Gurgaon District Research Articles

Basic Concepts of Disaster Management and Hazard Risk Vulnerability Profile of Gurgaon Based on District Disaster Management Plan 2020

To understand the process of disaster risk reduction and disaster management it is very important to know the usage meaning and difference between the basic concepts of disaster management. While hazard refers to probable event that can occur, disaster is actual occurrence of the event. Any event becomes a disaster after occurrence when it has very wide impact in terms of loss of life, injury to people, damage and destruction of physical structures and environment. Similarly, vulnerability is situation it can be physical, social or economic but risk is calculation of probable impact of disaster. Capacity improvement can lower the vulnerability, lower the risk and lower the total impact of disaster. Capacity improvement by building strong structures and creating awareness among communities will help in building a resilient society to cope with disasters. In this paper we tried to understand the meaning of these basic concept with illustrations from District Disaster Management Plan 2020 of Gurgaon District of Haryana

Techno-Pedagogical Competency among teachers in relation to their attitude towards teaching

The purpose of this study is to determining the Techno-Pedagogical Competency and attitude towards teaching of teachers from selected colleges in Gurgaon District. A normative survey method was adopted in this stage. A sample of 190 teachers were selected from various colleges. The study found that the level of Techno-Pedagogical Competency and the teachers’ possessed a favourable attitude towards teaching. Further, it was found that there exists significant difference in Techno-Pedagogical Competency and attitude towards teaching mean score among teachers with respect to gender, locality, teaching experience and type of institutions. Further, it can be revealed that there was a significant positive correlation between Techno-Pedagogical Competency and attitude towards teaching. Overall, this study provides valuable insights into the current state of Techno-Pedagogical Competency and attitude towards teaching among teachers in Gurgaon District. The findings suggest that the teachers in the region have a good grasp of using technology for pedagogical purposes and hold a positive outlook towards their teaching profession. The results also highlight the importance of considering demographic factors when analyzing teachers’ competency and attitude.

Leveraging mass media for disseminating information on health awareness days

Health awareness days are dedicated to raising awareness regarding health issues and encouraging individuals to take preventative measures to improve their health. Mass media, including television, radio, print, and internet platforms, may significantly spread information and promote health awareness days to a large audience. It can contribute to increasing public knowledge, facilitating behaviour change, and encouraging individuals to take action towards better health. For this study, an interview schedule was conducted in four sub-divisions of the Gurgaon District of Haryana, and 400 respondents were administered the questionnaire. 76% of the respondents are keen on knowing all health days listed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GOI. Further, 38.2% of the respondents would prefer online news as a mass media medium to know about health awareness days. Health awareness days can play a critical role in increasing the respondents’ knowledge about disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

Suffering, Survival and Sustenance: Meos’ Post-Partition Experiences in Pakistan

More than half a million Meos from the former princely states of Alwar and Bharatpur and the Gurgaon district of the former province of East Punjab, facing discrimination, hostility and violence in the wake of the 1947 Partition, opted to trek to Pakistan. Arriving there six weeks later, bedraggled and bereft, they faced further travails as disease swept through the refugee camps. Many died, while the survivors were eventually settled along the newly created international Punjab border between India and Pakistan. A decade later, however, they were displaced by the Pakistan state in the name of border consolidation. This article traces the Meo experience of multiple state displacements, survival and re-establishing lives in the early years of Pakistan’s history when the postcolonial state was still working out its responsibilities in the process of nation formation and border consolidation. In reconstructing the story of the state’s interpreting of Meos through its files in the hitherto untapped archives, supplemented with first-hand accounts from members of the community, this article provides new insights into the existing situation of the Meos and their relationship with both the local population and the authorities and, as such, reveals many dichotomies in state and community interactions.

Unmanned aerial vehicles for planning rooftop rainwater harvesting systems: a case study from Gurgaon, India

Abstract Rooftop rainwater harvesting systems (RRWHS) effectively provide water access by storing precipitated water. The amount of water harvestable using these systems is proportional to the availability of rooftop areas in the region. The use of satellite imagery has gained traction in recent times considering the challenges in conducting a manual survey to determine the rooftop area. However, the limitations on spatial resolution impaired stakeholders from conducting similar assessments in areas with small residential units. In this regard, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) providing high-resolution spatial imagery for the delineation of rooftops of all scales has become popular. The present study is an attempt to utilize UAV-generated orthomosaics to estimate the harvestable quantity of rainwater for setting up an RRWHS. A study area in the Gurgaon district, India, is selected, and the steps involved in estimating the quantity of water harvestable using UAVs are demonstrated. In addition to these computations, a suitable site for constructing the storage unit is identified with the aid of a weighted overlay technique implemented using a Geographic Information System. The results from the study show that nearly 11,229 m3 of water can be harvested per year in the study site using the RRWHS.

