DEATH PENALTY (CAPITAL PUNISHMENT) 1. Meaning: The death penalty is known as capital punishment. The word “capital punishment” is made of de capitation. It means to cut the upper part of a body. It is connected with capital offence i.e.…
BUREAUCRATS SHOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PEOPLE In little Dorrit wrote Charles Dickens: ‘In short, all the business of the country went through the circumlocution office except business that never came out of it and its name was Legion.’ Here…
CAN INDIA GET RID OF CORRUPTION? There is an all-pervading corruption in our socio-economic and political structure and this has not spared even our own family life – such is the rotten state of India. A degrading value system as…
CHILD LABOUR Child labour can be defined as work performed by children (below 14 years of age in India) that either endangers their health or safety, interferes with or prevents education or keeps them away from play and other activity…
COMPUTER – THE HARBINGER OF SILENT REVOLUTION Necessity is the mother of invention. The saying holds true for computers also because computers were invented as a result of man’s search for a fast and accurate calculating device. The earliest device…
LIBERALISATION AND ‘SWADESHI’ When Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru was delivering his famous speech, ‘The Tryst with Destiny’ he would have never imagined that seventy-five years hence his country would be in shambles and the national economy in tatters. Muhammed Bin…
NEED FOR TRANSPARENCY IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Deliverance comes not from electoral forms but informed franchise, not from the mystic authority of franchise but from the enlightened participation of the populace in the public affairs. – Justice Krishna Iyer Transparency in…
NREGA The NREGA, the flagship programme of the UPA government, was revolutionary in its promise of inclusive growth, the right to work and the dignity of labour and a rational, participatory relationship with the State. And it has mostly delivered……
ONE NATION ONE LAW India is an ancient civilisation governed by customs and traditions. Sometimes, it is called the museum of various religions, castes, cultures and ethnic groups. If we go down the ancient period we find that India was…
PUBLIC SECTOR: BANE OF INDIAN ECONOMY Any nation can stand on world stage only on the basis of a healthy economy. For a developing country, the domestic economy depends a lot on public and private sectors. But in our country…