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Shtatina, Marina. "Administrative Reforms in India." Proceedings of the Institute of State and Law of the RAS 14, no. 1 (March 14, 2019): 166–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.35427/2073-4522-2019-14-1-shtatina.
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Unlike other developing countries, India abandoned the concept of catching-up development, and all its administrative reforms supported the ideology of Indian identity by introducing the most promising scientific achievements in the field of public administration. We identify three stages of administrative reforming in India: 1) the stage of formation of the national public administration; 2) the stage of the state interventional development of the public administration; 3) the stage of liberalization and informatization of the public administration. Since India had received independence, the new state used of the achievements of the colonial civil service and maintained institutions guaranteeing the unity of the state. The Indian government has succeeded in establishing a "living democracy" as the inherent part of Indian culture which supports the traditions of pluralism and is based on the application of rule by consensus and accommodation. Established in 1966, the First Administrative Reforms Commission ensured the leading role of the state in economic development. It improved the organizational foundations of public administration, including the mechanisms of socio-economic planning. The Commission’s reports prepared the base for constitutional recognition of India as a socialist republic. The most important instrument of the Union public administration was the licensing system, which extended to all spheres of economic activity and spawned the creation of numerous inspections with broad jurisdictional powers. The economic crisis and the inability of the Union to solve the social problems by interventionist methods — these were the reasons of the liberal reforms of the 1990s — 2000s. The rejection of the license system, the transition to the methods of soft administrative and legal regulation, the empowerment of decentralized bodies have changed the main areas of activity of the Indian public administration. The National Institute for Transforming India has provided the solutions to the problems in 80 areas of the country’s socio-economic development, acting through the mediation of all stakeholders — central, state and local government officials, public organizations and citizens. Liberal reforms are also aimed at democratizing governance and forming a citizen-oriented administration. They are focused on the implementation of innovative e-technologies in business and public administration.
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Chakraborty, Arnab. "Negotiating medical services in the Madras Presidency: the subordinate perspectives (1882–1935)." Medical History 65, no. 3 (June 1, 2021): 247–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.15.
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AbstractThe historiography of western medicine in colonial India has predominantly been analysed from the perspectives of the elite services – the Indian Medical Service (IMS) and their recruits. Unfortunately, perceiving colonial medical practices through the lens of the IMS has remained inadequate to provide a nuanced understanding of the role played by Indians in the semi-urban and rural areas of colonial India. This article examines the contributions of local administration and the role played by the recruits of the Subordinate Medical Service. This article uses the Madras Presidency as its case study and focusses on the medical subordinates who were pivotal in establishing a western medical tradition in the region. This will shift the urban-centric focus and examine mostly the rural parts of the presidency, in particular, the district hospitals and dispensaries located in the districts, taluks and villages. The article analyses the transformation in the Madras medical administration from the late nineteenth century until 1935 to argue how subordinates were the ones controlling the local medical services, and thus pulling the strings of health administration in the presidency. This will also demonstrate the uniqueness of Madras and how it disseminated western medical care with an active participation and involvement of the local residents.
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Do Vale, Helder. "Local Government Reforms in Federal Brazil, India and South Africa: A Comparative Overview." Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government 11, no. 3 (July 1, 2013): 453–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4335/11.3.453-470(2013).
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This article examines the changes at the local level of government that have been taking place in Brazil, India and South Africa for the past thirty years as a result of complex federal decision-making processes. I summarize the most important federal traits of these countries and identify the role of key institutions behind the fiscal, political and administrative changes in local governments. The article draws on the institutional processes to dissect the anatomy of local government reforms in these countries and concludes that although the changes in local government structures and powers have been taken against the background of transition to democracy and/or democratic deepening, the scope of change in local government varied.
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Gilley, Bruce. "Local Governance Pathways to Decarbonization in China and India." China Quarterly 231 (September 2017): 728–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741017000893.
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AbstractReducing greenhouse gas emissions in the world's two largest countries requires feasible governance pathways that integrate politics, policy and administration. Using examples of successful mitigation at the local level in China (Guangzhou) and India (Gujarat), this article identifies integrated governance solutions that work in both cases through different types of linkages. In China, it is mainly intra-governmental linkages, while in India it is mainly state–society linkages. In neither case do international negotiations concerning emissions targets have significant effects, while national frameworks have only marginal effects. Approaching the problem in this comparative manner helps to clarify how greenhouse gas governance operates in each country, the lessons for central–local environmental relations, and the implications for international assistance.
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GIULIANI, ERIN M. "Strangers in the Village? Colonial policing in rural Bengal, 1861 to 1892." Modern Asian Studies 49, no. 5 (February 17, 2015): 1378–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x14000262.
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AbstractThe chief concern of this article is the organization and administration of rural policing in colonial Bengal during the last 40 years of the nineteenth century. It connects its design and implementation with the consolidation of India's colonial police force, while highlighting the ongoing negotiations made by the Bengal police in a wider colonial model. The article argues that the police administration of rural Bengal was shaped initially by the ordinary constraints of the colonial state which underpinned the design of the Indian police—namely its frugality and preference for collaborating with local intermediaries, a manifestation of salutary neglect. Yet, it highlights the role of Bengal's largely British police executive in renegotiating customs of governance and, ultimately, as an established model of policing in India. The article focuses, therefore, on ongoing and at times informal police reforms which were based upon notions contradictory to an official discourse about policing in India. This article thus contextualizes the development of rural police administration in Bengal in a strong tradition of police-led reform in the province. In so doing, the article redresses a traditional historiographical focus on the political origins and coercive function of the police, and problematizes current research which situates Indian policing within customs of British governance in the subcontinent.
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Mukherjee, Falguni, and Rina Ghose. "GIS for E-Planning in India." International Journal of E-Planning Research 2, no. 2 (April 2013): 24–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijepr.2013040102.
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With increasing globalization and the integration of various economies, public finance and fiscal policy have acquired a new dimension in countries around the world, including India. This new era has witnessed a massive proliferation of various information and communication technologies (ICTs) the world over opening novel prospects for information storage, retrieval and analysis. Such novel prospects are not only being used for decision making by private sector industries but also more interest has been demonstrated in investing in technologies for public administration purposes. In the Indian context, the driving force behind an increasing use of ICTs for public administration include such objectives as improving and simplifying governance, instilling transparency and eliminating corruption and bureaucracy. The massive proliferation of ICTs in India has led to a transformation from traditional governance to e-governance. Several planning projects have been launched under the rubric of e-governance and have witnessed novel use of various information technologies, GIS being one of them. This study focuses on the Nirmala Nagara project (NNP), a programme launched by the Government of Karnataka to address issues of urban development using GIS with municipal e-governance being one of its key agendas. This is one of the most ambitious Municipal e-Governance projects in the country encompassing 213 urban local bodies. This article is an initial effort towards a larger project that will focus on the process of GIS spatial knowledge production situated in contemporary India.
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NADRI, GHULAM A. "Sailors,Zielverkopers, and the Dutch East India Company: The maritime labour market in eighteenth-century Surat." Modern Asian Studies 49, no. 2 (September 9, 2014): 336–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x13000449.
