EC launches toll-free no. for queries

The Election Commission (EC) launched a toll-free number (1800111950) for citizens to reach out with queries, give suggestions or lodge complaints pertaining to polls, electoral rolls and other related issues. Currently, the service has been made available in English and Hindi. The EC's executives
would also make outbound calls for educating voters.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

WIPO is one of the 17 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world". WIPO currently has 189 member states.  It's headquartering in Geneva, Switzerland.  The current Director-General of WIPO is Francis Gurry, who took office on October 1, 2008.

India unanimously elected to head UNHabitat, the United Nations' Human Settlements Programme

India has been unanimously elected as the President of the UN-Habitat, an organ of the United Nations' Organisation (UNO) that promotes socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements across the world, after 10 years.
❁ Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu chaired the four day meeting of the 26th Governing Council of UN-Habitat in Nairobi, Kenya.
❁ Shri Naidu will preside over the deliberations of the Governing Council of UN-Habitat for the next two years.
❁ Since the UN-Habitat came into being in 1978, It is only the third time that India has been elected to lead this important organization after 2007 and 1988.

SAMPADA

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
given its approval for re-structuring the schemes of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries
(MoFPI) under new Central Sector Scheme - SAMPADA (Scheme for Agro-Marine Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters) for the period 2016-20 coterminous with the 14th Finance Commission cycle.