A siman is a mark, sign or omen.

The city of Detroit, in the U.S. state of Michigan, has gone through a major economic and demographic decline in recent decades. The population of the city has fallen from a high of 1,850,000 in 1950 to 680,000 in 2015, kicking it off the top 20 of US cities by population for the first time since 1850. However, the city's combined statistical area has a population of 5,318,744 people, which currently ranks 12th in the United States. Local crime rates are among the highest in the United States, and vast areas of the city are in a state of severe urban decay. In 2013, Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history, which it successfully exited on December 10, 2014. Poverty, crime, shootings, drugs and urban blight in Detroit are ongoing problems.

As of 2017 median household income is rising, criminal activity is decreasing by 5% annually as of 2017, and the city's blight removal project is making progress in ridding the city of all abandoned homes that cannot be rehabilitated.

Water privatization – when private corporations buy or operate public water utilities – is often suggested as a solution to municipal budget problems and aging water systems. Unfortunately, this more often backfires, leaving communities with higher rates, worse service, job losses, and more.

Problems with Water and Sewer Privatization
Loss of Control
Privatization is irresponsible. By privatizing water and sewer systems, local government officials abdicate control over a vital public resource.
Privatization limits public accountability. Multinational water corporations are primarily accountable to their stockholders, not to the people they serve.
Loss of public input. Because water service is a natural monopoly that lacks a true market, consumers can exercise choice only at the ballot box through the election of the public officials who oversee their utility. They don’t have a vote in the corporate boardroom. With public ownership, residents can visit their elected officials and directly express their opinions about the operation of their water systems. If the officials fail to respond, the community can vote them out of office. The public lacks similar mechanisms to address their concerns with private utilities and appointed state regulators, and long-term complex contracts can tie the hands of local governments.
Loss of transparency. Private operators usually restrict public access to information and do not have the same level of openness as the public sector.
The objectives of a profit-extracting water company can conflict with the public interest. Because a water corporation has different goals than a city does, it will make its decisions using a different set of criteria, often one that emphasizes profitability. This can create conflict.
Cherry picking service areas. Private water companies are unlikely to adopt the same criteria as municipalities when deciding where to extend services. They are prone to cherry-picking service areas to avoid serving low-income communities where low water use and frequent bill collection problems could hurt corporate profits.
Contributing to sprawl. Local governments can use the provision of water and sewer services to promote smart growth, while water companies often partner with private developers to supply service to sprawling suburbs.
Undermining the human right to water. As a result of price hikes, service disconnections, inadequate investment and other detrimental economic consequences, water privatization often interferes with the human right to water.

A strong knowledge based economy rests on the foundation of a strong primary education system which acts as an enabler. In India, the primary education system is weakened by caste induced feeling of inferiority. Because the problem is social in nature, it cannot be done away with money either. The caste system exerts negative impact also on business. As the caste system was rigid, it killed the initiative of the people. So stagnancy came in the business. The caste system is not beneficial to modern India because it subjects the Untouchables to violence and discrimination, restricts social interaction between castes, limits Untouchables' education, and weakens the economy by restricting Untouchables' job opportunities.

The Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to prevent atrocities against scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. The Act is popularly known as the SC/ST Act, POA, the Prevention of Atrocities Act, or simply the Atrocities Act.

It was enacted when the provisions of the existing laws (such as the Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 and Indian Penal Code) were found to be inadequate to check these crimes (defined as 'atrocities' in the Act)[1]. Recognising the continuing gross indignities and offences against Scheduled Castes and Tribes, the Parliament passed the ‘Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989.

The preamble of the Act also states that the Act is:

“to prevent the commission of offences of atrocities against the members of Scheduled Castes and Tribes, to provide for Special Courts for the trial of such offences and for the relief and rehabilitation of the victims of such offences and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.”

Governments consist of the institutions that make and enact policies to govern people within a society or nation. The United States government is comprised of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches, as well as federal and state administrative agencies.

Lack of adequate sanitation would have an adverse affect women and girls in particular. Women and girls don't only have different physical needs from men but they even have lager requirements for privacy when using toilets and when bathing. Inaccessible toilets and bathrooms make them more vulnerable to rape and other forms of gender-based violence. Moreover, women and girls who defecate in the open, especially in the bush, face the risk of animal attacks. Women and girls don’t need toilets and bathrooms only for defecation but they also need it for the sake of privacy and dignity when menstruating.

Wood's Despatch of 1854
Charles Wood was a British Liberal politician and Member of Parliament. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1846 to 1852. Later he became the President of the Board of Control of the East India Company. In 1854 he sent the “Wood's despatch” to the Governor General Lord Dalhousie.

The major difference between their theories is spiritualism. Mahatma Gandhi only focuses on education for moral development. But, Rabindranath Tagore focused on education for moral development and life after death. So, Rabindranath Tagore's idealism pervades with world brotherhood and love for God. Mahatma Gandhi thought that the western education was hampering the Indian culture . ... Tagore wanted to combine the good aspects of it with the indian traditions ,He recognised the importance of science and technology and wanted to promote them along with art ,music and dance at Shantiniketan. According to him, the primary objective of education was to enable the preservation of the perfect symphony between one's life and the world outside. There are four fundamental principles in Tagore's educational philosophy; naturalism, humanism, internationalism and idealism. Mahatma Gandhi thought that English education had enslaved Indians because colonial education created a sense of inferiority in the minds of Indians. ... So, he called it sinful, Mahatma Gandhi wanted an education that could help Indians recovers their sense of dignity and self-respect.  

The Chauri Chaura incident occurred at Chauri Chaura in the Gorakhpur district of the United Province, (modern Uttar Pradesh) in British India on 5 February 1922, when a large group of protesters, participating in the Non-cooperation movement, clashed with police, who opened fire. The Quit India Movement (translated into several Indian languages as the Leave India Movement), also known as the August Movement, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British Rule of India.

The Cripps Mission had failed, and on 8 August 1942, Gandhi made a call to Do or Die in his Quit India speech delivered in Bombay at the Gowalia Tank Maidan.  The All-India Congress Committee launched a mass protest demanding what Gandhi called "An Orderly British Withdrawal" from India. Even though it was at war, the British were prepared to act. Almost the entire leadership of the Indian National Congress was imprisoned without trial within hours of Gandhi's speech. Most spent the rest of the war in prison and out of contact with the masses.