4th March - National Safety Day

4th March - National Safety Day
National Safety Day is celebrated in India on 4th March by the National Safety Council of India. This day is celebrated to make people get safe from several issues like financial loss, health problems and also any other problems that people are facing in their life

3rd March - World Wildlife Day, World Hearing Day

3rd March - World Wildlife Day
This day is celebrated globally on 3rd March and is closely aligns with the Sustainable Development Goal 12 that is Life without water, which focuses on marine species and to highlight the problems, critical issues of marine wildlife to our everyday life. The theme of 2019 is "Life below water: for people and planet".

3rd March - World Hearing Day
World Hearing Day is observed on 3rd March every year to raise awareness about how to prevent deafness and to promote hearing across the world.

Sarojini Naidu (February 13, 1879 – March 2, 1949)

Sarojini Naidu was one of the great leaders of the pre-Independence era who actively participated in the Indian National Movement to attain  freedom for the nation. Popularly called the Nightingale of India, Naidu was revered for her contribution in the field of Indian poetry, and many of her works were transformed into songs. Her birth anniversary also marks an important celebration in the country as India celebrates its very own Women’s Day on this day. On the occasion of her 140th birth anniversary, let us look at some interesting facts about Sarojini Naidu.

• Sarojini Naidu was born on February 13, 1879 in a Bengali Hindu family in Hyderabad.
• Naidu’s father Aghorenath Chattopadhyay did his PhD in science from Edinburg University and then settled in Hyderabad. It was Dr. Chattopadhyay who founded the Nizam College of Hyderabad.
• Naidu’s mother, Barada Sundari Devi Chattopadhyay, was a poet and used to write poetry in Bengali.
• Since childhood, Naidu was highly proficient in multiple languages including English, Bengali, Urdu, Telugu and Persian. She also topped her matriculation exams from the Madras University. Young Naidu, like her mother was very much attracted to poetry.
• Her father encouraged her to nurture her talent in poetry. Naidu, with the help of her father, wrote the play called “Maher Muneer” in Persian language.
• When Naidu turned 16, she got admission in the King’s College, England and later joined Girton College in Cambridge.
• While Naidu was studying in England she met Muthyala Govindarajulu Naidu, a South Indian, non-Brahmin physician and fell in love with him.
• After returning to India, she married him at the age of 19, at a time when inter-caste marriages were not common in India. They had four children out of the wedlock.
• With the partition of Bengal in 1905, Naidu was deeply affected and decided to join the Indian freedom struggle.
• Naidu met Jawaharlal Nehru in 1916, and worked with him for the cause of the Indigo workers of Champaran in the western district of Bihar and fought with the British for their rights.
• In 1917, Naidu helped found the Women’s India Association with Annie Besant and other leaders.
• During the freedom struggle, Naidu travelled to America and many European countries as the flag-bearer of the Indian Nationalist struggle and requested the Congress to involve more women in the freedom struggle.
• Naidu religiously followed Mahatma Gandhi’s example and then actively supported his campaigns such as Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, the Sabarmati Pact, and the Khilafat issue.
• She also served several terms in prison – in 1930, 1932, and 1942. In 1942 she was imprisoned for 21 months.
• Naidu was elected as the President of the Indian National Congress Party in 1925. After India attained its independence, Naidu became the first woman governor of UP and remained in the role till her death in 1949.
• Besides the freedom struggle, Naidu is also remembered for her contribution to Indian poetry. In fact many of her works are transformed into songs. Her work is an inspiration from the nature, daily lives and people.
• Some of Naidu’s famous works include: The Golden Threshold, The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring, The Magic tree, The Indian Weavers, The Broken Wing: Songs of Love.
• Apart from poetry, she has also penned articles and essays such as ‘Words of Freedom’ on her political beliefs and social issues such as women empowerment.
• On March 2, 1949, Naidu breathed her last in Lucknow.

1st March – Zero Discrimination Day , World Civil Defence Day

1st March – Zero Discrimination Day
Zero Discrimination Day is celebrated globally on 1 March every year so that everyone lives life with dignity regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, skin colour, height, weight, etc. The symbol of Zero Discrimination Day is the butterfly. Firstly, on 1 March, 2014 the UN had celebrated this day.

1st March - World Civil Defence Day
World Civil Defence Day is celebrated every year on 1st March to bring the attention of the world public about the importance of Civil protection and to pay tributes to the efforts, sacrifices, and accomplishments of all the services responsible to fight against disasters. International Civil Defence Organisation (ICDO) decided to celebrate this day in 1990. The theme of World Civil Defence Day 2019 is "Children's safety, our responsibility".

March Important Days

March Important Days
Date	Name of Important Days
1 March	Zero Discrimination Day
1 March	World Civil Defence Day
3 March	World Wildlife Day
3 March	World Hearing Day
4 March	National Safety Day
8 March	International Women's Day
8 March	Ramakrishna Jayanti
10 March	CISF Raising Day
12 March	Mauritius Day
11 March	No Smoking Day (Second Wednesday of March)
14 March	Pi Day
14 March	International Day of Action for Rivers
15 March	World Consumer Rights Day
16 March	National Vaccination Day
18 March	Ordnance Factories Day (India)
20 March	International Day of Happiness
20 March	World Sparrow Day
21 March	World Forestry Day
21 March	World Down Syndrome Day
21 March	World Poetry Day
22 March	World Water Day
23 March	World Meteorological Day
24 March	World Tuberculosis (TB) Day
27 March	World Theatre Day

February 29 leap day

February 29 leap day
February 29, also known as leap day or leap year day, is a date added to most years that are divisible by 4, such as 2016, 2020, and 2024. A leap day is added in various solar calendars (calendars based on the Earth's revolution around the Sun), including the Gregorian calendar standard in most of the world.

National Science Day

National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir C. V. Raman on 28 February 1928. 
For his discovery, Sir C.V. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930