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AbstractIn the second half of the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) employed hundreds of Indian sailors in Surat in western India to man its ships plying the Asian waters. TheMoorse zeevarenden(Muslim sailors) performed a variety of tasks on board ships and in the port of Batavia, and made it possible for the Company to carry out its commercial ventures across the Indian Ocean. The relationship between the two, however, was rather complex and even contentious. Based on Dutch sources, this article investigates the political-economic contexts of this relationship, examines the structure and organization of the maritime labour market in Surat, and illuminates the role and significance ofzielverkopers(labour contractors) and of the local administration. The analysis of the social, economic, and familial aspects of the market and labour relations in Surat sheds light on pre-capitalist forms of labour recruitment and the institutional dynamics of the Indian labour market.
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Patil, M., and D. Patil. "Ethnoveterinary herbal medicines of Nasik district, Maharashtra (India)." Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products 8, no. 1/2 (June 1, 2001): 19–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2001-4itifx.
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During ethnobotanical surveys in Nasik District, Maharashtra, 31 species useful in veterinary medicines were recorded. The phytomedicine consists of a sole drug or a principal drug with few other aids. The local name/s, ethnomedicinal preparation, mode of administration, dosage and any belief associated with them, etc., have been noted with due care and gathered from medicine men and other experienced informants among the ethnic tribes of the district.
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SUTTON, DEBORAH. "Devotion, Antiquity, and Colonial Custody of the Hindu Temple in British India." Modern Asian Studies 47, no. 1 (October 30, 2012): 135–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x11000655.
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AbstractIn 1904, the British Indian government passed the Ancient Monuments Protection Act and, in doing so, radically enlarged the state's bureaucratic claim to structures defined, for the purposes of the Act, as monuments. The project of conserving the Hindu temple was beset by disagreements. The claims of the colonial state and local Hindu devotees were separated by different precepts about religiosity and alternate orders of aesthetics, time, and history. However, it is clear that there were also confluences: legislative authority could masquerade as custody of the antiquarian and, in practice, the secular veneration of material antiquity blurred with Hindu divinity. This paper combines an exploration of the principles of archaeological conservation, as they were formed in the European bourgeois imagination, and then traces their transfer, though imperial administration, to case-studies of specific temples. Of particular interest is the deployment of the Act by local administrations and the counter-challenges, appropriations, and manipulations of the same legislation. How were the aesthetic codes of conservation—and the legislation that sought to order and enforce their introduction—compromised by religious claims and practices?
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Malabadi, Ravindra B., Kiran P. Kolkar, Raju K. Chalannavar, Lavanya L, and Gholamreza Abdi. "Medical Cannabis sativa (Marijuana or drug type): Psychoactive molecule, Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC)." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science VIII, no. IV (2023): 236–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.51584/ijrias.2023.8428.
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This review paper highlights about Medical Cannabis sativa (Marijuana or drug type) containing psychoactive molecule, Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC) as a part of educational awareness programme in India. Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica were originally a native of India growing as a wild notorious noxious weed in the Indian Himalayan region. Marijuana (Charas, Ganja and Bhang in India) is a mind-altering (psychoactive) drug, produced by the Cannabis sativa plant. Marijuana (Charas, Ganja or Bhang drink in India) is an illicit drug containing very high levels (25-35%) of narcotic psychoactive molecule, Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC) is banned and prohibited in India. Import, export, local sales and cultivation of Cannabis are illegal and prohibited in India. Phytocannabinoids (Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol-Δ9-THC, and Cannabidiol- CBD) have attained a global attention recently due to the therapeutic potentials in Parkinson’s disease, Schizophrenia, cancers, pain, anxiety, depression other neurological disorders as well as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of Epidiolex for Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gauss Syndrome. Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC) is known as the substance that makes a person feel a “high,” while Cannabidiol (CBD) often promotes a feeling of relaxation. However, the adverse effects of Marijuana (medicinal cannabis) comes from studies of recreational users of marijuana led to the impaired short-term memory; impaired motor coordination; altered judgment; and paranoia or psychosis at high doses. The quality control of Cannabis products, contamination and adulteration of Cannabis products in Cannabis industry is another major issue. Therefore, a detailed study with clinical trials is warranted and this knowledge should be shared and explained to the customers.
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Madon, Shirin. "Computer-based Information Systems for Decentralized Rural Development Administration: A Case Study in India." Journal of Information Technology 7, no. 1 (March 1992): 20–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026839629200700104.
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Administrative reform currently being undertaken in a number of developing countries is focusing on the introduction of microcomputers as a tool for the decentralization of rural development administration. Experience to date concerning these efforts reveals that the key determinants of successful implementation of the technology are associated with organizational factors rather than hardware and software. However, these factors have been inadequately addressed in the literature on information technology in developing countries and empirical research drawing on experience of individual projects in developing countries is needed. To this end, this paper describes the case of the Computerized Rural Information Systems Project (CRISP) which is a government initiative to promote decentralization of rural development management in India. The interaction between formal, government-approved guidelines for rural development management and informal practice at the local level is examined. The findings reveal that the diffusion of technology has not been accompanied with changes to local work, decision and administrative processes.
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Sanan, Deepak. "Cog in the Wheel of Patronage." Urbanisation 2, no. 2 (November 2017): 135–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455747117736417.
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This is a brief history of a career in the generalist higher civil service of India called the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). The article brings out the incentive structure which confronts a civil servant seeking to deliver better outcomes in the making and implementation of public policy in India. The peculiarities of India’s federal system of inter-governmental transfers, the constraints, dilemmas and limited scope for making a difference, are all explored in an anecdotal format in this first-person account of a career spanning three and a half decades. The author begins with his reasons for joining the civil service, his initial years of heading the local administration in remote mountain areas and moves on to an analysis of various postings at state and central levels, including stints in finance, rural and urban development, water, sanitation, health, land and power sectors. Each segment attempts to explain different facets and nuances of both the limits and potential of a career choice in the premier civil service of India.
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Simran and Intelly. "Corporate Governance in India : Efficiency in Financial Sector." International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research 04, no. 04 (2022): 315–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2022.v04i04.034.
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Corporate administration has for some time been perceived as a basic part of a business' progress in the present serious climate. This has been brought to the front because of a progression of high-profile embarrassments, including those including Enron, Parmalat, WorldCom, and Lehman Brothers, and the worldwide local area has perceived the basic idea of successful corporate administration. Corporate administration standards should be intermittently reconsidered considering the undeniably unsure and complex business climate wherein we presently track down ourselves. There has been significant discussion about "what establishes great administration?" all through the world. Administration principles have fundamentally centeredaround more noteworthy leading body of chief obligations, more tight leading group of chief guideline, and expanded investor fomentation lately. Running against the norm, there are no generally perceived principles for evaluating the progress of corporate administration rehearses. Corporate administration as legally necessary has significant constraints as far as viability and ought to be kept away from if conceivable. Also, as verified above, depending essentially on an overall arrangement of standards with no limiting regulation has various weaknesses. Because of the "consistence or-clarify" administration rule, numerous nations have fostered a center street strategy that recognizes the basic variable for progress. This is a judicious procedure since it guarantees that organizations stick to center codes and norms. It empowers more noteworthy adaptability and embraces clever thoughts that benefit partners over the long haul. Because of this methodology, organizations are encouraged to be more straightforward, as any deviations should be openly clarified. At last, yet absolutely not least, a business' drawn out presence is dependent upon its conviction to persistently seek after higher administration norms. While the professional workplace is continuously changing, the key standards of straightforwardness, morals, and responsibility should remain resolute. Having strong corporate administration rules set up is a vital part of carrying on with work in the cutting edge time. As a precondition for battling with intense rivalry for practical development in a powerful worldwide market setting, it additionally goes about as an outflow of the reasonableness, obligation, revelation, and straightforwardness prerequisites important to augment an incentive for all partners. Corporate Governance is tied in with maintaining standards, taking part in moral strategic policies, making a helpful commitment to social issues, and leading business in a way that is reasonable for all partners. Compelling corporate administration is broadly perceived as a vital device for risk the board and financial turn of events, the last option of which is made conceivable by guaranteeing monetary productivity, development, and partner certainty. At the point when the seeds of present day corporate administration are analyzed, obviously the United States' Watergate issue planted the starts of the cutting edge corporate administration development. The resulting examinations empowered US administrative and official associations to pinpoint control shortcomings that empowered various firms to make unlawful political commitments. Subsequently, the United States laid out the Foreign and Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which has clear arrangements for the foundation, upkeep, and evaluation of inward control frameworks. In 1979, the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States of America ordered the announcing of interior monetary controls. The Treadway Commission was established in 1985 in light of a progression of high-profile organization disappointments in the United States, most prominently the Savings and Loan fiasco. Its significant occupation was to learn the essential reasons of monetary report distortion and to give suggestions for alleviating such deception.
