scholarly journals TERRITORIAL STRUCTURE OF INDIA IN THE CONTEXT OF ETHNIC AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY

2017 ◽  
pp. 62-68
Author(s):  
Артур Мочалов ◽  
Artur Mochalov
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Indian States ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Territorial Structure ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
Structure Of Population ◽  
Constitutional Regime

In the article the constitutional arrangements of territorial structure of India are discussed in the context of ethnic, linguistic and religious fragmentation of Indian society. The author highlights the three main approaches to territorial structurization of a plural multiethnic state: federalism, territorial autonomy, and creation of territories with special constitutional regime and reveals the mechanism of each of them on the example of India. Pluralism in approaches to territorial organization of India is stipulated by complex and extremely mosaic ethnic and cultural structure of population of the state. Federalism is applied in India mainly for accommodation of concentrated linguistic groups. Now federalism is also applied for reducing militant separatism in the Indian North-East. At the same time, federalism aims at integration of different ethnic groups into a common political and legal space. Accommodation of a range of tribes in the North-East is achieved through territorial autonomy as well. But tribal peoples living in the central part of India don’t enjoy autonomy. The lands occupied by them have a special constitutional regime (so-called “scheduled territories”) instead. It is emphasized that the choice of a certain solution for an ethnic group is often “situational” and depends on a degree of separatism. From the author’s opinion sometimes territorial solutions are implemented as compromises between the Indian government and political leaders of ethnic separatist movements. Also the article briefly describes ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity of Indian society and its territorial fragmentation. It contains examples connected with creation of Indian States such as Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Nagaland. The information and conclusions in the article rely on materials gathered by the author during the research trip to India in summer 2016.

Quality of Elementary Education in India’s Rural Areas: Results from Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2014

Social Change ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 544-559
Author(s):  
Sangram Charan Panigrahi
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Two Factors

The quality of elementary education plays a critical role in an individual’s growth. Thus it has the capacity to develop a nation’s human resources. This study has examined the capabilities of young students who enrolled at the elementary level in schools located in India’s rural areas and their proficiency in different subjects, specifically their own regional language, mathematics and their knowledge of English. In order to measure the performances of students enrolled in Classes 1–VIII, the study used the principal component analysis (PCA) on original, 12 correlated variables. A standardised regression score of two factors, generated from PCA, was used to measure the status of education at the elementary level for different states. By considering the total score of two factors, using the PCA, it was found that most of the states in the southern parts of the country, that is, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, and the North-East region, that is, Assam, Mizoram, Tripura, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, exhibited better academic performances as compared to other states.

scholarly journals Urban resilient integrated water management pathways, to achieve sustainable water resources development in Chennai metropolitan city, Tamil Nadu, India

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 564-575
Author(s):  
P. M. Natarajan ◽  
Shambhu Kalloikar
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Domestic Water ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Metropolitan City ◽  
North East ◽  
The North

Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu State, India is the fourth most populous metropolitan city in the nation, and the world's 36th largest metropolitan area. This city is facing acute water scarcity since it depends mainly on the North East monsoon (October-December) rain. As per the WHO norm of domestic water supply along with 20% of domestic use for industrial purpose, Chennai needs 807 million litre per day (MLD) for the present 4.98 million people and 1,455 MLD in 2050 for the 8.98 million projected population. There is about 2,018 MLD of water by different sources to the city. However, the dependable water resource from to this city is only 730 MLD and hence the present deficit is 77 MLD and 725 MLD in 2050. However, through ‘Urban resilient’ integrated water resources management pathways, it is possible to generate or save about 4,225 MLD of water to this city and bridge the water supply demand gap.

scholarly journals Spatial variation of clouding / rainfall over southeast Indian peninsula and adjoining Bay of Bengal associated with active and dry spells of northeast monsoon as derived from INSAT OLR data

MAUSAM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-570
Author(s):  
B. AMUDHA ◽  
Y. E. A. RAJ ◽  
R. ASOKAN
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Variation ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Active Phase ◽  
Wave Radiation ◽  
Northeast Monsoon ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Latitudes ◽  
Dry Spells

