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Green Revolution in India A term coined to describe the emergence and diffusion of new seeds of cereals. Norman-e-Borlaug is the Father of Green Revolution in the world, while Dr. M.S. Swami Nathan is known as the Father of Green Revolution in India. The new cereals were the product of research work and concentrated plant … Read more Green Revolution in India
CHARACTERISTICS AND PROBLEMS OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE Subsistent in Character Heavy Pressure of Population Predominance of Food Grains Mixed Cropping High Percentage of the Reporting Area under Cultivation Small Size of Holdings and Fragmentation of Fields Limited Intensive Agriculture Primitive Technology Indian Agriculture is Labour Intensive Rain-fed Agriculture Less Area under Leguminous and Fodder Crops Tradition … Read more CHARACTERISTICS AND PROBLEMS OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE
Institutional Factors of Agriculture (1) Land Tenure and Land Tenancy (ii) Land Holding LAND REFORMS IN INDIA The basic objective of land reform is to do social justice with the tillers, land owners, landless labourers, and rural community with the set objective to provide security to the cultivators, to fix a rational rent, the conferment … Read more Institutional Factors of Agriculture (1) Land Tenure and Land Tenancy (ii) Land Holding
Physical Factors: (a) Terrain, Topography, and Altitude dependent on the geo-ecological conditions; terrain, topography, slope and altitude. paddy cultivation requires leveled fields, tea plantations perform well in the undulating topography in which water does not remain standing. Orchards of coconut are found at low altitudes, preferably closer to the sea level, while the apple orchards … Read more Physical factors: Terrain, topography, climate, and soil. which determine agriculture
Citizens with disability Disability act 1955 clearly Mendes that public Roads, building and transportation should be made barrier free for person with disability. United Nations convention on the rights of person with disability 2007 recognised that basic human right and and accessibility are prerequisite. Sugamya Bharat accessible India campaign is launched by India National Building … Read more Daily current affair 15 October 2015 the hindu and indian express
Border infrastructure projects A radical new approach is now being adopted to accelerate projects to unclog the bottlenecks in border areas, along with work on hundreds of other strategic projects, as the Narendra Modi government sharpens focus on creating infrastructure along India’s borders. From the Bharat Mala project (it envisages a road network along India’s land boundary, stretching from … Read more Daily current affair 14 October 2015 the hindu and indian express
Uniform Civil Code Article 44 of the Constitution of India states that the state shall endeavor to have a Uniform Civil Code but Directive principles are not mandatory like the fundamental rights. secularism is a basic tenant of the Preamble and the fundamental rights, having a common Civil Code may hamper the secularism in Shah … Read more Daily current affair 13 October 2015 from hindu and indian express
Habitat III Habitat III is United Nation UN conference on housing and sustainable Urban Development which will be held in Quito Ecuador in October 2016 India is preparing National report for Habitat 3 the broad focus on national report is in :- inclusiveness efficiency sustainability and empowering the local government India still doesn’t have a … Read more Daily current affair 12 October 2015
Qutub Minar UNESCO World Heritage site is 72.5 metre hiegh constructed with red and buff sandstone it was constructed by qutubuddin Aibak in 1199 for the use of muazzin (crier to give call for prayers)and his Sun En-law samsuddin added 3 more storeys Begging bowl Presently in Afghanistan is believed to have been used … Read more Daily current affair 11 October 2015
Sunset clause on tax exemption It will provide open and corporate tax exemption . While trimming the list of sector that are entitled to such benefits on research and development and capital expenditure it will help in phasing out corporate exemption and thus it will lower the corporate tax rate and on the other hand … Read more Daily current affair 10 October 2015