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Succeeded by. Ramgarh Raj. Republic of India. Today part of. Jharkhand, India. The Nagvanshis of Chotanagpur, also known as the Khokhra chieftaincy, was an Indian dynasty which ruled the parts of Chota Nagpur plateau region (modern-day Jharkhand) during much of ancient, medieval and modern period.
Bezwada Wilson (born 1966) is an Indian activist and one of the founders and National Convenor of the Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA), an Indian human rights organization that has been campaigning for the eradication of manual scavenging, the construction, operation and employment of manual scavengers which has been illegal in India since 1993. [1]
Jharkhand (/ ˈ dʒ ɑːr k ə n d /; Hindi: [d͡ʒʱɑːɾkʰəɳɖ]; lit. ' the land of forests ') is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south.
The National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK) is currently a temporary non-statutory body [1] that investigates the conditions of Safai Karamcharis (waste collectors) in India and makes recommendations to the Government of India . NCSK was constituted 12 August 1994 as a statutory body for a three-year period under the NCSK ACT, 1993.
CSC e-Governance Services India Limited. Common Service Centres ( CSC) ( Hindi: जन सेवा केंद्र) are physical facilities for delivering Government of India e-Services to rural and remote locations where availability of computers and Internet was negligible or mostly absent. They are multiple-services-single-point model ...
Karam is a major native harvest festival of Jharkhand. It is celebrated on the 11th day of a full moon of the month of Bhado by the Sadan (Khortha, Nagpuri, Kurmali-speaking ethnic group) and the tribal (Munda, Bhumij, and Oraon) people of Jharkhand. [10] During this festival, people bring branches of the Karam tree to the village and then ...
Babulal Marandi belonging to the tribal community, who was the organizing secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, became the first Chief Minister of the state of Jharkhand. Other such leaders of Sangh Parivar who belong to the tribal community include Karia Munda , Jual Oram ; both ministers in the Union Government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee .
Shikharji ( Śikharjī ), also known as Sammed or Sammet Shikharji, is one of the Holiest pilgrimage sites for Jains, in Giridih district, Jharkhand. It is located on Parasnath hill, the highest mountain in the state of Jharkhand. [1] It is the most important Jain Tirtha (pilgrimage site), for it is the place where twenty of the twenty-four ...