins, one of the world’s rarest mammals found only in India and Pakistan. The organised census aims at conservation of the species.


The first organised census will be conducted over period of five days in 185 km stretch between Talwara and Harike Barrage in Beas River in Punjab were riverine fresh water Indus Dolphins are confined.

Indus Dolphin is subspecies of freshwater river dolphin (which also includes Ganges River dolphin) found in Indus river (and its Beas and Sutlej tributaries) flowing through India and Pakistan.

It is national mammal of Pakistan.

It is a key indicator species of river’s health. Its presence is considered as river is healthy. Indus dolphin like Ganges River dolphin is functionally blind and relies on echolocation to navigate, communicate and hunt prey in muddy river water.

Only 1,816 Indus dolphins are reported to exist presently in lower parts of Indus River. They are patchily distributed in five small, sub-populations that are separated by irrigation barrages across course of Indus river and its tributaries. Their numbers have declined dramatically after construction of irrigation system. It listed by the IUCN as endangered on its Red List of Threatened Species. Indus Dolphin was also found in Sutlej decades back, but river pollution has caused its extinction in river.

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River : Origin

1. Satluj : Rakas Lake
2. Indus : Bokhar Chu glacier
3. Jhelum : Spring at Verinag
4. Chenab : Chandra and Bhaga stream
5. Ravi : Rohtang pass in the Kullu hills of Himachal Pradesh
6. Beas : Beas Kund in Rohtang Pass
7. Ghaghara : Mapchachugo glacier
8. Son : Amarkantak plateau
9. Kaveri : Brahmagiri hills
10. Krishna : Mahabaleshwar in Sahayadri
11. Narmada : Amarkantak plateau
12. Godavari : Rises near Nasik District of Maharashtra