‘Micro Finance and Women Empowerment ’ By Ms. Varsha Parikh Lecturer Department of Extension and Communication Faculty of Family and Community Sciences The M.S.University of Baroda Vadodara 390002‚Gujarat‚ India E-mail : vbparikh@rediff.com Micro Finance and Women Empowerment By Ms. Varsha Parikh ABSTRACT Self-help groups intermediated by microcredit have been shown to have positive effects on women. Micro finance refers to small savings
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Limited‚ Reliance General Insurance Company Limited‚ Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. and BSES Limited. 1.1 Historic Background: Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani‚ one of the leading Indian businessmen‚ was born on December 28‚ 1932 in Chorwad‚ Gujarat. Popularly known as Dhirubhai Ambani‚ he heads The Reliance Industries‚ India’s largest private enterprise. Dhirubhai started off as a small time worker with Arab merchants in the 1950s and moved to Mumbai in 1958 to start his own business
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freedom movement in India. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel‚ an eminent Indian freedom fighter encouraged the dairy farmers from the Kaira district in Gujarat to form a cooperative to counter the ’exploitatively’ low prices offered for their milk by the monopoly milk Supplier of the area‚ Polson’s Dairy. The dairy farmers met in Samarkha (Kaira district‚ Gujarat) on the 4th of January 1946‚ and decided to set up a milk producers’ cooperative that would deal directly with the Bombay government‚ the final
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Energy Resources and its Management First Mr. Ankit Kumar Sharma‚ Second Mr. Arpit Kapoor‚ and Third Mr. Anil Kumar Yadav ankit_krishnaa@yahoo.in‚ arpitknp@gmail.com‚ anilyadav07@rocketmail.com Assistant Professor‚ Deptt. Of Electrical Engg.‚ JNU‚ Jaipur; Final Year‚ Electrical Engineering‚ JNU Jaipur; Final Year‚ Electrical Engineering‚ JNU‚ Jaipur ABSTRACT The present energy needs of the world are supplied by the drastic use of non-renewable sources of energy‚ which are mainly the
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Pulse Polio Pulse Polio is an immunization campaign established by the government of India in 1995-96 to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio) in India by vaccinating all children under the age of five years against polio virus. This project deals with the ways to fight poliomyelitis through a large scale immunization programme‚ co-operating with various international institutions‚ state governments and Non Governmental Organizations. In India‚ vaccination against Polio started in 1978 with Expanded
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Intro: India is home to several fabulous wildlife sanctuaries and national parks‚ which makes this country a nature lover’s paradise. The wildlife sanctuaries in India are home to around two thousand different species of birds‚ 3500 species of mammals‚ nearly 30000 different kinds of insects and more than 15000 varieties of plants. Travelers from all across the globe come to India to take a look at its rich wildlife and natural vegetation. There are as many as 80 national parks and over 441 wildlife
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Kanpur‚ Nagpur‚ Sholapur‚ Surat and other places. As I said before‚ today India holds the third place among the cotton textile producing countries of the world. It provides emplyment to a large number of people and also helps to ear foreign exchange. Gujarat and Maharashtra states‚ lead the country in cotton textile production. Mumbai and Ahmedabad are the important centres. Mumbai has the largest number of cotton textile mills. It is themain cotton textile centre in India. Mumbai is called COTTONPOLIS
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PREFAC E “Knowledge and human power are synonyms”‚ once said the great philosopher Francis Bacon. However based on the experience within today’s global markets‚ he would probably say‚ “The ability to capture‚ communicate & leverage knowledge to solve problems is human power”. This raises the question how exactly one can best capture‚ communicate & leverage knowledge‚ especially within world of system engineering. The answer probably lies in statement itself by communicating your ideas and devising
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CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION TO DISASTER 1.1 THE HISTORY OF DISASTERS IN INDIA Year 2005‚ say India should hang her head in shame. With the Bengal famine‚ Orissa Super Cyclone‚ Latur earthquake‚ Bhopal chemical disaster‚ Andhra cyclone‚ Gujarat earthquake‚ recurring floods‚ Mumbai 2008 bomb blasts and many other disasters there is no foyer in the world with space large enough to exhibit the collective pain on the face of India. India has ranked at the top or near top in almost all type of disasters
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Report writing Surajkund Mela The Surajkund Crafts Mela is organized each year by the Tourism Department in Haryana in February. This is a very colorful and exotic handicrafts and handloom fair that is planned each year to popularize the traditional handicrafts in India made by the rural folks in Surajkund. This was first organized in the year 1981 and it continues to be a major platform for Indian artisans to showcase the skills in the art work and crafts. This is a weeklong fair‚ which is
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