Monday, January 14, 2013

Countries by exports per capita

RankCountry / EntityExports per capita, US$
1Hong Kong45,574
2Singapore45,302 
3United Arab Emirates37,200
4Netherlands32,817
5Norway24,564
6Ireland24,000 
7Belgium23,485
8Switzerland22,230
9Iceland21,500
10Denmark19,893
11Slovenia16,640
12Austria16,300
13Puerto Rico16,257
14Kuwait16,230
15Slovakia14,570
16Germany14,169
17Sweden13,924
18Trinidad and Tobago12,700 
19Oman11,700 
20Finland10,766 
21Czech Republic10,700 
22Libya10,100
23Estonia9,820
24Canada9,430 
25Republic of China (Taiwan)8,800
26Hungary7,860
27South Korea7,700 
28Lithuania7,250
29France 7,200 
30Israel7,060 
31Saudi Arabia6,965
32Italy6,825 
33Australia6,800 
34New Zealand6,725 
35Gabon6,500 
36United Kingdom5,780 
37Malaysia5,560 
38Kazakhstan5,556 
39Portugal5,450 
40Spain4,750
41Japan4,250 
42Chile4,000
43Angola3,800 
44Latvia3,750 
45Poland3,500 
46United States3,375 
47Belarus3,350 
48Panama3,120
49Bulgaria2,960
 European Union2,880
50Botswana2,850 
51Romania2,800 
52Croatia2,800 
53Greece2,425 
54Thailand2,266
55Russia2,150
55Macedonia2,150
57Costa Rica2,125 
58Algeria2,100
59Mexico2,000
60Turkmenistan1,900
61Tunisia1,900
62Mauritius1,850
63Argentina1,825 
64Venezuela1,800
65Uruguay1,800 
66Serbia1,650 
67Turkey1,530 
68Swaziland1,500 
69Ukraine1,400
70South Africa1,360 
71Namibia1,350 
72Jordan1,008
73Iran934 
74Azerbaijan727
75Philippines704
76Bosnia and Herzegovina691
77Dominican Republic654
78Ecuador636
79Iraq617
80Jamaica601
81People's Republic of China572
82Peru570
83El Salvador521
84Paraguay508
85Colombia506
86Lebanon498
87Brazil497
88Papua New Guinea481
89Nigeria397
90Indonesia375
91Morocco373
92Vietnam372
93Côte d'Ivoire357
94Lesotho336
95Syria333
96Mongolia322
97Georgia (country)313
98Guatemala313
99Sri Lanka311
100Chad309
101Yemen305
102Nicaragua282
103Liberia277
104Armenia265
105Bolivia258
106Mauritania255
107Moldova247
108Honduras240
109Albania227
110Cuba212
111Uzbekistan202
112Cameroon198
113Egypt194
114Sudan193
115Cambodia189
116Zambia167
117Palestine146
118Tajikistan146
119Kyrgyzstan144
120Ghana132
121Senegal131
122Zimbabwe126
123Togo125
124Benin98
125Pakistan94
126Kenya93
127Gambia92
128Mozambique85
129Bhutan71
130India69
131Bangladesh66
132Guinea65
133Laos64
134North Korea57
135Madagascar51
136Myanmar50
137Haiti46
138Tanzania41
139Sierra Leone33
140Central African Republic32
141Burkina Faso30
142Somalia29
143Malawi28
144Uganda27
145Mali24
146Nepal23
147Democratic Republic of the Congo19
148Niger16
149Afghanistan 16
150Rwanda11
151Ethiopia8
152Eritrea8
153Burundi7
154Nauru5

Sunday, December 23, 2012

List of Presidents of India (1947-Till Date)

1.Rajendra Prasad
26-Jan-1950  -13-May-1962  
Political party : Indian National Congress
Prasad was the first President of independent India. He was also an independence activist of the Indian Independence Movement. Prasad was the only president to serve for two terms in office.

2.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
13-May-1962   - 13-May-1967   
Political party : Independent  
Radhakrishnan was a prominent philosopher, writer, a Knight of the Realm and also held the position of vice chancellor of the Andhra University and Banaras Hindu University. Hewas also made a Knight of the Golden Army of Angels by Pope Paul VI.

3.Zakir Hussain

13-May-1967 - 3-May-1969   
Political party : Independent  
Hussain was vice chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University and a recipient of Padma Vibhushan and Bharat Ratna. He died before his term of office was ended.

Varahagiri Venkata Giri *
3-May-1969  - 20-Jul-1969   
Political party : Independent  
Giri was appointed as acting president following the death of Hussain. He resigned in a few months to take partin the presidential elections.

Muhammad Hidayatullah *

20-Jul-1969  - 24-Aug-1969   
Political party : Independent  
Hidayatullah served as the Chief Justice of India, and was a recipient of the Order of the British Empire. He served as acting president until the election of Giri as the President of India.

4.Varahagiri Venkata Giri
24-Aug-1969   - 24-Aug-1974  
Political party : Independent   
Giri is the only person to have served as both an acting president and president of India. He was a recipient ofthe Bharat Ratna, and has functioned as Indian Minister of Labour and High Commissioner to Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

5.Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
24-Aug-1974 - 11-Feb-1977   
Political party : Indian National Congress  
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed served as a Minister before being elected as president. He died in 1977 before his term of office ended, and was the second Indian president to have diedduring a term of office.

