Village Information Systems: A step towards G-Governance
Student distress is an increasingly recognised concern, poignantly reflected in the rising instances of student suicides across institutions of higher learning in India. Despite institutional mechanis...
ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS, BIODIVERSITY
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced plans to reduce the Kaziranga Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) to one km as opposed to the current 10 km. The state government’s intention has raised con...
Glaw Lake was recently designated as Arunachal Pradesh’s First and India’s 101st Ramsar Site. It is located within the Kamlang Tiger Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary. It hosts diverse flora and fauna sp...
<p>A Village Information System (VIS) is an application based on Geographical Information System (GIS), which provides information about multiple factors such as demography, infrastructure, population...
<p>In the first ever general election in 1952, India had 176 million registered voters while in the most recent general elections of 2014, the country has 814 million registered voters (India Today, 2...
<p>However, in the 1990s an international team supposedly discovered microbes in the accretion ice just above the lake that could derive energy from minerals in the lake and in the surrounding rocks.<...
<p>Covering a total area of about 10,000 sq km, Lake Vostok in Antarctica is one of the largest sub-glacial lakes in the world. Lake Vostok in Antarctica is buried under greater than about 3.7 km of i...
<p>A Village Information System (VIS) is an application based on Geographical Information System (GIS), which provides information about multiple factors such as demography, infrastructure, population and natural resources at the village, district and state level. VIS allows the management and analysis of village related data for efficient rural planning. A VIS consists of both spatial […]<...
<p>In the first ever general election in 1952, India had 176 million registered voters while in the most recent general elections of 2014, the country has 814 million registered voters (India Today, 2014). People in India, the largest democracy of the world elect representatives for Parliament, State Assembly, Panchayat and Nagar Palika.</p>
<p>However, in the 1990s an international team supposedly discovered microbes in the accretion ice just above the lake that could derive energy from minerals in the lake and in the surrounding rocks.</p>