India’s tribal village first to get rights over its forests [pic] 24 December 2009 A tribal village in western India has been granted the right to cultivate and manage its forest‚ as per the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest-Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006. For over a decade the villagers have fought against the commercialisation of their land. As climate change negotiators try and figure out how to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest
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opportunity to realize our dream of India Shining? There has been a lot of talk about the opportunity divide in India. This Opportunity Divide is that by the year 2022‚ 800 million people will be in the working age group but out of these only 200 million will be graduates while the remaining will be in the unskilled group. According to research done by NSDC‚ between the year 2008 and 2022‚ 347 million jobs will be created across 22 different high growth sectors in India. For example‚ the jobs available
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INCREDIBLE INDIA Everyday I go to school and speak the pledge "India is my country and I love my country".One day a question instantly popped up in my head‚"Do I really mean it? The pledge that I have spoken since the first day of school.The answer came as soon as the question‚"Yes‚I love my country! Agreed that there is corruption‚poverty and dirt everywhere. Today‚even after 67 years of independence‚we find men‚women with their children begging on the streets‚people spitting and throwing
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Corruption in India Andrew Sanchez T he momentum of last year’s hunger strike by the anti-corruption campaigner Kisan ‘Anna’ Hazare currently sees India’s parliament wrestling with the formation of a national corruption ombudsman. Hazare’s campaign rests upon the proposition that the democratic ideals with which the Indian state was formed in 1947 are all too often subverted by the self-interest of public servants. Hazare’s supporters argue that this process has two primary effects. First‚ corruption
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Hello Friends. FDI in Retail sector: No I am not in the favor of FDI in retail. "Competition is always in the favor of consumers‚ monopolies not". 1. They adopt Predatory pricing strategy. Predatory pricing (also undercutting) is a pricing strategy where a product or service is set at a very low price‚ intending to drive competitors out of the market‚ or create barriers to entry for potential new competitors. How it works: Big brands like Wal-Mart‚ Tesco etc. Buys goods from
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We lack the wherewithal to catch and punish the corrupt Many of us believe that corruption is the biggest problem in India and if we could punish the corrupt by catching them‚ it would solve a lot of our problems. I would like to take a look at some of the root causes of corruption in India. The basic cause is that the government is not designed for accountability and delivering services to its citizens. This is a larger problem‚ which can be resolved if adequa-te effort is made to streamline
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SST 2383 Discussion Question 1. The large store variety and layouts of merchandise would likely appeal to consumers in India for a few reasons. One reason would be that these large retailers could create more efficiency in that they would allow a customer to purchase a wide assortment of goods in one stop. Another reason is that they could sell brand-name products at more affordable prices. It may be wise to also take into consideration that more than half of India’s population consists of people
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which‚ flows through the city of Kolkata. The other branch enters Bangladesh and is known as the Padma. There are many holy cities in the Ganga basin. Find their names. 3. The Brahmaputra basin: The Brahmaputra River rises in Tibet and enters India from the east. It flows through a narrow valley in Assam. Here‚ the river is always flooded in the rainy season. It enters Bangladesh and joins River Padma. The Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers together from the largest delta in the world before flowing
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of a fine specimen of the partition literature is a rather non-serious depiction of an extraordinary event. The blurb‚ the translator’s note and the acknowledgement point at the author’s profound sense of loss in the aftermath of the partition of India in 1947. But shuttling between the chapters‚ the reader quickly realises it’s less about partition and more about everyday trivia in the life of Dayamoyee‚ whose morbid memory of that sordid event accounts for only a tiny slice of the 172-page memoir
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North India and South India both had many similarities and differences. Regional kingdoms contained alike and dislike economies‚ political views‚ and religions. Over time‚ both areas developed in different ways. These ways shaped the form of India today. North and South India flourished because of its similar and different qualities. Many factors impacted the similar economies of North and South India. Monsoons affected both regions and caused long rainfalls in the summer and dry winds in the
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