Ripudaman Singh

• MA, MPhil, PhD
• Professor at Banaras Hindu University

Since the beginning of river valley civilizations, humans have sought to harness the potential of flowing waters. The monumental structures of dams have been instrumental in damming these flowing waters and providing a wide range of benefits to society, including irrigation, drinking water, and generating clean energy. The present paper reviews in...

Rice is a major staple crop in the world, and therefore, accurate acreage assessment of crop area is essential. Traditional methods of crop acreage estimation often rely on ground surveys and manual data collection, which are labor intensive, time-consuming, and may lack spatial coverage. In recent years, the availability of satellite remote sensin...

The significant influence of urban development on land surface temperature (LST) was always evident. Here, a study of the temperature increases in Hisar city from 1991 to 2022 was conducted using Landsat data. The extent of thermal comfort in Hisar based on the urban thermal field variance index (UTFVI) was also evaluated. A land-use change map was...

Geospatial application is a greater, recently emerging interdisciplinary technology with significant potential for studying geomorphic challenges. The study analysed the morphometric characteristics of the Gomti River basin in Uttar Pradesh, India, using topographical sheet and SRTM data. The linear (stream order and number, mean stream length and...

Paddy is a major Kharif crop in Indian Punjab. One of the most critical parameters for ensuring a good harvest and production of paddy is to monitor paddy growth. Satellite data, including optical and radar data can be used to monitor seasonal crops like paddy, which can span a broad region and have a high observation frequency. Cloudy days are com...

Women constitute essential part of our society in general but due to various discriminatory treatments they positioned behind men in the society, not because they lack capability but because of the patriarchal norms which have persisted in our culture across different time period. Society has created an image of women being dependent, sophisticated...

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Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of farmers of India not only braved the adverse weather conditions, but also the police vengeance to protest and voice their disapproval of the contended and now repealed farm laws of 2020. The central government had passed three farm bills which had been advocated as long-sought reforms in the agricultural s...

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Worldwide COVID-19 cases were noticed from its first variant to new variant very fast which is becoming threatening to human health, social function, production and supply of goods, and international relations. In Haryana, cases are increasing rapidly. GIS techniques contribute to controlling the epidemic by mapping of visualizing epidemic data, sp...

Worldwide COVID-19 cases were noticed from its first variant to new variant very fast which is becoming threatening to human health, social function, production and supply of goods, and international relations. In Haryana, cases are increasing rapidly. GIS techniques contribute to controlling the epidemic by mapping of visualizing epidemic data, sp...

Water is an important natural resource which maintains the quality of human lives and helps solving major challenges of populations, directly or indirectly related to the consumption of water. With the increasing human population, rise in anthropogenic activities toward natural resources have been impacting the water resources and deteriorated qual...

Punjab is an agricultural state situated in the north western India. It has various relief features like hills, alluvial plains and semi-arid sandy plains. It can be divided into three major cultural regions namely Malwa, Majha and Doaba. It is well connected to various parts of the country by road, rail and air transport. There is lot of scope to...

Electoral geography is the study of human behavior towards voting patterns of elections in context of particular area and time. Geographically, its meaning varies from place to place and time to time. Electoral geography is a constituent part of political geography, a science which contemplates about improvement of every political procedure inside...

Various aspects of demography have cause and effect relationship with development in two ways. Firstly, human resources are the factors of production as workers and potent consumers for various goods and services. Secondly, they are the exclusive recipients of the benefits of the entire development process. Therefore, the main concern of the develo...

Presently, Jammu and Kashmir has been made a union territory of India which is carved out from the previous state of Jammu and Kashmir, which has been bifurcated into two union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019. At the time of India's independence in 1947, when the princely state didn't gi...

Wetlands are those areas of marshes, swamps, riverbanks and bogs etc. where excessive water flowing or collected over an area, dominate the ecosystem of that place and support a lot of flora and fauna. With increasing population all over the world, the fertile soils are constantly put under pressure leading to land fragmentation and over exploitati...

Tripura, the third smallest state of India and the second smallest state of Northeast India, is located in Northeastern Himalayas and Purvanchal having its three fourth borders shared with Bangladesh and the other part is bordering with parts of Assam and Lushai Hills of Mizoram. An attempt is made here to check the development of the state in cont...

Timely and accurate detection of land use/land cover (LULC) change is important for the macro and micro level sustainable development of any region. For this purpose, geospatial techniques are the best tool for change analysis as they supply timely, cheaper, precise and up to date information. This paper examines the spatial temporal change trend i...

Abstract Timely and accurate detection of land use/land cover (LULC) change is important for the macro and micro level sustainable development of any region. For this purpose, geospatial techniques are the best tool for change analysis as they supply timely, cheaper, precise and up to date information. This paper examines the spatial temporal chang...

The largest democracy, second largest population and third largest economy in purchasing power parity, India which is also the seventh largest country in area, is noted for its diverse patterns of regional disparities in levels of development. Various policies have been undertaken by the successive governments to mitigate these disparities and achi...

The largest democracy, second largest population and third largest economy in purchasing power parity, India which is also the seventh largest country in area, is noted for its diverse patterns of regional disparities in levels of development. Various policies have been undertaken by the successive governments to mitigate these disparities and achi...

