In a global context‚ Liberalization‚ Privatization and Globalization (LPG policy) are no longer an option but a fact. Whether one likes it or not‚ it is bound to influence all spheres of life and activities. Developing countries like India may have to learn to manage the process far more skillfully and efficiently for the development of the country. In the broad setting of reforms in many countries in the 1980s‚ India was an apparent anomaly. India was at the crossroads. She was facing a macroeconomic
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Articles from General Knowledge Today National Food Security Mission 2011-06-10 08:06:38 GKToday National Food Security Mission (NFSM) is a Central Scheme of GOI launched in 2007 for 5 years to increase production and productivity of wheat‚ rice and pulses on a sustainable basis so as to ensure food security of the country. The aim is to bridge the yield gap in respect of these crops through dissemination of improved technologies and farm management practices. Salient Features: According
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Satpura National Park Satpura National Park is in the district Hoshangabad of Madhya Pradesh in India. It gets its name from the Satpura hill ranges (Mahadeo hills). It covers an area of 524 km2 (202 sq mi). Satpura National Park‚ and along with the adjoining Bori and Panchmarhi Sanctuaries‚ provides 1‚427 km2(551 sq mi) of unique central Indian highland ecosystem. It was set up in 1981. The terrain of the national park is extremely rugged and consists of sandstone peaks‚ narrow gorges‚ ravines and
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WILDLIFE Wildlife means all the flora and fauna‚ which are not domesticated by humans. It includes animals‚ plants and microorganisms. The term wild life generally gives the impression of large and ferocious animals living in the jungle or waters such as lions and tigers‚ crocodiles and rhinoceros. Wild life refers to any living organism in its natural habitat. It includes all plants‚ animals and microorganisms other than animals domesticated and cultivated plants. The majestic lion‚ the grateful
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Report writing Surajkund Mela The Surajkund Crafts Mela is organized each year by the Tourism Department in Haryana in February. This is a very colorful and exotic handicrafts and handloom fair that is planned each year to popularize the traditional handicrafts in India made by the rural folks in Surajkund. This was first organized in the year 1981 and it continues to be a major platform for Indian artisans to showcase the skills in the art work and crafts. This is a weeklong fair‚ which is
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The Ayodhya dispute (Hindi: अयोध्या विवाद‚ Urdu: ایودھیا وِواد) is a political‚ historical and socio-religious debate in India‚ centred on a plot of land in the city of Ayodhya‚ Faizabad district‚ Uttar Pradesh. The main issues revolve around access to a site traditionally regarded as the birthplace of the Hindu God Rama‚ the history and location of the Babri Mosque at the site‚ and whether a previous Hindu temple was demolished or modified to create the mosque. The Babri Mosque was destroyed by
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Assocate Professor and Research scholars‚ NBKR Medicinal Plant Research Centre‚ Vidyanagar – 524413‚ SPSR Nellore Dist‚ Andhra Pradesh‚ India. The lagoon’s boundary limits range between 13.33° to 13.66° N and 80.23° to 80.25°E‚ with a dried part of the lagoon extending up to 14.0°N.; with about 84% of the lagoon in Andhra Pradesh and 16% in Tamil Nadu. The large spindle-shaped barrier island named Sriharikota separates the lake from the Bay of Bengal. Three major rivers which
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Water use and misuse OUR pot of water woes is brimming over. That does not seem surprising‚ according to Ramaswamy R. Iyer‚ since even though India is one of the few countries in the world which is blessed with an adequate quantity of water‚ there is a tremendous amount of mismanagement of water resources. While the country has over 4‚000 billion cubic meters (bcm) of annual rainfall and almost 2000 bcm of river flow‚ the reality remains that we have had constant lamentations about the shortage
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you for a ride. This place remains open from Saturday to Thursday and is worth a visit for the sense of commotion out here. Dances: kuchipudi Kuchipudi (Telugu : కూచిపూడి) (pronounced as ’Koochipoodi’) is a Classical Indian dance from Andhra Pradesh‚ India. It is also popular all over South India. Kuchipudi is the name of a village in the Divi Taluka of Krishna district that borders the Bay of Bengal and with resident Brahmins practicing this traditional dance form‚ it acquired the present name
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Introduction The Northeast region of India comprising of eight states – Assam‚ Nagaland‚ Manipur‚ Arunachal Pradesh‚ Mizoram‚ Tripura and Sikkim[1]– a region poorly connected to the Indian mainland by a small corridor‚[2] and surrounded by many countries such as Bhutan‚ Myanmar‚ Bangladesh and China‚ is the setting for a multitude of conflict that undermines the idea of India as a prosperous and functioning democracy. For instance‚ the Naga insurgence‚ which started in the 1950s‚ known as the
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