India has a Zero mile stone in Nagpur which is considered center of India.

Zero Mile Stone  is a monument locating the geographical centre of colonial India in the city of Nagpur,Maharashtra. The Zero Mile Stone was erected by the British who used this point to measure all the distances. The Zero Mile Stone consists of four horses and a pillar made up of sandstone. In 2008, The Times of India undertook to maintain the monument for the next 5 years.

It is located on the south east of Vidhan Bhavan, Nagpur.

The British rulers considered Nagpur to be the centre of India and hence identified this point and constructed the Zero Mile Stone. Earlier India was divided into provinces and Nagpur was the capital of CP & Berar Province. Later when states were created, Nagpur was incorporated into Maharashtra, and as Nagpur had been the capital of CP & Berar, even though it was geographically shifted to Maharashtra, the status of second capital was granted to Nagpur.

Facts about Digital India that you might be unaware of

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• Quite recently, Indian government has launched a scheme called DigiLocker.Anyone having an Aadhar card can login to www.digilocker.gov.in and upload scanned copies of all the important documents like 10th marksheet, 12th marksheet, Graduation certificate, electricity bill, PAN, DL, Passport etc. So whenever, you will need those documents (for verification by govt agencies while applying for any service etc) , you can directly give your locker number and it is done! No more hassles of carrying those documents and tons of photocopies. Its in beta phase now.
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• There is a website MyGov: A Platform for Citizen Engagement towards Good Governance in India where Indian citizens can make profiles and participate actively in governance by discussing, giving suggestions, making logos and taglines for schemes etc.

• A supreme court case named Keshavnanda Bharati vs State of Kerala (1973) is considered as one of the greatest judgements ever made in the history of India. By this judgement, H'ble Supreme court limited the powers of legislature to amend the constitution. The judgement said that Basic structure of the constitution must not be changed. This has prevented political parties from amending the constitution into whatever they may feel like.

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Saare jahan Se acha Hindustan Hamara.

To keep our India clean and beautiful, one more habit to be changed by us is not to throw garbage out of train window.

Everyone of us has travelled through the trains atleast once in our lives. If you remember, earlier people used to throw the garbage in their compartment itself but since the awareness of various social campaigns people realized the importance of keeping trains clean. But the non sensitiveness towards cleanliness did not get eradicated but shifted towards throwing large amount of garbage out of the window throughout their journey. You can hear even parents teaching their kids to throw garbage outside the window. But it is not the right thing to do.

This garbage thrown out pollutes the railway tracks, jungles, crop fields, residential areas and rivers. 

Here's what you can do:

1. Look for a dustbin in your coach. It is generally placed underneath the wash basin or inside the toilet. Even a disposable bag is sometimes hung in the area between two coaches to throw garbage.
2. Collect all garbage in a plastic bag and throw or empty the bag at next railway station.

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Advantages of homes made from Plastic Bottles.....

Homes made from Plastic Bottles,,,,...................

Advantages of having home made of plastic bottles....

• Bullet Proof 
• Fireproof 
• Eco-friendly 
• Carbon Neutral  
• Maintains comfortable temperature 
•  Earthquake resistant 
•  Affordable 

Stop writing on our cultural heritage and protected monuments. This small step will make our India more beautiful.

India is a country that is rich in heritage and cultural history and the living symbols of it stand amongst us in the form of monuments.

There is hardly any country in the world with such diverse physical structures representing the grandeur of architecture, art, religion, knowledge in various fields, etc.We don't like the plain, intricate and aesthetic carvings on stone so people beautify them with our very own red paint like tobacco or pan.
Whenever you visit any place of historical importance, somebody has engraved their names, spat, littered or pissed on the walls.
Tourists worldwide pay huge amounts to visit these places and be acquainted with Indian history and we treat them like our junkyard, probably because we haven't yet realised what we have and what value it holds.



Even, The Taj Mahal, one of the wonders of the world doesn't just have odd drawings but nonsensical scribblings ENGRAVED on it. Such damage cannot be reversed and the government every year spends crores of rupees for its beautification, as if the existing pollution wasn't damaging enough.

Next time you visit any place of historical importance, please urge people not to spoil the place by scribbling or spitting around and do not throw waste anywhere. Please throw them in designated dustbins only. A small step taken by you now will not only increase the pride of India but will save the environment as well.

Source taken from - Quora Timeline of Fieta Viegas

Save paper. Save Trees. Save our planet Earth.

Recently we did a post on drought affected India. Only if there were more trees, we would have been coped up with the situation in a better way.

One way which is environment friendly is by not printing out account balance receipt unnecessarily and then throwing it away.

If you go to any ATM, you will most likely see account balance receipts lying everywhere on the floor which were printed for no reason.

You can just click on balance inquiry and then click NO when asked if you want to print receipt.
Please get printed receipt only if you need it. Don't print it if you want to throw it after checking the balance.


By printing unnecessary receipt you are-
1. Compromising with the security of your bank account with the bank details printed on it.

2. Compromising with your health. The paper used for receipts contains harmful chemicals which causes CANCER.

3. Wasting paper which results in cutting of trees which is not good for planet.

4. Increasing the litter and making the planet dirty.

It is a request not to make the planet untidy and unfit for living. One habit which changes the life of all the individuals by 1 small step.

Drought

Drought in southern states has affected the cultivation of major commodities like rice, cotton and spices. Production of these commodities is likely to come down sharply if the absence of summer rains prevails, experts said.

The effect of drought has been severe in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, especially in the rice growing regions. 

"Perhaps for the first time in the last 20-25 years, the Nagarjuna Sagar dam has not become full, hindering irrigation activities. In Kurnool dis .. 

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