The English word “knowledge” means true or vertical cognition. By knowledge a man knows what is true or false. The word “know” does not have a certain sense. In one sense, know means to have some special form of competence. For example, an individual know to play the guitar because that individual has that special form of competence. That special form of competence is that he knows how to play the guitar. Another sense of ‘know’ is that in which the word means to be acquainted with. For example when I say that I know John, I mean I am acquainted with John. The third sense of ‘know’ means apprehended something and it has something information. For example it means I know that the neutrino has not mean of ‘o’ then I apprehended that something is information namely that the neutrino has a rest mass of ‘o’. From the above discussion, we can assume that the word knowledge is interrelated with some specific word – competence, acquaintance, justification and apprehension. Through these words, we get the Yarthartha-Jnana. However in Indian epistemological context, the word knowledge and cognition has different meaning. Cognition means what ever I know, but knowledge means whatever I really know.

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The purpose of education can be seen as producing quality education as well as a knowledgeable and skilled population. But, now a day’s corruption has spread its roots in education system also. In this paper I want to draw the attention towards how corruption penetrate into the Indian education system, their impacts and the ways how to cure this to make education system more effective and efficient.

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Swami Vivekananda believed a country’s future depends on its people; his teachings focussed on this area. He wanted “to set in motion machinery which will bring noblest ideas to the doorstep of even the poorest and the meanest.” Swami Vivekananda believed that the essence of Hinduism was best expressed in the Vedanta philosophy, based on the interpretation of AdiShankara.

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Perhaps central to the current interest in emotional intelligence is its potential utility in predicting a range of criterion across disparate populations. As with claims associated with traditional intelligence, the predictive validity of emotional intelligence will likely vary widely depending on the context, criterion of interest, and specific theory used. Traditional measures of intelligence, although providing some degree of predictive validity, have not been able to account for a large portion of the variance in work performance and career success. As Goleman (1998, p. 19) states, “When IQ test scores are correlated with how well people perform in their careers the highest estimate of how much difference IQ accounts for is about 25 percent (Hunter & Hunter, 1984; Schmidt & Hunter, 1981).

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Social customs and traditions play a vital role in the cultural life of an ethnic group. There are customs and traditions with core values which a tradition bound society can afford to do away with even under the most adverse situations. But the customs and traditions with superficial or periphery values are always subjects to change since they can hardly stand the rapid changes specially brought about by modern scientific advancement. Insight knowledge of the social customs and traditions having core values of an ethnic group is a must for administrators as well as developmental personnel working in the tribal areas. Such knowledge is very much helpful to researchers and others with an inquisitive mind.  Development of Deoris economically and socially, lies in the growth of the economy in the Agriculture and allied sectors. This has to be supplemented by small-scale industrialization concentrating in items of comparative advantage. The development has to take into consideration- the markets of the hinterland areas of Arunachal Pradesh comprising of the districts of East Siang, West Siang, Subansiri and Pakumpare.

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Social status is the position or rank of a person or group, within the society and can be determined in two ways. One can earn their social status by their own achievements, which is known as achieved status. Alternatively, one can be placed in the stratification system by their inherited position, which is called ascribed status. Ascribed statuses can also be defined as those that are fixed for an individual at birth. Ascribed statuses that exist in all societies include those based upon sex, age, race ethnic group and family background. For example, a person born into a wealthy family characterized by traits such as popularity, talents and high values will have many expectations growing up. Therefore, they are given and taught many social roles as they are socially positioned into a family becoming equipped with all these traits and characteristics. Achieved status means also what the individual acquires during his or her lifetime as a result of the exercise of knowledge, ability, skill and/or perseverance. Occupation provides an example of status that may be either ascribed or achieved; it can be achieved by one gaining the right knowledge and skill to become socially positioned into a higher position of that job, building a person’s social identity within the occupation.

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Mass organization has played a vital role in Assam. In the present day a youth icon named Akhil Gogoi who is a peasant leader and an RTI activist from Assam. Over the years he has been leading many anti-graft movements in the state. Akhil came to national attention after he was awarded the Shanmugam Manjunath Integrity Award in 2008 for his relentless fight against corruption and attempts to bring transparency in government functionings. In 2010, he was awarded the national Right to Information (RTI) Award by Public Cause Research Foundation (PCRF) for his role in exposing the 1.25 crore scam in Sampoorna Gram Rozgar Yojna (SGRY) and Rs 60 lakh scam in the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) in Golaghat district of Assam by using the RTI Act. He donated the entire sum of Rs. 2lakhs of the Award to his organisation KMSS.  Bodo Territorial Area District (BTAD), popularly known as Bodoland come into being as a result of an agreement signed among the Bodo Liberation Tigers, Government of India and the Government of Assam on 10th February, 2003. The Agreement is the culmination of the protracted Movement of the Bodo Ethnic group for a separate state. Under the agreement an Autonomous Council representing the different sections of the Population was formed and a package of substantial amount of Money was granted by the central government for development of the Bodo inhabited districts.

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There was also a time when it was a sin to hold a pen for women. Writing was thought to be a male bastion only. Woman was the queen of her four walls and a roof under which she could do anything feminine but not writing that was only a masculine task. Mary Shelley’s most popular science fiction Frankenstein was first published anonymously. Mary Ann Evans used the pseudonym George Eliot to write her novels. Robert Southy had told Charlotte Bronte that “literature cannot be the business of women’s life and it ought not to be” (108). The fact that religion, class, race and color do make a vital difference in the condition of women was proved soon. While the white and privileged women of the continent got into limelight by means of their writings, women belonging to third world still had their voice unheard. The second half of twentieth century witnessed a whole galaxy of writers from third world who were ready to speak about heir country and culture.

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Mishings had a developed culture and had good links with the plains people and had a good skill in farming techniques. So they produced paddy in their fields while other tribes still lived on plundering other villages of other tribes.  Mostly, Mishing villages were attacked and looted, as Mishing villages were prosperous. But, slowly Mishings started migrating to the plains of Assam. That completely shattered livelihoods of other Tani Tribes. So they started hating the Mishings and created many legends like Mishings were their subordinates, slaves who fled to plains! Mishings, on the other hand, started exploiting the Hill tribes after they settled in the plains of Assam.    They acted as middle men between other Assamese community and the hill tribes. Many people opine that that is how Misings were referred as ‘Miri’s which means middle men in Assamese. Since Mishings came into contact with civilised society in plains of Assam, they have become more civilised than other Tani tribes and much before. So, their population also grew so much that now they outnumber all other Tani tribes population put together. Mishings are now the second largest tribal community in Assam. Presently their dresses are very popular in Assam. You may see them in all Assamese VCDs, films, Bihu dances! Many educated professionals have emerged in recent times and are doing well in every sphere.

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In addition to its health impacts, obesity leads to many problems including disadvantages in employment and increased business costs. These effects are felt by all levels of society from individuals, to corporations, to governments. In 2005, the medical costs attributable to obesity in the US were an estimated $190.2 billion or 20.6% of all medical expenditures, while the cost of obesity in Canada was estimated at CA$2 billion in 1997 (2.4% of total health costs). The total annual direct cost of overweight and obesity in Australia in 2005 was A$21 billion. Overweight and obese Australians also received A$35.6 billion in government subsidies. The estimate range for annual expenditures on diet products is $40 billion to $100 billion in the US alone.  Obesity prevention programs have been found to reduce the cost of treating obesity-related disease. However, the longer people live, the more medical costs they incur. Researchers therefore conclude that reducing obesity may improve the public’s health, but it is unlikely to reduce overall health spending.

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