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The Alaknanda Basin (Uttarakhand Himalaya): a Study on Enhancing and Diversifying Livelihood Options in an Ecologically Fragile Mountain Terrain”
Enhancing and Diversifying Livelihood Options ICSSR PDF A Final Report On “The Alaknanda Basin (Uttarakhand Himalaya): A Study on Enhancing and Diversifying Livelihood Options in an Ecologically Fragile Mountain Terrain” Under the Scheme of General Fellowship Submitted to Indian Council of Social Science Research Aruna Asaf Ali Marg JNU Institutional Area New Delhi By Vishwambhar Prasad Sati, Ph. D. General Fellow, ICSSR, New Delhi Department of Geography HNB Garhwal University Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand E-mail: [email protected] Vishwambhar Prasad Sati 1 Enhancing and Diversifying Livelihood Options ICSSR PDF ABBREVIATIONS • AEZ- Agri Export Zones • APEDA- Agriculture and Processed food products Development Authority • ARB- Alaknanda River Basin • BDF- Bhararisen Dairy Farm • CDPCUL- Chamoli District Dairy Production Cooperative Union Limited • FAO- Food and Agricultural Organization • FDA- Forest Development Agency • GBPIHED- Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development • H and MP- Herbs and Medicinal Plants • HAPPRC- High Altitude Plant Physiology Center • HDR- Human Development Report • HDRI- Herbal Research and Development Institute • HMS- Himalayan Mountain System • ICAR- Indian Council of Agricultural Research • ICIMOD- International Center of Integrated Mountain and Development • ICSSR- Indian Council of Social Science Research LSI- Livelihood Sustainability Index • IDD- Iodine Deficiency Disorder • IMDP- Intensive Mini Dairy Project • JMS- Journal of Mountain Science • MPCA- Medicinal Plant -
River Ganga at a Glance: Identification of Issues and Priority Actions for Restoration Report Code: 001 GBP IIT GEN DAT 01 Ver 1 Dec 2010
Report Code: 001_GBP_IIT_GEN_DAT_01_Ver 1_Dec 2010 River Ganga at a Glance: Identification of Issues and Priority Actions for Restoration Report Code: 001_GBP_IIT_GEN_DAT_01_Ver 1_Dec 2010 Preface In exercise of the powers conferred by sub‐sections (1) and (3) of Section 3 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), the Central Government has constituted National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) as a planning, financing, monitoring and coordinating authority for strengthening the collective efforts of the Central and State Government for effective abatement of pollution and conservation of the river Ganga. One of the important functions of the NGRBA is to prepare and implement a Ganga River Basin: Environment Management Plan (GRB EMP). A Consortium of 7 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has been given the responsibility of preparing Ganga River Basin: Environment Management Plan (GRB EMP) by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), GOI, New Delhi. Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) has been signed between 7 IITs (Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) and MoEF for this purpose on July 6, 2010. This report is one of the many reports prepared by IITs to describe the strategy, information, methodology, analysis and suggestions and recommendations in developing Ganga River Basin: Environment Management Plan (GRB EMP). The overall Frame Work for documentation of GRB EMP and Indexing of Reports is presented on the inside cover page. There are two aspects to the development of GRB EMP. Dedicated people spent hours discussing concerns, issues and potential solutions to problems. This dedication leads to the preparation of reports that hope to articulate the outcome of the dialog in a way that is useful. -
How Do They Add to the Disaster Potential in Uttarakhand?
