IOSR-JHSS   Volume-25 ~ Issue-5 ~ May 2020

Abstract: India agriculture has been experiencingdecliningproductivity rates owing to a misallocation of resources in the domain of agriculture. Despitevarious interventions and policies adopted by the government , the benefits have been limited to certain pockets of India. This has slowed the pace of growth of agricultural productivity. The paper examines the trends of agricultural productivity of India in the global scenario. The importance of irrigation in productivity has been established by drawing inter-state disparities in rice production of India and analysing the irrigational scenario in India. It has also been foundthat a higherlevel of farmmechanisation corresponds to a greaterproductivity, through an inter-state comparison of yield of wheat and an analysis of the global scenario.The important aspects of the R&D scenario arebrought out through a inter-country examination of......

Key Word: yield ; irrigation ; mechanisation; research and development ; contractfarming ;

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Abstract: One of the major problems facing Nigeria is how to manage the rising number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) especially in the North Eastern part of the country. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) which was established by Act 12 as amended by Act 50 of 1999 is saddled with the responsibility of managing the IDPs. Despite the modest achievements of NEMA in managing the rising number of IDPs, the current humanitarian crisis in IDP camps in north east Nigeria has cast doubt about the effectiveness of NEMA in managing IDPs. This article therefore examines the major challenges which have militated against effective management of IDPs by NEMA. The theoretical framework adopted in the article is Structural Functional theory. The survey (personal interview) and documentary methods of data collection were adopted in the study. Data were analyzed using content analysis method. The study found that poor record keeping by NEMA......

Key words: National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)

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Abstract:This article, has explored the relationship between forest, people and state especially with regard to Uttarakhand which faced the brunt colonial power or domination over forest resources in nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The paper traces the colonial commercial forestry, scientific practices, interference with traditional customary right of local people, etc. Ramachandra Guha, Madhav Gadgil, Shekhar Pathak wrote exhaustive and interesting discourses on environmental history of Uttarakhand which has a long history of resistance against the scientific practices of Britishers. For more than a century, development has brought about major ecological transformations with change from Oak plantations to chir-pine affecting rain, soil – erosion, landslides on the environmental end. Various questions pertaining to it can be answered like the indigenous response to changing patterns of environmental control, how resistance to the colonial power took place during this period? How the forest policy and act led to the control over forests region.....

Key Notes:- Commercial forestry, scientific practices, colonial domination, indigenous response

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Abstract: This paper tries to examine how death is viewed in Jainism though it is also defined in other religions of the world. But, in Jain tradition, it is an art of embracing death with joy. Accordingly, it was dividedinto 48 types of death in Jain Agamas. And the name given to this ritual is Sallekhana, which means thinning out of passions gradually which will even last for 12 years. At the final stage of death or when the deathis close then Santhara is taken under two conditions. But Sallekhana is different from both suicide and euthanasia, where it is taken due to disappointment, fear, frustration, and anger. But in Sallekhana, one embraces death through meditation and fasting with one‟s faculties properly working and in complete awareness and ability.

KEYWORDS: Sallekhana, Santhara, Death, Suicide, and Euthanasia

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Abstract: COVID-19 has become a global fastest trans-border pandemic with the worst health fatality in history. From the corpora of historic pandemics, COVID-19 is not the first and may not be the last China would be at the epicenter of global pandemics. Each of the earlier pandemics came with anxiety, fear, panic, and offered both gloom and bloom yet the international polity has always been caught up in a web of poor implementation of strategic preparedness and response plan in preventing and controlling these emergencies. Although the animal-origin thesis is still speculative of the Wuhan-epidemic, the "antigenic drift‟ characteristic, speed of secondary transmission and the lethal effect of more than other waves of global pandemics since 430 B.C., make COVID-19 a much more serious danger to lives of peoples across the globe. Our broad objective is to examine the social and economic.....

Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, international politics, assessment, response plan

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Abstract: Owing to its geographical contiguities with Central Asia, the state of Jammu and Kashmir opened new vistas of British trade in Central and South Asia under the garb of Kashmir trade. Due to its strategic location state was connected with Central Asia through the famous Silk route, and its small outlets which were used by traders of Kashmir from the times immemorial to reach out the markets in Central Asia. In this regard we see in the later part of nineteenth century British policy towards Kashmir was simply an attempt to employ the kingdom as the Guardian of the Northern frontiers, and to limit the political as well as economical powers of Maharaja in his state, for the safety as well as prosperity of their British Empire...

Keynotes: - Expansion, Consolidation, Trade, Mastery, Safety, Agreements, Control, Decline

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