Fundamental Rights & Duties

The Indian constitution originally provided 7 categories of Fundamental Rights. But one fundamental right, that to property was removed from the list of fundamental rights by 44th amendment. Right to Property now is an ordinary legal right. Thus there are now 6 categories of fundamental rights. These are:  (1) Right to Equality (Arts. 14-18). In … Read more

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The Traditional Administrative System of Jharkhand

Adivasi/Indigenous peoples of Jharkhand (and in central India) traditionally have broadly three level of DECISION MAKING process within the customary laws through a self-governing system, village level, cluster of village level and community level. Village Council: In Village level whole unit of village community are included whoever living in the village. This is the primary … Read more

Hazard/Disaster Management

Disaster Management History shows that India is exposed to national disasters. INFRASTRUCTURE; and other efforts to make the community more resilient to a catastrophic event. Preparedness Preparedness focuses on understanding how a disaster might impact the community and how education, outreach and training can build capacity to respond to and recover from a disaster. This … Read more

The Bhakti Movement and Sufism

The Bhakti Movement in Indian history represents a movement that popularized devotional surrender to a personally conceived supreme God. Its origins are traced to the Brahamanical and Buddhist traditions of ancient India. It was in south India that it grew from a religious tradition into a popular movement based on religious Equality and broad based … Read more

Interrelationship of disaster and development.

Interrelationship Of Disaster And Development Debate regarding the relationship between socioeconomic development and natural disasters remains at the fore of global discussions, as the potential risk from Climate extremes and uncertainty pose an increasing threat to developmental prospects. This study reviews statistical investigations of disaster and development linkages, across topics of macroeconomic Growth, public governance … Read more

Disaster management models. Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders including community, Concept of first responders

Disaster Management Models. Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders including community, Concept of first responders Disaster management (DM) is a challenging domain to model because of the variety of dynamic characteristics attached to the domain. Metamodeling is a model-driven approach that describes how semantic domain models can be built into an artifact called a Metamodel. By … Read more

Folk Dances of Himachal Pradesh

Folk Dances of Himachal Pradesh Himachal is called Dev Bhoomi as there is local deity that is looking over its patrons in each and every village of the state. And what better way to please the Gods than to dance for them. Dancing , when done with the body and soul gets you a direct … Read more