Music Therapy:A Novel Therapy

Did you ever feel that therapy involves talk by a psychologist and nothing else could come under the domain of therapy?If your answer is yes,Then you are wrong!!Well times have changed my reader~

Therapies have come a long way to incorporate other clinically approved methods such as animal assisted therapy,food therapy,aroma therapy etc.Music Therapy is one clinically developed program by psychologists to assist speedy healing of their clients.In this blog,the readers would be introduced to the world of Music therapy.So lets get started!

WHAT IS MUSIC THERAPY?

Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.It is is an established health profession in which music is used within a therapeutic relationship to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals. After assessing the strengths and needs of each client, the qualified music therapist provides the indicated treatment including creating, singing, moving to, and/or listening to music.

Through musical involvement in the therapeutic context, clients’ abilities are strengthened and transferred to other areas of their lives.This therapy also provides avenues for communication that can be helpful to those who find it difficult to express themselves in words. Research in music therapy supports its effectiveness in many areas especially emotional rehabilitation.

History

You all will be shocked to know that both world wars were the trigger that initiated the development of this therapy.During and after both World Wars, doctors and clinicians began to realize the powerful effects that music has on the healing process and requested that professional musicians be hired by the hospitals.This therapy first got officially recognized in the Michigan state university of the United States of America.Ultimately,The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) was formed which focuses on creating more awareness about this wonderful therapy.

BENEFITS

Music therapy can benefit many individuals. The diverse nature of music means it can be applied in the treatment of concerns both physical and psychological.Since music can evoke positive emotions and improve brain health,Music therapy is said to manage and alleviate symptoms of mental health concern such as Depression, Mood issues,Anxiety,Schizophrenia,Substance abuse,Autism,Personality issues,Insomnia,Dementia etc.

In addition,Music therapy can improve the social,cognitive,emotional and motor functioning.This therapy was also effective in controlling patient’s situation in Alzheimer’s,Cancer and Hypertension.

Music therapy is frequently administered to reduce stress levels and pain perception of females in labor.This novel therapy has also been linked with improvements in self-esteem, self-concept, verbal communication, prosocial behavior, socialization skills, group cohesion, and coping skills.

Limitations

Even the most beautiful things have flaws,and so has music therapy.One of the major drawback is that this therapy cannot be used as a stand-alone therapy.The music therapy is also known as music assisted therapy implying it’s sole purpose is to assist the main therapy applied by the clinician on the client to produce fast results and relief.

Also,the music therapy like all other therapies is individualized.This is not a major drawback but should be kept in mind before going in for this option.All individuals are unique and so is their taste in music.Thus the therapist has to do additional tests to see which type of music and musical instrument works better for the client.

ALWAYS REMEMBER,WHERE WORDS FAIL,MUSIC SPEAKS…..

Thus in short we need to know that music therapy is a wonderful form of therapy which strengthens an individual and increases his/her quality of life.Choose Music for a better Life!

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WARLI ART

“When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don’t just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatic effects. I think life is the same.”- Hiroko Sakai


It is a style of painting that was created mostly by tribal people of Maharashtra. They were drawn on the wall of huts, caves and roadside. It comprises of different geometrical shapes symbolizing nature elements. Male gods are unusual among the Warli and are frequently related to spirits that have taken human shape.


Central aspects depicted in many Warli paintings is the Tarpa dance. A mixture of red sandstone and brick is used to create the background along with chalk powder which completes the painting.
Walls are painted only to mark special occasions such as weddings, festivals, or harvests.
Today, small paintings are done on cloth and paper but they look best on the walls or in the form of huge murals that bring out the vast and magical world of the Warlis.
Warli painting is specially designed by certain households to sell in fair and shops of handmade goods are set up. You could also found warli on the walls of big households and firms.


Warli art to some extent makes us think of being environmentally conscious and finding joy in simple things of life. The art had spread to regions of Rajasthan and Odisha as well.
Jivya Mashe was awarded the Padma Shri in 2011 for making the art form popular in international circuits. This helps to keep the traditional culture alive.


Every art form has its own beautiful significance which helps to keep our culture eternal.

How money works inside MMORPGs?

Massively multiplayer online role-playing games has been played by millions around the world. They have been amazing. In such games majority of trade is done through a plan to plan trading system where one player window shade with another player for the sale of an item and they both plans would engage in a hand to hand virtual trade. This is so truly unique and resembles the functionality of an economy from a time period that represented. There are a lot of assumptions made about training in traditional academic economics. The big ones are that people will act rationally when making their competition. We always have perfect access to all of the information that we need to make that decision. That we are ultimately have unlimited one, but learning limited resources in which to fill those ones in video games like Eve online, for example, these assumptions actually kind of hold up. The market system is pretty sterility. Players have access to all the information that they need and they can just click and buy the cheapest option available to them for the item. They have determined that they need. This makes it pretty textbook. Next time clip different. There was no huge market tablet pricing information. It was just good old school personal person training and this meant that sidewalk in the economy had to step outside the comfort zone of these perfectly consumption and stepped into the world of business.

