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These are the three components named in the account the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment released about a Scheduled Caste doctoral scholar from Darjeeling in West Bengal, who has drawn assistance under the scheme since November 2022 amounting to Rs 18,41,870 so far.

The scheme is implemented by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and works on the occupational safety, health protection and livelihood security of sanitation workers.

Speaking at the Khet Bachao Abhiyan programme, the Minister said soil must be treated as a living resource and that farm inputs should be balanced and need-based rather than applied out of habit.

The correct answer is the ICAR-National Institute of Natural Fibre Engineering and Technology, known as ICAR-NINFET, which organised the programme at Subhasnagar in the Swarupnagar Block of North 24 Parganas district.

Khet Bachao Abhiyan is its countrywide drive for the Rabi season, running from 22 October to 30 November 2026, and the Minister who joined the West Bengal programme, Shri Ram Nath Thakur, is a Minister of State in that ministry.

That is the scale announced for the third edition, along with an expected footfall of more than 10 lakh visitors and an exhibition area of over 2.5 lakh square metres across Bharat Mandapam and Yashobhoomi.

Under this theme the third edition will put on display India's strengths in manufacturing, engineering, technology, innovation and sustainable mobility, and bring industry, government, startups, technology providers, academia and overseas participants to the same floor.

The third Bharat Mobility Global Expo is spread over these two Delhi venues from 4 to 9 February 2027, and the split is why the show can carry 11 concurrent shows at once.

The Department of Posts is one of the departments of that ministry, and the announcement about Digital Detox 2.0 came from it.

The campaign was carried out across fifteen flights, and those flights between them served eleven destinations, so the two figures must be kept apart.

The Department of Posts, which works under the Ministry of Communications, organised the in-flight postcard writing activity in collaboration with that airline, and the campaign ran on fifteen of its flights serving eleven destinations.

The announcement states that thirty Central Public Sector Enterprises joined the discussion, and names BHEL, BEL, NTPC, AAI, BEML and Coal India Limited among them.

The Joint Secretary told the round table that the promotion and handholding done under this scheme has steadily raised the share of SC/ST micro and small enterprises in public procurement, and the scheme's field offices are the ones being asked to coordinate more closely with the Government e-Marketplace and with…

The round table with Central Public Sector Enterprises was convened precisely to monitor how far they have met the mandated four per cent sourcing from micro and small enterprises owned by Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs.

The fair is organised in seven distinct thematic zones, named Kala Aangan, Prakash Chowk, Pooja Path, Sajawat Bazaar, Gharana, Swad Chowk and Manch, and together they cover crafts, festive lighting, worship articles, decorations, textiles, food and cultural performance.

That is the combined figure reported for the four participating corporations over the window from the first to the ninth of November, and the Ministry presents it as a sign of the market response to products made by beneficiary communities.

The fair is its own initiative, meant to open markets for artisans and beneficiaries from the Scheduled Castes, the Other Backward Classes, Safai Karamchari communities and persons with disabilities, and the four corporations whose sales are reported all fall under that ministry.

The campaign uses it to set out a sequence: generations meet through community platforms and educational institutions, share experiences and stories, take up joint activities, exchange knowledge and skills, and then keep that engagement going as a regular community-led practice.

The Ministry has invited citizens aged eighteen years and above to register, and it names students, young professionals and community volunteers as the groups it has in mind.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment describes Vayo SAATHI as an important component of that recently launched national intergenerational bonding campaign, which itself runs under the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana.