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• Tamil Nadu Human Development Index 2017
• Top 5 Districts
1. Kanyakumari
2. Virudhunagar
3. Thoothukudi
4. Chennai
5. Kancheepuram
• Bottom 5 Districts
• Tiruvarur
• Villupuram
• Theni
• Perambalur
• Ariyalur (Ranked Last)
• Panel on Prohibition of Manual Scavengers
• The TN Govt has formed a committee to implement the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their rehabilitation Act and Rules, 2013.
• Chairman of the committee - Chief Minister
• And 26 other members.
• DBT For Fertilizers
• Direct Benefit Transfer for fertilizer to be implemented fully throughout the country form Jan 1, 2018.
• Under this scheme the farmer have to produce his aadhaar card to buy fertilizers at subsidised price from the retail dealers or cooperative societies.
• There is a slight difference between the DBT in LPG and Fertilizer.
• In LPG the subsidy amount will be paid to the consumer where as in fertilizer the subsidy will be paid to the fertilizer company.
• Karnataka's State Butterfly
• Karnataka became the 2nd state to have a state butterfly after announcing 'southern bird wing butterfly' as its state butterfly.
• The first state to have state butterfly is Maharashtra (Blue Mormon) in 2015.
• Ovais Sarmad
• From India, who was appointed as the Deputy Executive Secretary in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
• Mahmoud Abbas
• Palestinian President who visited India recently.
• Justice Mukul Mudgal (retired)
• He was elected as the head of the FIFA's Governance Committee.
• Rifath Sharook
• He is a student from TN who developed the world's smallest and lightest Satellite named 'KalamSat'