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Carrithers, Michael. "Passions of Nation and Community in the Bahubali Affair." Modern Asian Studies 22, no. 4 (October 1988): 815–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00015754.
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In early 1983 Digambar and Svetambar Jains forced into public prominence their struggle over the local Jain pilgrimage site of Bahubali hill in Kolhapur District in southern Maharashtra, in India. By the end of that year the majority Maratha community, Harijans, the local and State Congress Party, the police, the district administration, and the State and Union governments were also entangled in the conflict. These Byzantine and sometimes violent events became known as ‘The Bahubali Affair’ (Marathi bāhubalīprakaran).
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Maibam, Mangoljao, and B. Sharatchandra Sharma. "Local Self-Government in Manipur: A Case Study of Phayeng Gram Panchayat." International Journal of Research and Review 10, no. 3 (March 29, 2023): 470–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20230354.
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The institutions of local government have been functioning in India since time immemorial. The village elder’s council or village panchayat as they were popularly called, were, ancient institutions and were themselves functioning like a republic system of government. This local governance system has a distinct place, without which political system in India would have no authenticity. In Manipur also, since the early period, there was village level administration for every Loi (outcasted and low caste section of Manipuri society during the native rule in Manipur) village under the leadership of village Chief locally known as Khullakpa. He was assisted by other village officials. They were under the subjection of the King of Manipur. In the traditional village level administration, the Loi villages (especially of the Chakpa Loi origin villages like Sekmai, Phayeng, Andro etc.), the number of officers and their assignments were different from one Chakpa Loi village to another Chakpa Loi village mainly due to the different in nature and occupation of each of the Chakpa Loi village. Since the institution of the Panchayati Raj system was introduced in Manipur from early 1960s, under the United Provinces Panchayati Raj Act, 1947, the Phayeng Gram Panchayat was created as one of the Gram Panchayats under the extension of this Act in Manipur. And in Manipur, panchayat election was held in 1964. Since then, like other Gram Panchayats of Manipur, the Phayeng Gram Panchayat is also has been conducting elections till date. The present paper is an attempt mainly to analyse the participation of the electorate in the panchayat elections of this Gram Panchayat. Keywords: Chakpas, Gram Panchayat, Local Self Government, Loi, Phayeng Gram Panchayat and Pradhan.
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Mukherjee, Debashree. "Media wars: Remaking the logics of propaganda in India’s wartime cine-ecologies." Modern Asian Studies 57, no. 5 (September 2023): 1585–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x22000427.
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AbstractRecent Second World War historiography has rightly highlighted the forgotten contributions of South Asia in the Allied war effort, and the everyday meanings of the war in South Asia. The role of cinema here, however, remains largely overlooked. This article focuses on British efforts to produce war propaganda in India with the help of Indian filmmakers, through varying tactics of incentivization and coercion. Between 1940 and 1945, the British colonial administration attempted several strategies to build a local film propaganda apparatus in India but, as I demonstrate, each stage was met with differentiated forms of cooperation, reluctance, and outright refusal, finally leading to the adoption of the unlikely genre of the full-length fiction film as the main mode of war propaganda in India. Derided as frivolous and half-hearted by critics at the time, the Indian-language ‘war effort’ film is more generatively framed as a form of ‘useless cinema’ that defied the logics of propaganda and privileged ideological ambivalence. This article brings together media history, film analysis, industrial debates about supply chains and licence regimes, aesthetic concerns about subtlety, and political differences about the ideological meanings of the war to situate the Second World War within the complex cine-ecologies of India. I read films and film industrial negotiations together to add to the multi-sited story of India’s experience of the Second World War that this special issue develops.
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Candler, Gaylord George. "The study of public administration in India, the Philippines, Canada and Australia: the universal struggle against epistemic colonization, and toward critical assimilation." Revista de Administração Pública 48, no. 5 (October 2014): 1073–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-76121716.
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The study of public administration has been characterized as a strong international focus, as both governments and scholars have sought to learn from the experience of other societies. While in a perfect world, one would expect a sort of pragmatic universalism, instead, many scholars tend to bring lessons from one country, or from a single cultural reality. This modest contribution lies in showing a series of national experiences rarely brought to the discourse about public administration in Brazil: Canada, Australia, India and the Philippines. Special emphasis will be given to the following: the origins and the development of public administration; the influence of ideology; and the complex tension between global theory and local practices.
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Wescoat, James L., Riddhi Pankaj Shah, Ranu Singh, and J. V. R. Murty. "Habitations, villages, and gram panchayats: local drinking water planning in rural India with a Pune district case study." Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 9, no. 3 (July 3, 2019): 522–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2019.196.
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Abstract Improving rural drinking water services at the village level is a high priority in India. The National Rural Drinking Water Program (NRDWP) calls for village drinking water plans on an annual basis. However, planning data analysis and mapping are complicated by the different levels of local settlement that are involved. The aims of this paper are: first, to review how the term ‘village’ has come to refer to three different types of settlement for planning purposes in India; second, to show how each settlement type has different water data and Geographic Information System (GIS) map coverage; and third, to identify practical strategies for using these different data and mapping resources to develop rural drinking water plans. We address the first objective through a brief historical review of local government administration and drinking water database development in India. Challenges of data analysis and mapping are demonstrated through a case study of Pune district in Maharashtra. This challenge led to the identification of six practical strategies for coordinating the analysis of drinking water data and GIS mapping for planning purposes.
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Thorat, Mrs Madhuri. "E-Gram Panchayats: Enhancing Accountability and Transparency in Rural Administration." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 11, no. 11 (November 30, 2023): 990–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2023.56258.
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Abstract: The "e-Gram Panchayat" application is a transformative digital platform designed to enhance the efficiency, transparency, and accessibility of rural governance in India. This application leverages Information Technology (IT) to bridge the digital divide and empower Gram Panchayats, the local self-governing bodies, to better serve their constituents. The project aims to bring government services, land records, social welfare schemes, and administrative processes to the fingertips of citizens in rural areas.Key features of the e-Gram Panchayat application include a user-friendly interface accessible via web and mobile, comprehensive data management systems, robust security measures, and integration with other government databases. It also includes modules for citizen registration, service delivery, document management, GIS mapping, feedback mechanisms, and capacity building.
