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NSS units organised local tournaments in these four games, and more than 21,500 participants took part in them, the aim being healthy recreation, teamwork and positive engagement for rural youth.

They carried out the week across more than 160 institutions and the villages those institutions have adopted, mobilising over 80,000 participants that included young people, Gram Panchayat members, village elders and local residents.

That is the theme set for the campaign’s second month, and the week’s activities were arranged under it, bringing together physical fitness, community participation and social responsibility as the route to a substance-free society.

Gram Seva evam Parampragat Khel Diwas, meaning village service and traditional sports day, was held as the sixth week of this campaign by MY Bharat NSS under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and it deliberately took the campaign out of educational institutions and into rural communities.

She addressed the course at the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association tennis stadium and said that becoming a leading sporting nation depends on identifying talent early and giving women and girls qualified coaches, suitable infrastructure, regular competition and sustained support.

The ASMITA leagues are women’s leagues run under the Khelo India framework, and since their launch in that year they have reached more than three lakh women, opening up organised participation and competition across regions and communities.

The initiative is meant to connect coach education with talent identification and the development of elite players, and it is supported by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the Sports Authority of India.

The India Chem Youth Innovation Challenge was introduced in the 14th edition to connect young innovators with the chemicals and petrochemicals sector, and students worked on problem statements set by the industry while a jury drawn from the industry judged their solutions.

Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers Jagat Prakash Nadda said the sector must grow from its present market size of roughly USD 220 billion to about USD 1 trillion by 2040, and then to around USD 1.6 trillion by 2047.

Japan was the partner country at the 14th India Chem, and the release notes that India shares a strong trade relationship with it in the chemicals and petrochemicals sector in particular.

The 14th edition of India Chem was held under this theme in Mumbai, and the theme framed everything at the event: the business parleys, the CEOs Forum and the roundtables were all pointed at drawing investment and presenting the country as a competitive base for chemicals and petrochemicals manufacturing.

The first fair of the series ended there on 19 October after nine days at the Dasara Exhibition Ground, and thousands of visitors came through it.

They are showing roughly 40 varieties of handloom and handicraft products at Farm Gate, Khanapara, in Guwahati, where the fair is open to the public from 11 in the morning to 9 at night and will continue until 28 October.

BHARAT-TULIP is aimed at marketing the products of artisans belonging to the target groups of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, using both physical outlets and e-commerce platforms so that a maker in a small town can reach a buyer anywhere.

The fair is its marketing-support initiative for artisans and beneficiaries tied to its three national corporations: the National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation, the National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation and the National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation.

Swavlamban started that year and has since grown into a national platform that joins the Indian Navy’s operational requirements to what Indian industry and academia can actually build.

Both are to be released at the plenary session, where the Raksha Mantri is the chief guest, and both are intended as working references for industry: they set out the Indian Navy’s technological priorities, its operational requirements and the openings where indigenous developers can contribute.

The wording matters for an examination, because a paper setter will pair the theme with the edition number and the venue.

Swavlamban is the Navy’s own Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Seminar, and the name of the event itself points to naval innovation.