1 Introduction
Aizawl is the capital of Mizoram (Land of the Mizos), a tiny mountainous state in the southern tip of north-east India. Mizoram is one of the states in India. It is a landlocked state cornered by Bangladesh in the west, Myanmar in the east and south, Tripura in the west and Manipur and Assam in the north. The Tropic of Cancer passes through the middle of state just south not far from Aizawl. It lies between latitude 23°43′38″N and longitude 92°43′04″E. The area is 457 Sq Km (176 Sq mi) and the population according to 2011 census is 2,93,416.
The traditionally based local governing institution known as Village Council carried on the administration of the local area since 1954. Village Council was constituted in every locality
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It was launched in 2005 for a seven-year period (up to March 2012) to encourage cities to initiate steps for bringing phased improvements in their civic service levels. The government has extended the tenure of the mission for two years, i.e., from April 2012 to March 31, 2014. JNNURM is a huge mission which relates primarily to development in the context of urban conglomerates focusing to the Indian cities. JNNURM aims at creating ‘economically productive, efficient, equitable and responsive Cities’ by a strategy of upgrading the social and economic infrastructure in cities, provision of Basic Services to Urban Poor (BSUP) and wide-ranging urban sector reforms to strengthen municipal governance in accordance with the 74th CAA …show more content…
Authority was seldom exercised in the same manner across different fields. In fact, Village Council was not a development body and it was an administrative agency at the local level performing line agency functions in the implementation of various policies of the different government departments. This resulted into the complexities of functions and performance and confusion over responsibilities. A wide gap between Village Council and State Government was a big problem. The necessity of empowering, strengthening and decentralizing the local body was felt throughout a very long period. There was an ineffective and unsystematic local body known as Village Council in view of allocation of resources, planning, financing, and implementation of different government programmes. But, the challenge that whether the new Urban Local Body replacing the Village Council would
An end-year celebration at the social services center Inland Regional turned into a deadly shooting after being raided by a couple. Identified as 28-year-old Syad Farook and 29-year-old Tashfeen Malik, the couple left 14 dead and 21 wounded inside a packed conference room rented by the country’s public health department. Both attackers were armed with assault rifles and handguns, all legally purchased, and a remote-controlled car with explosives attached. The couple managed to escape for a few hours after the attack before being killed in a shootout with police, leading officials to discover 1,600 rounds of ammunition on their bodies and in the car. Upon the discovery of extensive amount of ammunition, police searched the couple’s house unveiling
Hi Shelagh, As part of the pilot program we have decided to have a Parent Retreat sponsorship for a Triangle chapter leader. You were chosen to be sponsored. The retreat is July 27th-29th for two. You would only have to pay a $50.00 deposit.
Arrested after 36 patients died, Narendra Nagareddy had been held at his office following a raid from DEA agent. Around 12 of the 36 patients died from an overdose. Almost 40 federal and local agents raided his Jonesboro office as they seized even more assets at his home. As a psychiatrist of Jonesboro, Nagareddy has been over prescribing benzodiazepine and opiates for the last several years, which has led to multiple overdoses and deaths. People have come to Nagareddy for help, but instead of receiving help, they are met with deadly consequences.
In conclusion, Katherine Boo’s Behind The Beautiful Forevers is an unbiased account of true events that happened in Annawadi. Ultimately Boo is unbiased due to her meticulous research, her immense gratitude to the people of Annawandi, and the truthfulness of her story. Boo’s story is an incredible new view into the lives of some of the poorest people in India. Her book is an incredible recollection of an injustice that happened to Abdul and his family. Works
Thank you Mrs. Stephanie Smeltzer, for providing the team with the recent incident of Aki. To the school and treatment team, as Aki is receiving OPT/TSF services through New Behavioral Network in his school and family session (only provided by his Therapeutic Support for Families (TSF) worker) on Thursday due to his foster mother’s availability. It is noted, Aki has started to display more frequent aggressive behaviors in his classroom which has been observed by his TSF worker along with school officials, to which the Aki’s behaviors has become a concern as it is putting others at risk of his tantrums as his exhibiting behaviors of throwing objects which last for a period of 2 hours.
The task of council- manager form government tend to be policy development, administration and sets budgets. The council manager form of government usage has increased from 48% in 1996 to 55%
There was a commitment to make changes at the local level to give the people a voice and better living conditions. Making municipal governments more efficient and eliminating political corruption was their goal. They argued against the strong mayor/weak council system and wanted it replaced with a strong council which would more adequately represent the people. By implementing the City Commissioner Plan and the City Manager Plan, experts ran various departments in cities and reported directly to the council.
"Innocent until proven guilty. " That’s always been the law, so why was Adnan Syed sentenced 25 years to life without parole? January 13th 1999 Hae Min Lee goes missing. Friends and family described her as beautiful, smart, responsible, and athletic (she played Lacrosse and hockey).
Comparison and Contrast Essay While the Indian Ocean and Trans-Saharan trade routes both encouraged and facilitated the spread of Islam, the Indian Ocean saw a more extensive diffusion of disease, and traded across water instead of land. Islam was a widespread religion amongst both trade routes, but other religions, like Buddhism, were not as popular along the Trans-Saharan route. Through the time period, we see evidence of Islam’s dominance in the form of muslim architecture and the rulers of the time period.
Interactions amid the provinces and the federal government, from constitutional issues to the most irresistible topics bang up-to-date in the country, are indemnified beneath the umbrella of “Federalism”. Authorities are shared so that on some matters, the state governments are decision-holders, whereas on the other matters, national government grasps the autonomy. In last twenty-five years, the upsurge of federal fiats on both governments, local and state, has shifted the power amongst state and national governments. Now, the national government is beginning to have more governance over the state’s engagements.
ummarise the laws and codes of practice affecting work in schools. The UN Convention on the Rights of a Child 1989- This law helps a child by giving them a right to protection from any form of discrimination, it gives a child a right to recieve and share information as long as the information is not damaging to others. This law also gives the child a right to have freedom of religion.
Government need to intervene at the areas of urban extensions and new towns which combined Central and Local
Incorporating analysis’s from material provide in the Development and the City course at the University of Guelph, it is believed that a significant issues is the means to which governments invests in their people. Within cities, municipal governments are often more interested in modernizing than addressing the major structural concerns mentioned above. Furthermore, social inequalities do not just expand across cities, rather this is a problem that engulf the entire nation, which Boo also points to. This can especially be seen when
The CCDP, introduced from Japan in 1985, combined the methods of community development and community planning. In the CCDP, residents were encouraged to conduct meetings gradually and completely with sufficient time and resources, provided through abundant financial support. CCDP aims to actualize the vision of community work using a grassroots and gradual approach. It reconsiders local culture, promotes residents’ participation, repairs the community’s relation with nature, practices the value of mutual help and friendship, and develops community
“FGHI is a newly resettled urban colony in a big city in India. Most of the inhabitants were engaged in various informal economic sectors in their prior area of habitation. As they were made to resettle in a distant place located at the periphery of the city, many people got disengaged from their previous occupations. They are still searching for suitable employment or entrepreneurship opportunities.