Agriculture in India has a significant history. Today‚ India ranks second worldwide in farm output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry andfisheries accounted for 16.6% of the GDP in 2009‚ about 50% of the total workforce.[1][2] The economic contribution of agriculture to India’s GDP is steadily declining with the country’s broad-based economic growth. Still‚ agriculture is demographically the broadest economic sector and plays a significant role in the overall socio-economic fabric of India. History
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entertainment and cultural programmes India’s Independence Day (Hindi: Swatantrata Divas) is celebrated on August 15 to commemorate its independence from British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation on that day in 1947. The day is a national holiday in India. It is celebrated all over the country through flag-hoisting ceremony and distribution of sweets. The main celebration takes place in New Delhi‚ where the Prime Minister raises the national flag at the Red Fort and delivers a nationally televised speech
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Why India is still a Developing Nation and not a Developed Nation This resource will provide necessary information on why India is still a developing nation and not a developed nation even though there are lots of options provided by the government for the development criteria. India is one of the fastest developing countries in the world. But you can see the fact that the speed of the development is not as good when compared to the other countries that are already developed and
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Banking in India in the modern sense originated in the last decades of the 18th century. The first banks were Bank of Hindustan (1770-1829) and The General Bank of India‚ established 1786 and since defunct. The largest bank‚ and the oldest still in existence‚ is the State Bank of India‚ which originated in the Bank of Calcutta in June 1806‚ which almost immediately became the Bank of Bengal. This was one of the three presidency banks‚ the other two being the Bank of Bombayand the Bank of Madras
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NEHRU’S ‘THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA’ A Brief Study JAGDISH V. DAVE M. N. College‚ Visnagar (NG)‚ Gujarat The Discovery of India is‚ in fact‚ the discovery or Nehru’s rich and graceful personality. It gives us glimpses into the manifold aspects of this great man symbolised for many years the youth of our rejuvenated race awakened after long slumber. What was the essential self of Pandit Nehru? He was a politician by accident as he himself confessed‚ a thinker and a humanist by
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9.1 Overview of procedure The procedure followed by Government of India for disinvestment seeks to promote administrative simplicity and speed of decision-making without compromising on transparency and fair play. The process is as follows: · Proposals for disinvestments in any PSU‚ based on the recommendations of the Disinvestment Commission or in accordance with the declared Disinvestment Policy of the Government‚ are placed for consideration of the Cabinet Committee on Disinvestment
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focusing on is India. India’s tourism industry has had a rapid growth in the past years. This is because the government has been promoting to ‘incredible India’ (Web1). India is currently growing at 30% per annum (Web 1). In 2006 four million tourists visited India and spent over $8.9 billion (Web 1). As transport has got better in the past years more people can visit other countries. One of these countries being India. There are 17 major tourist attractions in India. Some of these
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History of India [pic] The History of India can be traced in fragments to as far back as 700‚000 years ago. The Indus Valley Civilization‚ one of the oldest in the world‚ dates back at least 5‚000 years. According to the Indo-Aryan migration hypothesis‚ the Aryans‚ a nomadic people‚ possibly from Central Asia or northern Iran migrated into the north-west regions of the Indian subcontinent between 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE. Their inter-mingling with the earlier Dravidian cultures apparently resulted
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BATA IN INDIA Export Quantity Million pairs 49.22 52.05 62.19 Export Value Rs. in millions 19‚308 20‚962 26‚073 Import Quantity Million pairs 2.37 2.75 4.54 Import Value Rs. in millions 386 414 654 Sales Value Rs. in millions 51‚000 52‚000 53‚000 Market Size Rs. in millions 51‚386 52‚414 53‚654 Domestic Consumption Rs. in millions 32‚078 31‚451 27‚581 Source: .Industry Market Size & Shares. dated February 2005‚ Economic Intelligence Service Key Milestones Date/Year Event 1894
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ACCOUNT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION IN INDIA AND IN KERALA 20 . Introduction By way of substantiating the thesis that the large scale industries and their promotion have proved detrimental to environment‚ a close look at the history and evolution of industrialization is a must. But such a historical account of industrialization is too vast a field for the researcher to look into. It is therefore necessary to limit this enquiry to the area of industrialization in India in general and to industrialization
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