Disaster and its management

Disaster Management History shows that India is exposed to national disasters. Cyclones, floods, earthquakes, droughts and floods are major threats. About 60 percent of the landmass is prone to earthquakes of various intensities, over 40 million hectares is prone to floods and 68 percent of the area is susceptible to drought. This not only results … Read more

14-15 .01.18 (MPPCS) Madhya Pradesh Current Affairs

MADHYA PRADESH Mukhya mantri saksharta puraskar   The State Government has instituted ‘Mukhya Mantri Saksharta Puraskar’ to encourage the field teams working in the area of literacy. Five Gram Panchayats, three Blocks and one  district will be honoured with Mukhya Mantri Saksharta Puraskar for best work in the field of literacy under the Sakshar Bharat … Read more

Quality of service delivery

Quality of service delivery After over a decade of rapid economic growth in India, the biggest challenge facing policymakers at both central and state levels is to ensure ‘inclusive’ growth so that the gains from increased national income are shared by all sections of society. In particular, it is imperative that a high quality of … Read more

Corporate governance

Corporate governance Need of corporate governance Over the last two decades, corporate governance has attracted a great deal of public interest because of its apparent importance for the economic health of corporations and society in general. The headlines of the previous two years in particular portrayed a sad story of corporate ethics (or lack thereof). … Read more

Competition Commission of India

Competition Commission of India Competition Commission of India is a statutory body of the Government of India responsible for enforcing The Competition Act, 2002 throughout India and to prevent activities that have an appreciable adverse effect on competition in India. It was established on 14 October 2003. It became fully functional in May 2009 with … Read more

Education as a tool of HR development, Universal elementary education, Quality of Higher and Technical, Vocational Education. Issues related to girls education, under privileged classes and differently abled classes.

Education has been accepted as one major agency of socialization, and teachers and educational institutions as socializing agents. In describing education as an instrument of social change, three things are important: the agents of change, the content of change, and the social background of those who are sought to be changed, i.e. students. Educational institutions … Read more

Welfare programmes and Issues related to – Aged people, Differently able people, Children, Women, Labour, Socially deprived Classes and Displaced groups of developmental projects

Table of Content Caste System Issues Related to Women Gender Discrimination Low status of women Dowry System Sati practice Issues related to Youth Issues related to Minority Issues related to Tribal Issues related to Farmers Issues related to Labourers Issues related to Professionals Issues related to Person with Disablity Substance Abuse and Addiction Communalism Illiteracy … Read more