Groundwater quality assessment using geospatial and statistical approaches over Faridabad and Gurgaon districts of National Capital Region, India

This study presents an assessment of groundwater quality over the two constituent districts (Faridabad and Gurgaon) of the National Capital Region (NCR), India, using geospatial and statistical approaches. These districts have been subjected to rapid urbanization and industrialization in recent years. The groundwater quality parameters viz., pH, electrical conductivity (EC), carbonate (CO32−), bicarbonate (HCO3−), chloride (Cl−), sulphate (SO42−), nitrate (NO3−), fluoride (F−), calcium (Ca2+), magnesium (Mg2+), sodium (Na+), potassium (K+), silica (SiO2), and total hardness (TH) are obtained for the year of 2017 from 28 sites over the study area. The suitability for human drinking purposes is assessed by comparing the concentration of parameters at each site with respect to their permissible limits recommended by the Bureau of Indian Standards (IS 10500: 2012). The geospatial mapping of the water quality parameters is carried out to visualize their variations, whereas their risk assessment is accomplished by the statistical approaches viz., water quality index (WQI), correlation, and principal component analysis (PCA). The number of sites exceeding the permissible limits of pH, EC, Cl−, SO42−, NO3−, F−, Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+, K+, and TH is obtained to be 7, 15, 5, 6, 8, 3, 5, 7, 18, 3, and 8, respectively. The WQI analysis revealed 10 out of the 28 sites to be unsuitable for drinking purposes. The parameters mostly exhibited positive correlations except for pH that showed a negative correlation with other parameters. The results of PCA revealed the first principal component (PC1) to explain more than 95% of the total variance, thereby significantly reducing the dimensionality. The deteriorated water quality may be mainly attributed to anthropogenic activities, i.e., reckless industrial growth, population explosion, and rapid urbanization. This study emphasizes the need for regular water quality monitoring, and the information reported will certainly help for water resources planning and management, especially over the industrial regions of NCR, India.

Medicinal Plant’s Wealth of Aravalli Hills, Gurgaon District, Haryana, India

Medicinal Plant’s Wealth of Aravalli Hills, Gurgaon District, Haryana, India

Integrating Built Heritage in Development Planning: Small and medium towns of Gurgaon District

Rapid growth of cities is a reality addressed in the formulation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a part of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Goal 11 proposes ‘improving urban planning and management through participatory and inclusive ways’ [1]. While this is an obvious ideal, the challenge lies in operationalizing it. In the many layers of a typical urban context in India, one is that of built heritage. One that is marginalized in the process of development planning, particularly in areas such as the Gurgaon District of Haryana that has seen unprecedented urban growth and transformation over the last few decades [2]. The study approaches sustainable development from the lens of built heritage and socio-cultural processes revolving around it in the given context. The research focus is on built heritage of small and medium towns in the Gurgaon District and its linkages with the physical, socio-political and developmental context. The towns of Sohna, Farrukhnagar and Garhi Harsaru in the District have been taken up for study. The three towns are spread across three different Development Plans prepared for Sohna, Farrukhanagar and Gurgaon-Manesar Urban Complex. A critique of the developmental planning approach highlights it’s disconnect with built heritage [3]. Mapping of the socio-political context and various on-ground processes of maintaining and managing of built heritage by the local community point towards connections with development that helps sustain the built heritage. There are community linkages, associations and values grounded in the context that play a significant role in the process. The study reveals that built heritage has an integral relationship with its physical and ecological context, and represents, along with being impacted by, social and political events in the past and present. Hence, historical as well as contemporary positions find a place in the narrative. The community led processes of present day are layered with meanings, understanding which can pave the way for a participatory and inclusive approach towards development, rather than forcing a one size fits all solution.

Teachers’ Participation in School Decision-Making Processes and Practices: the Case of an Indian Government Secondary School

Located in an Indian government secondary school in Gurgaon district, Haryana, northern India, this pilot case-study with teachers explores their perceptions and shared insights on their participation in school decision-making processes and practices. Drawing on two semi-structured interviews and a focus group discussion, the findings of this research suggest that a process of equitable education without critical thinking, critical pedagogy and distributed leadership, based on democratic values, may not achieve equality and equity in opportunity and facilitate socio-economic mobility through education.