Promotion had to get the word out about your item place. Where can people go by? What are you actually selling? Body will. Do what you say well now. Typical video game market. Most of these points are really matter. People know when I’m tired and for the most part there are likely many, many, many identical copies of exactly the same item on the game server somewhere. And if you right click show invoke, it gives you all the information you need as to what does, so there goes the product and promotion. OK market with some other purchase’s items directly into place inventory so they don’t have to worry about the placement of an item. Minor really what it comes down to is knowing what you need. Open up the market. I like it. I want it. I got it conference paper applied on this more limiting play the plan training model. Though the 40s were much more important. Players would make sure they position well in trading swings and would refine their shouts into fantastic products they had to offer. Reputation was important to scan for prevalent and price with a bit of shopping, dark and ultimately it came down to. Good old-fashioned handling right there and then. This kind of old school exchange-based trading system was amazing. Unfortunately it was much much harder to monitor professional players that would harvest ruins back Golden Valley game items using automatic aimbots and trade them for Real Money and prices well below what the game developer for this kind of activity was of course not permitted by the game filters but nearly flew under the radar is kind of player to player trading system. So, if 2007 MMORPGs had slowly adapted a trading system for similar to these textbook market places that we see in other video games. This is not the same. Incredibly interesting point to note though, as I was conducting research on this account, you reached out to me and Rectal paper that he had written by inflation computer games with the case study specifically on MMORPGs. But these are so this paper is that rotates markets and more specifically its market prices, but just as dependent on real world influences as markets for cars or oil or shares, but highly recommend that anybody can read this paper, the main focal point of view is the study of the relationship between MMORPGs gold US dollars and we’re expecting which don’t actually have that much in common with real world bonds in ours. They just use given account premium subscriptions again for 14 days. Bonds can be purchased using real world money and then creating game for God. So, the game is legitimate market for gold. Basically, have a foreign exchange market with a real-world currency through these bonds just as they were foreign exchange analyst for real world currency exchanges. The relationship between US dollars at the MMORPGs gold market in a very particular instance in late 2018. Opening to get the game through his more engagement platform. This initially sorry huge spike. Open the game. This would have been a reasonable assumption if it were not for one major motorcycle. Mobile players were more open to the idea of Microtransactions and paying your money not to get ahead in the game. Instead of riding the Golden ring payment by bringing attention bond with them, they would actually rather pay real money for these bonds and stuff in the game. Forgot to get a head start over? Regular players would have to earn this goal in game. This ultimately sort huge downturn. Comparatively more valuable than one relationship.

Air Bubble:A New Normal for countries to connect ?

In the period of lockdown due to this pandemic International Travel was completely stopped.As due to International travellers, the pandemic resided in every country and what has happened after that every one knows.In the phase of lockdown every flight brand all around the world had come to standstill.Due to which they had to suffer huge losses,they also remove their employees from their respective job roles for the cost cutting scenario.

As we are slowly and steadily opening the International flights every government in their respective countries have come up with a new negotiation called “Air Bubble”.It means that airlines from both the countries can operate their flights with some restrictions.This is specifically done for the covid-19 period as because regular International Flights are at halt.As the countries have accepted and started allowing with limited restrictions so we can accept that in coming years there will be more such agreements so that the connectivity never halts whether anykind of problem the world phases.

In India this process was started in the month of July in which the agreements with the countries like US,UK,France,Germany,UAE,Qatar and recently Maldives has also accepted the agreements and flights are running as per the guidelines given by their respective governments.By taking the efforts ahead in this agreement India is negotiating with other 13 countries such as Australia,Italy,Japan,New Zealand,Nigeria,Bahrain,Israel,Kenya,Philippines,Russia,Singapore,South Korea & Thailand.It is mainly because to reach out the Indians who are left in different countries can safely return to their loved ones.

By bringing such agreements on every sector we can see that economy will revive and as the revival process is going on they can formulate new policies so that economy will be boosted and people will get jobs as per their required field,there will be proper unlocking of education system and every infrastructure will not be just standing like tall but it will have the use for which it has been formed.

Put new life to some of your old stuff

There are some things that we are very attached with. But once they get old you may not be able to use them. But there are some hacks which will help renew them so you can use them for longer

• If your shoes have got creases you can stuff a thick cloth enough to give rise to area where your feet come. Then upon it put a cloth over your shoe and iron it for some time. You will notice the crease has lessened. Do not iron you shoe directly or it may cause damage.

