The National River Conservation Plan (NRCP) deals with conserving and cleaning river waters. The National River Conservation Authority reviewed the progress and failures of the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) phase I. The NRCP minutely studied the failures of the GAP and on the basis of the lessons learnt and experience gained from GAP phase I, the plan was applied to other major rivers of the country. The second phase of the GAP was merged with NRCP. The latter covers 152 towns located in 16 states. So far, 69 schemes of pollution abatement have been completed under the plan. 

LOK SABHA

1. The strength of lok sabha is 550 but the present lok sabha has 545 members.
2. Lok sabha consists of members directly elected by the people.
3. Members of lok sabha are elected for a period of 5 years.
4. Any person who is an indian citizen and of 25 years age can contest the lok sabha seats.

RAJYA SABAH

1. The strength of rajya sabha is 250 members but the present rajya sabha has 245 members.
2. 12 members out of these are nominated by the president and the rest are elected by the states.
3. Rajya sabha is a permanent body and the members are elected for 6 years.
4. The candidates minimum age is 30 years and how to be an indian citizen.

Chaudhary devi lal led a movement called nyaya yudh(struggle for justice) and ... nyaya yudh was a movement led by chaudhary devi lal. nyaya means justice  ...and yudh means justice  so this yudh was started for justice.

Hitler introduced a new educational policy in Germany to educatate the young minds about the Nazi philosophy. The Nazi Youth League was a youth organization founded in early 1920s by authorization of Hitler and was an off shoot of the Nazi Party. Hitler was of the view that children should be indoctrinated about the Nazi ideology from a young age for establishment and development of a strong Nazi society. Its main objectives were to create a strong Nazi nation free of weak people and Jews and to instill in youth the motivation to fight for loyally for the Nazi nation.
It aimed to prune and purify the schools by throwing out teachers who opposed the Nazi views and separating the 'undesirable' jewish children from the Nordic Germans.
Not only this, textbooks were rewritten to glorify German racial supremacy and to methodically brainwash children from an early age to justify and adopt the twisted Nazi ideas of purity and Jewish hatred. They ha. d to take up boxing so that they could become strong in body and mind.
Youth organisations were handed over the responsibility the educating the children and teaching them the philosophies of Nationalist Socialism and to loyally, without questioning serve Hitler.
At the age of 10 children had to enroll in Jungvolk till they were 14 years, at which it was mandatory for therm to join the Nazi youth organization called the Hitler's Youth for getting trained in Nazi philosophy and ideas. At the age of 18, they had to sign up for Labour Services and later enter the military service or any other Nazi organization.  

National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) is the largest and a very prominent agency of India working for the collection of data on various economic variables such as education,health,literacy rates, etc. This organisation works under Ministry of Statistics of India with the purpose of providing information regarding various economic aspects to all the people of the country,especially to the policy makers and planners of India. The information provided by NSSO helps in framing the future policies needed for the growth of the economy. This statistical data generated by NSSO is very reliable as the the data is collected by conducting the surveys covering almost all the population of India.

The relationship between the peasants and the nobles in Russia was given a term “Serfdom”.
In the 19th century, the Serfdom was hardly efficient, as the nobles and the serfs had little incentives to improve the lands.
However, it was politically effective since the nobles hardly challenged the Tsar due to the fear of provoking an uprising of the peasants.
There were many revolts for abolishing the serfdom, but the Russian state continued to support the Serfdom due to military conscription.
Serfdom was finally abolished in 1861, but it came with terms that were not very favorable with the peasants.

Monsoon: This type of climate is mainly found in the south and Southeast Asia. The climate of India is of monsoon type. The seasonal reversal in wind direction during a year is called monsoon.

The Impact of the War on the European Society and Polity

• The soldiers were placed above the civilians.
• Politicians and publicists emphasized the need for men to be aggressive, strong and masculine.
• Trench life was glorified by the media though in actual practice the soldiers led a miserable life in the trench with rats feeding on the corpses and faced poisonous gas.
• Though aggressive war and national honour was brought to the fore front, people were in support of conservative dictatorship.

In the process of drafting the Indian Constitution every document presented and every word spoken in the Constituent Assembly has been recorded and preserved. These are called Constituent Assembly Debates.

a. Women were not granted political rights and were still considered to be passive citizens.
b. They organised groups, clubs in order to voice their views, demanding equal set of political rights, right to vote.
c. Some efforts were made to improve the conditions of women, like laws were made related to marriage, divorce was legalised, schools were set up , schooling was made compulsory for girls.
d. It was only in 1946, that women were given right to vote.

The people had suffered terribly because of war. All of the country’s resources had been poured into the war effort.

Germany was humiliated by the war guilt clause of the Treaty of Versailles.

This blamed Germany and her allies for starting the war.Germany had to pay reparations of 132 billion marks, which is roughly the equivalent to £284 billion in today’s money, to the countries damaged by the First World War.

The Treaty of Versailles took areas of land containing valuable resources from Germany.

Because of the Treaty of Versailles, many Germans were now living outside the borders of Germany in places like the Sudetenland, Poland and Austria. They felt that their rights were not recognised properly.

The new constitution which created the Weimar Republic was very democratic, but there were problems like the voting system of proportional representation allowed extreme groups to get into power. . It was hard for them to make decisions and there were frequent changes in government.  The President could rule by decree (on his own) at a time of national emergency, something he did often.

Extremist groups, who were discontented with the Republic, tried to seize power by force.Germany got behind with reparations payments, so French and Belgian troops invaded the Ruhr in 1923. This humiliated the German government who ordered a general strike.

In 1923, German money became worthless when the government printed more money to pay the workers who went on strike in response to the Ruhr invasion. German banknotes were even used as wallpaper.

The Second International was an international organisation formed by socialists in Europe to coordinate their activities and spread ideas related to socialism all over the world.By the 1870s, socialist ideas spread through Europe. To coordinate their efforts, socialists formed an international body – namely, the Second International.