International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering Case Study Series Narmada Dams Controversy – Case Summary MJ Peterson with research assistance from Osman Kiratli and Ilke Ercan Version 1; September 2010 The construction and maintenance of public facilities involves several sets of stakeholders: the political leaders who ultimately decide when‚ whether‚ and what to build; the engineers and other government staff who provide or oversee design‚ construction‚ and maintenance;
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The Munda are tribal (Adivasi) people of the Chota Nagpur Plateau region. They are found across much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Odisha ‚ West Bengal‚ Chhattisgahr ‚ Bihar and into parts of Bangladesh. Their language is Mundari‚ which belongs to the Munda subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family * Mostly Munda people follow the Sarna religion‚ believing in a god called Singbonga. * However one-fourth of them have adopted Christianity.[citation needed] * The surname
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slums for 5 years and tribal districts of North-East Gujarat for 2 years. She left her position on the faculty of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences as well as her unfinished PhD when she became immersed in the tribal and peasant communities in Maharashtra‚ Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. She also worked as a consultant on the Integrated Child Development Services (Anganwadis) for UNICEF and contributed to improvement in the structure and procedures of the Scheme. She is the founder member of Narmada
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region of India. In this paper “Ramachandra Guha” mainly focus on the central region tribal. Because central region tribal are more deprived as compare to north-east regions tribal. And the major tribal populated states are Gujarat‚ Rajasthan‚ Maharashtra‚ Madhya Pradesh‚ Chhattisgarh‚ Jharkhand‚ Andhra Pradesh‚ Orissa‚ Bihar and West Bengal. All these states are rich in natural resources in which all tribal are live. But for the
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the culture intact of which we are proud. The survival and revival of patriotism in India during British regime is just yesterday’s history. This period gave India largest number of conscientious martyrs and patriots. Right from the martyrdom of Adivasi patriot Tilka Manjhi in Bihar in 1747 the stream flew to Karnataka where Rani Chenamma of Kittur and her five associates Rayanna‚ Jagvir‚
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In India‚ over 18 States use the finger test as the means to test whether a girl has been raped or not. It is on this test that the doctors testify their reports and the court of Law passes judgement. This test has come under fire for being outdated and assaulting a woman’s character much after she has been raped. It casts a doubt on moral grounds on the woman and has been responsible for wrong/biased judgements by defense counsels. I was appalled when I read the following excerpt in a research
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The article ADIVASIS‚ NAXALITES AND INDIAN DEMOCRACY by Ramachandra Guha focuses on the condition of adivasis who are caught between the government and naxalites. Adivasis ‚which is a term used for the tribes of central and eastern India who share certain attributes in terms of cultural‚ social‚ economic and political entities that makes them distinct from north-eastern tribes and other Indian and thus treating them as a single segment. According to the author there are roughly 70 million tribals
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movements. The Jharkhand identity and the demand for autonomy was not only based on the uniqueness of its tribal cultural heritage but was also the result of the failure of development policy to intervene in socio-economic conditions of the adivasis and non-adivasis in the region. According to the 1991 census‚ the state has a population of over 20 million out of which 28% is tribal while 12% of the people belong to scheduled castes. Jharkhand has 24 districts‚ 212 blocks and 32‚620 villages out of which
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ECONOMIC NOTES EPW Research Foundation Prospects for Agricultural Production in 2012-13 Nishigandha Lokhande An analysis of the first advance estimate of kharif crop production in 2012-13. he prospects for agricultural production in the first year 2012-13 of the Twelfth Plan are not bright because of a delayed monsoon and then breaks in-between. The government has fixed a kharif foodgrains production target of 129 million tonnes (mt) for 2012-13 which is slightly less than the fourth advance
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conflict is by providing free education opportunities. The ideas explored in this essay are – Schooling as a method of shaping modern society‚ the importance of national integration and the role the school plays‚ and education in the realm of Naxals and Adivasis and their integration in to modern Indian society. 15th August 1947‚ sees India taking control of itself as an independent‚ sovereign nation. Jawaharlal Nehru instructs the new citizens of India‚ in his speech ‘Tryst with Destiny’ of the ‘task ahead’
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