Normal And Abnormal

According to World Population Review for 2024 Denmark ranked the cleanest country in the world. Other top countries in cleanness are UK, Finland, Sweden, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, Malta, Slovenia and Iceland. As per the list of most unclean countries (that is, in the reverse order) of 2021, among 195 countries the most unclean country (s.no.195) is Bangladesh and the second most unclean country (s.no.194) is India. Every Indian should be shameful to see this pathetic position of our country. We have state and central governments with many departments to keep our country (as entrusted to each department) clean. As per budget allocation for 2022-23 there was Rs 5,000 crores for Swatch Bharat Abhiyan and the revised estimate for 2023-24 is Rs 7,192 crores. Huge number of people, equipments and vehicles are deployed. The household cleaning market in India was worth $7,537 million in 2022. This is sharply rising according to reports. Though we can say cleaning in India i...

We  all believe that God created man. It is equally a truth that man created God. According to any religion no one has ever seen God. If somewhere it is said that someone has seen God it can only be interpretation. Similarly, if anyone say that he knows God, it is sheer misconception of God. If someone says he knows God, he should be able to answer any questions pertaining to the whole universe. The reason for saying so is that God cannot be contained in the human brain. According to scientic view the distance from one end of our universe to the other end is about 93 billion light years. When one light year is about 9 trillion kilometres, to count the distance of the the universe, it needs how many times man to take birth is again be calculated and found. With this simple assessment we may try to find God. God is created by man in different ways like man and woman in different shapes, colours and sizes. Most of the religions have created their respective gods in differe...

City Montessori School, Lucknow is the largest school in the world with 61,000 students, 4,500 staff across 21 campus in the city. Founded in 1959 with 5 students on a borrowed capital of Rs 300/- by Dr Jagdish Gandhi and Dr Bharti Gandhi. CMS is affiliated with the Council for Indian School Certificate. According to a report in Malayala Manorama dared 18th Jan 24, 25 percent Indians in the age group of 14-18 years cannot read their respective  study books in their own mother tongue. Alongwith this 42.7 per cent of them cannot read English sentences. This is said to be brought out by Status of Educational Report by 'Pratham'. Further to this a good number of children leave education within the age group of 14-18 years. 3.9 percent children say goodbye to education at the age of 14, 10.9 percent at the age of 16 and 32.6 percent at the age of 18. As per the census report of 2011, only 4.5 percent of the population has completed graduation. A majority of 32.6 percent ...

West Bengal has a history of long communist rule. Out of these long years, 35 years were continuously by two Chief Ministers, i.e, 1977 to 2000 by Jyoti Basu and 2000 to 2011 by Budhadeb Bhattacharjee. We may now go through the final outcome of the communist rule in the state. Most significant of all should be the economic development of the people of that state. We may first find the per capita income of the people. The pci of West Bengal in 2019 can be compared with the high income states. (It is shown in USD and the conversion rate indicated in rupees @Rs 81/- per $) Goa - 7,029 (5,69,349) Sikkim - 6,421 (5,20,101 Delhi - 5,817 (4,71,177) W Bengal -1,614 (1,32,354) Let us now find the literacy rates of 2021. Kerala - 94.0 Mizoram - 91.3 Goa - 88.7 W. Bengal - 76.3 According to NITI Aayog Health Index 2021 the selected score are: Kerala - 82.90 T. Nadu - 72.42 W.Bengal - 57.16 (2018) Unemployment rate of selected states in January 2022 Meghalaya - 1.4% Odisha - 1.8% Karna...

Recently a retired official from the government sector said that he had some pain in the chest. He immediately visited a known private hospital and consulted a cardiologist. The doctor, after detailed examination suggested an Angioplasty surgery. Cost of the surgery would be Rs 1.5 lakhs, was the advice by the doctor. Our cardiac patient left the reputed private hospital and went straight to a district hospital and consulted the cardiologist there. After detailed examination our patient got admitted there and remained there for few days. The doctor then told him that he was fully cured and was discharged. The total expenditure in the hospital was said to be Rs 6,000/- plus. This may not be an isolated incident. In the case of Angioplasty the private hospitals in Kerala charges around Rs 1.2 to Rs 1.6 lakhs. The surgery takes about 30 minutes to 2 hours. Depending upon the health condition of the patient the recovery may take about two weeks time. The DGHS has proposed to br...

While  evaluating the prices of some selected goods and services in 1950-60s and 2020s we may assume the prices of those in the year 2100 Rice per kg 1950-60s - 6 Annas 2020-22 - Rs 40/- 2100 - Rs 4,000/- Tea per cup 1950-60s - 1 Anna 2020-22 - Rs 10/- 2100 - Rs 1,600/- Non veg meals 1950-60s - 8 Anna's 2020-22 - Rs 150/- 2100 - Rs 45,000/- Sardine fish per 100 nos (approx. 3 kgs) 1950-60s - 1 Anna 2020-22 - Rs 100/- per kg 2100 - Rs 33,000/- per kg. Hair cut 1950-60s - 6 Annas 2020-22 - Rs 120/- 2100 - Rs 40,000/- Beer per bottle (650ml) 1950-60 - Rs 5/- 2020-22 - Rs 140/- 2100 - Rs 3,900/- Bus minimum charge 1950-60s - 1 Anna 2020-22 - Rs 10/- 2100 - Rs 1,700/- Minimum wages for unskilled worker per day 1950-60s - Re 1/- 2020-22 - Rs 800/- 2100 - Rs 6,40,000/- Note: The prices of 1950-60s and 2020-22 are from available sources and the prices indicated in 2100 are on the basis of assumption, no reliability may be expected. K V George