What’s the news? With limited funds to deal with the gargantuan task of restoring degraded land and reversing desertification in the country, the government is now planning to bring convergence between the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) …
What’s the news? The meeting to review progress of biomass co-firing in thermal power plants was held in New Delhi to prepare for the coming post-monsoon season that saw farm fires in north India and worsening air pollution. News in …
What’s the news? The much-awaited tiger safari project of Uttarakhand government is under scanner after a Forest Survey Of India (FSI) report stated that over 6000 trees were illegally cut in the Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR) against the permission of …
What’s in News: The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to chemists Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless from the U.S., and Morten Meldal from Denmark, for their work in the field of click chemistry and bioorthogonal …
What’s in News: The winner of the Nobel Prize in literature for 2022 is French author Annie Ernaux. In ‘L’occupation’ (2002), Ms. Ernaux dissects the social mythology of romantic love. Her other work “The Years” was shortlisted for the Man …
What’s in the news? The Government of India recently announced that by the end of 2022, India will establish the country’s first Dark Sky Reserve at Hanle. The Hanle Dark Sky Reserve (HDSR) will come up within the Changthang Wildlife …
Context The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been affected by the problem of cross-border terrorism, separatist violence and armed militancy for the last three decades. However, since the heydays of terrorist violence in the early 1990s, this militancy …
Context The Government of India’s planned approach expedited the overall development of the Scheduled Tribes (ST) of the country, identified the problems and designed the ways and means to overcome the problems through various social, economic and political initiatives. Development …
Context The Ministry of Education and Ministry of Tribal Affairs have been implementing various schemes in the Scheduled Tribe dominated areas of the country with a specific target of uplifting the education amongst tribal communities. Tribal Education Various research studies …
Context India has the second-largest population of tribal people worldwide. Scheduled tribes make up 8.6 percent of India’s population, according to the 2011 Census. They are autochthonous (being indigenous rather than being migrants or re-settlers) to the land. This qualifies …