• Gold jewellery loses its shine over time. To get back its shine put your jewellery in light beer. The acid in it will polish gold.

• To get rid of creases on your leather products like jackets, apply olive oil on the crease and then put a thick cloth over it and iron. Remove the cloth after ironing and apply clear shoe polish. Let dry. Use it.

Resilience

There is a mindset commonly known as resilience. Resilience means when a person can recover from hardships and turn the difficult times into the favorable ones. This is a virtue which can change a person’s outlook and the way to handle strenuous situations. The resilient people have the capacity to be calm in types of stressful situations and can balance circumstances which have the power of going out of hand. They can nurture a positive point of view and can handle pressure in all kinds of conditions constructively. We all can nurture and grow the habit of being resilient to be prepared for all hardships and overcome it with a smile by practicing seven skill sets.

The first skill that we have to upgrade in us is knowing your true self as it helps us in evolving our inner confidence and helps us in growing us from inside. When we have our confidence with us, we can handle any situation without a problem. There are many researches done in this area that with confidence it’s a play task to overcome any problem and recover from it. When we become well aware of ourselves and learn to handle and deal with stressful situations, we can tone our resilient nature for the better future.

The second skill is to feel that our body and mind is one. Many people are born resilient, it is their innate nature but those who are not born it they can acquire it by healing our minds and strengthening our bodies as when we have to find a hard situation our body and mind works together. If they do so or there is less coordination between them then it becomes more and more difficult to tame the situation. If the body is in pain then the mind also gets panic commands and forgetting that they have to fight the situation, they start succumbing to it. To become resilient, we have to keep our body fit by giving it dosage of a healthy lifestyle. Healthy lifestyle can be attained by keeping check on eating, sleeping and exercising activities. We have to keep every lifestyle activity in balance. 

The third skill set is adopting change with an optimistic attitude. To be flexible from inside is one of the essential parts of being resilient. To respond to any plight of life, we should learn to become adaptable in all the situations. As when we become adaptable, we would be able to accept the hardships and turn the crisis into a positive opportunity to evolve into a much better personality. Those who can thrive in adverse conditions and branch the adverse condition into a brand-new path which leads to success. When many people succumb to these situations and put themselves in a dark hole because of it, resilient people focus on overcoming the situation with better outcomes. As they are wired in such a way that they never give up. They are optimistic and always have that hopeful perspective. Being positive or hopeful doesn’t mean that they ignore the problem but they have a clearer understanding of the situation and understand that these hardships are an inevitable part of life. They have the ability to fight with the situation, it may look a difficult skill to attain, but we can practice it by thinking positively and keeping a mindset that everything on this earth is temporary so as the challenging situation present in front of us. Then we also will be able to combat with the obstacles of life without any inhibition.

 The fourth skill set is nourishing our minds and stabilizing our minds. To improve resilience ability, we have to maintain nourishment of the body and balancing mind. When we are in a stressful situation our mind sends a message to the body to fight the situation by using the available resources and protecting us from critical situations. If the person won’t have enough stamina then fighting any situation is a dream but those with good coordination between body and mind will thrive in the situation. We should make time from our daily life to self-nurture us by engaging us in activities which we like. In this way our body and mental health will boost and will be ready to face any obstacle of life.

The fifth skill set is to build our relationships within the real world. We should give out time to maintain our social network to enhance resilient ability. As today, in present times, we give more time to social media by being fake and expressing only those feelings which are worth presentable and hide from real relationships. We don’t have to hide our true self as our family members, real friends won’t have a problem accepting that real nature. So, it is really necessary to indulge in healthy relationships and increase our resilient nature. When real relationships support us in mastering resilience, sham of social media relation puts a breakdown on it.

The skill set which we have to observe next is keeping the goal in life. As setting goals, keeps our minds engaged and in check to overcome any problem. We are hardwired to cross any hardship if we have a purpose in our life. Purpose instills a fuel in us to fight with any situation and grab that goal. We can keep our mind on track by practicing meditation in our daily life as it makes our mind clear and we become more aware of our capabilities and how to cultivate them in mastering resilience.

The last but not the only skill set which we have to adapt in our lifestyle is savouring the journey when achieving resilience. It is a long process and takes time to take shape. So, it is mandatory for us to not be discouraged if we can still not overcome the stressful situations and turn it into a positive opportunity. To attain resilience, we don’t have to follow any set pattern but when we are in the process, we can start loving that process as when we start seeing positive change in us, we would be positively motivated by it and grow to become the most patient, resilient person. We will be able to overcome any crisis just by focusing on strengths.

