This article explores the various nuances of women's experiences they negotiate their victimized status to move towards empowerment. Feminist social work has to explore the existing agency of women and work towards their empowerment, by creating spaces to listen to their voices, developing capacity to articulate their issues and build strengths to deal with oppressive conditions which inhibit their potential for participation in governance. This article is an attempt to develop such a model of practice drawing from existing work in the field being done with women in North East India and Dalit women activities.

Partition of India has been interpreted in various ways by various litterateurs. Some use the Marxist paradigm for interpreting reality; others depended on their personal vision; some used satire and highly critical language to comment on the bitter aspects of socio-political reality before and after partition. Bhisham Sahnis Tamas (1974) is 'an intellectual anatomy of the partition.' It studied the structure and dynamics of the event and the then existing society by combining all the three above mentioned literary traits, certainly with Marxist overtones.

The purpose of the study to find out the mental health and self concept among Muslim those Who Practice Regular Namaz and Tilawat -E- Quran and Muslim those Who Do Not Practice Regular Namaz and Tilawat -E- Quran . Mental health inventory by jagdish and self concept test by Dr. C G Deshpande. Hypotheses of the study There will be significant difference between Muslim those who Practice Regular Namaz and Tilawat -E- Quran and Muslim those who Do Not Practice Regular Namaz and Tilawat - E- Quran the dimension of mental health and self concept. Conclusion: 1) Muslim those who Practice Regular Namaz and Tilawat -E- Quran have significantly high mental health than Muslim those who do Not Practice Regular Namaz and Tilawat -E- Quran. 2) Muslim those Who Practice Regular Namaz and Tilawat -E- Quran have significantly high self concept than Muslim those who do Not Practice Regular Namaz and Tilawat - E- Quran.

The Paper attempts to provide a bird's eye view of the gradual growth of education in different phases in India in general and Madras Presidency and Tamil Nadu in particular. System of teacher- student oriented education being practised in India particularly in Tamil Nadu is of different kinds namely the gurukula system in the ancient times, the monitorial system in the medieval period and the modem system at present. Teaching, the mother of all profession, is the oldest and most indispensable one in the world. In India, the profession has undergone immeasurable changes since its inception. The ideal teacher is expected not only to impart information and skills but also to lead and guide his students to "supreme knowledge". Hence, the qualities lay down for teachers in India are high. The professional education of teachers in India has not been static, but an evolutionary process starting with gurukula system to the modem system.

Present paper deals with authorship trends in Intellectual Property Rights. For the purpose Journal of Intellectual Property Rights Vol. No. 07 to Vol. No. 16 published during 2002-2011 is selected as a source for the data collection. From the data collected; year wise distribution of articles, issue wise, authorship pattern, subject wise, geographical distribution, ranking of individuals authors, length of pages, issue wise references were considered for the analysis and results sorted out with conclusions.

The incidence of child labour is still very high in many less developed countries. India with all her richness and wealth is not free from this problem .The absence of a process of equitable distribution of the fruits of development along with the existence of abject poverty among a large section of the people of the country often stand on the way to the reduction of child labour from the economy. In India, according to Census, 2001, there are about 1.26 crore child labourers. They constitute 4.5 percent of the total child population (age 5-14 years) of India. About 8.57 lakh child labourers belong to the State of West Bengal i.e., they form about 7 percent of the total child workforce of the country. According to the Planning Commission, 2007, about 12.2 lakh children in India are engaged in hazardous occupations i.e., about 10 percent of the total working children. They are getting very little opportunity to attend school even for basic education. The Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India, has given special effort at present to overcome the problems of child labour and educate child workers after enrolling them in the special schools approved under the National Child Labour Project (NCLP). This paper aims at analyzing the nature and status of education of the child labourers in West Bengal.

THE CONCEPT OF DISABILITY The concept of disability differs from person to person and from survey and is defined in different ways depending on the purpose in view. Generally speaking the 'physically handicapped' are the person who have completely lost the use or use or who can make only a restricted use of one or more of their limbs, i.e. the total or partial functional disablement. The term disabled suggests a person who falls short of normal physical fitness. The three categories of physical disability are (a) blind, (b) deaf and dumb, (c) crippled. These are defined as follows. (a)Blind- means the persons who have totally lost their sight or whose vision is of no practical value to them for the purpose of education or in the general business of living. (b)Deaf and dumb – the deaf are those in whom the sense of hearing is non-functional for ordinary purposes of life. In other words, a deaf person cannot hear for all practical purposes, being deaf in both ears, while the dumb is a person who cannot talk. ©Crippled – are persons disabled because of defect in bones, joints, muscles, ligaments of spine and the limbs fall in the category of orthopedic ally handicapped. It can result from congenital defects, malformation, accidents and also from diseases such as poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, small pox, etc.

One of important indicators of social development is the literacy, a high level of which is considered to be and important factor in the process of modernization. “A person who can both read and write with understanding in any language has been taken as literate by the Indian census”. An attempt has been made to study the spatiotempoaral pattern of literacy in Beed district. According to 1991 census the study region has a population of 18, 22,022 persons consisting nine tahsils. The district literacy rate was 49.82% and in this male and females literacy was 66.34 % and 32.34% respectively. Rural and urban literacy was 45.16% and 70.89 % respectively. In the 2001 year total literacy rate was marked 57.44% of which 72.11% in males and 38.20% in females, while rural-urban literacy rate was marked 55.08% and 71.40% respectively.

Education plays a significant role in the life of a nation. The character and quality of people greatly depend on the education that is imparted to them at different levels. Knowledge and wisdom have always been regarded as the highest virtues of man. Evaluation is a part and parcel of our lives. We evaluate every activity, not only in terms of its product, but also in terms of its process. Education is an activity, which is aimed at modifying the behavior of children in desired direction. Educational evaluation is an integral part of teaching-learning process. Every teacher working in an educational organization needs to be trained in the technology of the test development and their application. The term “measurement” refers to quantity of physical or psychological traits and answers the question 'how much?', the term 'assessment', on the other hand, refers to the act of judging the progress of an ongoing activity and answers the question “how well?”. “Evaluation” refers to the quality of results through the process of measurement and assessment or otherwise. It involves some kind of value judgement or tends to answer the question “how good?”.

Academic achievement is a critical dimension of learning at school and reflects acquisition of competencies to meet the challenges in education at school level and beyond. Several studies have highlighted that trends in academic achievement varies between male and female students at all levels in education. Though the gap is narrowing, much remains to be done to bridge the difference. On this background, a study was undertaken in three ashram schools in tribal areas of Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra state. Total 60 male and 120 female students were included in the study. The data related to school infrastructure was collected with help of schedule for School Profile and parents and teachers were interviewed with respective interview schedule. The marks of students in semester exam were compiled to understand their performance in curriculum-based assessment while test for Minimum Level of Learning was administered to measure the basic competencies attained at respective grades. The group tests, namely Culture Fair Intelligence Test (CFIT) and Draw-a-Man Test of Intelligence (DMTI) was administered for assessing learning abilities.

In India medicinal plants are valued for cultural reasons, man-monetary utilterian purposes, (food and medicines), industrial demand and as a subset of national bio diversity wealth most people especially in rural areas depend on traditional medicines to treat many diseases. Tribal communities are mainly the forest dwellers and they acquired rich knowledge on the uses of various plant species and forest products over the centuries, moreover the majority of the tribal people are engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry, hunting, fishing technology and related activities and they often exposed to various dermatological infections such as wounds, microbial, infections, swellings, burns, from cooking and sleeping near files, scorpion, snake and insect bites an the forest lend. Therefore a need was fell to document in dept information on traditional uses of plants. The medicinal plants Board has formulated some schemes for finding the projects related to development, creating awareness about the therapeutic uses of plants, markings, and cultivation of some selected medicinal plants having assured market. The operation al guidelines for funding the project proposals for many activities have been formulated by the board.