“Most of us make a basic and reasonable assumption about sanity: we think it produces good results‚ and we believe insanity is a problem” (13). In today’s society‚ mental disorders or mental illnesses are often heavily stigmatized. People are viewed as abnormal‚ unpredictable‚ and dangerous‚ or simply written off as “crazy” due to differences in brain chemistry. In early human history‚ scientists and the general public knew very little about brain health; for instance‚ for a significant amount of
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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA is a program that was unanimously approved by the Indian Parliament and political parties of all hues supported the efforts of the government to reduce the rural distress through this program. The program emerged to address the issue of providing additional wage employment income‚ malnutrition‚ hunger‚ abject poverty and distress migration but this approach to social protection has gained momentum and global attention in the context
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INTRODUCTION The NREGA known as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was notified on September 7 of the year 2005 but it was executed in Ludhiana in year 2008. NREGA was forwarded in the Lok Sabha on 23rd August 2005 and it came into effect on 2 February 2006. This act gives a provision that if an adult appeals for the employment in the rural areas will be given public works within the duration of 15 days. And if the employment is not given to the people there is provision that
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From Mahatma Gandhi to Winston Churchill to Martin Luther King‚ there are as many leadership styles as there are leaders. Fortunately‚ businesspeople and psychologists have developed useful and simple ways to describe the main styles of leadership‚ and these can help aspiring leaders understand which styles they should use. So‚ whether you manage a team at work‚ captain a sports team‚ or lead a major corporation‚ which approach is best? Consciously‚ or subconsciously‚ you’ll probably use some of
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Introduction Poverty in India is one of the main issues‚ attracting the attention of sociologists and economists. It indicates a condition in which a person fails to maintain a living standard adequate for a comfortable lifestyle. Though India boasts of a high economic growth‚ it is shameful that there is still large scale poverty in India. Poverty in India can be defined as a situation when a certain section of people are unable to fulfill their basic needs. India has the world’s largest number
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act- A critical Appraisal. Dr. M.D.Somani‚ The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act‚ (NREGA) was notified on September 7‚ 2005 by Government of India with the objective to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. It was intended to provide employment to the vulnerable groups at
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scene. Throughout the whole movie‚ all the characters speak in English. It is true that Gandhi did speak this language when he lived in South Africa; and few of the Congressmen (particularly Jinnah) felt at home with the English language; but the Mahatma switched to talking in Hindi (the common language of Indians at the time) to identify himself with the peasants. It seems that Mohandas Gandhi held popularity right through his whole life‚ but this is not true. GANDHI presents the hero of the movie
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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act aims at enhancing the livelihood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of wage-employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was renamed after the Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) on 2nd October 2009‚ commemorating Golden Jubilee of Panchayati
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TO WHAT EXTENT WAS MAHATMA GANDHI THE REASON THE BRITISH EMPIRE GAVE UP IMPERIAL CONTROL? On 15th August 1947‚ India finally escaped away from the rule of the British. Mahatma Gandhi‚ 1869-1948‚ was the leader of Indian Nationalism in British-ruled India. Before Gandhi was born‚ British started ruling India at 1858. They took control of the cotton industry and traded it as their own and used violence to control the 500 million Indians. When Gandhi was about 45 years old‚ he started to protest as
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Essay on the Untouchability – The practice of ‘untouchability’ is a stigma attached to the Hindu society. It is an age-old one. It has its roots deep down in our social and religious system. Gandhiji regarded this practice as “a leper wound in the whole body of Hindu politic”. He even considered it as “the hate fullest expression of caste.” It is very difficult to give a clear definition of untouchability. The word ‘untouchable’ applies to the despised and degraded section of the Hindu population
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