Last but not the least, by becoming resilient, we would not only be able to solve our problems in a positive manner but would be able to help and serve others as well.

GREEN CONFESSION – AN INDIAN FARMER

OK GOOGLE!! “IMAGES OF INDIA FARMER” The moment you say these words on the Google search engine, you will have a list of images. ‘A lean farmer sitting on a land affected by drought, his hand on the head, waiting for rain! You will never have an image of a farmer with a smile and greenery around him. This is what are see an Indian farmers as. Now, again if you say OK GOOGLE!! “images of an American farmer” You will get images which are exactly opposite to that of the Indian farmer, i.e., hectares of green crops, cars, bungalows, barns, soils, combine, tillers etc….

This is how the world of an Indian farmer differs from that of a US farmer. When will we be able to see an Indian farmer in such a condition? Is it impossible? The present condition tells us that the possibility of such an occurrence is very remote. So it is our duty to make the farmers live in such a condition they are financially strong.

An average Indian farmer toils his sweat and works hard day and night, but what does he get in return? Not enough to meet his needs. Farmers take loan to cultivate their crops but when they are indebted to someone and unable to repay the loan, they hang themselves. The government clears that loan but forces them to take loans again next year. This is the reality. When will he be able to stand self-sufficient to lead a good life? Now a question to all the readers: “Will any girl who is educated be ready to marry a farmer”? No, not at all. Even if she is ready, her parents will never allow her to. Why? It is just because they think his life is full of hardships, never has he led a life on a flowered path. On the contrary, his life is a life on a bed of thorns. This is what we think.

Now, if you ask any kid, “What is your dream, when you grow up?” the answer you get is “a doctor, or an engineer”. You will never hear the word ‘farmer’ as people know the hardships of a farmer’s life. This condition should change: the farmers should lead the nation’s economy. We just say that farmers are “the backbone of our nation”, but the backbone is about to break. It is our duty to protect them. A day should arrive when we see farmers travel in cars and irrigate through planes. BUT WHEN?

Jai Jawan!! Jai Kisan??

Success…….!?

Everyone wants success in life. The word itself had magical power in it. Becoming unique and getting success are very important. Now many of us concentrate only on marks in examination. One who concentrates only on marks cannot make a good mark in life. Life is like a game. We have to play it wisely. If at first we have a failure, we have to continue putting on our efforts until we get success. So, never give up attempts in life. It’s the first thing we have to adopt in our life.

Just think about it. Many people came to earth. Some are living and some are dead. But we remember some of them who are unique. When we came to this earth all smiled happily but we cried, but when we die, who will cry? So we have to live in such a way that when we die happily, others may cry for our death.

We must always think positively. When you wake up in the early morning simply think that all the power is within you. You can do anything and everything. The whole day will be good for you. First we have to achieve our set goals. We must become good believers. “In life, stand for something: otherwise you will fall for everything”. So, in life we have stick to our own goals. It gives us all the power to achieve our goals.

Finally, we have to ‘prepare, attack and destroy the difficulties that we may encounter. Remember that a winner never quits and a quitter never wins. Be unique and show your identity in the competive world.

Why smiling is important!

SMILE. A five-letter word. So light and simple, yet not easy to access. Why is it so hard to smile? Why do so many people find it difficult to get that one curve on their lips? After all, it is said that a smile is the most beautiful curve in the body. We all blame situations for the missing smile. But little do we know that external factor I’d responsible for our behavior. It is the mind that controls everything.

Two friends in a market. One was always happy and the other was always seen with frown on his face. The latter asked, “How is it that you’re always smiling and happy every time I met you?”. The other one replied, “it is because I keep my mind empty. I too have a lot of problems in my life. But I CHOOSE to stay happy. I CHOOSE to keep all those worries away from my mind. Once I think about it, cry over it, then I’m done. Even if I can’t solve the problem, I don’t let it consume my mind. I follow this motto: When you can’t laugh over the same joke again and again, why cry over the same problem again again?”

Trust me, with this motto a lot can happen. If we think over this properly, it makes a lot of sense. When life gives you a hundered reasons to cry, show it that you have a thousand reasons to smile. Everything happens for a reason. Live it, love it and learn from it. Make your smile change, the world but don’t let the world change your smile.

Plastic Free Environment

Plastic has become an important part of our modern life and are used in different sectors of applications like packaging, building materials, consumer products and much more. Each year about 300 million tons of plastic are produces world wide and about 1.2 million kg of plastic enters the earth’s oceans and this figure could be doubled in the next decade. Demand of plastic increasing year after year. Plastic are non-biodegradable synthetic material made from a wide range of organic polymer such as polyethylene, PVC, Nylon etc., that can be moulded into shape while soft and then set into rigid or slightly plastic which leads to plastic pollution. Degradation is defined as reduction in the molecular weigh of the polymer. Several attempts have been made to biologically degrade plastic such as soil burial treatment, Fungal treatment etc. but the little success. A team of European scientists discovered a common insect that can help in global pollution crisis by degrading plastic shopping bag.