Emotion Regulation and Job Satisfaction as Predictors of Subjective Well-being in Doctors

This study examined the role of emotion regulation and job satisfaction in predicting affective (positive and negative affect) and cognitive (life satisfaction) components of subjective well-being (SWB) in doctors. The predictors used were the dimensions of job satisfaction—intrinsic, extrinsic job satisfaction as well as the total score of job satisfaction and the following dimensions of intra-personal emotion regulation—cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. The participants included in the study were doctors from multi-specialty hospitals in Gurgaon district of Haryana. A total of 102 doctors were included in the study using convenience sampling. Correlational and step-wise multiple regression analyses were conducted to test the predictions. The results of the analysis confirmed the predictions as intrinsic job satisfaction and cognitive reappraisal significantly and positively predicted life satisfaction. The findings were discussed in the light of available research along with implications of the study and possible avenues for future research.

Bureaucracy, Community, and Land: The Resettlement of Meos in Mewat, 1949–50

Abstract This article documents in detail hitherto unavailable what Shail Mayaram called an “onslaught by the modern bureaucracy of the postcolonial state” on the liminally placed Meo community in the Mewat region, comprising the former princely states of Alwar and Bharatpur and the Gurgaon district of the former province of East Punjab. A people well-described as “in-between Hinduism and Islam,” the Meo community found itself, at a time of “two-nation” theory and consequent “partition politics,” a misfit. This article begins in 1949, when existing accounts of the story of the Meos end and traces the fraught process of their reterritorialization on their own land, now part of a partitioned nation state. Given the current ascendant culturally nationalist Indian state and society, it represents the Mewat of 1949–50 as a community lab of the early Indian nation state; tests its claims of parity, equality, and freedom; and provides a “prehistory” of the contemporary violence there.

Enhancing heritage tourism in small and medium towns by leveraging their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and skills

PurposeThe Gurgaon district in Haryana represents a region that has little-known remains from the past and craft traditions that are under threat because of the rapid pace of urban development and changing demography. The heritage resources of the towns in the district, such as Farrukhnagar and Sohna, are neither integrated in the development agenda nor acknowledged appropriately in formal hospitality and tourism planning. Local knowledge in the form of traditional crafts, food and building techniques has dwindled over the recent decades. Stories about the heritage resources are embedded in public memory and personal histories, though not necessarily explicit. The purpose of this study is to reveal the possible connections between sustenance of the cultural resources and skill development in the context of these small and medium towns.Design/methodology/approachThe skills, stories, knowledge and historic built form are examined as a part of this research to establish existing and potential community connections. The research entails identification of areas where capacity building is required, to enhance visitor experience and to develop heritage tourism, drawing from existing skill sets and traditional knowledge systems rather than looking outwards.FindingsOne of the challenges is the discontinuation of use of traditional building techniques for the physical conservation of historic structures/buildings into heritage hotels/bed-and-breakfast locations and tourism visitation spots. Tackling this gap can help development of homestays or heritage hotels, offering a unique experience for visitors who appreciate historic built form. Poor appreciation and interpretation of the heritage resources by the local community is another significant issue, as is the lack of skills that can help increase the appeal of these towns for the visitor interested in heritage tourism. The question is whether these skills are accessible for the residents of these towns and how this gap is being addressed.Research limitations/implicationsThese explorations can result in informed approaches to capacity building and community engagement that are the key to establishing heritage-oriented hospitality and tourism in historic small and medium towns.Originality/valueThe paper brings the heritage of small and medium towns into focus and suggests an integrated approach for hospitality and tourism development through skill development, an area that has been neglected and disconnected till now.

Geographic Inequities in Coverage of Maternal and Child health Services in Haryana State of India

Introduction India aims to achieve universal health coverage, with a focus on equitable delivery of services. There is significant evidence on extent of inequities by income status, gender and caste. In this paper, we report geographic inequities in coverage of reproductive, maternal and child health (MCH) services in Haryana state of India. Methods Cross-sectional data on utilization of maternal, child health and family planning services were collected from 12,191 women who had delivered a child in the last one year, 10314 women with 12-23months old child, and 45864 eligible couples across all districts in Haryana state. Service coverage was assessed based on eight indicators - 6 for maternal health, one for child health and one for family planning. Inter- and intra-district inequalities were compared based on four and three indicators respectively. Results Difference in coverage of full ante-natal care, full immunization and contraceptive prevalence rate between districts performing best and worst was found to be 54%, 65% and 63% respectively. More than one-thirds of the sub-centres (SCs) in Panchkula, Ambala, Gurgaon and Mewat districts had their ante-natal care coverage less than 50% of the respective district average. Similarly, a significant proportion of SCs in Mewat, Panipat and Hisar districts had full immunization rate below 50% of the district average. Conclusion Widespread inter- and intra-district inequities in utilization of MCH services exist. A comprehensive geographical targeting to identify poor performing districts, community development blocks and SCs could result in significant equity gains, besides contributing to quick achievement of sustainable development goals.

