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This ministry frames the scheme, invites and screens the nominations and arranges the ceremony at which the President confers the award on 8 March; the same ministry also administers the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar for children.

The Nari Shakti Puraskar, the highest civilian honour for women in India, is presented at Rashtrapati Bhavan on International Women's Day, which is observed on 8 March every year.

Instituted in 1994 and named after the Sherpa mountaineer who reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary, this award recognises outstanding achievement in adventure activities, with separate categories for land adventure such as mountaineering, water adventure such as sailing and rafting, and air adventure such as paragliding…

Entry 33 of the State List in the Seventh Schedule covers sports, entertainments and amusements, so the primary responsibility for sport rests with the state governments, which is why state sports departments and state associations run most competitions and facilities.

The trophy was instituted in 1956 to 1957 and is a rolling award given each year to the university with the best overall record across inter-university competitions, named after the first education minister of independent India.

The award, instituted in 1991 to 1992 as the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and first given to the chess player Viswanathan Anand, was renamed the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2021 in honour of the hockey player who won Olympic gold with India in 1928, 1932 and 1936.

The institute was founded there in 1961 as the National Institute of Sports and was later named after Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose; it is the main centre for training coaches in India and now functions under the Sports Authority of India.

The Sports Authority of India was set up in 1984 as a society so that the stadiums and other facilities built for the Asian Games held at Delhi in 1982 would continue to be used for training rather than fall idle.

The Dronacharya Award was instituted in 1985 and honours coaches who have consistently produced outstanding athletes, the name being taken from the teacher of archery in the Mahabharata.

The Arjuna Award was instituted in 1961 to recognise consistently outstanding performance by a sportsperson over a period of years, and it remains the standard recognition for a leading active athlete who has not won the country highest sporting honour.

TOPS was launched in 2014 under the National Sports Development Fund and was thoroughly revamped in 2018.

Khelo India was launched in 2018 by merging earlier grassroots sports programmes into a single national scheme, and its first competition, the Khelo India School Games, was held at New Delhi in January of that year.

The day marks the birth anniversary of Major Dhyan Chand, the hockey player who was part of the Indian sides that won Olympic gold in 1928, 1932 and 1936, and it is the day on which the national sports awards are conferred at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The molecules of the atmosphere are much smaller than the wavelength of visible light, and such particles scatter short wavelengths far more strongly than long ones.

In hypermetropia the eye lens is too weak or the eyeball is too short, so rays from a nearby object are not converged enough and the image falls behind the retina.

The retina carries two kinds of photoreceptor. Cone cells need reasonably bright light to work and respond selectively to different wavelengths, so they give us the sensation of colour; when the cones are defective a person is colour blind.

The refractive index of a transparent medium is not the same for every colour; it rises as the wavelength falls.

Two steps are needed. First, the focal length must be converted to metres: 50 centimetres is 0.5 metre.

The power of a lens measures how strongly it converges or diverges light, and it is defined as one divided by the focal length expressed in metres.

The least distance of distinct vision, also called the near point, is the smallest distance at which an object can be held and still be seen clearly without strain.