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Laxmi Agarwai received a 2014 International Women of Courage Award by US first lady Michelle Obama.

Women all over the world come together to celebrate the auspicious Day and renew their struggles.

Laxmi Lakra belongs to a poor tribal family in Jharkhand- She studied in a government school. She studied hard and did well and then went on to get a diploma in electronics. She then took the railway board exam and passed it on her first attempt. She became the first woman engine driver for Northern Railways. In this way she broke stereotype that engine drivers could be men only. She says “I have challenges and the moment somebody says it is not for girls. I make sure I go ahead and do it”. Laxmi has had to do this several times in her life—when she wanted to take electronics, when she rode motorcycles at the polytechnics and when she decided to become an engine driver.

They collected the mud and prepared the earth for the pots.

Janaki Ammal Edavalath Kakkar.

She became the first woman engine driver for Northern Railways.

Learning the alphabet was so important to these woman because only after that the y became able to write stories, letters and autobiographies which described their own experiences of inequality.

Pandita Ramabai setup a Mission in Khedgaon near Pune in 1898. This was the place where widows and poor women were encouraged not only to become literate but to be independent. They were taught a variety of skills from carpentry to running a printing press, skills that are considered male preserve. This Mission is still active today and does a lot for women’s upliftement.

Rashsundari Devi was a housewife from a rich landlord’s family in west Bengal. She wrote about her everyday life experiences in her autobiography.

C) Padma Shri

Stereotype : Stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group.

1. Enjoy Equal access to education and the opportunity to develop personal ambitions, interests and talents. 

2. Sports : Women also equally participated and achieve their targets.

3. IAS officers etc. 

4. Administration at home or outside.

Schools became more common and communities that had never learnt reading and writing started sending their children to school.

Gold & Platinum have an international market.

Rashsundari Devi was a housewife from a rich landlord’s family in West Bengal. She was not allowed to learn to read and write. During her time, some 200 years ago, there was a prevalent belief that if a woman learnt to read and write, she would bring bad luck to her husband. Rashsundari Devi took this belief as false because she was not at all superstitious. She took strict decision and taught herself how to read and write in secret, well after her marriage. She even wrote her autobiography in Bangla at the age of 60. Her book titled Amor Jiban is the first known autobiography written by an Indian woman.

Inspirational women : A women who motivates mental or emotionally.

We have made remarkable progress in the field of Science and Technology. □I We are travelling to space.

But discrimination against women continues.

Discrimination is even more severe in illiterate families.

(c) it is a compulsory contribution to the government

The above statement is not correct. At present stereotype between men and women has been disappearing.

Today women also equally paid and treated along with the men.

If opportunities are provide women can do far better than men in various spheres. 

Ex : Sunitha Williams, Smt Indira Gandhi.

1. A women is ploughing the land in the above picture. Yes, I have seen this in our village.

2. Yes. I support that women have the same abilities as men. Men and women have the same relative muscular strength.

Correct option: (b) on his income and property

It is true that the literacy rates have increased since independence. According to the 1961 census, about 40% of all boys and men were literate compared to 15% of all girls and women. In the census of 2001, these figures have grown to 76% for boys and men and 54% for girls and women. This means that the proportion of both men and women who are able to read and have at least some amount of schooling has increased. But the worrying factor is that the percentage of male is still higher than the female group. The gap exists even today.

Slogan on the importance of women’s equality. 

1. A woman’s place is in the house and in the senate. 

2. Dignity, respect and justice for all. 

3. Equality for all. 

4. Rise of the women = rise of the nation. 

5. The future is female. 

6. Women holdup half the sky.

PT USHA : 

USHA became the first Indian women to reach the final of an Olympic Event. She is the youngest Indian Sprinter, at 16, to compete in the Olympics at the 1980 Moscow games and won the first medal of the 1982 Asian Games in track and field.

She received the Arjuna Award and Padma Shri Award.

Bachendri Pal: Indian Mountaineer who in 1984 became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. 

She was received the Padma Shri Award in 1984,

1. indirect tax 

2. Private finance 

3. Non-developmental expenditure 

4. External debt 

5. Deficit budget 

6. Obligatory function 

7. Regressive Tax 

8. Capital expenditure

1. Public Expenditure

2. Budget

3. Tax

4. Internal Debt

5. Fiscal Policy

6. Balanced Budget

7. Public revenue

8. Direct Tax

9. Proportionate tax

10. Non Tax Revenue

Correct option: (4) a, b, c and d

Gender Equality : When people of all genders have equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities.

The writer was going from New Delhi to Ranikhet, a hill station on the Himalayas. He travelled upto Bareilly by train and then by car to Ranikhet.

William C. Douglas got down from his compartment at every stoppage. He talked to the people of every class to get a feel of the pulse of the nation. 

(a) Face book

Plagiarism is defined as “any passing off of another’s ideas, words, or work as one’s own.” It is a form of cheating and a violation of academic integrity, and is taken seriously by reputable universities such as Alliant.

The story of the nine year old child who handed the money back to the author was told to the Prime Minister.

Plagiarism is defined as “any passing off of another’s ideas, words, or work as one’s own.” It is a form of cheating and a violation of academic integrity, and is taken seriously by reputable universities such as Alliant.

(i ) How to Avoid Plagiarism: 

At the graduate level, students produce assignments to analyze and synthesize information. You show what you know and produce something new. In an assignment, you might answer a question, solve a problem, or propose a theory or model that explains some phenomenon. This builds your skills and expertise in producing meaningful, original work.

When you analyze information, you may report what other people have said, but then slice and dice it in new ways to draw your own conclusions. Mostly, reporting others information involves paraphrasing it in your own words.

When you synthesize information produced by other people, you also paraphrase and maybe quote small bits of information from other people. Then, you put the information together in new ways.

(ii) Some point keep in mind to avoid Plagiarism:

• Keep track of your sources; print electronic sources.
• Keep sources in correct context.
• Plan ahead.
• Don’t cut and paste: File and label your sources. 
• Keep your own writing and your sources separate. 
• Keep your notes and your draft separate.
• Paraphrase carefully in your notes; acknowledge your sources explicitly when paraphrasing.
• Avoid reading a classmate’s paper for inspiration. 
• Don’t save your citations for later.
• Quote your sources properly.
• Keep a source trail.

Researchers are collected study material using illegal way and after editing this material attach along with their research paper. They generally use any search engine on internet and search their related information and copy it and after editing and modifying to submit to his/her instructor.

The train by which W. C. Douglas was travelling was a slow moving train and stopped at all the way stations.

Secrecy is used by authorized person only.

By Software is used to stop Plagiarism.

The author William C. Douglas bought from the refugee children many articles as a sewing basket, a wastepaper basket, a fruit basket and few fans, etc. So, his arms were full.

According to William C. Douglas the average annual income of an agricultural family was not more than 100 dollars. 

Password is used to find out the authorized person on computer.

The girl returned the gratuity. So the writer felt that the girl was hardworking and self-respecting. So, he realised that he had given offence by extending the gratuity to the girl as a substitute for not buying the basket. 

The refugee children thought that the writer was a rich man. He would buy articles of many children. So they descended on him like locusts.

If a writer steal from other person’s work, known as Plagiarism.

The writer thought that the people of India were self-respecting and very gentle. They preferred starvation to begging.

(d) Plagiarism

1. b. Taking shower

2. d. Shaving

3. c. 16.30%

4. b. Washing dishes by hand

5. a. YES

Correct answer is (a) message