Nagar panchayat Puns

I visit my hometown with parents each year and it's a small town, more like a big village. There is no garbage collection, people have agreed on some areas as garbage dumps and everyone throws their dump there. They usually burn it after the garbage heap gets too big. This town is controlled by village panchayat. Is the local admin supposed to employ someone for cleaning or there is no govt rules for rural areas waste collection.Does it vary by states?

>There is a general perception in India that the biggest threat to India’s national security comes from our two hostile neighbours i.e. Pakistan and China. But the truth is that the most serious threat to India’s security comes from the vast network of activist NGOs, human rights organizations and India’s pseudo-secular lobby which are all now collectively known as civil society groups. These civil society groups, supported, funded and controlled by some western intelligence and church agencies, pose a very grave threat to the very survival of India as a sovereign nation. Many of these organizations which were first established in India as charity organizations, later changed their colour and started showing their fangs by supporting various militant and secessionist movements in the country. The NGO and human rights activism got a big boost in the early 1970s with the patronage it received from Sonia Gandhi who came to India in 1968 as the Italian ‘bahu’ of India’s former prime minister Indira Gandhi. The origin of many militant people’s movements like Narmada Bachao Andolan and Kastakari Sanghatana which were started in the mid-1970s and the take over of the Maoist movement by the pro-US NGO lobby can be traced to this NGO-Sonia nexus. With Rajiv Gandhi becoming the Prime Minister of India in 1984, there was a substantial increase in the NGO lobby’s political influence in the country with the successful induction of many of its nominees into key positions of power in the administration under different ministries.

Four crucial legislations

>In 1992, two very important legislations i.e. 73d and 74th amendments to the Constitution were passed by the Parliament, with the avowed objective of strengthening the institutions of Panchayat Raj and urban bodies through decentralization of power, allegedly meant to allow the people at the lowest level to take part in the decision making process. Some NGO activists had played a very key, but behind-the- scene role, in getting these two amendment bills passed in the Parliament. It was under the pressure of these activists and also with the support of the top leadership of the Congress party, the Constitution (73d and 74th ) Amendment Bills, were finally passed by the Parliament in December, 1992. The two Acts came into force on April 24, 1993, giving necessary constitutional sanction to the Panchayat Raj Institutions and Urban Local Bodies in India. Creation of Area Sabha or Mohalla Sabha under the Ward Commit

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tl;dr

IFF is introducing its Connectivity Tracker, where we will compile available data related to connectivity each quarter, including data on telecom subscriptions, internet connections, urban and rural penetration rates, average data usage per user etc. The first edition of the tracker contains data from January 2020 till August 2021.

Introduction

The internet is an indelible part of modern Indian life. From social media platforms to apps for daily services to online schooling to online portals for receiving government benefits, the internet is everywhere. This makes the task of ensuring internet access to every citizen of India a task of paramount importance (to see what the government can do to improve internet access, see our explainer on improving internet access here).

Unfortunately, a significant digital divide still persists to this date. The effects of this digital divide are very serious. For example, millions of children have had their education halted as only 22% of schools have the internet facilities that would have enabled them to shift to online learning. Malnutrition in Jharkhand may have also been a result of bad internet connections at PDS shops. In August this year, a 13 year old tribal boy reportedly fell from a cliff and died while trying to search for internet connectivity to join his online class.

Such incidents are extremely horrifying, and so it is imperative that policy makers address such issues at the earliest. Thus, we have decided to compile data from various sources to provide a holistic view of the state of internet access in India at present. It is important to note here that internet access does not just mean the presence of internet connectivity - it is just as essential that access be provided i