THE HISTORY OF NGO’S IN INDIA The changing face of volunteering in India 26 September 2006 by Patralekha Chatterjee Stepping carefully around the pits and mounds‚ four men approached the only source of light to be seen - a small kerosene lantern burning inside a mud and grass hut. There were four residents inside - a couple and their two children‚ 10 and eight. They dug the pits‚ cut the rock and hauled it to the trucks‚ all without salary. They were bonded labourers‚ bonded for life and for
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Suzanna Arundhati Roy[1] (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author and political activist who is best known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction winning novel The God of Small Things (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes. Roy ’s novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. Contents [hide] 1 Early life and background 2 Career 2.1 Literary career 2.2 Early career: screenplays 2.3 The God of Small Things 2.4 Later career
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ENVIRONMENT Case Study : Narmada Valley project Kamal Gupta This paper tries to bring forth the various aspects of the impact made by large river valley projects on the environment and society of the concerned areas and of the nation as a whole. We start by asking why we need large dams and river valley projects. Then we talk briefly about the development model followed by India post-independence where we discuss the initiation of the Narmada Valley Project (NVP). A
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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 Bachao Andolan and was National Convener of National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM)‚ an alliance of progressive people’s organisations. She was a representative to the World Commission on Dams‚ to research the environmental‚ social and economic impacts
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The “Greater Common Good” is an non-fiction essay by Booker- Prize winning author Arundhati Roy.The essay was written in 1999 surrounding the construction of Sardar Sarovar Dam as part of the Narmada Valley Project.The essay grew out of the author’s involvement in fighting the construction of Narmada river dams.In this essay‚the author tries to address the ramifications of the so called “Big Projects” taken up in the name of development‚specifically the construction of dams‚their environmental
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CONTEMPT OF COURT Introduction: In a democracy people should have right to criticize judges. The purpose of should not be to upheld the majesty and dignity of the court but only to enable it to function. Anything that curtails or impairs the freedom of limits of the judicial proceedings must of necessity result in hampering of the administration of Law and in interfering with the due course of justice. This necessarily constitutes contempt of court. Oswald defines contempt to be constituted by
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Dr Murlidhar Devidas Amte popularly known as Baba Amte‚ was an Indian social worker and social activist known particularly for his work for the rehabilitation and empowerment of poor people suffering from leprosy.[2] He is the only non-medical person in the world who has received maximum medicine related awards Early life Baba Amte was born to Devidas and Laxmibai Amte in the city of Hinganghat in Wardha District of Maharashtra. It was a wealthy family. His father was a British official with responsibilities
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WATER RESOURCES What are water resources? Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful to humans. It is important because it is needed for life to exist. Many uses of water include agricultural‚ industrial‚ household‚ recreational and environmental activities. Virtually all of these human uses require fresh water. Only 2.7% of water on the Earth is fresh water‚ and over two thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps‚ leaving only
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Sardar Sarovar Dam is a gravity dam on the Narmada River near Navagam‚ Gujarat in India. It is the largest dam and part of the Narmada Valley Project‚ a large hydraulic engineering project involving the construction of a series of large irrigation and hydroelectric multi-purpose dams on the Narmada River. The project took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity. One of the 30 dams planned on river Narmada‚ Sardar Sarovar Dam (SSD) is the largest
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DEVELOPMENT AND ITS MERITS AND DEMERITS OVER LOCALS ------------------------------------------------- Development is a concept that signifies the enhancement‚ the betterment of present status of an Individual‚ an area‚ a state‚ a region‚ or a country in context with that particular space and time. Development is a view. It is a dynamic concept. The Term development is defined by whom‚ is inevitable to be answered. Development is a relative term. However‚ it should be pondered over that development
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