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Longest river Ganges The longest tributary river of India Yamuna The longest river of the south Godavari Highest mountain peak Godwin Austin (k2) Largest lake (Fresh water) Wular lake (Kashmir) Highest Dam Bhakra Dam (Punjab) Largest Mosque Jama Masjid, Delhi Longest Road Grand Trunk Road State with longest coastline Gujarat Largest railway route From Jammu to Kanya Kumari Longest tunnel Jawahar tunnel (Jammu & Kashmir) Longest national highway NH-7which runs from Varanasi to Kanyakumari Longest Dam Hirakod Dam (Orissa) Longest River Bride Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna Longest populated city Mumbai (1.60 crore) Largest Museum National Museum, Kolkata Largest Delta Sunderban Delta, W. Bengal Largest Dome Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur (Karnataka) Largest Zoo Zoological Gardens, Alipur, Kolkata Largest man-made Lake Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam) Largest Desert Thar (Rajasthan) Highest Tower Pitampura Tower, Delhi Smallest State (Area) Goa Smallest State (Population) Sikkim Highest Waterfa

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JANUARY 12 National Youth Day 21 Army Day 23 Nethaji Subhash Chandra Bose's Birth day 26 Republic Day 30 Martyr's Day, World Leprosy Eradication Day FEBRUARY 28 National Science Day 29 National De-addiction Day MARCH 8 International Women's Day 15 World Consumers' Rights Day 15 World Disabled Day 16 National Immunisation Day 21 World Forestry Day 22 World Day for Water 23 World Meteorological Day 24 World TB Day APRIL 5 National Maritime Day 5 Samta Diwas 7 World Health Day 10-16 Railway Week 12 World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day 13 Jallianwala Day 17 World Haemophilia Day 18 World Heritage Day 22 Earth Day 23 World Book Day MAY 1 May Day, Workers' Day, International Labour Day 3 World Press Freedom Day 3 World Asthma Day 8 World Red Cross Day 12 International Nurses

Five Years of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA   Backgrounder It has been five years since the launch of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) launch from Anantpur in Andhra Pradesh on February 2, 2006. The act has been instrumental in raising the productivity, increasing the purchasing power, reducing distress migration, creating durable assets while ensuring livelihood opportunities for the needy and poor in rural India.             The act is aimed at enhancing the livelihood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing 100 days of wage-employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. These works include water conservation, drought proofing, irrigation, land development, rejuvenation of traditional water bodies, flood control and drainage work, rural connectivity and work on the land of SC/ST/BPL/IAY beneficiaries/land reform beneficiaries/ individual small and marginal farmers. PERFORMANCE  01. Em