South Peninsular India (SPI) benefits largely from the rainfall (RF) realised during the North East Monsoon (NEM) season that prevails from October to December spilling over to January in some of the years.  Salient aspects of clouding / RF over SPI associated with 13 NEM seasons from 2000-01 to 2012-13 have been analysed using estimates of Outgoing Long wave Radiation (OLR) at 1° × 1° resolution derived from the radiance observations in the infra-red channel onboard the geostationary operational Indian satellite (INSAT) radiometers. OLR is considered as a proxy indicator for convective activity with the value of 230 Wm-2  as the threshold for RF occurrence. Year-to-year mean OLR patterns of the NEM season along with the latitudinal and longitudinal variabilities were analysed for dry, light and active phases of NEM. Based on rigorous analysis of INSAT OLR data for the above 13 years, it has been shown that during the active phase of NEM, Coastal Tamil Nadu (CTN) receives more RF while over BoB the RF is lower and decreases sharply over interior Tamil Nadu. This is a reiteration of a similar result from an earlier study based on 3 years (1996-98) OLR data from polar orbiting NOAA satellites. The spatial variation in OLR over the latitudes of 10.5, 12.5 and 14.5° N along  the longitudes of 75.5-85.5° E  has revealed the feature that  north of 10.5° N, values of OLR are higher with decrease in RF from south to north.  During dry phase of NEM in December and January, higher OLR is observed over northern latitudes of BoB than southern latitudes. It has been comprehended that in the southern latitudes of BoB, where higher sea surface temperatures (SST) are prevalent, more moisture is generated and pumped in to upper levels of the atmosphere leading to lower values of OLR compared to northern latitudes.  

Impact of ENSO and the Indian Ocean Dipole on the north-east monsoon rainfall of Tamil Nadu State in India

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 633-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Geethalakshmi ◽  
Akiyo Yatagai ◽  
K. Palanisamy ◽  
Chieko Umetsu
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean Dipole ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Monsoon Rainfall ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Tamil Nadu State ◽  
The Indian Ocean

scholarly journals Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: Case Study of Manipur

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Mini Dey
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Entire Region ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Special Power

The Indian army, from the colonial era has been trained for conventional warfare. They have been used to curb the internal disturbances caused by non-state actors especially against insurgencies in Kashmir and the Northeast. Currently in northern part of India insurgency is the main problem and creates the war like situations like curfew and strike, sometimes which clearly challenges the model of democracy. Insurgency is an organized movement aimed to overthrow or destruct the constitutional government by the use of subversion, terrorism as well as armed conflict. And similar attempts by the state to crush them is known as counterinsurgency. This counterinsurgency often changes its nature to repression and human right violations. The northeast region of India comprised of eight states: Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim and all eight states have been poorly connected to the mainland India. but all of them has been surrounded by major countries like China, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Bhutan. it is very unfortunate to see that the numbers and information of the entire region is not sufficiently analyzed and communicated to the center, which creates the further misinformation, mismanagement and alienation. At another level, these all conflicts contribute to the violent forms, it has not only affects the Indian sovereignty but also affects the life of various people living in the entire region. As of now, among all of the eight states Manipur remains the most violent states in the north-east India. Manipur comes under the armed forces special power act, 1958. which had made the situation of Manipur from bad to worst. In this paper, I will critically analyze the history of Manipur with respect of AFSPA,1958 violations of human rights, role of Irom Chanu Sharmila also known as the "Iron Lady" or "Mengoubi” who has been on hunger strike for the 16 years to safe guard the rights of people of Manipur from the draconian law of AFSPA and the actions of Indian government.

scholarly journals Kadamba Tank Cultivation Area: A Status of Agricultural Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
M Marimuthu
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
User Association ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
Monsoon Period ◽  
Water User Association ◽  
North East ◽  
The North

The Thamirabarani River is one of the prominent sources of water for Kadamba Tank. Thamirabarani river is the perennial river in the South Tamil Nadu. Apart from that, which can store water during the North-East Monsoon period. The water user association members are getting money from duck rears and allowing duck into the agriculture fields after the harvest. The agriculturist is saying that after the first harvest if the water is not sufficient for the next crop such as paddy, farmers can go for the crop such as zero water consumption crops like green gram, black gram. Because of duck farming, agriculturists are not able to get benefited from low-cost crops. Indeed, water is the scarcity of resources in Tamil Nadu; irrigation water should not be charged more. Like other places in Tamil Nadu, in Kadamba Kulam agriculture basin, also collecting charges (ayakatu) for water usage by the association. The nonavailability of water throughout the year, the agricultural labors are moved from native and employed in the industrial sector. Tamil Nadu is a water tense state that lingers to experience water shortages which are expected to exacerbate in future due to the political pressure and money laundering, Justices A. Selvam and P. Kalaiyarasan dismissed the petitions on several grounds, including the State government’s submission that only 43 mc ft out of 5,049 mcf of surface water that goes waste into the sea was being supplied to the two industries. The court said that such supply did not affect either irrigation or drinking water needs of the people in any way.

