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Road Safety in India #SSC-CGL2018 #SSC-CHSL2018 #IB #SBI-PO   (250 words)Important Topics for SSC, IB, BANK Growing urbanisation and poverty alleviation has brought some drastic consequences in our daily life. Untoward incidents like a road accident are one of those many. An NCRB report(2016) shows 377 people die and 1214 accidents occur every day. The high morbidity and mortality associated with this is alarming and exploding.  Asymmetric planning and lack of public safety regulations are responsible for this. Given that to mitigate public need many highways are built around villages that raise the risk of villagers and animals to get caught in the way of speedy vehicles and alcohol outlets around the highway give rise to drunken driving. Although built to curb such incidents flyovers and elevated roads lack the basic touch of the local situation. People try to overtake highways instead of using those. The absence of signalling and traffic guards do the...

          Status of  Women in Indian Society #SSC-CGL2018 #SSC-CHSL2018 #IB #SBI-PO   (250 words)Important Topics for SSC, IB, BANK               The worth of a civilisation can be judged from the status it gives to women. They play four-fold status role sequences starting from daughter, wife, homemaker, mother. Women are praised as the God. Ancient Indian law-maker Manu said, "Where women are honoured there reside the god." For us, women are no ordinary human but sacred being.   From Indus Valley civilisation to today's constantly-changing realm women are always given preference. Nevertheless, there is a huge gap in male-female advancement. Many practices emerged during these periods have forced women to suffer most. Today women are compared to a material being for male gratification and breeding. Female foeticide is stifling. This was not always Indian culture but advent to forei...

Disinvestment of Public Sector Enterprises. Is it a right step? #SSC-CGL2018 #SSC-CHSL2018 #IB #SBI-PO  (250 words)Important Topics for SSC, IB, BANK “We shouldn’t be selling the family silver to pay the grocery bill.” The quote is behind the rationale of disinvestment of Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs). As for India, this notion of disinvestment came back in 1991 when government almost became bankrupt. While the intention behind PSEs arose from the foundation to speed up self-reliant economic growth. Things transformed since then. While there are 235 CPSEs contributing around 20% of India’s GDP. Many of them have turned into bloated inefficient behemoths and a ditch on the public exchequer. While a CAG report highlights around one-third PSEs are running on losses. States too not much behind with over 1000 PSEs mostly ailing. Post-1991 there were major overhauls in organising these PSEs to run in profit but all such attempts almost failed as socialistic governments...