History of Asian games 2010 Mascot 'Le Yangyang' means '乐 羊羊' and General Competition Schedule for the 16th Asian Games V1.6

ASIAN GAMES Mascot 'Le Yangyang' has great history look at it here...

"Le Yangyang” is name of the leader of our five Goats and the name which refers to all of the 16th Asian Games Mascots, each of them sporty and cute, and each serving as an Official Mascot. The Mascots substantiate a part of Guangzhou’s unique history and culture and each Goat has an individual name that is distinctly Cantonese in style: A Xiang[a: 'sj∧ŋ], A He[a: 'hə:], A Ru[a: 'ru:], A Yi[a: 'ji:] and Le Yangyang ['lə: j∧ŋj∧ŋ]. When you put their names together, Xiang He Ru Yi Le Yangyang - meaning Peace, Harmony and Great Happiness, with everything going as you wish - they fully express the people of Guangzhou’s hope that the 16thAsian Games bring peace, prosperity, success and happiness to the people of Asia and fulfill their, and our, Vision of a “Thrilling Games and Harmonious Asia”.

The designs of the Mascots are strongly inspired by a legend about the City of Guangzhou: As the legend goes: A long time ago, the farm lands in Guangzhou ran dry, food could not be grown and the people experienced a famine. They could do nothing but pray to the heavens for luck. Moved by their piety, Five Immortals descended from the heavens, riding on goats with coats of different colors, each holding ears of rice in its mouth. The Immortals gave the rice ears to the people of Guangzhou and promised that the land would be “free from famine”. Afterwards, the Immortals disappeared into the sky. The Five Goats that were left behind turned into stone. From that time onwards, Guangzhou reaped a bumper harvest of grain every year and became the most prosperous city in the south of China. The Five Goats of this thousand-year-old legend have gone on become the most well-known symbol of Guangzhou.

The goat also has a strong association with Chinese culture and tradition, particularly Chinese characters that signify catering, etiquette and aesthetics. In the language of ancient Chinese, the character “羊” yang (goat) is identical to the character “祥” xiang (luck). The character “美” mei (beautiful) is a combination of the characters “羊”, yang, and “大” da (big), in keeping with the traditional Chinese belief that a “big goat” is “beautiful”. The goat is also considered an auspicious animal that brings luck, in other Asian cultures. Through our choice of a goat, we sincerely believe our Mascots will appeal to, and resonate with, people of different cultures and religions throughout Asia, who we hope will grow to love them as much as we do.

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Objectives of PMAGY(Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana) Scheme for integrated development in villages

PMAGY-Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana

The Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana(PMAGY), a recent introduction, was launched in Rajasthan's Sriganganagar district. The scheme "aims at integrated development of 1,000 villages, where a majority of the population belong to the Scheduled Castes. Already, the pilot scheme has been taken up for states - Bihar, Rajasthan,Tamil Nadu and Assam.

The Centre has released a sum of ` 55.54 Crores to Assam, Bihar and Rajasthan and even released a preliminary grant to Tamil Nadu "in anticipation of receipt of complete proposals" for the districts of Kancheepuram, Tiruvarur, Viluppuram and Cuddalore.

Each village would be able to avail gap funding of ` 10 lakh over and above the allegations under Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation Schemes.

Objectives of Scheme

To ensure integrated development of the selected 1,000 villages with more than 50% SC population into " model villages" so that, inter alia,

• They have all requisite physical and social infrastructure for their socio-economic development.
• Disparity between SC and non-SC population in terns of common socio economic indicators is eliminated, the indicators are raised to at least the level of the national average, and
• All BPL(Below Poverty Line) families, especially those belonging to SCs, have food and livelihood security, and are enabled to cross the poverty line and earn an adequate livelihood,
• All children complete atleast eight years of education, and
• Incidence of malnutrition, especially among children and women, is eliminated.
• Untouchability, discrimination, segregation, and atrocities against SCs are eliminated, as are other social evils like discrimination against girls/women, alcoholism and substance(drugs) abuse, etc., and all sections of society are able to live with dignity and equality, and in harmony with others.

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Bridging over the divide between Digital and Paper through 'e-mail Home Delivery Application' used by Indian Postal Service

Sending or Posting Handwritten/Printed Letters Electronically........

Introduction of the ePost Service by the Department of Posts with the help of 'e-mail Home Delivery Application', it is possible to send your letters electronically even if the receiver does not have access to Internet/email. ePost is a unique service under which printed or even handwritten messages of customers are scanned and transmitted as email through the Internet. These messages are printed, enveloped and delivered through postmen, at the destination offices, like other letters, at the postal addresses.ePost, which is a paid service at present, enables people to send and receive messages or scanned images through email in all 1,56,000 Post Offices in the country. 

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Check the details of Court Judgments through JUDIS

Check Court Judgments (JUDIS)

It is now possible to access the full text of various Court Judgements online.The Judgement Information System or JUDIS is a unique judiciary service for the citizens, which lets you access all the judgements that have been passed by the Supreme Court of India since its inception in 1950, as well as the judgements by some other High Courts, on the Internet. JUDIS presents some very user-friendly methods for citizens to make their search more convenient. Citizens can search judgments through the name of the petitioner or respondent, the name of the judge, the name of the party, the date of judgement, and so on. Moreover, the judgements passed by the Supreme Court till 1993 consist of head notes as well. JUDIS is quite a resourceful service for citizens, backed by the fact that judgements passed by the courts included in the list are available for users within a day of their delivery in the courts.

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