The discovey was led by Federica Bertocchini, I a developmental biologist at the University of Cantabria in Spain. She was an amateur beekeeper, while cleaning beehives she found that it was infested with wax worms which feed on beehives and area headache for beekeepers. She collected the larvae and placed it inside the plastic cover and observed there were wholes in the plastic cover made by the wax worms.

Paolo Bombelli and Chris Howe research scientist working on biodegradable plastic in Cambridge University joined with Federica Bertocchin keen to understand the molecular mechanism if consumption and degradation of plastic. Their research finding were published in current biology.

Honeycomb wax moth is the common name of Galberia mellonella a Lepidopteran insect that belongs to pyralidae family found widely. A caterpillar larvae measuring about 16-20 mm completes it’s life cycle in beehives.

They chew and swallow plastic as it is similar to consuming beehives a natural plastic. Wax is a polymer, which consist of a long string of carbon atom held together, with other atom branching off the sides of the chain. Both wax and polyethylene into ethylene glycol, representing unbonded ‘monomer’ molecules.

Scientists say that the degradation rate is extremely fast compared to other recent discoveries. For example, gut bacteria in the larvae of the Indian meal moth Plodia interounctella can break down polythelene takes between 100 and 400 years to degrade in land fill sites. Wax moth as the ability of degrading average 5.5 gram plastic bag in a month.

As the molecular details of the process become known, the researcher say it could be used to devise a biotechnological solution on an industrial scale for managing polythelene waste and plastic pollution. Thus there is another ray of hope for plastic free environment.

Bilingual Education

Communication is the most important tool for anyone to share his/her thoughts, ideas or any information from one person to another. The process of communication occurs between every living organisms. Be it animals, plants or insects, every living organism do communication. For humans though, communication plays a very important role because humans are the most social among every living organism.

The most basic tool for communication of humans is by using language.  Language is the system of communication in speech and writing that is used by the people of a particular country. There are many languages like English, French,  Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Irish, Turkish and many more. These languages are used by the people to communicate with the people of another country.

India also have many different languages according to the different states and regions. Some of them are Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam etc. These languages are used by the people of a particular state.

Now, if a person is aware of only one language, he/she can communicate with the people knowing that language only. He/she won’t be able to communicate with the people knowing some other languages. This is why it is important to have knowledge of at least 2 languages. This is known as bilingual education.

Bilingual education is the process of teaching students using two languages. Educators usually teach students in their native language in conjunction with a second language utilizing differing levels of the native and second language depending on the requirements specified in lesson plans and teaching models. This makes the students able to read, write and understand 2 languages at a same time.

Pros and Cons:

Every coin has 2 faces. The process of bilingual education also have some postive and negative points:

Pros:

Having a ‘secret’ language when around monolingual people.

Being able to learn new languages easier (depends which languages you already know)

Depending on the languages you know, you may be able to understand what another language (but you wouldn’t be able to speak it).

It looks good on one’s job/university applications and resumes.

Makes getting on good terms with foreigners/etc. easier as if you speak the language they are most comfortable with, they will be thankful.

Increases your interest and knowledge of culture as during learning the languages, you also learn about the cultures.

Cons:

Sometimes bilingual students may get languages mixed up.

Bilingual students may get confused sometimes about  it’s vocabulary, accents or anything like that.

The students may not have a perfect command on any of the language while the student studying only one language may have a perfect command on his language.

But overall, bilingual education is better. This is why most schools have policy of bilingual education nowadays.

Indian Railways – Lifeline Network of Indian Economy

Among the triumphant and majestic inventions of the modern world, is widespread transportation. Compared to other transports available today, railways transport as one of the eloquent one. No doubt aeroplanes and automobiles have provided much ease in everyday life but the importance of railway transportation is perpetual.

Railways have edge roadways as it carries more passengers and loads of heavy goods to long distance. Perhaps journey is more comfortable and faster also. Its operation is less affected by adverse weathers conditions like rain, floods, fog, etc. Railways also make it possible to conduct different activities like business, sightseeing, and pilgrimage along with transportation of goods over longer distances. Railways in India bind the economic life of the country as well as accelerate the development of the industry and agriculture.

World’s first railway line was opened between Stockholm and Darlington in northern England in 1825 and railways became important mode of transport. It occupies an important place in land transport system of India and is the most dependable mode of transport to carry goods and passengers over a long distance. Besides long distance, local transport of passengers is also provided by local trains or metro-rail in some metropolitan cities. Rail transport is available throughout the country except some hilly or mountainous regions.

