IMD says the seasonal transition occurred on 15 October, with northeast monsoon rainfall activity commencing over Tamil Nadu and parts of adjoining peninsular India.
The package includes the new Leh airport passenger terminal, the 298-km Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road and India's first Petroglyph Conservation Park.
The first meeting brought linguists, universities and technology institutions together around documentation, digital preservation and promotion of tribal languages.
The programme targets Thulagi, Lower Barun, Lumding Tsho and Hongu 2 with lake-level reduction, monitoring, early warning and community resilience measures.
Heavy rain left 56 people dead in India and 14 in Nepal, with authorities warning of further flash-flood risk and widespread damage.
The southwest monsoon has started withdrawing from west Rajasthan even as nationwide seasonal rainfall remains below normal and a fresh Bay of Bengal system raises the prospect of heavy rain in eastern India.
The mobilisation begins during Ganeshotsav and reopens the constitutional and political dispute over OBC inclusion and Kunbi certificates.
The decision brings the collision between mineral extraction and species conservation back into focus in one of India's most fragile grassland landscapes.