DIFFICULT QUESTIONS AND INTELLIGENT ANSWERS!

Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)

Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it
take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 rd Rank Opted for IFS)

Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four
apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)

Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with
one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)

Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs, He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)

Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)

Q. What looks like half apple?
A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )

Q. What can you never eat for breakfast?
A : Dinner.

Q. What happened when wheel was invented?
A : It caused a revolution.

Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A : Liquid (UPSC 33 R ank )

AMAZING......Interviewer said "I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one
really difficult question.

Think well before you make up your mind!" The boy thought for a
while and said,
"my choice is one really difficult question."

"Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this.
"What comes first, Day or Night?"
The boy was jolted in! to reality as his admission depends on the
correctness of his answer, but he thought for a while and said, "It's the
DAY sir!"

"How" the interviewer asked,

"Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND
difficult question!"

He was selected for IIM!

WOMEN EXPLAINED BY ENGINEERS

 

 

Your thoughts need to be spoken...

Grades are getting Low.
Teens are getting High.
That 12 year old is pregnant and her parents wonder why.
A 1st grader is swearing, a 3rd grader has been raped.
Just take a look around you, isn't the system great?
No calls for help are spoken. Teens are smoking weed.
Young girls are cutting. This isn't what we need.
That 14 year old is drinking beer. I feel despair.
A little girl has killed herself, nobody seems to care.
Teens are sending nudes, a kid is getting bully.
Ten years old say, They love each other truly.
But it needs to change. It's time to take a stand.
Our world is officially broken. Your thoughts need to be spoken...

LUV U MAA

" MUMMY "  Ki  Godh  Aur

" PAPA "  Ke  Kandhe,,,,,,,,

Na  Paise  Ki   Soch

Na   Life  Ke   Funde,,,,,,

Na  KaL  Ki  Chinta

Na  Future  Ke  Sapne,,,,,,

Ab  KaL  Ki  HaiN  Fikar  Aur

Adhure  HaiN  Sapne,,,,,,

MudH  Kar  Dekha  Toh  Bahut

Door  HaiN  Apne,,,,,,,

Manzilo  ko  dhundte  kaha

kho  Gaye  Hum,

Aakhir,  Itne  bade  kyun  Ho

Gaye  Hum,,,,,,,,,!!

Din  Bhar  Kaam  Ke  Baad

PAPA  Poochte  HaiN  Ki,,,,,,

,,,,,,,,Kitna  Kamaya,,,,???? 

Wife  Poochegi,,,,,,

,,,,,,,Kitna  Bachaya,,,,,,????

Beta  Poochega,,,,,,,

,,,,,,,Kya  Laaya,,,,,,????  LekiN

Maa  Hi   Poochegi  :

"  Beta  Kuch  Khaya,,,,?????  "

Agar  Aap  Free  Ho

ToH  Iss  Msg  ko  Itna

FaeLao  Jitna  Aap

Apni  Maa  Se  Pyaar  Karte

Ho,,,,,,,,!! 

         LOVE   U   MAA 

SAFEGUARD THE ENVIRONMENT FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

India with its vast population and unique geo-physical characteristics is one of the world’s most disaster pr one countries. Natural hazardous such as cyclones, earthquakes, landslides, floods or droughts occur in different parts of the country in varying intensities. Social conditions that govern the way communities live, affect the extent to which people are affected by the hazard. In order to protect the environment and ourselves from harmful effects of a disaster, we have to prepare ourselves in advance, to face them.

Many hazards are natural and usually inevitable, like cyclones, floods, droughts and earthquakes. They are ‘hazards’ in that they can potentially harm people, economies and the environment if they are not adequately prepared. A ‘disaster’ occurs when a hazard results in devastation that leaves communities or even whole nations unable to cope unaided.

Hazards are the processes or the events of nature. Be it an earthquake, a landslide, a flooding, drought or a chemical mishap – it relates to environment in its occurrence. Environment, in the form of natural resource systems, hold a major stake in people’s vulnerability to the impacts of these disasters.