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Ritchie, Louise, Anna Jack-Waugh, Elsa Sanatombi Devi, Binil V, Anice George, Joyce Henry, Clarita Shynal Martis, Debjani Gangopadhyay, and Debbie Tolson. "Understanding family carer experiences of advanced dementia caregiving in India: towards a vision for integrated practice." Journal of Integrated Care 28, no. 4 (May 28, 2020): 337–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jica-02-2020-0006.
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PurposeMany individual and family hardships are associated with poorly understood palliative care needs arising from advanced dementia within India. The purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences of people in India affected by advanced dementia and to shape educational approaches for practitioners and the local community.Design/methodology/approachThree focus groups with family carers of people (n = 27) with advanced dementia were undertaken with local communities in South India. One focus group was carried out in English and two in the local language (Kannada) and translated to English.FindingsThe findings of the focus groups are presented in four themes, conditions of caring, intersecting vulnerabilities, desperate acts of care and awareness of education and training needs. These themes highlight the challenges faced by family carers of people with advanced dementia and describe the potential harm, abuse and poor mental well-being facing both the person with dementia and the family carer as a result of their situation.Research limitations/implicationsThere is a need to explore ways to ensure inclusivity and sensitivity in the research process and enable equal participation from all participants.Practical implicationsThe findings highlight a lack of support for family carers of people with advanced dementia and demonstrate the need for dementia-specific integrated and palliative care approaches in India.Originality/valueThis paper provides insight into the experiences and challenges facing family caregivers of people living with advanced dementia in India to shape practitioner education in a way that will underpin effective dementia-specific palliation and integrated services.
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Sabar, Bhubaneswar. "Hunger Amidst Plenty: Locating Vulnerability in a Resource-Rich Region in India." Journal of Asian and African Studies 52, no. 5 (November 4, 2015): 670–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909615605552.
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This paper illustrates how politics on resource entitlement have historically shaped the vulnerable condition of people in Nuapada district (formerly Nawapara sub-division of Kalahandi district) of Orissa, India. It finds that the underutilisation of existing resources in the district, backed by loopholes in district administration, has widened the vulnerability conditions of local people. The collapse of the state command economy during post-economic reform and the subsequent withdrawal of welfare state from welfare activities, which opens space for elite groups and middlemen to exploit both resources and local people, have caused serious disruption in the development of the district as evident from the declining livelihood options and increasing distress migration. Thus there is a need to bring reform in equitable distribution of resources at the state level.
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Bahl, R., G. Sethi, and S. Wallace. "Fiscal Decentralization to Rural Local Governments in India: A Case Study of West Bengal State." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 40, no. 2 (January 25, 2010): 312–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjp047.
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Gupta, Devyani. "‘Black Mail’: Networks of opium and postal exchange in nineteenth-century India." Literature & History 29, no. 1 (May 2020): 78–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306197320907446.
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This article discusses the overlap between British Indian networks of postal communication and trade, and smuggling of opium within a nineteenth-century inter-Asian context. These circulatory networks received support from the expansion of global shipping lines. The colonial state subsidised opium steamers of private shipping companies and converted them into mail packets, using them to transport illicit opium to parts of Southeast and East Asia. Domestically, inland postal routes came to be appropriated by local traders, cultivators and itinerants to smuggle excess opium, growing outside the purview of the colonial state, to various ports in western India, thereby cutting into the profits and prestige of the colonial state. Simultaneously, official complicity in opium smuggling also came to the fore, evident in the case of post offices situated in the eastern parts of the subcontinent, highlighting the inherent weaknesses within the colonial system of administration.
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Krishna, N. Rama, Ch Saidulu, and S. Kistamma. "Ethnomedicinal uses of some plant studies Mancherial and Jannaram reserve forest division of Adilabad district, Telangana State, India." Journal of Scientific and Innovative Research 3, no. 3 (June 25, 2014): 342–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.31254/jsir.2014.3312.
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The present study deals with the exploration of tribal knowledge on medicinal plants used for human ailments by tribes of Mancherial and Jannaram Forest Divisions of Adilabad district, Telangana State. The Ethnomedicinal applications of plants to manage human ailments in the study area were assessed through a survey conducted during 2007-2013. First hand information on ethnobotanical recipes, dosage and their mode of administration etc., was gathered from herbal practitioners of Kolam, Naikpod, Pardhan, Gond, Thoti, Chenchu and Mathura tribes. The survey reported 68 plant species belonging to 33 families are presented in this paper. The detailed botanical name, local uses, local names, preparation and administration for diseases treated were recorded for each species. The study has brought to light some interesting data on plants which form a potential source of information for new bio-dynamic compounds of therapeutic value in phytochemical researches. As the exploitation of raw materials of these species is high in this area, there is an urgent need for their conservation
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Das, Mamoni. "Panchayati Raj Institutions in India." Galore International Journal of Applied Sciences and Humanities 6, no. 2 (May 10, 2022): 6–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.52403/gijash.20220402.
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Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) is a system of rural local self-government in India. Panchayati Raj is a system of governance in which gram panchayats are the basic units of administration. It has 3 levels: village, block and district. “Panchayat” literally means assembly (yat) of five (panch) and ‘Raj’ literally means governance or government. Mahatma Gandhi advocated Panchayati Raj a decentralized form of Government where each village is responsible for its own affairs, as the foundation of India’s political system. His term for such a vision was “Gram Swaraj”(Village Self-governance).The dream of 'Gram Swaraj' of our beloved father of nation, Mahatma Gandhi and motto of 'Power to People' are essence of true democracy. The task of capacity building of these large numbers of Panchayats is quite gigantic exercise. As per the assessment of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj even after 22 years of enactment of 73rd Constitutional (Amendment) Act and also after having three rounds of Panchayat elections in many States in India the empowerment of Panchayats have not taken place as envisioned in the 73rd Constitution (Amendment) Act in 1992.The 73rd Amendment to the Constitution in 1992 gave Constitutional status to the Panchayats as institutions of local self government and also for planning and implementing programmes for economic development and social justice. The Panchayati Raj System is not a new concept and therefore is considered as one of the best ways of governance of the rural India. However, the System of Panchayati Raj despite having derived their power and existence from the constitution of India. In this paper discuss Panchayati raj Structure, Evolution, 73rd Constitutional (Amendment) Act, Ministry of Panchayati Raj and Panchayati Raj System in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Keywords: Panchayati Raj, Constitution, Amendment and development
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AlAlkim, Hassan Hamdan. "Biden’s Administration Policies towards the Middle East: Initial Appraisal and Potential Prospect." International Journal of Social Science Studies 10, no. 2 (January 21, 2022): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v10i2.5423.
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In light of the challenges, difficulties, and risks facing the United States, and the inherited pitfalls at the local and global levels, this research aims to examine the credibility of Joe Biden’s foreign policy campaign promises towards the region after one- year in office. The aim is to analyze the U.S. behavior towards the Middle East based on Hans Morgenthau’s approach to the pursuance of the national interest at all cost. The hypothesis is that Biden’s Administration will follow a permanent interest approach towards the Middle East which has been constant over long periods of time. The U.S. policy towards the Arab world has remained remarkably consistent across administrations ever since the discovery of the region’s energy resources. This analysis suggests that the desire to shift U.S. foreign policy emphasis from the troubled Middle East to south Asia[i] is a persisting foreign policy objective under Biden. However, the new focus on Asia Pacific and de-prioritization of the Middle East in U.S. foreign policy does not negate the assumption that the region, due to its geopolitical importance, will continue to enjoy and attract significant U.S. attention. Joe Biden’s Administration has been pragmatic in its approach towards the region abandoning the “American values” of democratization and human rights in pursuance of national interest.[i] The U.S.- UK nuclear submarines deal with Australia is an example of Biden’s administration policy to contain the Chinese threat in South Asia. The announcement on September 24th of the Washington Declaration forming a quadrant military alliance consisting of the U.S., India, Japan and Australia to maintain peace and security in the Indian and Pacific oceans is another manifestation of the U.S. new policy to deter Chinese threat in the south Asia region.
