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  India is a vast country with a population of about 1.21 billion and a labour force of around 475 million. There is an open unemployment of 9.5 million as per estimates available for the year 2009-10. Employment is the main source of livelihood and self-fulfillment for most women and men. About 6% of the [...] Continue reading →

Dr. T. N. Giri,Regional Director, Chandigarh Regional Centre, NIOS The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), formerly known as the National Open School (NOS) was set up in 1979 as a pioneering project titled “Open School” under the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi. The Open School was amalgamated into National Open School (NOS) [...] Continue reading →

N.C. Joshi, Deputy Director(M&C), PIB, New Delhi In a landmark decision the union Government has abolished the levy sugar mechanism and regulated release mechanism to de-control Indian sugar industry while at the same time ensured that poor segments of the society continue to get sugar at existing subsidised prices by taking upon itself the entire [...] Continue reading →

M.V.S. Prasad, Joint Director, PIB, Chennai At the time of Independence in 1947, India had only three steel plants – the Tata Iron & Steel Company (Jamshedpur), the Indian Iron and Steel Company (Burnpur) and Visveswaraya Iron & Steel Ltd (Bhadravathi), besides a few electric arc furnace-based plants. The period till 1947 thus witnessed a [...] Continue reading →

Water is a natural resource, fundamental to life, livelihood, food security and sustainable development. It is also a scarce resource. India has more than 18 percent of the world’s population, but has only 4 percent of world’s renewable water resources with 2.4 percent of world’s land area. There are further limits on utilizable quantities of [...] Continue reading →

M. Jacob Abraham ,Deputy Director, PIB, Thiruvananthapuram. The new spices park set up by Spices Board was commissioned in Guna, Madhya Pradesh. The new park is expected to make a clear impact on the production and processing of seed spices in nearby 11 districts covering the States of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The Union Minister [...] Continue reading →

M.V.S Prasad, Joint Director, PIB, Chennai. In order to make TPDS more focused and targeted towards the poorest of the poor category of the population, the “Antyodaya Anna Yojana” (AAY) was launched in December 2000. AAY contemplates identification of poorest of the poor families from amongst the number of BPL families covered under TPDS within [...] Continue reading →

  Amit Guin Karnataka ranks top in the field of flower farming in India with over 18,000 hectares of land under cultivation. The state accounts for 75 per cent share in India’s total flower production and has the highest area under modern cut flowers. In the past, the cut flowers were transacted through the process [...] Continue reading →

Asian Centre for Human Rights in its report, “India’s Hell Holes: Child Sexual Assault in Juvenile Justice Homes” (http://www.achrweb.org/reports/india/IndiasHellHoles2013.pdf) stated that sexual offences against children in India have reached an epidemic proportion and a large number of them are being committed in the juvenile justice homes run and aided by the Government of India. The [...] Continue reading →

Dr. M. Tineshowri Devi Assistant Professor Department of Social Work Assam University, Silchar moirangi@yahoo.com Introduction The concept of Culture is developed by beliefs, faith, practices, customs, way to live, language, food habits, etc. The Cultural growth gave identity to the societies. Through the generation it has been noted that women are the one who carry [...] Continue reading →

  Kalpana Palkhiwala Major Atmospheric Cerenkov Experiment Telescope or MACE Hanle, is the world’s largest telescope at the highest altitude being established at Hanle, Ladakh. It is being built by ECIL, Hyderabad for BARC. It will be built in Hyderabad and will be assembled at the campus of Indian Astronomical Observatory at Hanle. It will [...] Continue reading →

M. Jacob Abraham , Deputy Director, PIB, Thiruvananthapuram. HLL Life Care Ltd, Thiruvananthapuram under the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has become one of the largest producers of condoms in the world. HLL’s total annual condom production capacity has now touched 1616 million pieces. Overseas and domestic demand for condoms has grown manifold especially [...] Continue reading →

  Nungsunglemba Ao, Director (PR), DPR, Ministry of Defence. DRDO… India’s premier Defence Research and Development organisation…. an organisation on the cutting edge of defence technology with a mission to design and develop state-of-the-art defence systems and technologies and to provide technological solution to India’s Defence Services. The technology spectrum under the DRDO banner is [...] Continue reading →

  Rohit Kapoor The first thing when we hear about coir comes to our mind is traditional items like mats, baskets and ropes, but it is not the case anymore. With the changing times and growing charm for eco-friendly products, the golden fibre is finding new applications and is also being preferred in road construction. [...] Continue reading →

M.V.S.Prasad Joint Director, PIB, Chennai. The merchant navy is a vital element of any nation’s economy. Like any other industry the India maritime sector has also witnessed major structural changes in the past fifty years. The maritime industry in modern era has truly evolved in the post independent era. Indian shipping fleet constitute 1162 vessels [...] Continue reading →

Tarun Kumar Singha, Group Captain, CPRO, Ministry of Defence, Kolkata. Adjoining the flowing Hooghly, straddling roughly between two iconic structures, Howrah Bridge and Vidyasagar Setu, stands a fortified citadel famously known as ‘Fort William’ since the latter half of the 18th century, which was once the military headquarters of British India. Ironically, unlike most forts [...] Continue reading →

Tarun Kumar Singha, Group Captain CPRO, Ministry of Defence, Kolkata The location of armed forces personnel serving in forward areas is invariably classified. While mobile and internet may be the preferred means of communication for most today, this facility is not necessary available to the soldiers serving in borders of our nation. So how do [...] Continue reading →

Sarita Brara Five crore people living in over one lakh habitations in villages in our country do not have access to safe drinking water even today. According to official figures twenty two per cent rural families have to walk for at least half a kilometer or more to fetch water (mostly it is the women [...] Continue reading →

Governor Gurbhachan Jagat addressed the Manipur Assembly on Mar 6. He said, “It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this 4th Session of the 10th Manipur Legislative Assembly. Through you I convey my warm greetings and best wishes to the people of Manipur for a peaceful, prosperous and productive year, 2013. My [...] Continue reading →

  GSI has made phenomenonal contributions in the mineral sector and is carrying out systematic investigation for mineral resource assessment of the country in geologically potential areas through modern and sophisticated exploration methods involving modern geological mapping techniques, geomorphological and lineament mapping through study of satellite imageries, aero and ground geophysical studies and geochemical mapping. [...] Continue reading →