Category: INDIA

By: Prof. Santosh Kumar NEW DELHI: During the last week NIDM along with Society for Disability and Rehabilitation Studies, Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management (GIDM) and had organized a two day (11-12 July, 2019) national workshop on “Disability and Disaster Risk Reduction” We discussed meaning of inclusiveness and also tried to understand that so far interventions made in the country are based on “inclusiveness” or unintended “exclusiveness”.  Disasters have been creating differential impact on various segments of people. Vulnerabilities of people are not homogeneous. Different people have differential vulnerabilities. People are…

By: Dr Elizabeth Imti & Dr Kumar Raka, Editor-ICN The majority of Indians have never favored a theocratic State, but there have always been in the country undercurrents of thought suggesting a space for religion in State affairs. Until the beginning of the 20th century, India’s war of independence from foreign rule was fought on the plank of equality of all faith and traditions of their followers. The scene changed thereafter and certain sections of the majority community began projecting their religion as an inseparable part of the future political ideology.…

NEW DELHI : Among the groups most vulnerable to disaster are the persons with disabilities. Roughly, more than one billion people (equal to 15% of the global population) are reported to be afflicted with some or other forms of disabilities and a substantial part of the population lives in rural areas of the developing world amidst extreme poverty and developmental exclusion. When it comes to disaster risk reduction, persons with disabilities are often left behind to fend for themselves and their capacities are often underestimated. Persons with disabilities will likely…

By: Dr Elizabeth Imti & Dr Kumar Raka, Editor-ICN Secularism, the core essence of tolerance and co-existence of various religious groups, is a practical necessity of multi-religious nation. The concept of secularism was not expressly incorporated in the constitution of India at early stages; however, it was deeply embedded in its philosophy all the way through fundamental rights and directive principles. The ideals of secularism had always been present in debates and discussions in the world’s largest democracy and constituted one of the core pillars of the Constitution after independence. The…