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Prasad, Kiran. "E-Governance Policy for Modernizing Government through Digital Democracy in India." Journal of Information Policy 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 183–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.2.2012.183.
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Abstract Access to ICTs alone does not make for successful national e-governance projects in developing countries, argues Dr. Prasad. India's National e-Governance Plan, key to its administrative reform agenda, proposes to extend the Internet to the remotest of villages. Making this relevant at the local level requires participatory efforts to promote democratic practices. The foundation of this initiative is a program of e-literacy, capacity building, and installation of ubiquitous broadband-enabled computer kiosks based on entrepreneurial public-private partnerships. The best example of this is the Akshaya Centres project in Kerala, a potential model for the rest of India and other developing nations.
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van Meersbergen, Guido. "“Intirely the Kings Vassalls”: East India Company Gifting Practices and Anglo-Mughal Political Exchange (c. 1670–1720)." Diplomatica 2, no. 2 (December 21, 2020): 270–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25891774-02020005.
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Abstract This article examines the role of gift exchanges in political relations between the East India Company and the Mughal imperial administration. Focusing on the period 1670–1720, it discusses the items selected for presentation, the occasions at which they changed hands, and the hierarchical relationships expressed and acknowledged through these transactions. It argues that in exchanges both with the central court and with provincial authorities, transfers of valuables in cash and kind between English and Indian actors were embedded in a wider imperial discourse regarding sovereignty and service. By acknowledging the continuum running from courtly engagements to everyday political interactions at local sites of power, a notion of Company diplomacy comes into view that straddled the boundaries between inter-polity relations and intra-imperial solicitation. As such, the case study invites us to rethink our notion of diplomacy as it pertained to relations between the English Company and Mughal state.
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A., Sridharan, Sunita Kumar, and Shivi Khanna. "From the local to the global: the journey of Suguna Foods." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 13, no. 4 (November 24, 2023): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-12-2022-0530.
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Learning outcomes On completion of this case study, students will be able to understand collaboration and synergy between farmers and organisations through value creation, like fundraising, based on the comprehension of the resource-based theory; understand the overview and concept of the value chain and supply chain management in the agribusiness to reduce costs of inventories; understand the concept of segmentation and positioning to increase revenue for organisations by leveraging existing resources – human and financial; and understand the branding strategy to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Suguna Foods. Case overview/synopsis Suguna was started by two brothers, B. Soundararajan and G.B. Sundararajan, to help other farmers. Suguna, with just 200 broilers in 1984, grew to be the number 1 poultry company across India. Soundararajan was a pioneer and innovator who started “contract farming” in India in 1991. This model helped both the farmers and the company to became successful. The farmers always struggled to pay the cost of feed and other materials, as credit was not readily and easily available from financial institutions. Suguna helped farmers by providing feed, medicines, etc., free of cost in return for the good rearing of chickens. Because of the success of this venture, they decided to continue with it. Today, Suguna is a successful company that sells chicken, eggs and processed meat. They modernised the retail chain to supply consumers with fresh, healthy and hygienic meat. Suguna’s vision was to “Energize rural India” by helping farmers succeed. They helped over 40,000 farmers from 15,000+ villages in 18+ Indian states. Although the growth helped both farmers and Suguna, the increased cost of raw materials for Suguna and increased input costs/power costs for farmers had to be tackled on a war footing so that both could have good income despite the increased inflation. Moreover, the retail price of live chicken was more or less stagnant in the past five years, especially after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Complexity academic level This case can be used as the basis for a 90-min class discussion. This case study is suitable for use in an master of business administration course module or in an executive education program on developing an understanding of value creation in the business model in a rural market and also how the supply chain works. This case study can also be used to teach pricing, segmentation in marketing and supply chain perspectives and decision-making skills. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS8: Marketing.
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Mitchell, Elke, Angela Kelly-Hanku, Alison Krentel, Lucia Romani, Leanne J. Robinson, Susana Vaz Nery, John Kaldor, Andrew C. Steer, and Stephen Bell. "Community perceptions and acceptability of mass drug administration for the control of neglected tropical diseases in Asia-Pacific countries: A systematic scoping review of qualitative research." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 16, no. 3 (March 11, 2022): e0010215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010215.
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Background Preventative chemotherapy and mass drug administration have been identified as effective strategies for the prevention, treatment, control and elimination of several NTDs in the Asia-Pacific region. Qualitative research can provide in-depth insight into the social dynamics and processes underlying effective implementation of and adherence to mass drug administration programs. This scoping review examines published qualitative literature to examine factors influencing community perceptions and acceptability of mass drug administration approaches to control NTDs in the Asia-Pacific region. Methodology Twenty-four peer reviewed published papers reporting qualitative data from community members and stakeholders engaged in the implementation of mass drug administration programs were identified as eligible for inclusion. Findings This systematic scoping review presents available data from studies focussing on lymphatic filariasis, soil-transmitted helminths and scabies in eight national settings (India, Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, Laos, American Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Fiji). The review highlights the profoundly social nature of individual, interpersonal and institutional influences on community perceptions of willingness to participate in mass drug administration programs for control of neglected tropical diseases (NTD). Future NTD research and control efforts would benefit from a stronger qualitative social science lens to mass drug administration implementation, a commitment to understanding and addressing the social and structural determinants of NTDs and NTD control in complex settings, and efforts to engage local communities as equal partners and experts in the co-design of mass drug administration and other efforts to prevent, treat, control and eliminate NTDs. Conclusion For many countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the “low hanging fruit has been picked” in terms of where mass drug administration has worked and transmission has been stopped. The settings that remain–such as remote areas of Fiji and Papua New Guinea, or large, highly populated, multi-cultural urban settings in India and Indonesia–present huge challenges going forward.
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S. S. Durga Prasad, L. Mutyala Naidu, O. Aniel Kumar, K. Mallikarjuna,. "Ethnomedicine used for Asthma by tribes of Papikondalu forest, Andhra Pradesh, India." Current Botany 7 (May 5, 2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.19071/cb.2016.v7.2990.
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<p>The present study represents the information about the treatment of asthma disease by the tribes of Papikondalu forest, Andhra Pradesh, India. A total of 17 medicinal plant species belonging to 17 genera and 14 families were recorded. The documented medicinal plants were labeled alphabetically with their voucher specimen number, family name, vernacular names, parts used and mode of administration. The documented of these medicinal plants against asthma reveals that these ethnic people are still dependent on local vegetation for their life care. Thus, this type of ethnomedicinal study appears to be useful for the research on medicinal plants for the betterment of mankind.</p>
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Hedican, Edward J. "Governmental Indian Policy, Administration, and Economic Planning in the Eastern Subarctic." Culture 2, no. 3 (June 17, 2021): 25–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1078110ar.
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This paper undertakes a comparative analysis of the effects of governmental administration and planning in northern Native communities. The effects are examined with reference to two community types — reserves, with their single-stranded ties to Ottawa’s Department of Indian Affairs, and non-reserve settlements, which have a diversity of outside contacts. It is argued that the limited external contacts characteristic of reserves impede local initiative and foster reliance on decisions made by Government personnel. By contrast, the non-reserve community is able to exercise greater local control because no single external agency is in a position to dominate local affairs. Lacking significant outside structures, leadership in the non-reserve community is able to pursue more autonomous and coherent local planning for economic change.