South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People Uttarakhand: Existing, under construction and proposed Hydropower Projects: How do they add to the disaster potential in Uttarakhand? As Uttarakhand faced unprecedented flood disaster and as the issue of contribution of hydropower projects in this disaster was debated, one question for which there was no clear answer is, how many hydropower projects are there in various river basins of Uttarakhand? How many of them are operating hydropower projects, how many are under construction and how many more are planned? How projects are large (over 25 MW installed capacity), small (1-25 MW) and mini-mirco (less than 1 MW installed capacity) in various basins at various stages. This document tries to give a picture of the status of various hydropower projects in various sub basins in Uttarakhand, giving a break up of projects at various stages. River Basins in Uttarakhand Entire Uttarakhand is Uttarakhand has 98 operating hydropower part of larger Ganga basin. The Ganga River is a projects (all sizes) with combined capacity trans-boundary river of India and Bangladesh. The close to 3600 MW. However, out of this 2,525 km long river rises in the western Himalayas capacity, about 1800 MW is in central sector in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, and flows south and 503 MW in private sector, making it and east through the Gangetic Plain of North India into Bangladesh, where it empties into the Bay of uncertain how much power from these Bengal. The Ganga begins at the confluence of the projects the state will get. -
Interlinking of Rivers in India: Proposed Sharda-Yamuna Link
IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology (IOSR-JESTFT) e-ISSN: 2319-2402,p- ISSN: 2319-2399.Volume 9, Issue 2 Ver. II (Feb 2015), PP 28-35 www.iosrjournals.org Interlinking of rivers in India: Proposed Sharda-Yamuna Link Anjali Verma and Narendra Kumar Department of Environmental Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow-226025, (U.P.), India. Abstract: Currently, about a billion people around the world are facing major water problems drought and flood. The rainfall in the country is irregularly distributed in space and time causes drought and flood. An approach for effective management of droughts and floods at the national level; the Central Water Commission formulated National Perspective Plan (NPP) in the year, 1980 and developed a plan called “Interlinking of Rivers in India”. The special feature of the National Perspective Plan is to provide proper distribution of water by transferring water from surplus basin to deficit basin. About 30 interlinking of rivers are proposed on 37 Indian rivers under NPP plan. Sharda to Yamuna Link is one of the proposed river inter links. The main concern of the paper is to study the proposed inter-basin water transfer Sharda – Yamuna Link including its size, area and location of the project. The enrouted and command areas of the link canal covers in the States of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh in India. The purpose of S-Y link canal is to transfer the water from surplus Sharda River to deficit Yamuna River for use of water in drought prone western areas like Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat of the country. -
Brief Report on Visit to Alaknanda Valley, Uttarakhand Himalaya During 22-24 June 2013 by Surya Parkash, Ph.D
Brief Report on Uttarakhand Disaster (16/17 June 2013) by NIDM, Delhi Brief Report on visit to Alaknanda Valley, Uttarakhand Himalaya during 22-24 June 2013 By Surya Parkash, Ph.D. National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi [email protected] A major disaster struck on 16/17 June 2013 in Uttarakhand after heavy (64.5mm - 124.4mm) to very heavy rains (124.5mm – 244.4mm) on 16 and 17 June 2013 in several parts of the State (please refer figure 1 below for more information). According to IMD sources, the state had received > 400% rainfall during this period. This abnormally high amount of rain has been attributed to the fusion of westerlies with the monsoonal cloud system. Figure 1: Rainfall Distribution in the visited affected areas (Source of data: IMD) This heavy precipitation resulted into the swelling of rivers, both in the upstream as well as downstream areas. Besides the rain water, a huge quantity of water was probably released from melting of ice and glaciers due to high temperatures during the month of May and June. The water not only filled up Prepared by: Dr. Surya Parkash, Associate Professor, NIDM, Delhi [email protected] Brief Report on Uttarakhand Disaster (16/17 June 2013) by NIDM, Delhi the lakes and rivers that overflowed but also may have caused breaching of moraine dammed lakes in the upper reaches of the valley, particularly during the late evening on 16 June and on the next day i.e. 17 June 2013, killing about several hundred persons, thousands missing and trapping about a hundred thousand pilgrims. -
