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We collected the important days in January 2017 and provided in a table Format. We hope, it will help you in Competitive exams!!!
Jan 4 2017 | |
| Remember Day | World Braille Day(207th birth anniversary of Louis Braille) |
| Purpose | To recognize the efforts of Louis Braille. Louis Braille is credited with inventing the Braille language which helps blind people to read as well as write. |
Jan 09 2017 | |
| Remembered Day | Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (NRI Day) |
| Organized | India |
| Purpose | To Mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community to the development of India. The day commemorates the return of Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa in Bombay on 9 January 1915. |
Jan 10 2017 | |
| Remember Day | World Hindi Day |
| Purpose | To mark the day, 14 September 1949, on which the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi written in Devanagari script as the Official Language of the Union. |
| Organization | India |
Jan 12 2017 | |
| Remember Day | National Youth Day |
| Purpose | To commemorate the birthday of Swami Vivekananda, maker of the modern India. |
| Organization | India |
| Theme | “Indian youth for development skill and harmony” |
Jan 15 2017 | |
Remember Day | 69th Indian Army Day |
| Purpose | Recognition of Lieutenant General K. M. Cariappa’s taking over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from General Sir Francis Butcher, the last British Commander-in-Chief of India, on 16 January 1949. |
| Organization | India |
Jan 16 2017 | |
| Remember Day | Religious Freedom Day |
| Purpose | To stand against religious intolerance |
| Organization | US |
January 23 2017 | |
| Remembered Day | 120th Birth Anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose / National Day of Patriotism / Desh Prem Divas |
| Organization | India |
Jan 24 2017 | |
| Remember Day | National girl child day |
| Purpose | To increase the awareness among people about all the inequalities faced by the girl child in the society |
| Organization | India |
Jan 25 2017 | |
| Remember Day | National Voters Day |
| Purpose | To encourage more young voters to take part in the political process |
| Organization | India |
| Theme | Empowering young and future events |
| Remember Day | National Tourism Day |
| Purpose | To raise awareness of the importance of tourism for the country’s economy. |
| Organization | India |
Jan 26 2017 | |
| Remember Day | International Customs Day |
| Purpose | To recognizes the role of custom officials and agencies in maintaining border security. |
| Organization | World Customs Organization |
| Theme | “Digital Customs: Progressive Engagement” |
| Remember Day | 68th Republic Day |
| Purpose | To honour the Constitution of India as it came into force on the same day in the year 1960 |
| Organization | Government of India |
| Theme of Parade | Skill India and Beti Bachao Beti Padhao. |
Jan 27 2017 | |
| Remember Day | International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust |
| Purpose | To commemorates when the Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on January 27, 1946. |
| Organization | UN |
| Theme | “From Words to Genocide: Antisemitic Propaganda and the Holocaust”. |
Jan 29 2017 | |
| Remember Day | World Leprosy Day (last Sunday of January) |
| Purpose | To increase the public awareness of the Leprosy or Hansen’s Disease |
| Organization | NGOs |
Jan 30 2017 | |
| Remember Day | Martyrs’ Day |
| Purpose | To honor of those who lost their lives defending the sovereignty of the nation and death anniversary of Mahathma Gandhi |
| Organization | India |
Jan 31 2017 | |
| Remember Day | 12th Raising Day of National Disaster Response Force |
| Purpose | To commended the NDRF for its efforts during disaster response |
| Organization | GOI |
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