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UNESCO proclaimed the day in 1966 and it has been observed since 1967 to remind governments that literacy is the base of every other right, with a theme announced each year and the UNESCO literacy prizes awarded.

Azad was born on 11 November 1888 and became independent India's first Minister of Education; the first Indian Institutes of Technology, the University Grants Commission and the All India Council for Technical Education belong to his term, and the Ministry declared his birthday National Education Day in 2008.

Radhakrishnan, a philosopher and teacher who became the first Vice-President and the second President of India, was born on 5 September 1888; when his students wished to celebrate his birthday he asked that the day be kept for teachers instead.

Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 at Erode in the Madras Presidency, worked on number theory, infinite series and continued fractions, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at a very young age.

On 11 May 1998 India tested nuclear devices at Pokhran in Rajasthan under Operation Shakti; the same day the indigenous Hansa-3 trainer aircraft made its first test flight and the Trishul missile was successfully test-fired, and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee named the date National Technology Day.

C. V. Raman made the announcement on 28 February 1928 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1930, the first Nobel in the sciences for an Indian.

On this day in 1928 C. V. Raman announced the discovery of the Raman Effect, the scattering of light with a changed wavelength when it passes through a transparent medium, and the discovery brought him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.

A FASTag is a sticker on the windscreen that a reader at the toll plaza identifies by radio, so the toll is deducted from a linked account and the vehicle need not stop; the system is called National Electronic Toll Collection and is run by the National Payments Corporation of…

The system, run by the National Payments Corporation of India, lets a customer withdraw cash, deposit money or check a balance at a banking correspondent's micro ATM by giving the Aadhaar number, the name of the bank and a biometric authentication, without a card or a cheque.

Real Time Gross Settlement is meant for large value payments, which are settled one transaction at a time as they are received rather than in batches, and the system sets a floor of two lakh rupees with no upper limit.

The amount of a debit card payment leaves the account at once, which is the essential difference from a credit card, where the bank pays first from a limit it has granted and bills the holder later with an interest free period.

Such an operator is authorised under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act of 2007, the machine carries the operator's own brand instead of a bank's, cards of every bank work on it, and the cash is supplied through a sponsor bank.

The machine does the work of a teller at the counter, giving cash, accepting deposits, printing statements and taking requests, and it works at any hour without a member of the staff.

RuPay was launched as an Indian card network so that domestic card payments would be settled within the country instead of through foreign networks, and its cards are issued by banks for savings accounts and under government schemes.

UPI was launched in 2016 and allows a payment from one bank account to another through a mobile application, using a virtual payment address instead of the account number and a UPI PIN for authentication.

YONO, which stands for You Only Need One, was launched by the State Bank of India as a single application for banking, investment, insurance and online shopping, and it also allows cash withdrawal at the bank's machines without a card.

The Bharat Interface for Money application was released in December 2016 by the National Payments Corporation of India so that payments over the Unified Payments Interface, launched earlier that year, could be made from any smartphone with a bank account linked to it.

It is the second of the three Yudh Seva medals instituted in 1980, below the Sarvottam Yudh Seva Medal and above the Yudh Seva Medal.

The two lists are announced on 26 January and on 15 August, and the medals are presented later at investiture ceremonies by the President, who is the Supreme Commander of the armed forces.

The series has three grades, the Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak, the Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak and the Jeevan Raksha Padak, and it is administered by the Ministry of Home Affairs and open to civilians, including children.