Important Days and Years

Days and Weeks

1	National Science Congress Establishment Day
5	Louis Braille Day
9	NRI day(Pravasi Bharathiya Diwas)
10	World Laughter Day World Hindi Day
12	National Youth Day(Birthday of Swami Vivekanandar)
15	Army Day
24	National Girl Child Day
25	National Tourism Day National Voters Day
26	Indian Republic Day
30	World Leprosy Eradication Day Martyr’s Day(Mahatma Gandhi’s Martyrdom)

February

1	Indian Coast Guard Day
2	World Wetlands Day
4	World Cancer Day
12	World Production Day Darwin Day
20	World Social Justice Day
21	International Mother Tongue Day
24	Central Excise Day
28	National Science Day Dr.C.V.Raman Birth Day

March

3	National Defence Day
4	National Safety Day
8	International Women’s Day
11	Andaman-Nicobar Day
15	World Consumer Rights Day World Disabled Day
16	National Vaccination Day
21	World Forest Day International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
22	World Water Day
23	World Meteorological Day Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru Martyrdom Day
24	World TB Day
27	World Theatre Day

March

5	National Maritime Day
7	World Health Day
10	World Homeopathy Day(Birthday of Samuel Haneman)
13	Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Day
14	Ambedkar Day
17	World Haemophilia Day
18	World Heritage Day
21	Indian Civil Service Day
22	World Earth Day
24	Panchayat Diwas

May

1	International Labour Day(May Day)
2	World Asthma Day
3	International Energy Day World Press Freedom Day
7	Rabindranath Tagore Birth Anniversary
8	World Red Cross day World Thalassemia Day
11	National Technology Day
12	International Nurses Day
15	International Family Day
17	World Telecommunication Day
21	Anti-Terrorism Day
23	World Bio-Diversity Day
24	Commonwealth Day
30	Journalism Day
31	World No Tobacco Day

June

5	World Environment Day
12	World Day Against Child Labour
14	World Blood Donor Day
18	Father’s Day
20	World Refugee Day
23	International Widows Day
29	National Statistics Day(PC Mahalanobis Birthday)

July

1	Doctor’s Day(Birth and Death Anniversary of Dr BC Roy) SBI Foundation Day
4	USA Independence Day
7	International Day of Co-operatives
11	World Population Day
18	Nelson Mandela Day
22	National Flag Adoption Day
26	Kargil Victory Day

August

1	World Breast Feeding Day
6	Hiroshima Day(World Peace Day)
8	World Senior Citizen’s Day
9	Nagasaki Day Quit India Day
12	International Youth Day
14	Sanskrit Day
15	India’s Independence Day
19	World Photography Day
20	Sadhbavana Diwas(Birthday of Rajiv Gandhi)
29	National Sports Day(Birthday of Dhayanchand)

September

1	Non-Aligned Movement(NAM) Day)
5	National Teacher’s Day
8	International Literacy Day
15	Engineer’s Day International Day of Democracy
16	World Ozone Day
24	World Deaf Day World Heart Day
25	Social Justice Day
27	World Tourism Day

October

1	International Day for Elders
2	International Non-Violence Day Lal Bagadhur Sasthri and Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday
3	World Habitat Day
4	World Animal Day
6	World Wildlife Day
8	Indian Air Force Day
9	World Postal Day
10	World Mental Health Day
12	World Sight Day
13	World Calamity Control Day
14	World Standards Day
15	World White Cane day
16	World Food Day
17	International Poverty Eradication Day
20	National Solidarity Day(China attacked India on that day)
21	World Iodine Shortage Day
24	United Nations Day
30	World Thrift Day
31	National Integration Day(In memory of death anniversary of Indira Gandhi

November

7	Infant Protection Day World Cancer Awareness Day
9	Legal Services Day
10	Transport Day
11	National Education Day
14	Children’s Day(in the memory of JL Nehru Birthday) World Diabetes Day
16	National Press Day
17	National Epilepsy Day
18	World Adult Day
19	World Citizen Day
20	Universal Children’s Day
21	World Fisheries Day
25	World Non-Veg Prevention Day World Day against Torture of Women
26	National Law Day World Environment Protection Day