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Nath, S., and B. C. Purohit. "Expenditure Reassignment and Fiscal Decentralisation: An Empirical Study of State and Local Government in India." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 13, no. 3 (September 1995): 351–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c130351.
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Reassignment of local functions to state government and fiscal decentralisation seem to be contradictory. Whether these fiscal strategies are compatible policy packages is an empirical question. The crucial issue is as to how local governments respond to reassignment, a response which may be reflected in their willingness to spend on remaining functions. If reassignment stimulates local expenditure such that the extent of decline in fiscal decentralisation (the local share in total state–local expenditure) is less than the amount warranted, the two fiscal strategies can be taken to be compatible. To test this hypothesis, conditions for compatibility are postulated in terms of tax efforts of state and local governments. With use of Indian fiscal data, state and local tax efforts are computed and compared for selected states, as a first approximation. There is no conclusive evidence to show that reassignment has invariably exerted any dampening impact on local expenditure.
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G, Vinod, and Biju T. "Accrual Based Double Entry Accounting - A Revamp in the Financial Administration of Urban Local Bodies." Commerce & Business Researcher 14, no. 2 (December 31, 2021): 26–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.59640/cbr.v14i2.26-33.
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The Cash Based Single Entry System of Accounting (CBSESA) was usedby Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), since their inception for the purpose of financial recording and reporting. Because of the system’s inherent limitations, ULBs have failed to fulfil financial responsibility, transparency requirements, tapping new avenues of finance and efficient financial administration. The 11th National Finance Commission has made its apprehension on the accounting system followed in Local Self Governments (LSGs) and strongly recommended for a change in the accounting system as a good governance initiative. Time has proven that accrual-based double entry system of accounting is the most scientific method for financial recording and reporting, and the same has been in practice in commercial entities since 15th century. Unfortunately, the socalled scientific system could not be brought about in Government accounting or LSG accounting till the end of 20th century. As the first leap the Government of India suggested to adopt Accrual Based Double Entry System of Accounting (ABDESA) in ULBs in 2004. The state of Kerala adopted Municipal Accounts Manual and ABDESA in selected ULBs from 1st April 2007 (G.O.MS/8/2007/LSGD). Since, accounting information is largely used by stake holders for different purposes including financial administration and decisions, quality of such decisions (based on the published financial statements) rests largely on the shoulder of quality of information. The present paper is a detailed analysis of the quality of financial statements generated under ABDESA by the ULBs of Kerala, based on the primary data collected from five Municipal Corporations and 40 Municipalities.
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Williams, Elin H., Nicholas M. Thompson, Gareth McCray, Maria M. Crespo-Llado, Supriya Bhavnani, Diksha Gajria, Debarati Mukherjee, et al. "Scalable Transdiagnostic Early Assessment of Mental Health (STREAM): a study protocol." BMJ Open 14, no. 6 (June 2024): e088263. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088263.
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IntroductionEarly childhood development forms the foundations for functioning later in life. Thus, accurate monitoring of developmental trajectories is critical. However, such monitoring often relies on time-intensive assessments which necessitate administration by skilled professionals. This difficulty is exacerbated in low-resource settings where such professionals are predominantly concentrated in urban and often private clinics, making them inaccessible to many. This geographic and economic inaccessibility contributes to a significant ‘detection gap’ where many children who might benefit from support remain undetected. The Scalable Transdiagnostic Early Assessment of Mental Health (STREAM) project aims to bridge this gap by developing an open-source, scalable, tablet-based platform administered by non-specialist workers to assess motor, social and cognitive developmental status. The goal is to deploy STREAM through public health initiatives, maximising opportunities for effective early interventions.Methods and analysisThe STREAM project will enrol and assess 4000 children aged 0–6 years from Malawi (n=2000) and India (n=2000). It integrates three established developmental assessment tools measuring motor, social and cognitive functioning using gamified tasks, observation checklists, parent-report and audio-video recordings. Domain scores for motor, social and cognitive functioning will be developed and assessed for their validity and reliability. These domain scores will then be used to construct age-adjusted developmental reference curves.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval has been obtained from local review boards at each site (India: Sangath Institutional Review Board; All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) Ethics Committee; Indian Council of Medical Research—Health Ministry Screening Committee; Malawi: College of Medicine Research and Ethics Committee; Malawi Ministry of Health—Blantyre District Health Office). The study adheres to Good Clinical Practice standards and the ethical guidelines of the 6th (2008) Declaration of Helsinki. Findings from STREAM will be disseminated to participating families, healthcare professionals, policymakers, educators and researchers, at local, national and international levels through meetings, academic journals and conferences.
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Singh, Arkaja. "The Right to Water, Law and Municipal Practice: Case Studies from India." Water 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w14010073.
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Recognition of the right to water in Indian courts has had little impact on the ground. This paper explores the seeming disjuncture between what happens in the court and the everyday reality of living with a less-than-perfect claim on city water services in India’s urban slums. The paper seeks to understand and contextualise a court ruling which looks like it declares a right to water for people in urban slums, but in effect gives them little beyond what they already had. The paper also looks at the ‘everyday reality’ of municipal administration and the provision of drinking water in slums through in-house connections and community taps. In both case studies, the author looks to understand how the practice relates to frameworks of law and policy that shape the rationality and scope of action of the actors concerned, both judges and municipal officials. She found that the issue of land was the main stumbling block in both places, but it was conceptualized a little differently in each situation. These case studies underscore the critical importance of making the local interface between poor people and the state more empowering in order for rights to become local and meaningful.
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De, Debpriya. "Issues and challenges in implementing the Skill India movement." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 11, no. 1 (February 11, 2019): 54–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/whatt-10-2018-0065.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the issues and challenges that become a hurdle towards implementation of the “Skill India Movement” at the ground level. It is critical to identify the challenges that are faced or experienced by training partners with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), skills councils and other bodies if an effort to resolve the same is to be made.Design/methodology/approachA round-table discussion was organised to seek feedback from all the stakeholders who are directly or indirectly involved in strategising, decision-making and implementing the government’s skills initiative. The primary data were collected through discussions and questionnaires, and the official sites of NSDC andPradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna, along with ministry reports, were referred to as well.FindingsThe research is likely to identify gaps in administration of the initiative at various levels and will hopefully provide guidance on removing bottlenecks to achieve effective implementation. It is imperative that the challenges be understood and solutions found, with focus on a long-term sustainable approach, rather than short-term gains for political propaganda purposes alone.Practical implicationsThis paper will try to bring value to the stakeholders by exploring the various measures that can be taken to take this mission in a more meaningful direction and work towards giving more employability to the youth and supporting the respective industry segments with much needed trained manpower.Originality/valueThis study discusses the issues and challenges that are impeding effective implementation of the Skill India initiative at the local level and identifies the gaps in administration. Also, it outlines how bottlenecks could be addressed to ensure that the mission is back on track and that the employability of youth is enhanced.
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Laddimath, Arati, and Rao Srinath. "Herbal Medicine Used to Treat Primary Infertility in Women by Traditional Practioners of Vijayapur (Bijapur) District of Karnataka, India." International Letters of Natural Sciences 50 (January 2016): 27–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilns.50.27.
