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Enforcement Directorate

• It is a law enforcement agency and economic intelligence agency responsible for enforcing economic laws and fighting economic crime in India.

• It is part of the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.

• The prime objective of the Enforcement Directorate is the enforcement of two key Acts of the Government of India namely, the Foreign Exchange Management Act 1999 (FEMA) and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 (PMLA)

• The origin of this Directorate goes back to 1 May 1956, when an ‘Enforcement Unit' was formed, in Department of Economic Affairs, for handling Exchange Control Laws violations under Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947.

• In the year 1957, this Unit was renamed as ‘Enforcement Directorate' 

Project Elephant 

Project Elephant (PE) was launched by the Government of India in the year 1992 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with following objectives :

     1.    To protect elephants, their habitat & corridors

 2.    To address issues of man-animal conflict

 3.    Welfare of captive elephants

Financial and Technical support are being provided to major elephant bearing States in the country. The Project is being mainly implemented in 16 States / UTs , viz. Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.