The issue of conservation of the Ivorian forest and its resources has been at the centre of the concerns of the public authorities since the 1960s. Thus, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) has set up a network of protected areas in general and several national parks in particular, to conserve its forest areas and their biodiversity. Located in Abidjan, th...

APPROVED UGC CARE AN INTERNATIONAL BILINGUAL PEER REVIEWED REFEREED RESEARCH JOURNAL Tripura is a small state in the North East India, having international border with Bangladesh in three sides and states of Assam and Mizoram on the fourth side. Its capital city Agartala and the other major cities of Khowai, Udaipur and Kailashahar are important ur...

Presently, Jammu and Kashmir is a union territory of India which is carved out from the previous state of Jammu and Kashmir, which has been bifurcated into two union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019. At the time of India's independence in 1947, when the princely state didn't give its pla...

Estimation of design flood is imperative for hydraulic designs of spillways and various other water resources development projects as well as very essential for flood risk assessment. The objective of the present study is to apply Geographical Information System (GIS) supported hydro informatics approach for estimation of design flash-flood in Barg...

Morphometric analysis forms the basis for planning water and soil conservation treatments in a watershed. Geospatial topology based morphometric analysis in Dholbaha watershed, located in the Kandi region of Punjab, was carried out using the IRS data of LISS IV, Cartoset-1 merged satellite data, ASTER DEM and ArcGIS-10.2 software. As per topology,...

High-resolution imageries can help understanding dynamic and heterogeneous landscapes much better. Many earth observatory satellites have been launched since the advent of this technology. The importance of classification as an application of Remote Sensing to understand the pattern and characteristics of the landscape is much acknowledged. The ove...

Rapid urbanization is transforming the land-use patterns in developing world very fast. Swelling population is altering agricultural land into industrial, administrative or cultural land uses, which is resulting in growing environmental problems and has also degraded the quality of life in cities. Ludhiana, the largest city of Punjab, has been urba...

Uprisings swept across the Arab world to outcast their long serving leaders vying for change in political structure in late 2010 and early 2011 came to be known as Arab Spring. These effects also reached Syria, where the people lined up to overthrow their leader President Bashar Al Assad, whose family has been in power since 1970. Peaceful protests...

Educational development is equally vital component of the development process, as is the component of economic development. Both reciprocate each other as economic development works with in an educational support and educational development gets stimulated by economic growth. Various researchers see association of both in conceptual terms and other...

Unequal development, complex traditional and outdated laws, mismanagement of resources, failure in governance, lapse in the law enforcing agencies are some of the most important causes promoting regional imbalance in Manipur. Hill-valley dichotomy in the developmental process is clearly seen as a factor behind many of the social, economic and polit...

Tourism which was thought to be the backbone of Jammu and Kashmir has been rapidly affected by the evolution of armed conflict. Previously, State of Jammu & Kashmir has been amongst the widely travelled destinations of India because of its natural beauty. Terrorism has affected the economy of the state very significantly. With the increase of viole...

Off late, India is demonstrating improvements in its global competitiveness ranking and is registering fast economic growth. Surpassing China in its economic growth in 2016, India, which was seeing a dip in its global competitiveness during 2007-08 to 2014-15 (from 48 th to 71 st ranking), has witnessed improvements and was at 39 th place in 2016-1...

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The Nigerian regional disparities are deep rooted in its history and many a factors have resulted in their present patterns. Amongst all these, four major factors (political, colonial legacy, geographical, nature of the economic, regionalisms and educational) have contributed a lot, prior to and even continuing after its independence in 1960. All t...

Role of education and particularly female education in the development process is well documented. Economists of the classical period have also highlighted this association, which is similarly reconfirmed in present times. Besides the social and economic benefits of education, female literacy is considered a bet in improving the health and basic ch...

The largest democracy, second largest population and third largest economy (on the basis of the basis of purchasing power parity), India is experiencing a varied pattern of growth in its various parts. Some of the states like Maharashtra, Gujarat etc. are highly developed and also having better infrastructural provisions which leads to more investm...

While, India has ascended as the third largest economy in the World, in purchasing power parity, it is concurrently displaying a flip-flop in its Global Competitiveness rankings. Soon after the initiation of new economic policies in 1991, the government is drawing more and more FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) flows to boost its economic growth. At...

River Ghaggar hasformed two fundamental categories of fluvial terraces on its western bank at Siwalik water gap locale, which are mostly depositional and erosional. The occurrence of terraces on its west bank clearly indicates the east ward movement of Ghaggar River. The shifting channel provided accretional point bars and back water pools with cle...

Regional disparities in the levels of development have once again ignited the debate on the existing inequalities between the developed and underdeveloped countries in general and between different regions within these countries in particular. In case of a developing country like India, it becomes more important to study these disparities as the ne...

Environmental awareness implies not only being knowledgeable about the environment, but also being acquainted with sets of values, attitudes and skills for addressing environment related problems. Students, especially of higher institutions/universities are the hope for future betterment of environment, and for attaining environmental sustainabilit...

Historical roots of regional disparities in India