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An ethno-botanical survey of Vijayapur district comprising five tehsils was conducted during February 2014 to December 2015. The main purpose of this survey was to document the traditional use of medicinal plants for primary infertility in women in vijayapur district. 13 species belonging to 13 genera and 12 families were found to be used to treat primary infertility. The scientific name, family, local name, habit along with part used and mode of their administration are provided.
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Laddimath, Arati, and Rao Srinath. "Herbal Medicine Used to Treat Primary Infertility in Women by Traditional Practioners of Vijayapur (Bijapur) District of Karnataka, India." International Letters of Natural Sciences 50 (January 4, 2016): 27–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.56431/p-151141.
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An ethno-botanical survey of Vijayapur district comprising five tehsils was conducted during February 2014 to December 2015. The main purpose of this survey was to document the traditional use of medicinal plants for primary infertility in women in vijayapur district. 13 species belonging to 13 genera and 12 families were found to be used to treat primary infertility. The scientific name, family, local name, habit along with part used and mode of their administration are provided.
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Arutyunyan, Ruben. "Effect of Dutch Expansion in Malaya on Local Public Authority System." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Humanities and Social Sciences 2023, no. 4 (December 25, 2023): 496–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2542-1840-2023-7-4-496-504.
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The Dutch expansion in Malaya was associated with the Dutch East India Company, also known as the Dutch VOC. It influenced the development of public authority institutions in Malaya and the Indonesian islands. The VOC had a trade monopoly in the East Indies and adopted state governmental methods and functions in the region. The Charter of 1602 gave the Company rights to maintain a military garrison, build forts, appoint judges, and conclude treaties outside Europe. In the first half of the XVII century, the Dutch defeated the Portuguese in their colonial rivalry for the Indonesian islands and Malaya. As the VOC expanded its boundaries, it used the structure of public authority to manage the colonies. The author analyzed the structure of the VOC public administration, its bodies, and public institutions in Malacca and other colonial cities. The Dutch colonial court system in Malaya and the Indonesian islands included European and traditional courts. However, Batavia had a local authority known as the College van Schepenen while the island of Java had Adat and Islamic courts.
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Shah, Sayed Wiqar Ali. "The 1930 Civil Disobedience Movement in Peshawar Valley from the Pashtoon Perspective." Studies in History 29, no. 1 (February 2013): 87–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0257643013496690.
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Like other parts of India, the civil disobedience movement was also launched in North–West Frontier Province (Khyber–Pakhtoonkhwa), although initially with little success. The local Congress sought help from the Khudai Khidmatgars, the most popular socio-political organization of the province; 23 April 1930 saw the worst kind of massacre in Peshawar, followed by other parts of the Province. During the civil disobedience, the colonial administration tried all kinds of draconian methods to suppress the movement but in vain. The purpose of the present research is to investigate and analyze the civil disobedience and its impact in the Peshawar Valley, hitherto neglected by the scholars and thereby help provide a new and deeper understanding of the whole scenario. In a much broader context and in a wider perspective, however, the present study will encompass the following main issues: (a) Indian Muslims and the civil disobedience movement launched by Congress under Mahatma Gandhi; (b) the Frontier Congress and its failure in mobilization of people to support civil disobedience; (c) the altruistic leadership of Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khudai Khidmatgars’ tangible support within the masses; (d) the atrocities of the colonial administration and the predicament of the local population; (e) adherence to non-violence, a unique phenomenon for the Pashtoons; (f) the interplay of the religion and politics; (g) the complexity of the Khudai Khidmatgar–Congress relations; and, (h) the role of charismatic leadership. The present research will be focusing on these and other similar crucial issues previously undervalued.
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Kalra, Ripin. "Supports for Multi-hazard Risk Reduction in Urban Local Bodies." Halduskultuur 22, no. 1 (April 6, 2023): 66–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.32994/hk.v22i1.285.
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India’s urban assets and populations are highly vulnerable to a multitude of natural hazards, climate variability and environmental change. This can well impact on the entire nation, as economic output comes primarily from in and around its urban settlements. Empirical evidence from recent disasters, despite some major successes, reinforces the limited preparedness of Indian towns and cities to withstand multiple hazards such as fires, floods, extreme temperatures, earthquakes and strong winds. Unregulated growth and the quality of built environment are among a host of factors that have resulted in this vulnerability to disaster events. The research issue that this paper addresses is that of enabling the Urban Local Bodies (ULB) to implement disaster risk reduction and recovery framework(s) developed and agreed on at the national and sub-national levels. This paper highlights capacity challenges within local government for managing natural disasters amongst wider challenges of service provision. The paper draws upon empirical observations to argue that despite their best intentions ULBs are currently constrained in implementing the extensive comprehensive disaster risk & recovery approach driven by a multiplicity of national and multilateral policies. The paper provides observations from the Kosi River flooding disaster (2008) in Bihar state to illustrate this point. The paper further highlights that while this situation will not change overnight there are a number of practical opportunities to support ULBs in making an immediate start and superimpose risk reduction onto development programmes.
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Kushagra, Kshitij, and Sanjay Dhingra. "An Empirical Analysis of the Government Cloud Adoption in India." International Journal of Electronic Government Research 17, no. 3 (July 2021): 21–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijegr.2021070102.
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Cloud in the Indian government is still in the nascent stage; the rate of government cloud adoption (GCA) has not been that encouraging. The government organizations are complex, slow, rigidly structured, and research deficient. These organizations are the highest spenders on IT but are not placed at par when it comes to terms of cloud adoption. This empirical study has three objectives, which are identifying the key factors affecting GCA, finding out if these factors significantly affect the adoption, and examining the categorical moderating effect of organization types and adoption stages on GCA. This study posits government organization type (center, state, local bodies, and public sector organizations) and adoption stages (adopted, currently evaluating, and plans to adopt) as moderating variables. PLS-SEM has been deployed in this work for analysis and validation of the model. Nine factors found to have a significant positive influence on GCA are security, connectivity, migration, procurement, awareness, organizational administration, legal, trust, and control.
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Kumar, Dilip, and Rajib Kumar Bhattacharjya. "Study of Integrated Social Vulnerability Index SoVIint of Hilly Region of Uttarakhand, India." Environmental and Climate Technologies 24, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 105–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2020-0007.
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AbstractThe hilly regions of India have suffered many disasters, both natural and anthropogenic. In the hilly state like Uttarakhand, the hazards like flash flood, forest fires, and landslide affect the community at the large scale. These hazards cause severe physical injuries, loss of life, and at large scale property damage. To understand the impact of such natural hazards, we need to examine vulnerability of the society, so that we can define vulnerability as the status of a community to prevent, mitigate, prepare for or respond to a natural and a man-made hazard. The absence of coping strategies, which is also known as resilience, has altered the vulnerability of a community. Thus, vulnerability index of a community has to be calculated considering physical, social, economic and environmental factors associated with the community. This research paper tries to find out an integrated social vulnerability factor. The proposed integrated social vulnerability factor is determined by considering various factors, such as physical, social, economic, and environmental. All these factors increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazards. Poverty, occupation, child population, literacy rate, disability, marginalization, and inequities in wealth distribution of a society or community will also change the social vulnerability. Proposed Integrated social vulnerability index for the hilly terrain of Uttarakhand incorporated local technical knowledge insight and skills, so that local people and local administration are able to identify problems and can offer a solution to resist future emergencies i.e. the proposed social vulnerability indicator will support state, local, and traditional disaster management officials to determine areas of the most sensitive populations and better mitigation operation can be performed in case of disaster.