Indian Railways plays a role of national integration. The railways were introduced in the country in 1853 by the British almost immediately after it established in England. The first railway on Indian sub-continent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane on 16 April 1853. The first passenger train steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hooghly, a distance of 24 miles, on 15 August 1854. In South, the first line was opened on 1 July 1856 by the Madras Railway Company. It ran between Veyasarpandy and Walajah Road (Arcot), a distance of 63 miles. In the North, a length of 119 miles of line was laid from Allahabad to Kanpur on 3 March 1859.

In 1947, at the time of independence, there were forty-two rail systems exist in the country.  40 percent of the railways then passed through the newly independent Pakistan and thirty-two lines owned by the former Indian states, spanning a total of 55,000 km, later these were merged into the Indian railways.

In 1951, the systems were nationalized as one unit, becoming one of the largest networks in the world. Thus Indian Railways was born.

India has a large network of railways throughout the country. There are two types of rails rolling on Indian railway tracks. One is passenger train and other is goods train. While passenger trains carry both human beings and a limited quantity of goods, the goods trains are exclusively used for carrying goods from one place to another. At present the Indian Railways have three types of engines – Steam engines, Diesel engines and the Electric engines. The Indian Railways is the largest public sector undertaking in the country.

Today, Indian Railways has one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world. It transports 20 million passengers and more than 2 million tones of freight daily and is one of the world’s largest commercial employers, with more than 1.6 million employees. Indian Railways covers total 63,140 route kilometers as on 31.3.2002, including broad gauge (total 45,099 kilometers), narrow gauge (total 3,265 kilometers) and meter gauge (total 14,776 kilometers). The Indian Railway system is operated through several zones and other operating divisions. It is considered as the main part of the India’s transportation system.

Some major statistics related to Indian Railways are as follows :

•Wagons (units) – 2,16,717
•number of locomotives (operating) – 7,739
•Operating trains – 14,444
•Daily Passengers – 8,702
•Coaches – 39,236


East Indian Railway established a Carriage and Wagon Department as part of the Locomotive Works in 1855 in Howrah. Established in 1986, the Rail Coach Factory (RCF) was the second coach manufacturing unit of Indian Railways. Its foundation stone was laid by the then Prime Minister of India Mr. Rajiv Gandhi. At present there are  few  more rail coach factories like Internal coach  factory which  located in Chennai, Chittaranjan Locomotive  works, West Bengal and Diesel Locomotive  works, Varanasi. 

Apart from being fast, comfortable and cheap, railways play an important role in the economy of a country. Indian Railways carry more than a million ton of freight traffic encompassing around 6,856 numbers of rail stations. Being the primary infrastructural sector of India, Railways has been developing to maintain a pace with the development of Indian economy. Indian Railways is a department owned and controlled by the Government of India, under the aegis of Ministry of Railways. It is administered by the Railway Board.

The Himsagar Express, between Kanyakumari and Jammu Tawi, has the longest run in term of distance and time on Indian Railways network.  The Indian Railways started introducing the prestigious Rajdhani and Shatabdi services during the ‘70s and ‘80s respectively or to match the best in the world. The Bhopal Shatabdi : Express is the fastest train in India which has a maximum speed of 150 m/h on the Faridabad-Agra section. 
 

Fares on the Indian Railways across categories are among the cheapest in the world. In the past few years, despite a recessionary environment, the Indian Railways have not raised fares on any class of service. On the contrary, there has been a minor dip in fares in some categories. Indian Railways makes 70 per cent its revenues and most of its profits from the freight and uses these profits to cross-subsidies the loss-making passenger sector. It also owns locomotive and coach production facilities.

Since 1924-25, railway finances have been separated from General Revenue. Indian railways have their own funds in the form of Railway Budget presented to the Parliament annually. This budget is presented to the Parliament by the Union Railway Minster two days prior to the General Budget, usually around 26th February. It has to be passed by a simple majority in the Lok Sabha before it gets final acceptance. Indian Railways are subject to the same audit control as other government revenues and expenditure. The government of India has initiated a scheme, ‘National Vikas Yojna’ for the development of the Indian Railways. The scheme would focus on completion on strategic projects within a stipulated period of time. Railways are doing very useful service to the nation. This also creates impact on the Indian Economy.

To conclude, Indian Railways has played a vital role for the transportation needs of the country & Indian Railways have also emerged as the major strength of the Indian economy.

Juvenile Act

A “Juvenile” or “Child” means a person who has not turned eighteen years of age. International Law interprets, a ‘Child’ means every human being below the age of 18 years. Today this is a universally accepted definition of a child which comes from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)In india the problems of juveniles were lately highlighted compared to other countries in the world .

