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Challenges of teaching History in Indian School and the role of local history

During teaching history at school and college level for several years, I observed few important believes of students regarding history teaching learning , the most important was that history is a very boring subject, history is not related to our real life there is no utility   of history in their real world ,history merely transmits historical information and is too centered on the text which is required to be memorized for examination. The content of the text books are unconnected to daily realities and are viewed as providing unnecessary details about the past. There is a perception that not many desirable job options are open to students specializing in the history .Text books are seen as the major source of knowledge this forecloses any possibility of innovation by an active participation of the learners. The two key factors in the learning process are frequently missing from history and social studies instruction--DISCOVERY and INVOLVEMENT. Stated otherwise, the tr...

Career vs. Job

Career vs. Job Both the terms are often used to mean the same but there is a difference between having a job and having a career. A job by definition is a compensated position of normal employment but career means building on experience and advancing job skills and knowledge. It can take years of hard work to build a career. One of my favourite quotes that keep me motivated was said by Mike Wallace: “If you don’t wake up in the morning excited to pick up where you left your work yesterday, you haven’t found your calling yet.” Following points shows the difference between a job and career:- ·          Job is short term but career is long term. ·          Job has low career growth but career has a professional growth. ·          Doing job is to collect Money whereas pursue career is to collect Experience ·        ...

NO RELIGION PREACHES HOSTILITY

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On the honesty vessel we find a galaxy of religions followed by different people in countless members. Though the name of all the religions as well as symbols are not so same yet their preaching are the same. Those instructions are pertaining to honesty equality, brotherhood and mutual cooperation. All the religions of the world have really given the only preaching of goodness and purity. It has originated and furnished our society. It reveals us clearly how to live in the society how to deal with others and to earn assets for livelihood and how to consume it. It means not even a single point has been untouched that is to be seen in our practical life throughout the day and night. However all the religions play a vital role in joining the hearts of the people with one another. It raises humanity and brotherhood by removing hatred. It enlarges their hearts like a whole and fills up with love and loveliest things. Today the whole of the world is undoubtedly in great need of suc...

Acid Attack in the backdrop of Criminal Amendment Act, 2013

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All over the world, women have always been discriminated against and are made to suffer the discrimination in silence at each facets of life. In country like India at one hand women are personified as Goddess and on the other hand they are been abused, harassed, denied basic fundamental rights like proper food, health, education. The Government of India has ratified the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women and has passed plethora of laws for the protection and upliftment of women. But still, in recent past, India has witnessed many high profile cases of rape, many new cases of gang rapes, domestic violence, acid attack against women. Everyday a new case of violence against women is brought into limelight, which shows the need of concerted government action for the protection and safety of women. There are a wide range of crimes that are committed against women based on the consideration of their sex alone. All such acts of violence “that i...

Hygiene and Sanitation

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It’s estimated that  88%  of the households in India have a mobile phone but  732 million  people do not have access to toilets or clean sanitation. Sanitation is a basic right but unfortunately, this is one issue which the country has not been able to handle in the last 70 years. Even in cities, there is a dearth of proper drainage and disposal of waste. People still do not segregate dry and wet waste, which causes huge issues in decomposing and recycling. Continued usage of plastic leads to serious environmental and health hazards which people despite of being aware about still chooses not to do anything about it. As per estimates, inadequate sanitation cost India almost $54 billion or 6.4% of the country's GDP in 2006. About $38.5 billion was health-related, with diarrhoea followed by acute lower respiratory infections accounting for 12% of the health-related impacts. Evidence suggests that all water and sanitation improvements are cost-beneficial in all ...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR)

Business Process Re-engineering is the fundamental rethinking and radical re-design of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical contemporary measures of performance such as cost, quality, service and speed. It involves the overhaul of organizational structures, management systems, job descriptions, performance measurements, skill development, training and most importantly the use of information technology.BPR impacts every aspect of how the organization runs its business.Change on this scale can cause results ranging from enviable success to complete breakdown & failure.A successful BPR can result in dramatic performance improvements, increase in profits, better business practices, enormous cost reductions, dramatic improvements in productivity & so on.There are different phases of BRP such as: ·         Begin Organizational Change ·         Building the reengineering organization ...

Focus of Budget 2018-19

http://www.jimsgn.org/ Focus of Budget 2018-19 The key focus of the Budget 2018-19 is on strengthening the rural economy and reviving up growth in the rural sector. To that end a slew of measures have been announced in the Budget which among other include higher MSPs for kharif crops, upgradation of rural haats to give farmers better access to formal mandi, increase in institutional farm credit, new funds for Fisheries and Animal Husbandry sectors, more fund for re-structured National Bamboo Mission fund, allocation for deprived irrigation districts, extension of the facility of Kisan Credit Cards to fisheries and animal husbandry farmers to help them meet their working capital needs. All these measures would transform rural India in a big way. For the benefit of lower and middle class the measures like increase in loans to Woman Self Help Groups, higher targets for Ujjwala, Saubhagya in providing free LPG connections, electricity and toilets have been announced.  These ...