Home > About Us | | | About usThe National Commission for Women was set up as statutory body in January 1992 under the National Commission for Women Act‚ 1990 ( Act No. 20 of 1990 of Govt.of India ) to : * review the Constitutional and Legal safeguards for women ; * recommend remedial legislative measures ; * facilitate redressal of grievances and * advise the Government on all policy matters affecting women.In keeping with its mandate‚ the Commission initiated various steps to
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ucation of a child starts from the family and mother is the first teacher. But‚ the irony in India is that although the deity of education is a female i.e. Goddess Saraswati according to the Hinduism‚ innumerable number of women are illiterate. They are not remaining uneducated by their own wish but they are being forbidden from receiving education because of the patriarchal families in our society. Right from the early Vedic period people have been celebrating the birth of a son‚ but in those
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The villagers of Ayodhya welcomed Ram‚ Lakshman and Sitaby decorating and illuminating their village withdiyas. Jains says this is the day when Lord Mahavira attained “moksha or salvation”. They show lights in jubilation of thus attainment. Dayanand Saraswati of Arya Samaj also attained ‘Nirvana’ on this day. It is a festival of lights and firework. It comes after Durga Puja as the winter sets in. In West Bengal and some other places in North India Goddess Kali is worshipped during the Diwali
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is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together in their homes. For Jains‚ Diwali marks the attainment of moksha or nirvana by Mahavira in 527 BC.[5][6] Arya Samajists‚ celebrate this day as Death Anniversary of Swami Dayanand Saraswati. They also celebrate this day as Shardiya Nav-Shasyeshti. The name "Diwali" or "Divali" is a contraction of deepavali which translates into "row of lamps".[7] Diwali involves the lighting of small clay lamps filled with oil to signify the
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believed that reciting God’s name mechanically is a wrong way of offering prayer to God. They pointed out that bathing in sacred rivers does not absolve us of sins committed by us. They preached that to seek God‚ we should turn inwards. Swami Dayanand Saraswati‚ the founder of the Arya Samaj‚ was another votary of religious and social reforms in India. He condemned idol worship and other evils which had crept into the Hindu religion. He opposed child marriage‚ casteism and untouchability. He favoured
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if I were the Prime Minister of India‚ what would I do to make India a super power by 2020? “where the mind is without fear and the head is held high...Into that heaven of freedom‚ my father‚ let my country awake". Tagore and so many other leaders of our country envisioned an India far better than what we have made it today. Easy though it may be for us to blame it on the ’corrupt political leaders’ or the ‘useless government’‚ the truth lies in the fact that they are also one of us. we have
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benefited by the policies introduced by Lord Thomas Macaulay‚ began to organise Indian opinion against what was clearly exploitative rule by aliens. This phase also witnessed massive social reform movements and important leaders like Swami Dayanand Saraswati‚ Keshab Chandra Sen‚ Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan‚ Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar‚ among others revolutionised the Indian society. Along side‚ political thought against the British rule also began to take concrete shape‚ with leaders like Dadabhai Naoroji
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Rani Lakshmi Bai • Rani Lakshmi Bai was the queen of the princely state of Jhansi. • She was one of the most leading personalities of the first war of India’s independence that started in 1857. • She was born to a Maharashtrian family at Kashi in the year 1828. • During her childhood‚ she was called by the name Manikarnika. • In the year 1842‚ she got married to the Maharaja of Jhansi‚ Raja Gangadhar Rao Niwalkar. Subhash Chandra Bose • Subhash Chandra Bose‚ affectionately
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movement of freedom from the British rule‚ with the support of civil populace. The socio- religious reform movement of the 19th century moulded the social orientation of the English educated middle class. Great reformers and social architects like Dayanand Saraswati‚ Annie Besant‚ Swami Vivekananda‚ Colonel Henry Steel Olcott and Syed Ahmed Khan visited Meerut‚ creating an impounded effect on the minds of the local residents. Today Meerut is a fast growing district in the NCR and abodes many world famed
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is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together in their homes. For Jains‚ Diwali marks the attainment of moksha or nirvana by Mahavira in 527 BCE.[6][7] Arya Samajists‚ celebrate this day as Death Anniversary of Swami Dayanand Saraswati. They also celebrate this day as Shardiya Nav-Shasyeshti. The name "Diwali" or "Divali" is a contraction of "Deepavali"[dubious – discuss] (Sanskrit: दीपावली Dīpāvalī)‚ which translates into "row of lamps".[8] Diwali involves the lighting of
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