How Gandhi viewed elections? Scholars studying Gandhi have focussed on his strategies of ahimsa (non-violence) and satyagrah (insistence on truth), which produced conditions for mass mobilisation ...leading to successful decolonisation efforts in India. Though Gandhi recorded his views on franchise beginning with his petition to Natal Assembly in 1894, the researchers have not made much attempt to explore its nuances; those shaped Gandhi’s evolution as a democratic crusader in the context of India as a nation. His engagements with the issues of the franchise question in Natal connected him to traditions of elections in India, and his observation of suffragette in England made him conscious of the challenges of struggle in the manner of engagement with a powerful state. This article focuses on Gandhi’s engagement with various facets of elections in his early political days and argues that the ‘franchise question’ allowed him to understand India as a political possibility and the ‘suffragette’ informed his methods of mass engagement with the imperial powers.
This research paper highlights women's participation, various policies, and strategies in MGNREGA's implementation. Gender is an indispensable push factor, and women have always played a critical ...role in growth and development. The Indian government pursued several initiatives to empower women, and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) is one of them -indeed, a women-friendly enactment because of the provisions it incorporates for the females. Along with providing social security, rural employment, and eradicating poverty, the scheme has played a significant role in rural women's upliftment. The paper is based on secondary data. The qualitative-quantitative mixed-model method is used and explores women's participation in India's North-eastern states through the programme. It analyses the implementation of MGNREGS with a comparative view of Assam and Meghalaya. The study also highlights the current status in Assam, which, despite having the highest number of job cardholders, failed to achieve the desired level of outcomes in the programme and also lagged in women participation. The paper offers inputs for better outcomes in Meghalaya and also suggests measures to overcome the lacunas of the scheme in Assam.
Chingus, an almost mountainous village of district Rajouri, falls under Jammu province of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir. The village is replete with local heritage which includes culinary heritage and ...handicrafts. Though rich in heritage, it cannot be considered as a sustainably developed area. Identification and utilisation of its available heritage can be helpful in its sustainable development. Years ago, Mahatma Gandhi also laid stress on the utilisation of local heritage for sustainable development. When it comes to the identification and utilisation of local heritage of Chingus, the local communities (Gujjars/ Bakarwals/ Paharies) of the area can do a lot. But, the locals would not come forward on their own. They must be channelised by local government and other government/private or non-profit agencies. Such channelisation would help in making Chingus, a self-reliant village, thus, giving practical shape to the Gandhian dream of self reliant villages. Moreover, establishment of ‘Mahatma Gandhi Museum of Heritage’ would make the process of sustainable development of Chingus more speedy.
The battle for the votes of 850 million people is between the current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who leads the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Rahul Gandhi, who leads the India National ...Congress. In the 2014 election, Congress was destroyed by a landslide victory for Modi (he won 282 seats, the Modi wave). ...recently, Modi was expected to win again in 2019. ...the challenge facing Indian farmers who “are in deep trouble” and who need “a new green revolution”.
Editorial Kant, Rajni; Bhargava, Balram; Nadda, J
Indian journal of medical research (New Delhi, India : 1994),
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With the advances made in medical science, we have succeeded in winning the war against diseases like small pox, plague, polio, neonatal tetanus and guinea-worm, but our fight against emerging health ...issues such as lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases could be handled by adopting the Gandhian philosophy. ICMR carried out extensive research on leprosy and tuberculosis, and helped in bringing the disease incidence down as well as removing the fear around these diseases by providing better treatment options. Section 1 is focused on the medical legacy of Gandhi (as he himself dedicated his life to caring for the ailing), his own health file (health issues he faced and tackled), his experiments with his own health, based on articles published and health records available at the National Gandhi Museum, Delhi, as well as articles from Gandhians who worked at the grassroots and dedicated their lives to fulfil the dreams of the Mahatma. India needs more of Gandhiji right now, especially since the country is transitioning to an affordable health care ecosystem with a focus on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) that will benefit everyone in the country.
Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi discussed corporate responsibility (CR) and business ethics over several decades of the twentieth century. His views are still influential in modern India. In ...this paper, we highlight Gandhi's cross-level CR framework, which operates at institutional, organizational, and individual levels. We also outline how the Tata Group, one of India's largest conglomerates, has historically applied and continues to utilize Gandhi's concept of trusteeship. We then compare Gandhi's framework to modern notions of stakeholder and stewardship management. We conclude that trusteeship has strong potential to help firms and their stakeholders achieve shared value by (a) considering the interactions between individual, organizational, and institutional factors, and (b) paying attention to a range of multi-level (reciprocal) stakeholder obligations.
Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme a large social security programme being implemented in India, with an average annual investment of US$ 7 billion. The bulk of the activities under ...this programme are focused on natural resources such as land, water and trees, which provide adaptation benefits. In this study an attempt is made to estimate the carbon sequestration achieved and future potential, as a co-benefit, from MGNREGS. The total mean carbon sequestered at the national level, considering the cumulative number of natural resource based activities, for the year 2017-18 was estimated to be 102 MtCO2. The annual mean carbon sequestration is projected to increase to about 132 MtCO2 by 2020 and 249 MtCO2 by 2030. Drought proofing is one of the activities implemented under MGNREGS and it includes tree planting, relevant to achieving the NDC carbon sink target. The cumulative carbon sink created by drought proofing activities is projected to be 56 MtCO2 in 2020, 281 MtCO2 in 2025 and 561 MtCO2 in 2030. This study demonstrates the significant carbon sink potential of MGNREGS and highlights the importance of estimation and reporting climate mitigation co-benefits of adaptation actions such as MGNREGS under the Paris Agreement.
Satyagraha and South Africa Czekalska, Renata; Kłosowicz, Robert
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The article presents the results of research carried out mainly on Mahatma Gandhi’s written statements which the authors refer to both a historical and socio‑political background. It is the first ...part of the planned two‑part study on mutual relations between Mahatma Gandhi’s satyagraha and South Africa, therefore it is focused on the interdependencies between the origin of the idea and the place where it was invented. The authors seek to answer two main questions: 1) whether Gandhi has entered into a dialogue with the native people of South Africa, and 2) whether Gandhi’s idea of non‑violent fighting for social rights included the native population of South Africa. The study also presents an outline of the evolution of Gandhi’s attitudes towards Africans and the Coloured People.
Hind Swaraj was published in Gujarati language in the journal Indian Opinion under the title Hind Swarajaya in 1909, and its English version as Indian Home Rule by Mahatma Gandhi was published in ...Phoenix, Natal, 1910. This extraordinary work possesses an authority of its own. It is the seed from which the Gandhian thought has grown. He considered the views expressed in the ‘Hind Swaraj’ as sacred as ‘almost part of his being’. Gandhi, through the expressions in this, spelt out his strategy for future action which was to be rooted in the belief of the pre-eminence of ancient Indian civilisation, which in contrast with the western ‘represents the best that the world has ever seen’. The high point of the book is the virtue of non-violence as against violent revolution and the need to use ethical means to attain independence by means of educational reforms and adoption of technology suitable to Indian conditions. He advised the revolutionaries to follow the righteousness of Indian culture by reverting ‘to their own glorious civilisation’. The core of the book, as conveyed through the title is an analysis of the nature of British rule in India and its manifestations, its consequences in the political and moral decay of Indian society. Hind Swaraj is the prescription to pull India out of this muddle.
Mahatma Gandhi emerged as an exceptionally great personality in the twentieth century whose ideas have proved convincing to any intellectual, rational human being, and whose greatness lies in his ...practical contribution to the entire human society. Gandhi's epitomizing writings like Hind Swaraj (1909), An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927), and innumerable articles published by him continuously for a pretty long period in his journal Indian Opinion and his diaries are most motivating and liberalizing.
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