What is government
- 2. Government A government is either a person or a group of people who are responsible for controlling and managing the affairs of the country.
- 3. •Provide safety and security to its citizen. •Maintain law and order in society. •Take important decisions on all important issues related to country’s government. •Protects and defends the country from war. •Manage resources of the country to ensure benefit of all people.
- 7. LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT IN INDIA LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT THE STATE GOVERNMENT THE UNION OR CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
- 8. •It The Union or Central government is located in New Delhi. •is highest level of government which functions at national level. •It takes decisions of whole country.
- 9. •The State government looks after the administration as well as the law and order of the particular state.
- 10. •It is the third tier of the government and functions at the local level. •There are two types of local self government- urban(town/city) level and rural (village) level.
- 12. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Tha
- 21. •Suffrage means the right to vote.
- 22. •For a long time, women were denied the right to vote and to contest elections. It was argued that a woman’s place was at home and she had no role in the political sphere. If people participated in politics, they would neglect their roles as wives and mothers. •Suffragette movement started in America in 1848. as a result, women in various parts of the world got the right to vote. •They got the right to vote in New Zealand in1893, in Australia in 1902 and USA in 1920. •The fight for women’s right to vote began in France in 1780’s and 1790’s.
- 24. •In Britain, the suffragette movement started in 1870’s. •The pioneer of the movement is Emmeline Pankhurst. The movement adopted extreme methods to draw the government’s attention. •However during world war I, the movement changed its plan of action. •In 1897, the National union of Women’s Suffrage societies (NUWSS) was formed in United Kingdom. •The union held public meetings, wrote letters to politicians, published various texts and organized protest marches to demand women’s suffrage. •Finally in 1918,women over 30 years of age who possessed property and educational qualifications were given right to vote.
- 25. Women were gradually granted vote in other countries as well. •Denmark-1915 •Belgium-1921 •France-1944 •Greece-1934 •Japan-1945 • India granted all men and women right to vote as soon as it gained Independence in 1947.
- 26. •For a long time, a form of racial discrimination called Apartheid was practiced in South Africa by the white minority government. •People were separated on the basis of race and skin color. •Whites and blacks had to live in separate areas. •There were separate schools, separate coaches and separate markets for each of them. •Blacks did not have right to vote and did not have a say in the governance of the country. •The minority government ruled over 80 % of the population.
- 27. •The struggle against the policy of Apartheid was undertaken by the African National Congress and its leader, Nelson Mandela. •Mandela raged a long struggle against the racist policies of the South African Government. •As a result, he was imprisoned for 27 years and released in 1990. •In 1994, Mandela was elected the first Black president of South Africa and apartheid was abolished.