Floral and Faunal Diversity in Alaknanda River Mana to Devprayag
Report Code: 033_GBP_IIT_ENB_DAT_11_Ver 1_Jun 2012 Floral and Faunal Diversity in Alaknanda River Mana to Devprayag GRBMP : Ganga River Basin Management Plan by Indian Institutes of Technology IIT IIT IIT IIT IIT IIT IIT Bombay Delhi Guwahati Kanpur Kharagpur Madras Roorkee Report Code: 033_GBP_IIT_ENB_DAT_11_Ver 1_Jun 2012 2 | P a g e Report Code: 033_GBP_IIT_ENB_DAT_11_Ver 1_Jun 2012 Preface In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (3) of Section 3 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), the Central Government has constituted National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) as a planning, financing, monitoring and coordinating authority for strengthening the collective efforts of the Central and State Government for effective abatement of pollution and conservation of the river Ganga. One of the important functions of the NGRBA is to prepare and implement a Ganga River Basin Management Plan (GRBMP). A Consortium of 7 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has been given the responsibility of preparing Ganga River Basin Management Plan (GRBMP) by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), GOI, New Delhi. Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) has been signed between 7 IITs (Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) and MoEF for this purpose on July 6, 2010. This report is one of the many reports prepared by IITs to describe the strategy, information, methodology, analysis and suggestions and recommendations in developing Ganga River Basin Management Plan (GRBMP). The overall Frame Work for documentation of GRBMP and Indexing of Reports is presented on the inside cover page. There are two aspects to the development of GRBMP. Dedicated people spent hours discussing concerns, issues and potential solutions to problems. -
IYB-2010 and Countdown 2010 Celebration a Brief Activity Report
IYB-2010 and Countdown 2010 Celebration A Brief Activity Report By Santosh Kumar Sahoo, Ph.D. Chairman Conservation Himalayas 977/2, Sector 41-A, Chandigarh, U.T.India Tel.: +91 90 23 36 51 04 / +91 17 23 02 73 28 Email: [email protected] The Uttarakhand region of the northwestern Himalayas in India has a rich biodiversity all across its landscapes, particularly in its terai-bhabar region in its southern edge. The wildlife biodiversity in the terai-bhabar belt of Uttarakhand is found in Corbett National Park and the Rajaji National Park as well as all across its landscapes from the Asan barrage conservation reserve at Kalsi in the extreme west up to Sharda river in the extreme east bordering with western Nepal. Poaching, forest fire and wildlife body part trade continue to remain as serious threats to the wildlife in the Uttarakhand region. Illegal poaching of leopards and prey animals occurs in the tiger range areas of Uttarakhand state raising the level of threats to the endangered tiger (Panthera tigri tigris) population in its terai-bhabar tiger range areas. In the recent years, the human population in the fringe villages along the terai-bhabar belt in Uttarakhand shows signs of increase coupled with illiteracy and poverty, and their dependency on the local natural resources in the form of cattle grazing, fuel wood and fodder collection is on the rise. Threats to the tiger population are on rise as some of the recent tiger deaths particularly in the buffer zone areas of the reserve forests in the terai tiger habitats have reportedly been found to have links with poaching and tiger body part trade related activities (tiger skins, bones confiscated in village Fatehpur at Haldwani under the Ramnagar Forest Division. -
Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts
