A non-governmental organization (NGO’s) are legally constituted organization, which operate independently from the government and are considered as “ non- profit, “ non- state “ groups who pursue the purpose of public interest. Societies Registration Act (1860) confirms the legal status of these NGO’S. Role of NGO: In protecting Human Rights:- Sulabh Movement:- It worked […]
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Any democratic countries base lies in remaining Independent, autonomous, reasonable restrictions. Just like to have Democratic Stable Government. Our constitution framer has given some constitution Bull works like ECI, UPSC, CJI etc. Their institution is supposed to enjoy independent in the matter of their appointment, salary, allowance and all that decided by President whose suppose
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In the new age, technology would carry information of ours in present online and anyone can access it with a click of a button. New players like Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter etc. have made our world a smaller place and move interconnected. But it has also led to privacy breaches where big – tech companies have
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Introduction:- The union government, determined to digitize the nation has made it mandatory for cars to have Fast ag across all NHAI’S 460 toll plaza on National Highways by 15th December. The result is a surge in the online payments on the highways and great digitization. Fastag: A brainchild of the Minister of Road Transport,
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Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, persistence and devastating human rights violation in our world today. Recently World Health Organization (WHO) has come out with global estimates relating to violence against women in a report titled RESPECT Women: preventing violence against women, some key findings of the report are
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HIV-AIDS is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection through the Human Immunodeficiency virus. HIV-AIDS is caused by unprotected sex; contaminated blood transfusion and mother to child during pregnancy. UNAIDS is a global programme aimed at eliminating AIDS by 2030. 90:90:90 strategy is a part of this global programme which aims at:- 90% – Diagnosis
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testing sites are unsafe for drinking and have high levels of heavy metal exceeding limits set by Burro of Indian Standards. Findings of CMC report – 287/442 sample – polluted by heavy metals. Major contaminants – Iron (most common), lead, Nickle, Chromium, Cadmium and Copper. Sources, reasons and factors leading to River pollution. Sources –
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Measles is an acute illness caused by the virus of the paramyxo virus family. Access to report of WHO and Centre for decease control and prevention 2.3 million young ones from India are not vaccinated against it and India has 4th highest number of measles cases in the world. According to a WHO study, vaccine
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Disaster management is the systematic process and organization to prevent and mitigate the losses of women, environment, property. As ultimate change is making the situation grieve, natural disaster knocks even wife of warning due to erratic put fears. Now the loss can be more and widespread, in this area Big Data as the pout of
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Gender equality, a multidimensional aspect encompassing economic, cultural and social dimension ensuring gender equality, has a significant role to play in driving economic growth. The key point of world bank’s women business and the law 2019 report: – 6 countries currently give women and men equal rights – an improvement from zero a decade ago;
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Even though child mortality in India has reduced, the numbers shift the highest in the world. Explain the reasons behind the persistence is the highest rate of child mortality in the country. Highlight steps towards by the government in this regard with special focus on the need for mass immunization campaigns. (250 words). The recently
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Taking note of the witness not provided appropriate protection by the state as one of the reasons for them to turn hostile, the Supreme court has approved India’s first witness protection scheme. Provisions of the scheme:- There should be safeguards that witness and accused do not come face to face during investigation or trial and
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Terrorism and organized crimes are causing ‘ threat to India’s ‘ internal and external security. Terrorist attacks like Uri and Pathankot, also organized crime like drug menace in Panjab has proved. Terrorism:- is planned and systematic use of violence as a means of coercion to achieve political, ideological or religious goals. Organized crime :- is
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According to the economic survey 2017 – 2018, the income tax department is the biggest litigant but losses 85% of cases. Moreover, claims of work 4.7% of DGP are stuck in tax litigation, impacting the investment private as well as the public. Reasons for high tax litigations:- Complex tax laws – make it ambiguous to
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On 6th Dec 2017, came into legal, independent existence Dec 6 – marked as Universal Energy Access Day. First specialized intergovernmental body on solar energy expected to drive R&D on solar energy (from electricity generation to storage capacity). First treaty-based international intergovernmental organization to be based out of India. International Solar Alliance to be first
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This is fourth article/Video in series of 6 article/videos on Social Issues related to health for year 2018-19. In this video following issues has been discussed. 1.Allied and Healthcare Council of India 2.Indian Health Fund (IHF) 3.Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health 4.National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) 5.Severe Acute Malnutrition Do you know sklearn
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KEY FINDINGS INFRASTRUCTURE – Av computers = 6/Police stations But Bihar and Assam = 1/Police stations SOCIAL ATTITUDE– Police forces exhibit frightening prejunctional against women, lower castes and minorities. ¼ Male Personnel–High bias against female colleagues ¼ Female Personnel – Absence of internal committee to report sexual harassment at the workplace. ½ Police Personnel
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Big states like the US, Russia, India and China are not members of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Until 2016, all the 9 situations which the ICC had been investigating were in African countries. Thus ICC is under very strong criticism from African nations. ICC is governed by an international treaty called Rome Statute (1998);
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Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi remarked that “ for every 1 Rupee sent/allotted from Delhi, only 15 paisa reaches on the ground “. This statement explains the scale of intermediates and associated corruption, misappropriation of funds meant for welfare Delivery scheme. To avoid the issue of intermediaries and to ensure beneficiaries receive their benefits, the
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In a world full of choices choosing a career is quite a difficult task until and unless you have decided on one and is determined to stick to that choice. A shining career is a mixture of good pay and great growth factors but other factors like work pressure, working environment also have to be
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