Category: Politics & Government

Free sample essay on Our Roads (India). The roads in our villages, towns and cities are bumpy and are not traffic-worthy. In villages there are ups and downs on the streets or roads and if it is dark one may stumble. The Panchayats, municipalities and corporations are not particular in laying good roads, in mending them.Even in the cities the roads are not well-tarred and there is no footpath. Except in the main thoroughfares there are no footpaths. A person has to walk on the sides of a road and when two or three vehicles from the opposite directions come it is quite difficult for a pedestrian to give way to the vehicles. This is a strange situation in Indian towns and cities.The first duty of a Panchayati, municipality or…

Short essay on A Scene at a Ration Depot for students (Free to read). A ration depot is an important compo­nent of the Public Distribution System (PDS).The main purpose of having a net-work of ration depots throughout the country is to arrange a regular supply of essential items to the common man at fixed reasonable rates. This system incidentally also discour­ages hoarding by unscrupulous traders and prevents resultant shortages and artificial escalation of price rise.A ration depot is generally bubbling with life. Long before the opening of the depot, the card-holders stand outside it in a long queue. Sometimes there are separate queues for ladies and gentlemen and for those who want eatables like cereals, pulses, sugar etc. and those who want kerosene oil. Image Source : olympia-einkaufszentrum.de ADVERTISEMENTS: Generally,…

AlDS stands for ‘Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome’ a disease in which the body’s immune system breaks down. A virus called the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS. HIV specifically targets key components of the cellular immune system and depletes the body’s ability to fight infection.In medical terminology HIV is a retrovirus this means it can copy its genetic material RNA into DNA using a unique enzyme called reverse transcriptase. ADVERTISEMENTS: Normally, living organisms make RNA out of DNA but in retroviruses such as HIV, the step is in reverse that is it makes DNA out of RNA. HIV inserts its DNA copies into the DNA of the cells of the immune system, turning them into HIV factories and preventing them from protecting the body.HIV is also a highly variable virus…

317 words short essay on A River in Flood. Last year I was in Calcutta during summer. As the rainy season drew near, it started raining heavily for many days on end.So the water level in the river Ganga began to rise and soon it was in flood. Soon the water began to overflow the banks. When we heard of the flood, we, under the organisation of a voluntary social welfare society ‘Help’ planned to visit the flooded villages. It was terrible. There was water everywhere.The current was strong. Men and animals struggled between life and death. Many things were seen floating in the water. Live snakes were seen being washed away. Here and there we could see the carcasses on the surface of water. Water seemed to be devouring…

Short paragraph on My Ambition in Life. Ambition always gives life a meaning. I do not want to nurture any ambition for personal benefit. I am a part of the huge and diversified society in which many people are poverty stricken, exploited and miserable.I want to be committed to them. Hence I aim at becoming a social worker. As a social worker, I will work in distant and remote villages of India where people are illiterate and trapped in religious superstitions. I shall try to present their case to the government. To fight for the cause of the destitute and downtrodden has been my long cherished dream. I shall make every effort to make them realize that it’s they who create history and not the chosen few or any socio-political…

The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India. It defines the fundamental political principles and establishes the structure, procedures, powers and duties of the government. ADVERTISEMENTS: It also describes the fundamental rights, directive principles and duties of citizens. The Indian Constitution was passed by the Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949, and came into effect on January 26, 1950. The date commemorates the 1930 Declaration of Independence. The Constitution declares India to be a sovereign, democratic republic and promises justice, equality and liberty to all its citizens. In 1976, the words, ‘socialist’, ‘secular’ and ‘integrity’ were added to the definition by a constitutional amendment. Every year, the country celebrates the day of adoption of the Constitution- 26 January- as Republic Day. Image Source : ramselstatuate.com The Indian Constitution…

The Scheduled Caste (SC) occupies the bottommost rung of the social ladder. They form a major part of the Backward or Depressed Classes. They are generally regarded as ‘Untouchables’ and popularly known as ‘Harijans’.According to the Census Report of 1971 the Scheduled Castes constitute 15.04% of the total population, their total number being 8.25 crores. In Karnataka alone more than 38? A lakh Harijans are there.They are not in majority in any part of the country. They constitute more than 20% of the population, in more than 666 talukas. Hence they are scattered over the entire land. There is no district or taluk in India wherein the Scheduled Caste people are not found. Image Source: dalitbangladesh.files.wordpress.com ADVERTISEMENTS: Further, nowhere in India the Harijans or the Scheduled Caste people occupy the…

Many successful people in easy circumstances refuse to admit that they have any duties to the poor. They agree with Tennyson’s “Northern Farmer” when he said, “The poor in a lump is bad.” They comfort themselves with the belief that all poverty is due to laziness, drink, or stupidity, and is, therefore, the fault of the poor themselves.Even if this were true, we should still have a duty to the poor; for it is the duty of the wise, the strong, the industrious and the virtuous, to help the weak, the idle, the foolish and the vicious, to change their mode of life.But it is not true; at any rate it is only a part of the truth. For in modern civilization, a great deal of the terrible poverty that…

Essay on Social Contract Theory – The ‘social contract theory’ throws light on the origin of the society. According to this theory, all men are born free and equal. Individual precedes society. Society came into existence because of an agreement entered into by the individuals.The classical representatives of this school of thought are Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and J.J. Rousseau. The three of them thought in various ways that before the existence of civil society men lived in a sort of pre-social state, called the state of nature, and in virtue of a contract among them, society came into existence. The essence of their argument is as follows: ADVERTISEMENTS: (a) Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679):Thomas Hobbes, an English thinker, was of the opinion that society came into being as a means for…