Punjab

This deficit of women has resulted in a bride trafficking practice where women from villages are bought and sometimes kidnapped to be sold as brides to men. In regions like Punjab, the sex ratio is so skewed towards men that wives are often shared between brothers or cousins. In 1994, the Indian government implemented Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act, which only allows pre-conception tests to identify a deformity in the fetus. Although this law still continues to be broken, women’s rights…

Education; Punjab “one-half of those who appear in the matriculation examination, as regular students, fail to…

Regions and population groups largely dependent on agriculture are usually poorer and more undernourished. However, it is also observed that regions which are very prosperous in agriculture may have low undernourishment and poverty rates. In states like Punjab and Kerala with better development, a typical scenario emerged. Here, higher inequality in malnutrition prevalence was found at the lower levels of stunted children. In contrast to the urban children, the process of recovery from poor…

INTRODUCTION “Migration” is one of the past forces that have formed the world. Migration has been always being a part of human behaviour, validity but they are not based on a clear definition of migration. Migration is shift from one place of residence to another place for some length of time or permanently including different types of voluntary movements. It has great impact on social, cultural, economic and psychological life of people. In India the labour migration is mostly influenced by…

different India, an India of his dreams; free of oppression, misery, and classism. The culture which is developed by Europe and Britain during the 15th through 19th centuries was about capital colonization which says complete exploitation of colonies for their own benefit. Agriculture was the basic pillar of Indian economy. For about eighty percent of Indian population espoused it as people as their principal source of livelihood. It use to contribute to seventy percent of national income.…

One threat to Sikhism is that Hindus do not recognize Sikhism as being different from Hinduism. Hindus claim that Sikhism is just one of the many forms of Hinduism. For this reason, Sikhs fear they will not be able to maintain their distinct religious identity and will be absorbed into Hinduism. Sikhs argue that they are not Hindus, and they demand that Hindus recognize their distinctiveness. However, some Sikh behaviors conform more closely to Hindu beliefs than the teachings of Sikh gurus. For…

Lal Singh is an Indian who is born into a peasant family in Punjab and he grows up in the peasant family in his village in Punjab. The situation of farmers during 1939 was that agriculture was a diminishing profession and industrialization was what the British Rule in India was aiming for claiming that India was an old civilization but it was a backward civilization. Lal Singh feels trapped in his village and in his religion Sikhism and eaves his village to join the British Army and serve as a…

DBQ #1 People like Dr. Vandena Shiva in document 8 can say how the Green Revolution brought a negative effect especially in Punjab, however, the graphs in document 1 & 2 by the Food and Agriculture Org. of the united Nations show that food supply has been increasing and in turn, cause our population to grow immensely these last years. The Green Revolution may not be able to provide for such a large population in the future so the positives will go away, but the negatives, such as the need for…

A pressing issue in Pakistan is the country’s vulnerability to climate change. In 2011 the Global Climate Change Vulnerability Index ranked Pakistan as the 16th most vulnerable country after enduring many severe floods, droughts and storms. In a country that relies heavily on the agriculture sector, taking up 45% of employment, the effect of climate change on farming is a serious matter that creates a possible threat to everyday lifestyle. While this issue has created discussion within the…

INTRODUCTION Bicycle industry means: The bicycle industry or cycling industry can broadly defined as the industry concerned with bicycles. It includes bicycle manufacturers or producers, parts or components manufacturers, dealers, distributors, retailers, bicycle organizations, cycle promoters, bicycle related service providers. Bicycle industry in INDIA: India produces approximately 10% of the world annual bicycle production, which is estimated at 12.5 million units every year witnessing new…