Saksham Scheme

Saksham is a new scheme proposed for holistic development of Adolescent Boys, on the pattern of SABLA. The proposed scheme Saksham, would aim at the all-round development of Adolescent Boys to make them self-reliant, gender-sensiive and aware citizens, when they ..

SFURTI

Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) and the Coir Board are implementing a scheme called the Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI). The scheme has been introduced all over India to generate employment in rural areas.Under this ..

Snowball Earth

The Snowball Earth hypothesis posits that the Earth’s surface became entirely or nearly entirely frozen at least once, some time earlier than 650 Ma (million years ago). View of Proponents Proponents of the hypothesis argue that it best explains sedimentary ..

SMART Search Engine

Search engine for Multimedia Environment generated content (SMART) is a new project to develop a search engine which will draw its results from sensors. This European-funded project aims to develop and implement a system to allow internet users to search ..

Square Kilometer Array

For many years, two groups of countries, one consisting of Australia and New Zealand, and one of several sub-Saharan countries led by South Africa, have polished their competing proposals to host the Square Kilometre Array, a huge, 1.9 billion dollar ..

Sugar Development Fund

The Sugar Cess Act, 1982 provides for levy of cess, which currently is Rs. 24 per quintal with effect from 1st March, 2008 on production of Sugar for credit to the Consolidated Fund of India. The Sugar Development Fund Act, ..

Shining Path

The Communist Party of Peru more commonly known as the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) is a Maoist organization in Peru. Formed in the 1960s with an objective to replace what it saw as bourgeois democracy with "New Democracy" in Peru, ..

Shape Memory Alloys

The Robojelly mentioned in above note used Shape Memory Alloys. The live jellyfish is an ideal invertebrate to base the vehicle on due to its simple swimming action: it has two prominent mechanisms known as “rowing” and “jetting”. A jellyfish’s ..