Before only rules were made and less importance were given to children’s cases.The frightful incident of “Nirbhaya Delhi Gang Rape Case” on December 16, 2012 shocked the whole nation and many debates were started among legal fraternity and socialists.So thats how juvenile system and juvenile board got its importance and made aware to not only the judges or respected legal faculties but also each and every person in our country.

INTRODUCTION

Our country’s future depends on our children. So its the duty and responsibility of every individual to ensure that the children have a safe environment to live in. Juvenile crime has elevated  to be one of the most menacing and intimidating disease in our society.This act has guaranteed that regardless of religion, youngsters needing consideration and assurance will be given the advantages of a different legal process.

After Independence, the constitutional provisions have encouraged the developments in the field of juvenile justice system in India. 

Part III and Part IV of the constitution of India which deal with “Fundamental Rights” and “Directive Principles of State Policy” respectively and contain special provisions with respect to care and protection of the children.

Juvenile Justice ( Care and Protection)Act, 2015:

The Juvenile Justice Bill, 2014 was passed by the Parliament in December, 2015 and it became the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 which into force from 15th January, 2016. Under the Act of 1986, Section 2(a) defined the term juvenile as a “boy who has not attained the age of 16 years and girl who has not attained the age of 18 years”.The main reason and issue of the debate was the involvement of accused, who was just six months away to attain the age of 18 years. The involvement of the accused in such a heinous crime of rape forced our Indian Legislation to introduce a new law and thus, Indian Parliament came up with a new law which is known as “ Juvenile Justice ( Care and Protection),Act 2015.

The Introduction of this Act has replaced the existing juvenile laws and has introduced some remarkable changes as follows;

 One of the remarkable changes is juvenile under the age group of 16 to 18 years should be tried as the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2015 was passed by Lok Sabha on 7th May, 2015; was passed by Rajya Sabha on 22nd December, 2015 and received Presidential assent and came into force on 31st December 2015, to whole India except the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Article 15 (3):  It allows the State to make special provisions for children and women.This view is reflected in the decision of the Bombay High Court in Dattatraya Motiram vs State of Bombay (55 B.L.R. 323) where Chagla C.j. held that the State could discriminate in favour of women against men but it could not discriminate in favour of men against women.

Article 21-A: The state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years.Its main object was to abolish illiteracy from the country.Thus in Unni KrishanVS State of U.P. (1993 1 SCC , 645) the supreme court had observed that education under the age of 14 was passed as fundamental right under constitution of India.

Article 23: Prohibition of traffic in human beings , begars and other similar forms of forced labour.Here traffic in human beings means buying and selling men and women like goods which also includes immoral traffic in women and children for immoral purposes.

One such case is of Deens vs union of India  in this labours were taken from prisoners without paying proper remuneration in form of forced labour which is violative in article 23so in these prisoner are entitled to get reasonable wages for their work for which court was under duty to enforce their claim.

Article 24: Prohibition of the employment of children below and the age of fourteen

years in factories, mines and other hazardous employments.As we all know children are the assets of the nation thats why this provision is certainly made in the interest of public health and safety of the children.

As we can see in the case of people’s union for democratic rights vs union of India the act of employment of children 1938 act was not applicable in the case of employment of children in the construction work of Asiad projects in delhi since in above given act no such construction work for children was specified. The court rejected their contention and held that construction work is hazardous under article 24 even if the construction work is not specified in the schedule to the employment of children act 1938.

Article 39(e): It directs the State to safeguard the tender age of children from entering into avocations unsuited to their age or strength.

Article 39(f): Directs the State to give opportunities and facilities for the healthy development of children and to protect childhood and youth against exploitation and moral and material abandonment.

Article 45:The state gives early childhood services and schooling to infants under the age of six. The Eighty-sixth Amendment m 2002 adopted this clause. Section 45 of the foregoing provides that the State shall endeavour to provide free and compulsory education to all children between the ages of 6 and 14 years of age as a basic fundamental right.

Article 47: It is the duty of the state to raise level of nutrition and standard of living and to improve health. And for this it would bring about prohibition of intoxicating drinks and drugs which are injurious to health except for medicinal purposes.

REASONS

 Anti – social behaviour, biological changes, psychological causes are some of the reasons which is responsible for juvenile delinquency.