256 MAUSAM, 62, 2 (April 2011) Das, P. K., 1988, “The Monsoons”, National Book Trust, New Delhi. E. KULANDAIVELU M. SOUNDARARAJ* Kulandaivelu, E., 1996, “Glacier Expedition–An experience”, Vayu M. V. GUHAN Mandal, 26, 3-4, 85-88. Puniah, K. B. and De, A. C., 1974, “Cloud burst over Calcutta Airport”, Indain J. Met. Hydrol. & Geophysics, 25, 3 & 4, 503-504. Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai-6. *Meteorological Office, Airport, Tiruchirapalli. Rauf, M. A., 1978, “Some aspects of cloud burst at the onset of southwest monsoon”, Indian J. Met. Hydrol. & Geophysics, 29, (Received 5 November 2008, Modified 4 August 2010) 1 & 2, 453-458. e mail : [email protected] 551.509.324.2 : 551.509.335 : 556.51 resulting rainstorms over Gomti catchment and prepared synoptic analogue of forecast range for areal rainfall. Ram SEMI - QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION et al. (1999) also studied similar type of synoptic situation FORECASTS FOR RIVER SHARDA CATCHMENT for semi quantitative precipitation forecast in Ghaghara BY SYNOPTIC ANALOGUE METHOD catchment. 1. The technique of synoptic analogue is the most Table 1 shows the details of all gauge sites of Sharda convenient method from the view of day-to-day River for flood forecasting purposes. Statement showing operational forecasting. The dominant factor in by middle Ganga division-1 Central water commission forecasting qualitative precipitation amount is the synoptic Lucknow in “Flood Appraisal Report, Monsoon season, meteorological situation. Out of all the aspects of 2005”. Meteorology and Climatology of river basin, the most important for flood forecasting are the conditions under which flood producing heavy rains are possible in the The present paper also attempts to predict the basin. -
006-Chapter-3 (30 to 48).Cdr
CHAPTER – 3 DRAINAGE PATTERN The word 'Drainage' means flow of water. If you look at the physical map of India, you will find that small streams that flows in different areas combine together to form a major river. In the end, these rivers discharge themselves in large water bodies like Lake or Sea or Bay. The water of a region that flows through a river system is called drainage basin. When a highland, e.g., Mountain, separates two neighbouring drainage basin then this type of highland is called 'Water Divide'. The development of any drainage pattern is determined by the topography of that particular region. The rivers of India can be divided into two parts on the basis of land forms: 1. Rivers of Himalayas 2. Peninsular Rivers As these rivers originate in different geographical regions, they are different from each other. Their difference is evident from the following description: DO YOU KNOW? RIVERS OF HIMALAYAS Amazon river basin is the Most of the Himalayan rivers are largest drainage basin of the perennial. Apart from rainfall, these World. rivers continuously receive supply of FIND OUT water, all the year round, by the melting Which river has largest snow on the peaks of the Mountains. drainage basin in India? Rivers like Indus and Brahmaputra originate from Himalayas. These rivers have cut down the Mountains to form gorges during the course of their flow (Fig. 3.1). The rivers originating from Himalayas, right from their origin point to their journey up to the Sea, they perform several functions. On the upper parts of their course they cause massive erosion and carry with them loads of eroded materials like silt, sand, soil, etc. -
Microbiology ABSTRACT
Research Paper Volume : 4 | Issue : 11 | November 2015 • ISSN No 2277 - 8179 Microbiology Assessment of Physico-Chemical Parameters of KEYWORDS : Temperature, pH, Dissolved Oxygen, Biological Oxygen Demand River Ganga and Its Tributaries in Uttarakhand Department of Microbiology, Himalayan University, Naharlagun, Itanagar, Arunachal Nidhi Singh Chauhan Pradesh Manjul Dhiman Department of Botany, KLDAV PG College, Roorkee ABSTRACT Water quality assessment conducted in the tributaries of Ganga River in the year 2012 and 2013 identified hu- man activities as the main sources of pollution. For the study three tributaries of river Ganga in Uttarakhand were chosen i.e. Alaknanda (A), Bhagirathi (B) and Ganga (G). Water samples were collected from five sampling stations on river Alaknanda viz. Devprayag (A1), Rudraprayag (A2), Karnaprayag (A3), Chamoli (A4) and Vishnuprayag (A5), only one sampling station on Bhagirathi