The National Urban Housing and Habitat Policy (2007) seeks to promote various types of public private partnerships for realising the goal of “Affordable Housing For All” with special emphasis on the urban poor. The salient features of the policy are as follows: Role of…

The first ever National Agriculture Policy was announced in 2000. The policy seeks to actualise the vast untapped growth potential of Indian agriculture, strengthen rural infrastructure to support faster agricultural development, promote value addition, accelerate the …

This was the last of the series of Charter Acts passed by the British Parliament between 1793 and 1853. It was a significant constitutional landmark. The features of Charter Act of 1853 were as follows: It separated, for the first time, the legislative and executive fu…

1. UN Children's Fund (UNICEF): UNICEF became a permanent part of the United Nations system in 1953, when its name was shortened to United Nations Children's Fund. However, UNICEF retained its original acronym. It is headquartered in New York (USA). It aims to …