  • Disintegration of Family System: – In normal cases divorce of parents, lack of parental control, lack of love and affections are the major factors of juvenile delinquency.
  • Economic condition and Poverty: –Due to poverty of parents or guardian fails to fulfil the needs of the child which encourages them in stealing money from homes or any other parents.
  • Migration: – Migration of deserted and destitute juveniles’ boys to slums also carries some illegal activities like prostitution, smuggling of drugs or narcotics etc.
  • Sex Indulgence: – The children those who have experienced sex assault or any other kind of unwanted physical assault in their early childhood may develop any kind of repulsiveness in their behaviour and mind. Too much of sex variance may lead the boys towards the crime of kidnapping and rapes etc.
  • Modern Life Style: – The rapidly changing society patterns and modern living style, makes it very difficult for children and adolescents to adjust themselves to the new ways of lifestyle and are unable to differentiate between right and wrong.

TYPES

Types of Juvenile Crime: s

The three major kinds of juvenile crimes or delinquency are : 

  1. violent crimes: Crimes which result in bodily injury, such as assault, rape, murder; 
  2. Property crimes : Crimes which are committed when a juvenile uses force or threat of force to obtain the property of others 
  3. Drug-related crimes: It involve the possession or sale of illegal narcotics.                               

DATA

Current situation:

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) relating to violent crimes are most dangerous against women. According to 2011 crime in India the number of rats committed by juveniles are just doubled over past decades that is from from 399 rapes in 2001 to 858 rapes in 2010 whereas crime in idea 2012 records doubled from 485 in 2002 to 1149 in 2011.As suggest by the data between 2011 and 2012 alone creates massive increase that is directly to 300 which is almost as much as over entire decade it alone makes our amendment imperative. Infact More than sixteen thousand juvenile cases are pending in the various Juvenile Justice.

But juvenile crimes are not only committed by boys there are many girls too who are included in such offence and intact their ratio is more then boys.Juvenile female crimes are committed who are under the age of 18 which are included for drug-abuse violations, liquor law violation, curfew, larceny, runaway, prostitution and for loitering.Girls share over al juvenile is increasing rapidly from about 15% to 29%.Its also suggested that girls are arrested disproportionately more than boys for such status offences like because of a tendency to sexualize their offences as running away & curfew violations because of a tendency to sexualize their offences and to control their behaviour under the patriarchal authority of juvenile justice system.There are also various proofs that there girls try to escape from home or streets and they are vulnerable to further sexual victimization.

There is always pros and cons in every decision or matter we deal with

Some of them are as follows:

Pros;

  1. Just by ordering a convict to spend 3 years in special or correctional home who just performed heinous and grievous crimes like rape and murder is not going to stop others from committing such crimes against women.

2.     As we all know society is not static, it is dynamic. Its needs change with time to survive so stands for law it should be changed with changing society.

3.    As criminals were hiring the poor and needy minors in allurance for small amounts of money to execute their acts, because they know very well that JJ Act would be acting as a safeguard for them so for such anti social elements this amendment was made in fear.

Cons:

  1. There was not a proper concrete or evidence data about crime rates for juveniles neither in India nor in another foreign country where any severe or harsher crime have helped them in lowering down of crime rate in anywhere in the world.
  2. The basic aim of juvenile justice board was never to punish offenders no matter however intended or serious heinous crime it looked they just wanted to reform such offenders which too may encouraged in rising crimes.
  3. Because of this new law it affected all ambigous laws which were already implemented smoothly only due to the pressure of societal outrage resulting from a single incident and didn’t give into more thoughts before actually making the amendment.

Recommendations

After such a big decision of amendment here are some suggestions which I feel can help to improve this juvenile justice system:

  1. The very first thing we all can look upon is moulding our society in such a way that no juveniles could commit crimes and this can only be sorted by dealing through all circumstances smoothly and smartly but not emotionally or though any pressure.
  2. Whatever act we implement it should be imposed heavily in our country so that in this pressure there is fear of committing such offences.

3.   We can also divide the juvenile system into different age groups that means different types of crime should have different juvenile age limits which would be decided by juvenile justice courts respectively.

Conclusion:

At the end , I would just like to conclude that reducing the age of the juvenile under the JJ Act is not the solution to the problem.Because if today we lower the age from 18 to 16 on the basis of nirbhaya rape case incident then what will the surety that child of 15 years wont do such heinous crimes and again we all will protest to reduce the age by 14?

So that instead of reducing the age we should remove the root cause of this crime. Because juvenile crimes are not the only reasons behind these offenders there are many more to it such as parental neglect, addiction to drugs, unemployment, poverty , love revenges and abundance of alcohol.So these issues of juvenile should be paid more attention not only by government but even society should play a major role in this act.We all not only depend on courts or its orders but complete our full responsibility by providing proper facilities , proper education , proper health care children only then we will be able to bring any change and reduce the juvenile crime in the country. Because if this issue is left untouched the condition would just get worse and there would be no way of improving it.