JANPITH AWARD 2019

• Eligiblity : Any indian citizens who write in any of the official languages of indial is eligilble for the honour
• Malayalm poet - Akkitham (55th janpith awardian)

BLUE FLAG PROGRAMME

• MOEFFC has embarkkedk up[on a programm for this certification, selects beaches in the country
• 13 beaches selected for pilot basis
• Chandrabhaga beach of odissa will be the first in Asia to get blue fag certifilcation.

MARITIME MUSEUM 

• Indias 1st maritime musuem will established at Lothal in Gujarat.

HORNBILL FESTIVAL

• Nagas celebrqate hornbill featival from December 1-10 every year. 
• This festival is also called as "Festival of festivals'.

PARTICULARLY VULNEARABLE TRIBAL GROUP OF INDIA

• In 1975 GOI initiate this programme to identify PVTGs in india
• At present totallly l75 PVTGs out of 705 ST.
• PVTGs highly in odissa (13) and followed by Andra pradesh (12)