India - National Energy Conservation Awards 2016

Bureau of Energy Efficiency India invites applications for award of National Energy Conservation Awards from various subsectors of the economy. The award is based on energy conservation effort during 2014 - 16

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LARGE/ MEDIUM /SMALL SCALE Industry
Aviation Sector
Thermal Power Stations
Electricity Distribution Companies
Office & BPO Buildings
Universities and Engineering Institution Buildings
Hotels & Hospitals Building
Shopping Mall
Railway Stations
Railway Workshops
Zonal Railways
State Road Transport Corporation & Undertakings
Ordnance Factory
Municipality
SDA (State Designated Agencies)
State PWD and CPWD
Manufacturers of BEE Star Labeled Equipments/ Appliances
Best Energy Auditor and Energy Auditing Agencies

The last date for submitting filled application form is:

28 September 2016

To download application forms/formats
Visit https://beeindia.gov.in/awards/nation-conservation-awards-2016

Modern Indian Family - Evolution

Thesis Chapter
Indian Family System
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/8117/10/10_chapter%202.pdf


Indian Society and Social Change
Calicut University BA Sociology Distance Education Notes
http://www.universityofcalicut.info/SDE/BA_sociology_indian_society.pdf

Indian Society and Ways of Living
Organization of Social Life in India
http://asiasociety.org/education/indian-society-and-ways-living

Modern Indian Family Law
Werner Menski
Routledge, 16-Dec-2013 - Political Science - 448 pages


This text presents an overview of the major issues and topics in current developments in Indian family law. Indian law has produced a number of very important innovations in the past two decades, which are also highly instructive for law reform debates in western and other jurisdictions. Topics discussed are: marriage, divorce, polygamy, maintenance, property and the Uniform Civil Code.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=fOFcAgAAQBAJ


Article
International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling
December 2004, Volume 26, Issue 4, pp 341-350
First online:
The Impact of Modernization on Indian Families: The Counselling Challenge
Lina Kashyap
Department of Family and Child Welfare, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10447-004-0169-7

Changing Authority Within the Context of Socialization in Indian Families
George Kurian and Ratna Ghosh
Social Science
Vol. 53, No. 1 (WINTER 1978), pp. 24-32
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41886219?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

State Bank of India - Business Correspondent and Business Facilitator - Business Opportunity

State Bank of India is appointing and using the services of business correspondents and business facilitators to increase the coverage of the Bank in rural areas as well as in urban areas. Other banks are also using the services of similar channel. This provides a startup opportunity to persons interested in proving financial services to people.

SBI has 66,000 customer services providers. It is in the process of revamping this channel by studying and improving the performance of these outlets.  SBI also has corporate banking correspondents.

Pay Point India is one such corporate service provider and it is planning appoint 3000 to 3500 CSPs.


Know more SBI Banking correspondents

BC arrangement - SBI Brief
https://www.sbi.co.in/portal/web/agriculture-banking/business-correspondent-bc-arrangement


Oxigen Financial Services - Advertisement for SBI CSPs
http://www.myoxigen.com/financial-services/sbi-kiosk.php

Report on Study of  business correspondents and business facilitators - 2011 Report
http://www.iibf.org.in/documents/reseach-report/Report-29.pdf


http://bcsbi.blogspot.in/2011/06/business-correspondents-engaged-by-sbi.html

India - Rio Olympics 2016 - Men's and Women's Relay Teams

The Indian men's and women's 4x400m relay squads have qualified for the Rio Olympics

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Sania Mirza - 2016 Rio Olympics - Tennis Participant

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The Times of India  Sports Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzjPDNc5ZgsAsMJIQ6zVOKGbGzrRcGByB


Sania is participating in Rio Olympics. She will partner Prarthana Thombare in the Tennis women's doubles event and Rohan Bopanna in the mixed doubles.

Rohit Khandelwal from India crowned Mr World 2016

Rohit Khandelwal won Mr World title at the finale of the 2016 competition in the UK.

26-year-old Khandelwal received a cash prize of $50,000. The event was held  at the Southport Theatre and Convention Centre in Southport, UK.


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The Times of India

India's Economic Reforms (1991 - 2016) Review and Plan for 2016-2041 - $20 Trillion GDP

Indian Economic Reforms - Review of the period 1991 - 2016

All newspapers and periodicals are publishing articles reviewing the reform process initiated in 1991 and sustained till 2016 in a party neutral manner. Whichever government came into power so far, it carried the reforms further and strengthened the liberalized economic system where private business is allowed to show its entrepreneurial ability without the shackles of government planning commission and licenses based on it. Public sector was allowed to expand wherever possible without insisting on domination of public sector in every organized sector of economic activity.

