The Maharashtra government has announced 5-days working week for state government employees. This was declared at the state Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
Arvind Kejriwal takes oath as Chief Minister of Delhi for the third consecutive time in Ramlila Maidan. He had earlier taken the oath of Chief Minister in 2013 and 2015.
The Ghaziabad police started ‘Operation Nakail’ under which the identity of auto-rickshaw drivers will be verified and a unique four-digit number will be given to them. The drivers have to get the unique number written on front, left, right and rear side of auto-rickshaws.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami inaugurated the Salem Cricket Foundation (SCF) cricket ground in Valapadi, Salem in Tamil Nadu. The ground was constructed on behalf of Salem Cricket Foundation.
Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal launched the first phase of “East-West Metro line” which is Kolkata’s second metro line. The phase 1 of the East-West Metro corridor is a 5.3 kms long stretch with 6 elevated stations and executed by Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited.
The state government of Haryana has started an initiative called ‘Reading Mission- Haryana’. The initiative was launched to encourage reading habit among the young students of the state.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has given approval for the setting up of an air quality monitoring network of 90 stations in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
ClimFishCon 2020, an international conference on the impact of climate change on ‘hydrological cycle, ecosystem, fisheries and food security’ will start in Kerala on 12 February.
National Water Conference was launched by Chief Minister Kamal Nath in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The importance and revival of traditional water sources, right to water, river rejuvenation campaign in Madhya Pradesh
The Uttar Pradesh government has given its approval to the Ground Water Act-2020. The Ground Water Act-2020 has been rubber stamped with target of improving the decreasing groundwater level in the state.