06.10.17 Andha Pradesh (APPSC) Daily Current Affairs

ANDHRA PRADESH   Telugu to be made must in Andhra Pradesh schools   Andhra Pradesh HRD minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao said Telugu language should be made mandatory in government and private school students and that a government order will be issued soon to that effect.The minister said school students of all grades should study Telugu, either as … Read more

15 & 16.09.17 Andhra Pradesh (APPSC) Daily Current Affairs

ANDHRA PRADESH   AP government launches ‘People First’, a mobile app for citizens   Andhra Pradesh government today launched ‘People First’, a mobile application that will “empower citizens with real-time governance”. People First, currently available only on Android-based mobile phones, enables citizens to access their profile, the various benefits accrued to them from the government … Read more

Spread of Modern Education

1781: Hastings set up the Calcutta Madrasah for the study and teaching of Muslim law and related subjects 1791: Jonathan Duncan started a Sanskrit College at Varanasi for the study of Hindu law and philosophy. 1813: Charter of 1813 directed the Company to spend Rs. 1 lakh for promoting modern sciences in the country. This … Read more

functional classification of urban settlements Problems of human settlement in India

  The definition of function varies across the disciplines. In political science it refers to duties, in mathematics it means the relationship between two variables and in geography it is synonymous to occupation. Geographers have classified towns on the basis of their site, situation, size, rank, location and relative elevation. Functional classification of towns attempts to categorize … Read more

Development of Industries : Types of Industries;factors of industrial location, distribution and changing pattern of selected industries [iron and steel, cotton textile, sugar and petro- chemicals); Weber’s theory of industrial location-lts relevance in the modern world.

  Based on the value addition and tangibility broadly we can have three types of industries – primary industries,secondary industries and tertiary industries. Primary industries are usually very simple industries involving processing of raw materials to give input goods for secondary industries. Here value addition is usually minimal and they are usually material oriented.Scale of … Read more

08.10.17 Andha Pradesh (APPSC) Daily Current Affairs

ANDHRA PRADESH   Extra marks for Andhra students who participate in clean India campaign The Andhra Pradesh government is exploring a proposal to allot five extra marks to students of class 9 and above who participate in the Swachh Bharat initiative and help the state government build 21 lakh toilets required to achieve 100% Open Defecation Free (ODF) status by March … Read more

Types of Settlements : rural and urban

  Settlement can be defined as any form of human habitation which ranges from a single dwelling to large city. The word settlement has another connotation as well as this is a process of opening up and settling of a previously uninhabited area by the people. In geography this process is also known as occupancy. … Read more

Parliamentary Form of Government

Parliamentary form of Government is the system of government in which there exists an intimate and harmonious relationship between the executive and the legislative departments, and the stability and efficacy of the executive department depend on the legislature.Its a system of government in which the power to make and execute laws is held by a … Read more