NTA UGC NET/JRF EXAM. JUNE , 2019 (Paper II) Geography

Panchayati Raj is a form of government at the village level where each village is responsible for its own activities. The 73rd constitutional Amendment Act of 1992 contains provision for passing the powers and responsibilities to the panchayat for preparation of plans for economic development and social justice.
Levels of Panchayati Raj Institutions. The 3-tier system of Panchayati Raj consists of:
District Level Panchayat
Block Level Panchayat
Village Level Panchayat

ENSO- stands for El - Nino southern Oscillation It is an irregular periodic variation in wind and sea surface temperature occur the tropical eastern pacific ocean affecting the climate of much of the tropics and subtropics.

• The whole phenomena of varying sea surface temperature and changing direction of wind is called as southern Oscillation.

• El-Nino accompanied by high air surface pressure in the tropical western pacific and average sea surface temperature in the central and Eastern tropical pacific ocean rises and it causes decreasing of rainfall in Indonesia related region.

D.M. Smith's theoretical model of the spatial margins to profitability talks about a line that separates the profitable spaces from the unprofitable spaces. It defines the boundary within which a company can be profitable.
The space revenue curve would be A Shaped.

GLOF are well known in Himalaya where such lakes had often been formed by landslides and formation of a lake like structure due to barricading by landslide debris mainly moraines and ice dam The failure of these natural barricades to hold water causes discharge of water in large amount in downstream area. GLOFS have immense potential of flooding in downstream areas, causing disastrous consequences due to release of large volumes of water in very short interval of time.

A cold front is defined as the region where a cold air mass is replacing a warmer air mass. Cold fronts can produce dramatic change in the weather. The air behind cold front is colder and drier than the air in front. Cold front means cold air mass is more active than the warm air mass, when the collision between them take place cold air mass uplift the warm air and cumulonimbus cloud is formed led to heavy precipitation, thunder and lightning.

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Narmada river is the largest west flowing river of the peninsula India. It rises from Narmada Kund, located at Amarkantak, in the Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh, at an elevation of about 1057 m in the Maikal range. It forms the traditional boundary between North and South India. It flow through rift valley which mainly separates the Deccan from the Northern Malwa plateau.
The river flows through Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat between Vindhya and Satpura hill ranges before falling into the Gulf of Cambay in the Arabian Sea about 10 km north of Bharach, Gujarat. The total length of the river from the head to its outfall into the Arabian Sea is 1,333 km.
For the first 1085. km, it runs in Madhya Pradesh and thereafter forms the common boundary between Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra for 39 km, and Maharashtra and Gujarat for 43 km. It has the longest stretch in Gujarat of 166 km.
There are total 41 tributaries of Narmada river. Out of these, 8 important tributaries join the river from right bank and 11 important tributaries join from the left bank.
Narmada River also called as Reva is the longest west flowing river in India. It flows in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The Narmada river divides India into two Parts - Malwa Plateau in the Central Highlands and Deccan Plateau in the south.

Quality of life is a degree to which a human is healthy, comfortable and able to enjoy life events. It is summoned into each domain of life in the form of hierarchy. Components of 'quality of life' used by the Berlin Centre for Future Research in decreasing weightage are Mental, Physical, Spiritual and Material.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a permanent, intergovernmental Organization, created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10–14, 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
The five Founding Members were later joined by: Qatar (1961) – terminated its membership in January 2019; Indonesia (1962) – suspended its membership in January 2009, reactivated it in January 2016, but decided to suspend it again in November 2016; Libya (1962); United Arab Emirates (1967); Algeria (1969); Nigeria (1971); Ecuador (1973) – suspended its membership in December 1992, reactivated it in October 2007, but decided to withdraw its membership effective from 1 January 2020; Angola (2007); Gabon (1975) – terminated its membership in January 1995 but rejoined in July 2016; Equatorial Guinea (2017); and Congo (2018). OPEC had its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in the first five years of its existence. This was moved to Vienna, Austria, on September 1, 1965.