Disaster risk reduction is a broad approach, which includes all action aiming to reduce disaster risks. Action can be political, technical, social and economic. Disaster risk reduction takes forms as varied as policy guidance, legislation, preparedness plans, agricultural projects, an insurance scheme, or even a swimming lesson. The approach enables people to think and work across society, to make sure that everyone – from governments to individuals – makes the right decisions to reduce the risk and impact of disasters on the environment.

Disaster risk reduction is a major component of climate change adaptation. It is also one of the best links to the human development agenda for promoting  biodiversity and sustainable environmental resource management. Disasters like landslides caused by deforestation remind us that our own safety depends dramatically on common sense protection of the environment. Maintaining biodiversity, grasslands, forests, coastal wetlands, reefs and dunes is an important element of protecting human settlements from drought, desertification, landslides, floods, sea-level rise and storms— all of which are predicted to intensify due to climate change.

Environmental degradation, settlement patterns, livelihood choices and human behavior are all factors contributing to disaster risks, which in turn results in even more harmfully effects on human development and environmental assets. That environment, development and disasters are interconnected is hardly disputed, but the synergies between these factors can often be confusing. At the same time as it is recognized that ecosystems are affected by disasters, it is often forgotten that protecting ecosystem services can both save lives and livelihood. Environmental degradation tends to multiply the actual impacts of hazards and limits an area’s ability to absorb those impacts; this often decreases the overall resilience to hazard impacts and recovery from disasters. In other words, disasters not only reveal underlying social, economic, political and environmental problems but also contribute to worsening them and causing serious challenges to sustainable development.

Safeguard The Environment For Disaster Risk Reduction

 Environmental management for disaster risk reduction does not exist as a formal field of practice. Instead, its scope is largely defined by the goals set by organizations working on related issues, namely: ecosystems conservation, sustainable development, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation / mitigation.

The increasing incidence and intensity of natural hazards and climate change have a distinct impact on the environment and vice versa and must therefore be seen as an integrated whole. In this context environment refers to all of the external factors, conditions, and influences that affect an organism or a community. This includes everything that surrounds an organism or organisms, including both natural and human-built elements. Environmental concerns are essential components of human well-being and contribute positively to human security, providing basic materials for good life, health and social relations. If these are being compromised and overexploited it will ultimately lead to increase of natural hazards. 

Disasters are first and foremost a local phenomenon where the local communities are on the frontlines of the immediate disaster impacts including emergency response, disaster preparedness and for reducing underlying risks factors. Disasters must be seen as much more than a state of emergency, as they carry longer term social impact on the affected communities including loss of public facilities like hospitals, schools and administrative buildings, followed by a compromised overall functioning of the community. For individuals, disasters effectively remove the income sources by damaging or destroying homes, livestock, infrastructure or small scale businesses. Local communities experience a vital setback in development gains already made and the longer term consequences from disasters keeps nations, communities and individuals trapped in poverty cycles. It is often the cumulative effect of high- frequency and low-impact disasters that cause most losses, particularly amongst the poor.  

Disasters are often portrayed as acts of nature, or of a natural order. Yet this is not an accurate reflection of reality. The major factors influencing disaster risks are human and social vulnerability, matched with the overall capacity to respond to, or reduce the impact of natural hazards. An integrated approach including environmental conservation is often enough adopted in the field of disaster risk reduction. At the same time relief organizations tend to focus on damage to life and property, ecological services and their indirect economic values are often omitted completely from disaster assessments. Mainstreaming ecosystem concerns- both ecological and economical- into the development agenda and integrating them into disaster risk reduction, becomes essential. An ecosystem is a functional unit consisting of all the living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in a given area, as well as the non-living physical and chemical factors of their environment, linked together through nutrient cycling and energy flow. An ecosystem can be of any size – a log, a pond, a field, a forest or the Earth’s biosphere – but it always functions as a whole unit.  

