India Towards the 21st Century Since, the ages, man has moved from one state of transition to other, because he has to move with the times. The mode of transition differs from age to age. Today’s world presents an altogether changed scenario than that of the ancient times. Man has mastered the universe, with the miraculous power of science and technology. And it is often remarked that India will step into...

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Badshah Khan) was born in 1890 in village Uttamonzai in Peshawar district. After finishing his education in 1911 at Aligarh, he returned to Peshawar. He established national schools at many places with the help of the Hazi of Turranzzai. The British Government sent him to jail for opening a national school in his own village. His political career started with his participation in...

Preservation of Environment The term ‘Environment is the sum total of climate, geography, geology and hydrology of a human habitat. Man is the product of the environment and his life is solely dependent on balanced environment. Environmental pollution in India has increased manifold after the dawn of Independence. Nearly 35 percent of India’s total land area has been subjected to serious environmental imbalance and degradation. Hardly one-ninth of the total area...

Election Process in India India is an Indirect Democracy’ like the U.S.A. and England. Here the entire power of deciding the administrative matters and the power of running the Government is vested in the hands of the people/citizens through their elected representatives. Elections are held here periodically after fixed and specified periods. All the people above a prescribed age are deemed as citizens without any discrimination or distinction of caste, creed,...

Reservation   The second Backward Classes Commission’ under the chairmanship of Mr. B.P. Mandal was appointed by the Janata Government on January 1, 1979. The former Prime Minister, Mr. V.P. Singh, in hot haste made an announcement in Parliament on August 7, 1990 in the year of social justice that his government would implement the decision of reservation of 27% jobs in services under Central Government and public undertakings with immediate...