near residential area at Devprayag (B), two sampling station on river Ganga viz. Har ki pauri (G1) and Rishikesh (G2). The samples were analysed for physical and chemical parameters using standard methods. The sample temperatures ranged from 7.7 –18.3 0C. Summer maxima and winter minima were observed at all the sites of sampling stations (A, B and G). pH ranged from 7.4 - 8.2, DO ranged from 7 – 8.61 mg/l and BOD ranged from 0.2 – 1.9 mg/l. All samples showed permissible limit except samples from Harki pauri and Rishikesh on river Ganga. INTRODUCTION initiate biochemical reactions. These biochemical reactions are Rivers have been used by man since the dawn of civilization as measured as BOD and COD in laboratory (Tchobanoglous et al., a source of water, for food, for transport, as a defensive barrier, 2003). -
Conservation of the Asian Elephant in North-West India
Conservqtion of the Asiqn elephont in North-West Indiq A.J.T. Johnsingh, Qamar Qureshi, Dhananjai Mohan and Christy A. \flilliams Introduction TR, is the highest point. The total elephant habitat available is around 10,000km2. The Outer Himalaya and The north-western elephant population in India once the Shivaliks are the mountain and hill ranges that run had a continuous range in Uttar Pradesh (JP), from through this tract. Katerniaghat 'Wildlife Sanctuary ${.LS) in Bahraich Forest Division (FD) in the east, to the Yamuna River Vest of Sharda River, the fertile water- rich terai tract has in the west (Singh 1978). Over time, this continuity has been lost to cultivation and monoculture plantations, been broken, and now the total population of about and the elephant habitat is largely confined rc the bbabar 1,000 elephants occurs in six isolated sub-populations. tract, which is full of boulders and has a low water table. From east to west, these populations are in Katerniaghat Terai habhat is still available east of the Sharda River, Vildlife Division (tUfLD), 10-20 animals migrating to and in Pilibhit and Nonh Kheri FD. Dudhwa TR and from Nepal's Bardia National Park (NP), in and around Katerniaghat \fLD. Major rivers in this range are the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (TR, 880km2, c. 40 elephants) Yamuna, Ganga, Ramganga, Sharda, Suheli and Geruwa. fiaved 1996), between Sharda River and Haldwani Besides these, there are numerous streams and ephemeral town, Haldwani and Khoh River, Khoh River and v/ater courses known as rAt'rs, which in the bbabar tr^cr Ganga River, and between Ganga River and Yamuna remain dry during most parts of the year. -
TNPSC Current Affairs Question with Answer
Unique IAS Academy- TNPSC Current Affairs Question with Answer UNIQUE IAS ACADEMY The Best Coaching Center in Coimbatore NVN Layout, New Siddhapudur, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Ph: 0422 4204182, 98842 67599 ********************************************************************************** AUGUST – 2018 1. The 2018 World Biodiesel Day (WBD) 4. Which Bollywood personality has is observed on which date? become the brand ambassador for (a) August 11 Government of India (GoI)‟s road safety awareness campaign? (b) August 8 (a) Amitabh Bachchan (c) August 10 (b) Anushka Sharma (d) August 9 (c) Deepika Padukone (d) Akshay Kumar 2. What is the current number of India‟s Biosphere reserves included in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves? 5. The International team of scientists has recently cracked the genetic code of (a) 8 which cultivated crop for the first time? (b) 9 (a) Wheat (c) 10 (b) Rice (d) 11 (c) Maize (d) Pulses 3. Which rescue operation has been launched by Indian Army in the flood-hit 6.Kofi Annan was from which African areas of Kerala? country? (a) Operation Madad (a) Ghana (b) Operation Sahyog (b) Morocco (c)Operation Surya (c) Nigeria (d) Operation Surya Hope (d) South Africa 0422 4204182, 9884267599 NVN Layout, Gandhipuram, Coimbatore Page 1 Unique IAS Academy- TNPSC Current Affairs Question with Answer 7. Who has become first Indian woman 11. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) wrestler to bag gold at the 18th Asian has appointed which committee to Games 2018? decide Vedanta‟s plea challenging closure of its Sterlite plant? (a) Pooja Dhanda (a) A K Goel committee (b) Sakshi Malik (b) Aruna Sundararajan committee (c) Vigesh Phogat (c) M S Sivan committee (d) Priyanka (d) S J Vazifdar committee 8.