scholarly journals Temporal evolution of COVID-19 in the states of India using SIQR Model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alok Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Reproduction Number ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
National Average ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Steady Rate ◽  
Entire Nation ◽  
Second Wave

ABSTRACTCOVID 19 entered during the last week of April 2020 in India has caused 3,546 deaths with 1,13,321 number of reported cases. Indian government has taken many proactive steps, including strict lockdown of the entire nation for more than 50 days, identification of hotspots, app-based tracking of citizens to track infected. This paper investigated the evolution of COVID 19 in five states of India (Maharashtra, UP, Gujrat, Tamil Nadu, and Delhi) from 1st April 2020 to 20th May 2020. Variation of doubling rate and reproduction number (from SIQR) with time is used to analyse the performance of the majorly affected Indian states. It has been determined that Uttar Pradesh is one of the best performers among five states with the doubling rate crossing 18 days as of 20th May. Tamil Nadu has witnessed the second wave of infections during the second week of May. Maharashtra is continuously improving at a steady rate with its doubling rate reaching to 12.67 days. Also these two states are performing below the national average in terms of infection doubling rate. Gujrat and Delhi have reported the doubling rate of 16.42 days and 15.49 days respectively. Comparison of these states has also been performed based on time-dependent reproduction number. Recovery rate of India has reached to 40 % as the day paper is written.

scholarly journals Establishment of lightning detection sensors network in India: retrieval of essential climate variables and vulnerability mapping

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alok Taori ◽  
Arun Suryavanshi ◽  
Biswadip Gharai ◽  
Sunil Pawar ◽  
M. V. R. Seshasai
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Information ◽  
Time Of Arrival ◽  
Lightning Flash ◽  
Overlay Analysis ◽  
Climate Variables ◽  
Indian States ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Indian Space Research Organization ◽  
Lightning Detection

Abstract A network of 25 lightning detection sensors (LDS) has been established by National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). In the present network, sensors are located in the north-east, east coastal, central and southern locations of India. Geo-location of the lightning occurrences is estimated using time of arrival algorithm. Thus obtained lightning occurrences have been used to derive climate variables (ECVs) and to understand the vulnerable regions. We carry out overlay analysis on a Geographical Information System (GIS) platform on the monthly aggregate number of CG flash occurrences to identify the vulnerable Indian states during July 2019 to November 2020. We note that December-January reported the least number of cloud-to-ground (CG) flash occurrences while, August-September were the months with most number of CG flash occurrences. We also note that during the period under the scrutiny in this report, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh states recorded the most number of CG lightning flash occurrences.

scholarly journals Animal Husbandry and Hunting Practices in Hispania Tarraconensis: An Overview

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lídia Colominas ◽  
Carlos Fernández Rodríguez ◽  
Maria Pilar Iborra Eres
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Territorial Organization

With the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Roman Empire, the different societies in the north, north-west, north-east, east, and centre were grouped into the same province, Hispania Tarraconensis. This article sets out to assess whether this new, Roman, territorial organization affected previous animal husbandry and hunting practices. The taxonomic and osteometric study of faunal remains from ninety-four sites dated between the fifth century bc and third century ad provides an overview of animal husbandry and hunting before and after the Roman conquest. It shows that important changes took place and that this province was differentially exploited in terms of animal husbandry.

scholarly journals Changing Scenario of Regional Anaesthesia Practice in Northeast India

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Himjyoti Das ◽  
Surajit Giri ◽  
Langpoklakpam Chaoba Singh
Keyword(s):  
General Anesthesia ◽  
Regional Anesthesia ◽  
Regional Anaesthesia ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
National Board ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Resource Limited

The North-East (NE) region of India comprises of eight states- Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura. (Fig 1) The anesthesia services in remote areas of this region are greatly restricted due to inadequate qualified manpower and infrastructure, as very few postgraduate and DNB (Diplomate National Board) seats are available each year across 4 out of 8 states through the NEET PG Test. (Fig 2a & 2b) Regional Anesthesia (RA) has several benefits in certain patients over general anesthesia. It not only allows for better post-operative pain management and a comfortable post-operative patient, but also allows for safer surgeries in patients with comorbidities that carry potentially life-threatening risks with general anesthesia, especially in a resource limited areas. The practice of RA took a backseat in the recent past due to lack of proper training in RA and the absence of a structured curriculum during PG training. However, during the last decade, we have witnessed a paradigm shift in RA and PNB (Peripheral nerve block) anesthesia with continued support from Academy of Regional Anaesthesia (AORA) & Indian Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA). For better understanding of the changing scenario of regional anesthesia practice in this region over years, we may divide the timeline into two phases, late 20th century and the 21st century.

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