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The SKOCH has conferred the ‘Best performing Social Sector Ministry’ award to “Ministry of Women and Child Development” as it has delivered the promises made and for its significant achievements and initiatives from the last 4 years. Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi has received the award on behalf of the Ministry.

Protective arrangements: Such measures as are required to enforce equality, to provide punitive measures for transgressions, to eliminate established practices that perpetuate inequities, etc.A number of laws were enacted to implement the provisions in the Constitution. Examples of such laws include The Untouchability Practices Act, 1955, Scheduled Casteand Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993, etc. Despite legislation, social discrimination and atrocities against the backward castes continued topersist

Loktak Lake:the largest freshwater  (sweet)  lake  in  North -East  India,  also  called  the  only Floating  lake  in  the  world  due to the floating phumdis (heterogeneous mass of vegetation,    soil,    and    organic matters    at    various    stages    of decomposition)   on   it,   is   located near   Moirang   in   Manipur   state, India.  The  etymology  of  Loktak  is Lok  =  "stream"  and  tak  =  "the end"