December

1	World AIDS Day
2	International day for the Abolition of Slavery
3	World Disabled Day
4	Navy Day World Handicapped Day
5	International Volunteers Day
7	Armed forces Flag Day
9	World Day Against Corruption
10	Human Rights Day
11	UNICEF Day
14	National Energy Conservation Day
16	Vijay Diwas(In the memory of win over Pakistan in 1971 war)
19	Goa’s Liberation Day
23	Kisan Diwas(Farmer’s Day)
25	National Good Governance Day

Important Weeks:

First week of January	National Road Safety Week
12-18 February	National Productivity Week
10-16 April	National Rail Week
1-7 September	National Nutrition Week
14-20 September	National Hindi Week
Last week of September	National Forest Week
9-15 October	National Postal Week
14-20 November	National Books Week
18-24 November	National Medicine Week
1-7 December	Indian Navy Week

 

UN - 10 Years:

1980-90	Second Disarmament Decade
1981-90	International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade
1983-92	UN decade for Disabled Persons
1988-97	World decade for Cultural Development
1990-99	Un Decade for International Law International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
1990-2000	International Decade for Eradication of Colonialism
1991-2000	Un Decade Against Drug Abuse
1994-2004	Decade for Human Rights Education
1997-2006	Decade for the Eradication  of Poverty
2003-2012	UN Literacy Decade : Education for All
2005-2014	UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
2006-2015	Decade for Recovery and Sustainable Development of the Affected Regions
2008-2017	Second UN Decade for Eradication of Poverty
2010-2020	Un decade for Deserts and Fight Against Desertification
2011-2020	Decade of Action for Road Safety UN Decade on Bio-Diversity Third UN Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism

UN - Weeks

1-7 February	World Inter-Faith Harmony Week
21-27 March	Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial Discrimination
23-29 April	UN Global Road Safety Week
25-31 May	Week of Solidarity with the People of  Non-Self Governing Territories
1-7 August	World Breast Feeding Week
4-10 October	World Space Week
24-30 October	Disarmament Week
11-17 November	International Week of Science and Peace

 

UN - Years

2014	International Year of Small Island developing States International Year of Crystallography International Year of Family Farming
2013	International Year of Water Co-operation International Year of Statistics
2012	International Year of Cooperatives International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
2011	International Year of Chemistry International Year of Forests International Year of Youth
2010	International Year of Rapprochement of Cultures International Year of Biodiversity
2009	International Year of Reconciliation International Year of Seafarer International Year of Natural Fibres International Year of Astronomy International Year of Human Rights Learning
2008	International Year of Planet Earth International Year of Languages International Year of Sanitation International Year of Potato
2007	International Year of Polar Year
2006	International Year of Deserts and Desertification
2005	International Year of Microcredit International Year of Sport and Physical Education International Year of Physics
2004	International Year of commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition International Year of Rice
2003	International Year of Freshwater
2002	International Year of Mountains International Year of Cultural Heritage International Year of Ecotourism
2001	International Year of Volunteers
2000	International Year for Culture and Peace
1999	International Year of Older Persons
1998	International Year of the Ocean
1996	International Year for Eradication of Poverty
1994	International Year of the Family
1992	International Year of Space
1991	International Literacy Year
1979	International Year of the Girl Child
1975	International Women’s Year
1974	World Population Year
1970	International Year of Education
1968	International Year for Human Rights
1967	International Tourist Year
1965	International Cooperation Year

SAARC YEAR:

1989	SAARC year for Combating Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking
1990	SAARC Year of the Girl Child
1991	SAARC Year of Shelter
1992	SAARC Year of Environment
1993	SAARC year of Disabled Persons
1994	SAARC Year of the Youth
1995	SAARC Year of Poverty Eradication
1996	SAARC Year of Literacy
1997	SAARC Year of Participatory Governance
1999	SAARC Year of Biodiversity
2002-03	SAARC Year of Contribution of Youth to Environment
2004	SAARC Awareness year for TB and HIV/AIDS
2005	South Asian Tourism Year
2007	Year of Green South Asia
2008	SAARC Year of Good Governance

SAARC DECADES:

1991-2000	SAARC Decade of the Girl Child
2001-2010	SAARC Decade of the Rights of the Child
2006-2015	SAARC Decade of Poverty Alleviation
2010-2020	SAARC Decade of Intra-regional Connectivity