Comment on “Geographic Concentration in Indian Manufacturing and Service Industries: Evidence from 1998 to 2013”

Comment on “Geographic Concentration in Indian Manufacturing and Service Industries: Evidence from 1998 to 2013”

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Impact of Female Literacy on Sex Ratio: A Case Study of Haryana

Education is milestone for women. The growth of women's education in Haryana is slow. Education also brings a reduction in inequalities and improves the quality of life. Literacy is a part of education. Here the focus is on literacy rate and its impact on the sex ratio in Haryana. Sex composition of a population refers to the balance between male and female in any population. It can be expressed either in the form of proportion of a particular sex in the population or as a ratio between the population of two sexes. As is obvious, the first one gives the number of males per hundred females or number of males per thousand females in the population and is the most widely used measure of sex ratio the world over. On the country the second provides the number of females per hundred males or number of females per thousand males in the population. According to census 2011 literacy rate is 76.6 per cent, maximum literacy rate in Gurgaon district i.e. 84.4per cent however, sex ratio is minimum i.e. 853 females per thousand males and lowest literacy is in Mewat i.e. 56.1per cent but sex ratio is maximum i.e. 906 females per thousand males. Its shows inverse correlation between sex ration and literacy in Haryana.

Influence of changes in watershed landuse pattern on the wetland of Sultanpur National Park, Haryana using remote sensing techniques and hydrochemical analysis

Change in water supply and drainage patterns of surface and subsurface moisture zones are greatly enhanced due to anthropogenic activities. Monitoring changing wetland ecosystems helps to determine their tolerance to such anthropogenic activities.Sultanpur National Park, a wetland ecosystem located in Gurgaon district of Haryana state is such an ecosystem, harbouring plant and animal biodiversity. Increase in agriculture and builtup area in the surrounding region along with artificial deepening of the lake area for rainwater accumulation has led to the degradation of the central lake both in terms of quantity and quality. The anthropogenic influence was validated by landuse landcover mapping (through K-means unsupervised classification) of LANDSAT data within the wetland catchment for year 2000 and 2015 having an overall accuracy of 89.45% for 2000 and 80.48% for 2015.A declining trend in the total area under water cover in postmonsoon with a final area reduction of ~66% was observed from the year 1995–2015. Rampant agriculture and builtup land adjacent to the lake as well as artificial pumping of groundwater are major reasons for the deterioration of the lake water quality further posing major threats to the wetland ecosystem.Siltation from erosion and surface runoff due to mining and agriculture have led to the input of ionic components resulting in lake water quality deterioration as well as reduction in the depth of the lake available for rainwater accumulation. It has been inferred that high concentrations of nitrate (50% of samples above permissible limit (> 45ppm)) and phosphate (50% of samples above permissible limit (> 0.1ppm)) ions within the lake water is due to input from surface run off from the surrounding agricultural cropland within the lake catchment further leading to lake eutrophication and habitat loss suitable for plant and animal biodiversity.

Study of DEXA Scan Proved Incidence of Osteoporosis / Osteopenia as per WHO T-Score Among Healthy Individuals in Gurgaon District of Haryana

Study of DEXA Scan Proved Incidence of Osteoporosis / Osteopenia as per WHO T-Score Among Healthy Individuals in Gurgaon District of Haryana

Personal Strivings as Markers of Adolescents’ Quality of Life: a Gender Based Study

Adolescence is a very complex and crucial phase of life, where teenagers are caught up in their own web of personal strivings, such as the issues of being, belonging and becoming. Such strivings play a pivotal role in determining their quality of life. Further whether these intrinsic motives (i.e. 3Bs being, belonging and becoming) are being influenced by gender stereotypes is a big issue for the psychologists to explore. Thus the current study is an attempt to explore and compare the levels of being, belonging and becoming (comprising of overall QOL) among male and female adolescents. A purposive sample of 98 adolescents aged 16-18 years, both male (n=44) and female (n=54) was drawn from the colleges of Rewari and Gurgaon districts of Haryana. For measuring personal strivings, Quality Of Life Profile for Adolescent Version Questionnaire (Raphael, Rukholm, Brown, Hill-Bailey & Donato, 1996) was used. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to assess the levels of being, belonging and becoming and overall quality of life and gender comparison was done on these variables. Results indicated adequate level of personal strivings leading to overall good quality of life among adolescents (total as well as in both male and female separately). Both males and females have similar levels of quality of life. However, females superseded males in spiritual being and community belonging.