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Dolui, Sanu, and Sayani Chakraborty. "Identification of Preferable Ecotourism Destinations in Purulia District, West Bengal (India): AHP and GIS Approach." Journal of Geographical Studies 6, no. 2 (October 30, 2022): 73–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.21523/gcj5.22060203.
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Ecotourism has gained popularity among travelers in recent years due to the detrimental effects of conventional tourism. Purulia district in West Bengal (India), with its diversified picturesque landscape such as lush green forest, mesmerizing riverscape, lakes, waterfall, hills and uniqueness in the local community’s culture gives ample potentiality of ecotourism development. The aim of this paper to explore potentiality of ecotourism in Purulia district, West Bengal, India using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Geographical Information System (GIS). Initially, ecotourism inventory dataset was developed based on following criteria: Elevation, slope, proximity to river, distance from road, distance from settlements, distance from ecological sites, distance from railway, distance from tourism sites using ARC-GIS 10.6.1 software. Later, the suitability map of ecotourism development has been developed by applying Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) with combination of the criteria with their respective weights and categorized into five suitability classes as highly suitable (S1), moderately suitable (S2), suitable (S3), less suitable (S4) and unsuitable (S5). Finally, after the identification of suitable zones, six alternatives ecotourism destinations are identified. This proposed method may be helpful for the local stakeholders and public administration in identifying potential ecotourism destination and planning for sustainable ecotourism development.
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Subramanian, Lakshmi. "Banias and the British: the Role of Indigenous Credit in the Process of Imperial Expansion in Western India in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century." Modern Asian Studies 21, no. 3 (July 1987): 473–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00009173.
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The pressing preoccupation of the British administration in the early decades of the nineteenth century to clip the wings of the malicious Indian shroffs (Bankers) and their manoeuvres and secret dealings was in sharp and in a sense valid contrast to their earlierperceptions of the Indian shroffs and their Hundi empire. By 1807, Mr Rickards, senior member of the Bombay establishment, was urging the Governor-General in Council to establisha General Bank whose operations would extend throughout India, facilitate remittances andcredit transfers from one part of the country to another, and above all ‘free the mercantile body from losses and inconveniences suffered in the exchange and from the artifices of shroffs’. Their ‘undue and pernicious influence over the course of trade and exchange’ could no longer be treated with forbearance, and the urgency of remedy was stressed. It was both strange and ironical that such advice should stem from a quarter where in the crucial years of political change and transition in the second half of the eighteenth century, the cooperation and intervention of the indigenous banking fraternity and their credit support had proved vital to the success of the Imperial strategy. The experience was admittedly not unique to Bombay and the English East India Company (hence-forth E.E.I.C) and in a sense the guarantee of local credit and the support of service groups for a variety of reasons, was clearly envisagedas a basic ingredient to state building in the eighteenth century.
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Goel, Deepali, and Vandna Singhal. "The Perception of Household about Solid Waste Management Issues in India." RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary 8, no. 11 (November 14, 2023): 137–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2023.v08.n11.020.
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Solid waste management issues created by homegrown, business and modern exercises is regularly unpredictably arranged off and its informal administration prompts genuine natural create natural issues. One of the significant difficulties presented by fast urbanization is the executives of waste produced by ever expanding populace. Local area interest has an immediate bearing on effective solid waste management. This paper is set out to present the in-depth perception of households regarding domestic solid waste management in Moradabad of Uttar Pradesh. The study is descriptive and cross sectional in nature. The researcher used questionnaire as the main research instrument for the study. 95 respondents were selected randomly from one zone of Moradabad. It has been found from the study that majority of the respondents were agreed to every statement of the questionnaire and no difference have been found in the perception of male and female respondents towards solid waste management practices.
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Patel, Riyaben M., and O. P. Sharma. "ROLE OF ZILLA AND TALUKA PANCHAYATS OF NAVSARI IN EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN MEMBERS." Gujarat Journal of Extension Education 2022, no. 1 (November 25, 2022): 100–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.56572/gjoee.2022.si.0019.
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Panchayat raj is the basic unit of administration in system of governance. It was introduced first time by the Balwant Rai Mehta in 1959. Panchayat Raj Institutions have three tires system such as Zilla panchayat, Taluka panchayat and Gram panchayat. Panchayat Raj the local government system in India, being nearest form of governance to the people can be viewed as a suitable platform for encouraging participation of women members. The decentralization governance process in India by bringing women into positions of decision making and power in local grass root level of governance and it's leading towards their empowerment. Considering the importance of empowerment in women members the present investigation entitled, "Role of Zilla and Taluka Panchayat Raj Institutions in empowerment of women members in Navsari district of Gujarat" was undertaken during the year 2019-2020. The Navsari district was selected for present investigation which consisted of one Zilla panchayat, six Taluka panchayat. The complete enumeration method was used and thus,all women members were selected from Zilla Panchayat and Taluka panchayat the three tiers of PRIs in Navsari district. The data was elicited through personal interview method and analyzed using frequency, percentage, correlation coefficient (r) and t test.
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Kalimuthu, Arumugam, and S. Ramesh Ramesh. "A case study on the development of Swachh Gram by Vattavada Tribal Community: Way to Sanitation for All." South Asian Journal of Experimental Biology 5, no. 6 (March 11, 2016): 297–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.38150/sajeb.5(6).p297-304.
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Achieving Clean India by 2016 is the aim of the present government. While 50 % of Indians continue to defecate in openKerala State had ensured 96 % of sanitation coverage, with only 19 gram panchayats remaining as a challenge to declare the state as Nirmal Rajya State. Vattavada, in Devikulam block of Idukki District is one among those Panchayats, where hardly only 15% of the households had access to sanitation. A special project was conceived by the Suchitwa Mission of Kerala State Government which was ably supported by the local panchayat and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Institute based at Kodaikanal to make the panchyat Open defecation. The advisory, implementation and funding support was given Government of India and Suchitwa Mission, Government of Kerala. The Technical support for toilet construction, demand creation and other need based IEC activities were carried out by WASH Institute. The district administration provided staff and monitoring support. The Suchitwa Mission also played a significant role in guiding, coordinating, supervising and helping in timely release of subsidy for the beneficiaries. The identification and selection of beneficiaries, execution and management of the project was done by Panchayat administration. The coordinated efforts of all these agencies resulted in 98 % sanitation coverage in the Panchayat and this case study captures the same.
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Lad, Ketaki Suhas, and Arati Siddharth Petkar. "Assessing transformations in peri-urban areas using GIS: A case of Pune city, India." GeoScape 16, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 80–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/geosc-2022-0007.
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Abstract The unplanned expansion of cities has become a serious concern in India these days. They exert pressure on the city’s resources, resulting in uncontrolled expansion and unliveable circumstances. As a result, there is a need to design certain techniques to reduce this issue in order to have planned growth both within and outside the city. In this research, the demographic, physical and environmental transformations of the peri-urban areas of Pune City have been analysed using GIS and parameters have been suggested to develop a selection index to help identify the areas having urban traits and suggest separate urban local bodies for their governance and planning. Highlights for public administration, management and planning: • Peri-urban regions experience a lot of changes as they transition from rural to urban features, and assessing these changes using GIS is critical for better planning of such areas’ development. • This study provides parameters and creates a selection index to determine if periurban regions have high or low urban traits, and then determines whether those areas should be combined with current municipal boundaries or formed into new urban local bodies using the ArcGIS software.