S.P. Singh
82 books
Growing urbanization is posing serious environmental concerns in India in terms of changing land use pattern, increasing carbon emissions, solid waste generation and disposal, air and water pollution and poor sanitation amenities. A large segment of urban population in India resides in slums, squatters and informal settlement. These settlements are often located in low laying areas prone to direct and indirect risks due to environmental degradation including ...
India is home to almost 20 per cent of the world's children. More than 1/3rd of the country's population comprising of about 440 million is below 18 years. It has been assumed that about 40 per cent of these children are in need of care and protection, which indicates the extent of the social problem. In a country like India with its multicultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious population, the problems of socially marginalized, economically backward and ...
India has witnessed remarkable progress in human and economic development since Independence. The human activities are adversely affecting the environment and ecology while the global issues like ozone layer depletion, greenhouse gases affect, global warming, climatic change, etc. cause concern. The environmental pollution is posing a serious challenge for the sustainability of the economic growth while the road to sustainable development is a tardy one. There is ...
This book, which is divided in eight chapters, provides a comprehensive illustration of occupational and educational mobility in India. The initial two chapters present the context, background, data, methodology and limitations of the study. The third and the fifth chapters present the transitions in the pattern of occupational structure and level of educational attainment respectively among sub-groups of Indian population over past 27 years i.e., 1983 to ...
Ramayana is one of the greatest epics and is sacred to the Hindu religion written by Valmiki. This book is illustrated to give a good insight of the stories. Easy and simple language has been the hallmark of this edition. The book also brings out moral values required for present day generation. The stories in this book are the results of efforts of the entire team involved from planning till production of the printed version in book form. It is hoped that the ...
The Bhagavad Gita is a unique book and it is one of the most important Scriptures. It is the divine voice of Lord Krishna. It advocates Krishna’s doctrine of doing one’s duty without coveting any reward. One can be spiritually benefited by meditating and contemplating on the Gita. All of one’s doubts are removed and one can attain even God by following the gospels of the Gita.
Developing Nations bear the greatest burden of infectious disease and have limitations on the food front as well. These two situations work synergistically to put a lot of stress on the physical growth of children living in the developings world thus impinging on their health, survival and habitual physical activity. Professor Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize winner in Economics in 1998 dedicated his efforts to work on the welfare economics by correlating the health ...
Crossbreeding involving Bos Taurus cattle breeds with native descriptive and non descriptive cattle population was introduced in India nearly half a century ago with the aim to quick gains in milk production. Undoubtedly, there was a rapid rise in milk production making India the largest milk producer in the world. However, crossbreeding affected the bovine population in general and native breeds in particular in various ways leaving problems and unsolved ...
The volume presents papers contributed at a national seminar on violence against women and children in India. The papers deal with nature of the violence and its impact, discussing causes, consequences and protection required against domestic violence. With specific reference to districts and states of India, they take up the issue of discrimination against women and girl children, human rights and crimes against children especially child trafficking. They view ...
