Social Problems in India Social problems in India require deep insight into the rich heritage and culture of the country. It is deep rooted in the Indian heritage and from that is has outgrown to a serious crime prevailing within the boundaries. India is certainly one of the fastest developing nations of the world. It has been more than half a century ago that the country gained independence and became a republic but sadly the freedom of thought and freedom of life is not enjoyed by all even
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India should stop obsessing about how to become one of the world’s great powers and focus on solving its biggest problems to become a great nation‚ Sundeep Wasleka‚ the president of Strategic Foresight Group‚ writes in this month’s Forbes India. At present‚ regardless of the hype‚ India is failing‚ Wasleka suggests. Politicians and business leaders are always thumping their chests over India’s rising importance in the G20 and lobby for a new G10 (the G8 plus India and China). But 200 out of the
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read‚ write‚ or comprehend. Adult illiteracy has been a hidden issue for many years that the government or political personnel refuse to address or even acknowledge that it does exist and the importance of the societal issue. Over the years there has been a conflicted diagnosis of the literacy problem here in the United States. Adult illiteracy is one of the key difficulties that people in the United States of America and many third world countries endure. Illiteracy means inability to read and write
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according to societies. In India‚ the old age or the grey population accounted for 6.7% of total population in 1991. This rose to 7.4% in 2001 census and then again further increased to 8.2% in 2011. This is again projected to increase to more than 10% by the year 2021. Elderly issues are multi-dimensional in nature. They may be broadly categorised as: 1. Demographic 2. Social 3. Psychological 4. Economic 5. Health 1. Demographic: Aged population in India is second largest in the world
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effect of illiteracy Every person has the right to gain the basic knowledge of reading and writing. People that do not have this education are known as illiterate. Even with the extremely modernized society that we live in‚ illiteracy still occurs and has a big effect on the overall success of the country. Illiteracy has lots of effects on the society. It affects the development of the country‚ the people in the society‚ and the illiterate people themselves. First‚ illiteracy has a
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with poverty might make it a ‘wicked problem’ Poverty is a complex multi-dimensional problem (Saleem‚ 2012)‚ and the issues associated with it make it a wicked problem. According to Horst‚ (Rittel‚ 1973) a wicked problem is a social or cultural problem that is difficult to solve for several reasons‚ including incomplete or contradictory knowledge‚ the number of people and opinions involved‚ the large economic burden‚ and the interconnected nature of these problems with other problems. Poverty is
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1) Tandula Dam is located in Chhattisgarh in India. It is located 5 km from Balod in Durg district. The dam project was completed in 1921 in the confluence of Tandula and Sukha Nala rivers. The dam stores water from catchment area of 827.2 km2. The gross storage capacity of the reservoir is 312.25 million cubic meter and the highest flood level is 333.415 m. 2) Kadra Dam is situated in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka state in India. The dam is constructed across river Kalinadi
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ILLITERACY IN AMERICA Your ability to read and comprehend the words printed on this paper already sets you apart from 14% of adults living in America. This means that more than 32 million Americans today are considered illiterate and live with a tremendous disadvantage. That is a big chunk of the US population‚ but the worst part is that illiteracy is not getting any better from how it was a decade ago. According to the most recent National Assessment of Adult Literacy in 2003‚ 14% of adult Americans
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Problems with the Poverty Threshold When I think of the term “poverty threshold”‚ I imagine some kind of physical barrier that is holding poor people back from living a normal life. These people fall under the poverty level and struggle for quite some time‚ like a fish out of water just hoping for someone to throw them back in so that they could possibly live a normal life. When looking at the gross yearly income that determines the poverty level‚ which is at about $31‚800 for a four-person family
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Functional illiteracy is reading and writing skills that are inadequate "to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level".[1] Functional illiteracy is contrasted with illiteracy in the strict sense‚ meaning the inability to read or write simple sentences in any language. Foreigners who cannot read and write in the native language where they live may also be considered functionally illiterate. Contents [hide] 1 Characteristics 2 Links with poverty and crime
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