Social issues Flashcards
Exotic species profitable in Kerala
Wild bitter gourd (NE Ind)
Butternut squash(Central America)
Gac fruit(Vietnam)
- Agri indebtedness
- Landholdings
- 52% of all farm HHs indebted (NSSO report)
- 85% are small & marginal farmers(Agri census 2015-16)
Urban popn 2011 census
31%
ASICS report 2023
- 39% capitals lack active master plan
- 41% posts vacant in municipalities
- 9/35 capital cities have sectoral plans like
sanitation, mobility & sustainability
>1400 municipalities no elected councils in place
Housing units shortage in urban
1.88Cr(MoHUA in 2012)
Slums data
52mn in 2001 to 65mn people in 2011 (Census)
Basic amenities lack in slums (data)
26% no access to clean drinking water
58% have no/open drainage (2011 census)
International eg for slums
Thailand’s Baan Mankong Prog
Secularism egs(2)
Sabarimala pilgrims at Erumely
Iqbal Mamdani
Types of Communalism(6)
RSS WAR
Types of Regionalism(4)
Supra-state
Inter-state
Intra-state
Demand of secession
Corruption=(formula)
Discretion+Monopoly-Transparency
Migrant labor(data)
450mn internal migrants in Ind(2011 census)
Footloose labor by Jan Breman
Literacy scheme for children of migrants by KL govt
Project Changathi
Seasonal migrants(egs)
Tribal grps of OD in brick kilns of AP
Grps from KL to GJ in shrimp farming