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Wake Up And See How The Water You Waste For Fun Sake Affects The Earth: [World Water Day Part-1]

By Dr. Amrit Patel: Water is a natural phenomenon and is the life line for human survival and a critical material foundation for sustainable social and economic development. Water supports health and livelihoods, grows food, powers industry and cools generating plants and these different uses

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International Women’s Day 2013: Empowering Rural Women To Fight Hunger And Poverty [Part 3]

By Dr Amrit Patel: Approach: Recognizing the discrimination that rural women face daily, the Government policies and programs should promote and support women as equal contributors to agriculture and rural development. Policies and programs should aim at [i] Guaranteeing women’s access to and control over critical assets [land,

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International Women’s Day 2013: Empowering Rural Women To Fight Hunger And Poverty [Part-2]

By Dr. Amrit Patel: Unleashing rural women’s voice Unleashing rural women’s voice to end hunger and poverty in developing countries has now been a sine qua non in the light of facts viz. Out of 60% additional food output required by 2050, about 75% will

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International Women’s Day 2013: Empowering Rural Women to Fight Hunger & Poverty [Part-1]

By Dr. Amrit Patel: Women’s potential to overcome poverty, hunger, malnutrition, fight climate change, start their own businesses through savings and lending groups, among others, has been significant and acknowledged in developing countries. Since International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8, 2013, it should

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Can Death Penalty Be Awarded To Rapists In India

By Kush Kalra: "State should not punish with vengeance". Emperor Ashoka Death penalty has been a mode of punishment since time immemorial. The arguments for and against have not changed much over the years. Crimes as well as the mode of punishment correlate to the

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Self Help Is The Need: National Rural Livelihoods Mission and Rural Poor [Part-2]

By Dr. Amrit Patel: National Rural Livelihood Mission Acknowledging the fact that out of the estimated 70 million rural BPL households as per 2010 projections, as many as 45 million households still need to be organized into SHGs and the existing SHGs need further strengthening

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Crossing The Poverty Line: National Rural Livelihoods Mission And Rural Poor [Part-1]

By Dr. Amrit Patel Since independence, the Government has accorded top priority in its policy and planning approach and allocated significant resources to alleviate rural poverty. This paper briefly highlights the achievements of two earlier programs and the objectives of the proposed third one. After

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North-Eastern Region: Harnessing Potential Of Secondary And Tertiary Sectors [Part-2]

By Dr. Amrit Patel: Household industry as employment provider plays relatively smaller role as it absorbs only 3.66 % of total workers, whereas the handloom and handicraft industry engages as high as 60.42% of artisan households and has been a significant source of livelihood in

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North-Eastern Region: Harnessing Potential Of Secondary And Tertiary Sectors [Part-1]

By Dr. Amrit Patel: The North Eastern region [NER] comprising country’s eight States [Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Sikkim] has abundant resources, fairly large unexplored and unexploited local markets and it is close to one of the world’s fastest growing South

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