Dear Aspirant,
We collected the important days in February 2017 and provided in a table Format. We hope, it will help you in Competitive exams!!!
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Feb 1 2017 |
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| Remember Day | 40th Indian Coast Guard Day |
| Purpose | To protects India’s maritime interests and enforces maritime law, with jurisdiction over the territorial waters of India, including its contiguous zone and exclusive economic zone. |
| Organization | GOI |
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Feb 2 2017 |
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| Remember Day | World Wetland Day |
| Purpose | To marks the date of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands, called the Ramsar Convention, on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. |
| Theme | Wetlands for disaster risk reduction |
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Feb 4 2017 |
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| Remember Day | World Cancer Day |
| Purpose | To raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection and treatment. |
| Organization | WHO |
| Theme | We can I can |
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Feb 6 2017 |
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| Remember Day | International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation. |
| Purpose | To raise awareness about the female genital mutilation (FGM) and to promote its eradication |
| Organization | UNICEF |
| Theme | Building a solid and interactive bridge between Africa and the world to accelerate ending FGM by 2030 |
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Feb 10 2017 |
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| Remember Day | National Deworming Day |
| Purpose | To deworm children between the ages of (1-19) at schools and anganwadi centres. |
| Organization | GOI |
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Feb 11 2017 |
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| Remember Day | International Day Women and Girls in Science |
| Purpose | To highlight female achievement, equal access and participation in the science field |
| Organization | UN |
| Theme | Gender, Science and Sustainable Development: The Impact of Media |
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Feb 12 2017 |
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| Remember Day | National Productivity Day |
| Purpose | To encourage all stakeholders to implement productivity tools & techniques with contemporary relevant themes |
| Organization | National Productivity Council |
| Theme | From Waste to Profits through Reduce, Recycle, Reuse |
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Feb 13 2017 |
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| Remember Day | World Radio Day |
| Purpose | To remember the contribution of radio in our life. |
| Organization | UNESCO |
| Theme | Radio is You |
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Feb 20 2017 |
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| Remember Day | World Day of Social Justice |
| Purpose | To promote efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion and unemployment |
| Organization | UN |
| Theme | Preventing conflict and sustaining peace through decent work |
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Feb 21 2017 |
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| Remember Day | International Mother Language day |
| Purpose | To promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism |
| Organization | UN, UNESCO |
| Theme | Towards Sustainable Futures through Multilingual Education |
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Feb 22 2017 |
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| Remember Day | World thinking day |
| Purpose | A day when they think about their “sisters” (and “brothers”) in all the countries of the world, the meaning of Guiding, and its global impact. |
| Organization | WAGGGS(World Association For Girl Guides and Girl Scouts). |
| Theme | Connect Activity Pack |
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Feb 24 2017 |
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| Remember Day | 74th Central Excise Day |
| Purpose | To encourage the employees of excise department to carry out the central excise duty all over the India in better way in order to prevent the corruption |
| Organization | GOI |
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Feb 27 2017 |
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| Remember Day | Chandra Shekhar Azad‘s 86th death anniversary or Martyrdom Day |
| Organization | GOI |
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Feb 28 2017 |
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| Remember Day | National Science day |
| Purpose | To commemorate the discovery of Raman Effect by Sir C.V.Raman in 1928 |
| Organization | GOI |
| Theme | Science and Technology for Specially Abled Persons |
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