limbo. DEMANDS FOR SMALLER STATES The advent of new millennium saw the creation of three new states -- Chhattisgarh‚ Uttarakhand (originally named Uttarakhand) and Jharkhand‚ carved out from the parent states of Madhya Pradesh‚ Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. More recently‚ India has witnessed a renewed assertion from 1 historically constituted regions for the creation of smaller states. A discernable shift in terms of federal thinking has accompanied this Significantly‚ some of these regions have
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a political creation. The cross-border militancy in Kashmir‚ the Naxalite violence in Bengal‚ Bihar‚ Andhra Pradesh and the ULFA terrorism in Assam have all narrow political goals. The problem of identity created terrorism to rise in Nagaland and Mizoram‚ vengeance became the cause of terrorism in Manipur and Tripura while ’class-enemity’ causes the Naxalite violence in different parts of Bengal‚ Bihar and Andhra Pradesh. The blowing up of the Air India Boeing ’Kanishka’ killed nearly 300 innocent
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Chapter -VI NREGA Implementation: A Macro Overview The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (2005) was enacted by the Indian Parliament in 2005 to provide a minimum guaranteed wage employment of one hundred days in every fiscal year to rural households with unemployed adult members prepared to do unskilled manual work. Since its enactment in 200 districts‚ it was extended to overall country of India. The basis for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in India emerged
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THE RESURGENCE OF NAXALISM: IMPLICATIONS FOR INDIA’S SECURITY S. ADHIKARI India is a millennium old civilisation‚ with one-sixth of humanity within its borders and 30 percent of the population living below the poverty line. It has led to huge economic disparities which create a feeling of deprivation and desperation among the unprivileged classes. The pluralistic Indian society is characterised by ethnic‚ religious‚ linguistic and socio-economic disparities which pose a serious threat to the
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In 1927‚ after being released from prison‚ Bose became general secretary of the Congress party and worked with Jawaharlal Nehru for independence. Again Bose was arrested and jailed for civil disobedience; this time he emerged to become Mayor of Calcutta in 1930. During the mid-1930s Bose travelled in Europe‚ visiting Indian students and European politicians‚ including Benito Mussolini. He observed party organisation and saw communism and fascism in action. By 1938 Bose had become a leader of national
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The Ganga Project Introduction “Throwing her head in a swirl of ice spray‚ in pride and defiance creeping round lovingly some favoured rock to rush down joyously over the boulders hurling herself with a mighty shout over some great precipice…smiling and dancing in the morning sunlight and dark and gloomy and full of mysteries in the evening shadow‚ a narrow‚ slow and graceful stream in the winter‚ vast and roaring during the monsoon.”- Jawaharlal Nehru. The Ganga is the most sacred river
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Paper Title- Changing consumer behavior for mobile phones in rural India Author Name- Rohit Anand Affiliation- Student‚ Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna 1. Introduction Rural India is known for its vivid diversity. With 6‚ 38‚000 villages; India houses world’s largest rural population. India has 711.6 million rural population and 132.4 million rural households which comprise of 70% of total Indian population. The peculiar thing about this population is that their consumption pattern is
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The Early Historic Period was a period of change. It began in the 6th century BCE‚ a time often considered to be a turning point in early Indian history. This is so‚ because‚ for the very first time in Ancient India‚ we witness the emergence of several known political entities known as the mahajanapadas. The mahajanapadas were kingdom states that covered greater parts of Northern India and through them‚ social‚ political and cultural complexities began to tangibly take shape. The period under question
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Need for disaster management It was October 5‚ 1968. The Kosi river in Bihar played havoc as 9 lakh cusec of water was discharged in one day alone. Forty years later‚ the survivors of flood fury in north-eastern Bihar are returning to their homes without fully knowing how a repeat of such discharge in a day can ruin them altogether. The sudden diversion of the Kosi’s course last fortnight already inundated huge tracks of Supaul‚ Madhepura‚ Araria‚ Purnea and Saharsa districts‚ traditionally non-flooded
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Tourism in India From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Every year‚ more than 3 million tourists visit the Taj Mahal in Agra‚ Uttar Pradesh. Tso Moriri Lake‚ Ladakh Tourism in India is a large industry. The World Travel and Tourism Council calculated that tourism generated $121 billion or 6.4% of the nation’s GDP in 2011. It was responsible for 39.3 million jobs‚ 7.9% of its total employment. The GDP of the tourism sector has expanded
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