Child Labour

Child Labour Employing children below 14 years old age is called child labour. International Convention of the Rights of Child says that employing anybody below 18 years of age would amount to child labour. Children are employed because they are required to do some delicate work which can be done only by children. Apart from…

Liberalisation and Swadeshi

Liberalisation and ‘Swadeshi’ When Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru was delivering his famous speech, The Tryst with Destiny he would have never imagined that fifty-five years hence his country would be in shambles and the national economy in tatters. Muhammed Bin Tughlaq, the fourteenth century monarch once said, “My kingdom is diseased the physician cures the…

Remedial Measures for Poverty

Independent India paid due attention to the problem of poverty and undertook many measures and launched many schemes, programmes and projects for the upliftment of the poor. ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAMMES Some of the poverty alleviation programmes launched from time to time by the government are discussed below- . INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME(IRDA) 1978-79 . DEVELOPMENT OF…