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1. During this period, the demand for extension of deposit insurance was gaining momentum on account of significant increase in the operations of Urban Cooperative Banks and their volume of deposits and more particularly in the context of sad experience of Palai Central Bank failure. As extension of deposit insurance to cooperative banking sector presupposes some semblance of Reserve Bank control over them, some provisions of B.R. Act, 1949 were made applicable to Urban Cooperative banks in 1966…

INTRODUCTION India, a collaboration of 29 states and 7 union territories and is known for its great unity in diversity. But that unity bears certain loop holes in maintaining the same in reality. Each state in India has a uniqueness of its own whether it is in culture, geographic pattern, community settlements, economic or natural resources. There is indeed a wide disparity in development which makes rich more rich & poor becomes poorer. As such, people living in rural part (poor regions) of…

murder in 2003 and suicide attack on STF Headquarters in Hyderabad in 2005, the bombing of Delhi Patna Shramjeevi Express at Jaunpur in 2005, Yazdani quickly rose to head the Lashkar’s South India operation and was among the most wanted men on the Andhra Pradesh police list. He had also allegedly hatched a plan to blow up a Ganesh temple near Secunderabad railway…

The Wisconsin Epidemiological Study (25)has proved that microvascular complications such as diabetic retinopathy (DR) in the diabetic population are linked to the duration of the disease. Diabetic retinopathy occurs both in type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Nearly all type 1 and 75% of type 2 DM will develop DR after 15 year duration of diabetes.(25) During the first two decades of disease, nearly all patients with type 1 diabetes and >60% of patients with type 2 diabetes have…

repair service established on 23 November, 2011 in association with India's largest oil conglomerate Indian Oil Corporation. It served for the last three years and today, it is in eight states as Delhi NCR, Maharashtra, U.P., Gujrat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttrakhand and eighteen main cities like Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Mumbai, Pune, Panjim, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Tirupati, Dehradun, Kolkata, etc. Its 151 outlets are amazingly working in these cities and its 24*7 hours…

ORIGIN OF SELF HELP GROUPS, PERFORMANCE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION By R.BHAKTHER SOLOMON Development Consultant Introduction: In 1970 Paulo Freire in his book “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” used “Conscientization” as a Consciousness raising process to organise the poor. It is a popular social and education concept. Development professionals took a cue from this and thus came the principles of Education, Organisation, and Mobilisation as a strategy to empower the poor. Based on the local…

powerful in S India. The Hoysalas later came into conflict with the empire of Vijayanagar and the Muslim sultans of Delhi, and the last Hoysala rule was overthrown in 1346. At its height the dynasty ruled over parts of the modern states of Mysore, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.…

As each of us hear the word slum or read anywhere, a picture comes to our mind which is usually dilapidated, dirty, congested having narrow lanes etc. Scholars have extensively defined the concept of slum. Let us look at a few of them. Charles J Stokes in his article “A theory of slums” (1962) writes that in a slum, the housing and also the social activities or arrangements develop differently from that of the city. From this definition it can be said that slums are a part of a city yet it is…

Knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) among diabetic patients. In any given community, the first important thing is to assess what people know about certain things, their feelings towards it and also their behaviours so that we can start the process of creating awareness among the people. In order to facilitate a more efficient process of health information for behavioural change it is important to understand the levels of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices providing information necessary…

returns with a production potential (50-80 t ha-1)[5]. It has a good source of protein, starch as well as minerals and is very popular as a vegetable in various Indian cuisines. In India, it is cultivated in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Gujarat, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh…