INDIA YEAR BOOK-SELECTED MATERIALS -PART III-CONCLUDING PART

• To promote and propagate understanding of Indian art, both within and outside
  the country, the Government of India established Lalit Kala Akademi (National
  Akademi of Arts) at New Delhi in 1954. The Akademi has regional centres called
  Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendras at Lucknow, Kolkata, Chennai, Garhi in New Delhi
  and Bhubaneswar.The Akademi brings out bi-annual art journals, Lalit Kala Contemporary (English), Lalit Kala Ancient (English) and Samkaleen Kala
• On 28 January 1953, Sangeet Natak Akademi was inaugurated by the then President of
  India, Dr Rajendra Prasad
• The National School of Drama (NSD) - one of the foremost theatre institutions in the
  world and the only one of its kind in India was set up by Sangeet Natak Academy in
  1959. Later in 1975, it became an autonomous organization, totally financed by
  Department of Culture
• Sahitya Akademi is the Indian National Academy of Letters meant to promote the
  cause of Indian literature through publications, translations, seminars, workshops,
  cultural exchange programmes and literary meets organized all over the country. The
  Akademi was founded in March 1954 as an autonomous body fully funded by the
  Department of Culture.
• The Anthropological Survey of India is a premier research organisation under the
  Ministry of Culture
• The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) was established in 1861. It functions as an
  attached office of the Department of Culture. The organisation is headed by the
  Director General.
• The National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology, New
  Delhi, an autonomous organisation fully funded by the Ministry of Culture was
  established and declared a Deemed to be University in 1989.
• The Minimum Wages Act, 1948 provides for fixation, review, revision and enforcement
  of minimum wage, both by the Central Government and the State Government, in
  respect of scheduled employments in their respective jurisdictions. There are 46
  scheduled employments in the Central sphere whereas the number of these
  employments in the State sphere is 1542.
• The Payment of Wages Act, 1936 was enacted to regulate payment of wages to workers
• The Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 provides for payment of bonus to employees as
  defined under the Act. According to the Act, “employees” means any person (other
  than an apprentice) employed on a salary or wage not exceeding Rs. 3,500/- per
  month in any industry to do any skilled or unskilled, manual, supervisory, managerial,
  administrative, technical or clerical work for hire or reward. However, according to
  Section 12 of the Act, the bonus is payable to employees whose salary or wage exceed
  Rs. 2,500/- per month, has to be calculated as if his salary or wage were Rs. 2,500/-
  per month
• Consistent with the constitutional provisions, the Child Labour (Prohibition
  and Regulation) Act, 1986 was enacted replacing the Employment of Children Act,
  1938. The Act seeks to prohibit employment of children below 14 years in hazardous occupations and processes and also regulates the working conditions of children in
  other employments. In the last 5 years, the number of hazardous ‘occupations’ listed
  in the Schedule of the Act has increased from 7 to 13 and ‘processes’ from 18 to 57 on
  the recommendations of the Technical Advisory Committee.
• The issue of ‘bonded labour’ came to forefront in national politics, when it was
  included in the old 20-Point Programmed in 1975.To implement this, Bonded Labour
  System (Abolition) Ordinance was promulgated. This was later replaced by the
  Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976.
• The Government had constituted a National Commission on Enterprises in the
  Unorganised/Informal Sector under the chairmanship of Dr. Arjun Sengupta to look
  into the problems of the enterprises in the unorganised sector
• V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA
• Prasar Bharati is the public service broadcaster in the country, with All India Radio
  and Doordarshan as its two constituents. It came into existence on 23 November
  1997, with a mandate to organise and conduct public broadcasting services to inform,
  educate and entertain people and to ensure balanced development of broadcasting
  on radio and television
• Radio Broadcasting started in India in the early 1920’s. The first programme was
  broadcast in 1923 by the Radio club of Bombay. This was followed by setting up
  Broadcasting Services in 1927 with two privately-owned transmitters at Bombay
  and Calcutta. The Government took over the transmitters in 1930 and started
  operating them under the name of Indian Broadcasting Service. It was changed to
  All India Radio (AIR) in 1936 and it came to be known as Akashvani from 1957.
• Doordarshan, a Public Service Broadcaster, is among the largest terrestrial television
  network in the world. The service was started in New Delhi on 15 September 1959
• Commencement of regular television service as part of All India Radio
  commenced in Delhi (1965); Mumbai (1972); Kolkata (1975), Chennai (1975).
  Doordarshan was established on 15 September 1976.A major landmark
  thereafter was the introduction of colour television in 1982 coinciding with the 9th
  Asian Games held in New Delhi
• Orissa had the distinction of publishing newspapers in 18 out of 23 principle languages. Maharashtra came next with publication in 17 languages followed by Delhi with publications in 16 principle languages
• India’s largest news agency, Press Trust of India (PTI) is a non-profit sharing
  cooperative owned by the country’s newspapers with a mandate to provide efficient
  and unbiased news to all subscribers. Founded on 27 August 1947, PTI began
  functioning from 1 February 1949.Bhasha is the Hindi language news service of the agency.
• UNI distributes world news from Reuters, the world’s largest information
  company. Besides, it has news exchange arrangements with Xinhua of China, RIA
  Novosti of Russia, UNB of Bangladesh, Anadolu of Turkey, WAM of the United
  Arab Emirates, GNA of Bahrain, KUNA of Kuwait, ONA of Oman and QNA of
  Qatar and CNA of Taiwan.
• The tribal people of India, who come under the category of ‘Scheduled Tribes’ (STs) in
  terms of the provisions of the Constitution of India, number 8.43 crore--constituting
  8.2 per cent of the population of the country (Census 2001).
• The term ‘‘Scheduled Tribes’’ is defined in the Constitution of India under Article
  366(25) as ‘‘such tribes or tribal communities or parts of groups within such tribes or tribal
  communities as are deemed under Article 342 to be Scheduled Tribes for the purposes of this Constitution’’. Article 342 prescribes the procedure to be followed in the matter of
  specification of Scheduled Tribes
• The term ‘‘Scheduled Tribes’’ is defined in the Constitution of India under Article
  366(25) as ‘‘such tribes or tribal communities or parts of groups within such tribes or tribal
  communities as are deemed under Article 342 to be Scheduled Tribes for the purposes of this Constitution’’. Article 342 prescribes the procedure to be followed in the matter of
  specification of Scheduled Tribes
• While women (including female child 0-14 years) consititute 48%
  of total population, the children (male and female 0-14 years) consititute 35% of total
  population
• STEP : Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP) was
  launched as a Central Sector Scheme in 1987
• Swayamsidha is an integrated scheme for the development and
  empowerment of women
• The Swadhar Scheme was launched by the Department during the year
  2001-2002 as a Central Sector Scheme for providing holistic and integrated services
  to women in difficult circumstances, such as destitute widows deserted by their
  families in religious places like Vrindaban and Kashi, women prisoners released
  from jail and without family support; women survivors of natural disasters who
  have been rendered homeless and are without any social and economic support,
  trafficked women/girls, rescued or runaway from brothels or other places or victims
  of sexual crimes, who are disowned by family or who do not want to go back to their
  family for various reasons, women victims of terrorist violence who are without any
  family support, mentally challenged women who are without any support of family
  or relatives etc.
• NATIONAL YOUTH POLICY, 2003.The age group of the Youth, as per the National Youth Policy, 2003, is 13 to 35 years.
• The Sports Authority of India (SAI) was established by the Government of India in
  January 1984
• There are 75 primitive tribal groups in the country