Indian Railways: Five Year Strategic Plan 1 Introduction The Indian Railways has a capital base of about Rs. 100000 crore and is often referred to as the lifeline of the Indian economy because of its predominance in transportation of bulk freight and long distance passenger traffic. The network crisscrosses the nation‚ binding it together by ferrying freight and passengers across the length and breadth of the country. As the Indian economy moves into a high growth trajectory the Railways have
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Tenth Five Year Plan of India – 2002 - 2007 The Tenth Five Year Plan India(2002-2007) aims to transform the country into the fastest growing economy of the world and targets an annual economic growth of 10%. This was decided after India registered a 7% GDP growth consistently over the last decade. This GDP growth of 7% is much higher than the world’s average GDP growth rate. Thus‚ the Planning Commission of India sought to stretch the limit and set targets which would propel India to the super
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Russia was the first ever state to actively make an attempt at a communist government. Karl Marx’ The Communist Manifesto‚ released in 1848‚ led to the rise of a new ideology. After many events in History‚ people began to question if capitalism was truly the best form of government. When questioning that‚ many civilians turned to take a look at communism. After the October revolution in Russia‚ led by the Bolshevik Workers Union in 1917‚ a man named Vladimir Lenin implemented communism into their
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Is sustainability truly built into the 12th 5-Year Plan? | Politics of Biodiversity | Environm... Page 1 of 5 Is sustainability truly built into the 12th 5-Year Plan? Perhaps for the first time‚ environment and related livelihoods issues figure in several chapters of a 5-Year Plan approach paper. But it is far from achieving the kind of integration of environment‚ economy‚ and livelihoods that is required if India is to meet its obligations to its people‚ to nature‚ and to international agreements
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Both Hitler and Stalin made use of propaganda in all forms of media‚ however they each focused on different areas‚ Hitler strongly trying to influence the youth populations while Stalin controlled visual media‚ altering photos and paintings. To make strong use of propaganda in Nazi Germany‚ Hitler appointed Joseph Goebbels as the Minister of Propaganda. Goebbels “had control of all branches of the media and the arts”. He remained Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945‚ throughout the war‚ even
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Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from 1924-1953. Many political‚ social and economic changes occurred during this period. Joseph Stalin was a follower of Communism. He was actually thrown out of school for studying Marxism. Joseph Stalin was a communist. Stalin had rose to power by physically getting rid of his rivals. Joseph Stalin had killed many people. Some people say he killed more people than Hitler. He had killed his own people because they refused collectivization. Joseph Stalin came to
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What was the short-term significance of Stalin’s economic policies for the people of Russia in the years to 1941 ? The nature of Stalin’s economic policies and their impact on the people of Russia is a widely debated topic. It’s also a difficult topic on which to focus an enquiry‚ complicated as it is by the reluctance of the Soviets to release all relevant documents‚ and the political views of those interpreting to documents‚ driven as many were by their own agendas. However‚ the documents
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time of India’s first Five Year Plan‚ the government focused primarily on the agriculture sector. A large part of capital and technology was devoted to increasing agricultural production. This was effective at the time and is now referred to as the green revolution. The success of this plan convinced the Indian Planning Commission to shift their strategy. The NM strategy drew inspiration from the USSR and suddenly focused on rapid industrialisation in the second Five Year Plan rather than the agricultural
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How did communism come into Russia and how did it affect Russia? Russia was very stable before communist and communist ideas came round‚ and the aftermath of it all was not the best for Russia and Russian people. Russia was very different before communist took over‚ and how communism came to be is interesting along with all the changes that came with Russia. What was Russia and its government before communism? Russia was just a simple vast country stretching across the Eastern European plain
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the most success in his economic and social policies‚ Hitler‚ Franco or Stalin? When reading the works of most historians‚ it is found that they are most critical of the policies of the three most famous dictators of the twentieth century; Adolf Hitler of Germany‚ Josef Stalin of the Soviet union and Francisco Franco of Spain. This is most probably due to the fact that these men were despicable characters and the death rate under them was extremely high due to their policies of terror on political
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