Mahatma Gandhi: (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) (Father of the Nation‚ Rashtrapita‚ राष्ट्रपिता) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience‚ firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty‚ expand women
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Mar’02-May’02 Issue 31 RURAL LIVELIHOODS Kirankumar Vissa (AID Maryland) Why are they begging on the trains? When you are traveling in India‚ you are invariably forced to ask yourself‚ “What do I do when someone comes to me begging on the street or in the train?” Many say that by giving them money‚ you are only encouraging them not to work for their living - that you are encouraging them to remain poor. But‚ are the people who say this doing anything that helps remove the poverty? Should
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NAME: N. ARUN KUMAR MINERAL RESOURCES DONE BY: 1. N.ARUN KUMAR. 2.N.GAUTAM REDDY. 3.B.HARSHAVARDHAN. 4.K.VENKATESH. 5.P.TARUN. WHAT IS A MINERAL? A mineral is a naturally occurring substance that is solid and stable at room temperature‚ representable by a chemical formula‚ usually abiogenic‚ and has an ordered atomic structure. It is different from a rock
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Accident Compensation Corporation The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) is a New Zealand Crown entity responsible for administering the Accident Compensation Act 2001.[1] The Act provides financial compensation and support to citizens‚ residents‚ and temporary visitors who have suffered personal injuries. As a Crown entity‚ ACC is responsible to a Cabinet Minister via its Board of Directors. The current Minister responsible for ACC is Hon Judith Collins. Features ACC is the sole and compulsory
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OVERVIEW OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN SSA INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN RTE- SSA- AN OVERVIEW Background RTE mandates free and compulsory education to all children from 6-14 years of age. The key objective of RTE- SSA is Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE). Three important aspects of UEE are access‚ enrolment and retention of all children in 6-14 years of age. This goal of UEE‚ has further been facilitated by the Constitutional (86th Amendment) Act‚ making free and compulsory elementary
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Early childhood Deshmukh was born on October 11‚ 1916 in Kadoli‚ a small town in the Parbhani District of Maharashtra to Shri Amritrao Deshmukh and Shrimati Rajabai Amritrao Deshmukh. Deshmukh’s career was full of strife and struggle. He lost his parents at an early age and was brought up by his maternal uncle. His family had little money to pay for his tuition fees and books‚ but his keen desire to learn encouraged him to work as a vendor and sell vegetables to raise money to fund his education
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Ironically‚ sugar cane is not a native plant to most Americans. It is a perennial grass whose tropical species seems to have originated in New Guinea and India. During the invasion of India in 326 B.C.‚ Alexander the Great’s soldiers became the first Europeans to see sugar cane; honey was the primary sweetener of the Western world at that time (Aronson and Budhos 11). Sugar offered a stronger sweet flavor. From New Guinea‚ knowledge of the sweet plant spread slowly to Asian mainland. It was in India
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primary east – west link roads being built under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) to strengthen the road connectivity between Eastern Express Highway (EEH) and Western Express Highway (WEH). Commissioned by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Limited (MSRDC) and Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) linking western and eastern suburbs. The Santacruz Chembur Link Road (SCLR)‚ with a total length of about 6.45 kms‚ is a
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territorial disputes thereafter. Some of the contemporary issues mentioned below get you thinking whether or not the long hatred between India-Pakistan will ever fade out. Abu-Jindal in the making of 26/11 Abu Jindal‚ is from the Beed district in Maharashtra‚ and studied at the Indian Technical Institute. He worked for a while as an insurance agent. Then the communal riots in Gujarat in 2002 turned him into a jihadi. He was originally a member of the Indian Mujahideen (IM)‚ an Indian terror group‚ and
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so their main intention becomes securing their funds for building more dams rather than looking after the welfare of the society. This justifies the enthusiasm of bureaucracies of the Sardar Sarovar dam project to continue the project despite intense criticism from all around. The bureaucrats join the bank‚ and the banker come as a project consultant. Finally‚ they will rechannel the money that comes as “ development aid” in developing countries back to the same countries where they come from in
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