It is only by addressing environment and natural hazards together with poverty that we can separate communities trapped in a grinding poverty cycle, and the ones who secure lives and livelihoods. Poverty is heavily contributing to escalating disaster risk by reducing existing coping capacities and future resilience. Another patch of common ground is that the less privileged are suffering the most from the immediate and long term disaster impacts. Environmental losses are often overlooked, even if this might have the most significant and long term effects on livelihood as an income sources (e.g. agriculture) for the poor. Disasters should therefore be seen as an integrated part of development and without major efforts to address disaster losses, disasters will become a serious obstacle to achieve of the Millennium Development Goals.  Consequently, hazards, vulnerabilities and capacity building needs to be considered in projects and activities aiming at enhancing environmental conservation and reducing disaster risk. 

Disasters threaten the food security of the poorest people worldwide. Disaster risk reduction is vital for ensuring one of the most basic human rights — freedom from hunger. Unless we start to use disaster risk reduction to adapt to environmental climatic changes, responsibly manage growth and stop environmental degradation, disasters will continue to threaten more lives and  the environment.

Environmental exploitation by disasters starts from the very degradation of natural assets or natural capital. Degradation of natural capital is particularly prone to seasonal changes and includes the unavailability of water, game animals and annual plants. Land quality decreases due to spoilt soil characteristics and fertility, as well as unfavorable rainfall patterns.

Recurring earthquakes, floods and similarly devastating disasters result in loss of life and cause long-term social,  economic and environmental consequences.

Reducing the disaster vulnerabilities of slum- dwellers is imperative for any sustainable improvement in their living conditions. Slum-dwellers, their housing and their overall geographical locations are among the most vulnerable to earthquakes, landslides, floods and storms, and the disease outbreaks that come in their wake. This adversely affects the environment.         

Environment, climate change and disaster risk reduction must therefore be treated as an integrated whole to create sustainable development, and be implemented on all levels, including amongst communities. 

Everybody has a role to play in reducing disaster risk. So, judiciously use resources defeat disaster forces.

Innocent Laborers....

India is sadly the home to the largest number of child laborers in the world. The increasing between the rich and the poor, privatisaton of basic services and neo-liberal economic policies are causes of major sections of the population out of the employment and without basic needs. This adversely affect  children more than any other group of society.

Various growing concerns have pushed children out of school and into employment such as forced displacement due to development projects, socio-economic zones , loss of jobs of parents in a slowdown, farmer’s suicide, aroused conflicts, and high cost of health care. Poverty and lack of social security are the main causes of child labour. The persistence of child labour is due to inefficiency of the laws that meanst to protect the children from hazardous labour. Such laws are not complemented correctly. There are loopholes in the administrative system because of which the actual number of child labourers goes un-detected. Lack of quality of universal education has also contributed to children dropping out of school and entering the labour force. Entry of multinationals into the industry without proper mechanism to hold the accountable has lead to the use of child labour.

Child labour is seen highest amont schedule tribes, Muslims, schedule castes and OBC children in India. The conditions in which children work is completely unregulated and they are often made to work without food, and at very low wages, resembling situations of slavery. Innocent labourers are seen working in areas such as beedi-rolling, brick kilns, carpet weaving, construction,  fire-works and matchstick factories, hybrid cotton seed production, leather factories, mines, quarries, silk and synthetic fiber production , etc. child labour is encouraged by employers who benefit by reducing general wage levels. The growing phenomenon is using children as domestic workers in urban areas. There are reported cases of physical, social and emotional abuse of child domestic workers. Child labourers are constant victims of commercial sexual exploitation.

Bonded child labour is a hidden phenomenon as a majority of them are found in the informal sector. Bonded child labourers are at very high risks for physical and sexual abuse and neglect sometimes leading to death. Child labour may also lead to trafficking of children.

There should be harsh penalties imposed on people involved and encouraging child labour. The loopholes in administrative system should be mended. Multinationals should be held accountable and penalized for using child labourers. By giving money, food, healthcare and other facilities parents can be lured to push their children back to school from factories.