Below is the collection of articles that are being published in Indian and Foreign press about the economic reforms undertaken during the period 1991 - 2016 in India

The first important document that every reader interested in knowing about economic reforms that Indian government initiated has to read is the budget speech delivered by Dr. Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister on 24 July 1991.

http://indiabudget.nic.in/bspeech/bs199192.pdf


20 years of economic reforms
Aug 09 2010.
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/nAnoRg4LU8JTsUE4T7STWI/20-years-of-economic-reforms.html

Twenty years after India’s historic economic reforms, it’s time for another big effort
Jul 21st 2011

http://www.economist.com/node/18988536

25 Years Reviews - Published in 2016


25 years of reforms: Liberalisation is significant, but we still have an exit problem, says Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/25-years-of-reforms-liberalisation-is-significant-but-we-still-have-an-exit-problem-says-arun-jaitley/articleshow/53309906.cms

25 years of reforms: How a PM with zero knowledge of economics scripted India's biggest turnaround story
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/25-years-of-reforms-how-a-pm-with-zero-knowledge-of-economics-scripted-indias-biggest-turnaround-story/articleshow/53309051.cms


Economic reforms: P Chidambaram on India’s tryst with destiny
By: P Chidambaram | Published: July 10, 2016
Financial Express

The only way in which we can accelerate and sustain the pace of development is to ensure that every able-bodied adult can work and contribute to economic development. - P Chidambaram

If the Indian economy grows at 6% or 7% or 8%, it will continue to attract FDI. Money will flow into India. Infrastructure will be built. Factories will come up. Doing business will become easier in course of time. - P Chidambaram

A poorly educated and unhealthy workforce will be a severe drag on the economy. - P Chidambaram

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe-columnist/economic-reforms-p-chidambaram-on-indias-tryst-with-destiny/311890/

Quarter of a mile

The economic reforms initiated in 1991 changed India as we knew it. Twenty-five years later, the transformation is anything but complete, and there is a long way to go

http://www.theweek.in/theweek/cover/25-years-after-the-economic-reforms-of-1991.html


How reforms killed Indian manufacturing
ASHOK PARTHASARATHI
(Ashok Parthasarathi was the Science and Technology Adviser to the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.)
March 15, 2016
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/ashok-parthasarathi-how-reforms-killed-indian-manufacturing/article8352882.ece

The ease of living in India
PULAPRE BALAKRISHNAN
A quarter century of economic reform has transformed the economy. But governments have been less mindful of addressing social and natural capital
Pulapre Balakrishnan teaches economics at Ashoka University.
June 18, 2016
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-ease-of-living-in-india-with-economic-reform/article8641712.ece

Search Links for Articles on Economic Reforms in India - Newspaper  and Periodical Specific

The Economic Times
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/25-years-of-reforms/newslist/53309247.cms

Indian Express

http://indianexpress.com/topic/25-years-of-economic-reforms/

http://www.theweek.in/content/week/tag.html?t=theweek:package/25yearsafterreforms&tName=25%20years%20after%20reforms

India Economic Plan for the Future -  2016 to 2041

PM Narendra Modi's Dream - India: 20 Trillion Dollar Economy

Prosperous India - Vision 2035

Important Sectors - Contribution in $20 trillion India GDP

2016 Opinions

Montek Singh Ahluwalia - We need to focus on our cities and the challenges of urbanisation. That’s much more important.

http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/indian-economy-1991-economic-reforms-montek-singh-ahluwalia-manmohan-singh-indian-rupee-rbi-2907985/

At this juncture, the government should concentrate its attention on three quiet crises in the economy — in agriculture, industry, and infrastructure — which run deep and loom large as binding constraints on our economic performance.

Deepak Nayyar  (Chief Economic Adviser to three governments — two short-lived ones led by V P Singh and Chandra Shekhar and later, for the first few months of the Narasimha Rao-led government)

- At this juncture, the government should concentrate its attention on three quiet crises in the economy — in agriculture, industry, and infrastructure — which run deep and loom large as binding constraints on our economic performance.

http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/time-has-come-to-think-big-and-long-about-where-we-would-like-india-to-be-in-2040-deepak-nayyar/