Tag: civics

Government works for the welfare of people. In Democracy the structure of government is mostly Socialistic and welfare kind. The facilities that are available to the public at large and can be availed by everyone are called public facilities. The Government provides the facility of Healthcare, water supply, roads, railways, and sanitation essentially to the public for preventing any kind of monopoly on them and making sure that no one is left behind is access to these facilities. These are less profitable and consume a huge amount of money. These facilities constitute the infrastructure of the nation.

The Kerala High Court in Attakoya Thangal v. Union of India recognized the fundamental importance of the right to water. In this case, the petitioners claimed that a scheme for pumping up ground water for supplying potable water to the Laccadives (now known as the Lakshadweep Islands) in the Arabian Sea would upset the fresh water equilibrium, leading to salinity in the available water resources and causing more long-term harm than short-term benefits.

World Water Day is an annual event celebrated on March 22. The day focuses attention on the importance of fresh water and advocates for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

Water table refers to the Groundwater. Depletion of water table means scarcity of the groundwater. The Population rise led to the increasing demand for water and for settlement and establishment forests are being cut which is resulting in depletion of water table. The lands have been acquired for building or expanding cities which ultimately decreasing groundwater reservoir.

Turban is manually tied headdress worn by men. It is a symbol of honour and respect. Turban-wearing traditions can be found in the Indian Subcontinent, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, the Middle East, the Near East, Central Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, North America, and parts of the Swahili Coast.

• Sardar Vallabhai Patel is called "The Iron  Man of India"
  
  • Due to integration of Princely states to Indian Union after Mountbatten plan announcement on June 3, 1947.
  • Patel started operation princes on July 25, 1947
    
  • All the princely states signed instrument of accession by August 15, 1947 except Hyderabad, Junagarh and Kashmir.
    
    

Annual festivals in memory of Shivaji and Lord Ganesha were started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak. These festivals were organized to build a national spirit among the common people in opposition to colonial rule. But the major drawback of these events was that although they were meant to be a way to oppose colonial rule, they also contributed to religious tensions.

Banaras Hindu University is a public central university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. It was founded in 1916 by Madan Mohan Malaviya. He chose Banaras as the site, because of the centuries old tradition of learning, wisdom and spirituality inherent to the place.

The congress was divided into two camps-Extremist and Moderates at the Surat session of 1907. The Moderates believed in the constitutional methods of protests like petitions, prayers, meetings,etc. Extremists, on the other hand, believed in agitation, strikes and boycotts to force their demands. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an extremist and was opposed to the moderates' method of petitions especially towards the fight for self-government.

 The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. The founding fathers of the Non-Aligned Movement were from Socialist Yugoslavia, India, Indonesia, Egypt and Ghana. From India, Jawaharlal Nehru was a major propounder of the group. It was established in 1961 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.