Basappa Danappa Jatti *

11-Feb-1977   - 25-Jul-1977   
Political party : Independent  
Jatti was the vice president of India during Ahmed's term of office, and was sworn in as acting president upon Ahmed's death. He earlier functioned as the Chief Minister for the State of Mysore.

6.Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

25-Jul-1977 - 25-Jul-1982   
Political party : Janata Party  
Reddy was the only Member ofParliament from the Janata Party to get elected from Andhra Pradesh. He was unanimously elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha on 26 March 1977 and relinquished this office on 13 July 1977 to become the 6th President ofIndia.

7.Giani Zail Singh

25-Jul-1982    - 25-Jul-1987   
Political party : Indian National Congress  
In March 1972, Singh assumed the position of chief Minister of Punjab, and in 1980, he became Union Home Minister.

8.Ramaswamy Venkataraman
25-Jul-1987  - 25-Jul-1992  
Political party : Indian National Congress  
In 1942, Venkataraman was jailed by the British for his involvement in the India's independence movement.After his release, he was elected to independent India’s Provisional Parliament as a member of the Congress Party in 1950 and eventually joinedthe central government, where he first served as Minister of Finance and Industry and later as Minister of Defence.

9.Shankar Dayal Sharma

25-Jul-1992 - 25-Jul-1997   
Political party : Indian National Congress  
Sharma was Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, and the Indian Minister for Communications. He has also served as the governor of Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Maharashtra.

10.Kocheril Raman Narayanan

25-Jul-1997- 25-Jul-2002   
Political party : Independent  
Narayanan served as India's ambassador to Thailand, Turkey, China and United States of America. He received doctorates in Science and Law and was also a chancellor in several universities. He was also the vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University.

11.A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

25-Jul-2002 -25-Jul-2007   
Political party : Independent  
Kalam was a scientist who played a leading role in the development of India's ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs. Kalam also received the Bharat Ratna.

12.Pratibha Patil

25-Jul-2007
Political party : Indian National Congress  
Patil was the first woman to become President of India. She was also the first female Governor

13.Pranab Mukherjee
25th-July 2012
Political party : Indian National Congress 
Mukherjee was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress until he resigned from political office preceding his election as President on 22 July 2012. He took office as the 13th President of India on 25 July 2012.Mukherjee has received several accolades and honors. In 1984, he was rated as the best Finance Minister in the World according to a survey of Euromoney magazine.

Census Facts 2011

  • Thane district of Maharashtra is the most populated district of India.
  • Dibang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh is the least populated.
  • Kurung Kumey of Arunachal Pradesh registered highest population growthrate of 111.01 percent.
  • Longleng district of Nagaland registered negative population growth rate of (-)58.39.
  • Mahe district of Puducherry has highest sex ratio of 1176 females per 1000 males.
  • Daman district has lowest sex ratio of 533 females per 1000 males.
  • Serchhip district of Mizoram has highest literacy rate of 98.76 percent.
  • Alirajpur of MP is the least literate district of India with figure of 37.22 percent only.
  • North East Delhi has the higest density with figure of 37346 person per square kilometer.
  • Dibang Valley has the least density of 1 person per sq. km.

Literacy Rate in India (As per 2011 Census)

Literacy Rate In Indian State: Census 2011
Rank State Literacy rate (2011 Census) Literacy rate-Male (2011 Census) Literacy rate-Female (2011 Census)
1 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 86.3% 90.1% 81.8%
2 Andhra Pradesh 67.7% 75.6% 59.7%
3 Arunachal Pradesh 67.0% 73.7% 59.6%
4 Assam 73.2% 78.8% 67.3%
5 Bihar 63.8% 73.5% 53.3%
6 Chandigarh 86.4% 90.5% 81.4%
7 Chattisgarh 71.0% 81.5% 60.6%
8 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 77.7% 86.5% 65.9%
9 Daman & Diu 87.1% 91.5% 79.6%
10 Delhi 86.3% 91.0% 80.9%
11 Goa 87.4% 92.8% 81.8%
12 Gujarat 79.3% 87.2% 70.7%
13 Haryana 76.6% 85.4% 66.8%
14 Himachal Pradesh 83.8% 90.8% 76.6%
15 Jammu and Kashmir 68.7% 78.3% 58.0%
16 Jharkhand 67.6% 78.5% 56.2%
17 Karnataka 75.6% 82.8% 68.1%
18 Kerala 93.9% 96.0% 92.0%
19 Lakshadweep 92.3% 96.1% 88.2%
20 Madhya Pradesh 70.6% 80.5% 60.0%
21 Maharashtra 82.9% 89.8% 75.5%
22 Manipur 79.8% 86.5% 73.2%
23 Meghalaya 75.5% 77.2% 73.8%
24 Mizoram 91.6% 93.7% 89.4%
25 Nagaland 80.1% 83.3% 76.7%
26 Orissa 73.5% 82.4% 64.4%
27 Puducherry 86.5% 92.1% 81.2%
28 Punjab 76.7% 81.5% 71.3%
29 Rajasthan 67.1% 80.5% 52.7%
30 Sikkim 82.2% 87.3% 76.4%
31 Tamil Nadu 80.3% 86.8% 73.9%
32 Tripura 87.8% 92.2% 83.1%
33 Uttar Pradesh 69.7% 79.2% 59.3%
34 Uttarakhand 79.6% 88.3% 70.7%
35 West Bengal 77.1% 82.7% 71.2%
- Whole INDIA 74.04% 82.14%
65.46%

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Banking Programmes And Schemes

Banking Programmes And Schemes:

 S.No. Banking Programmes and Schemes Year of Beginning Objective/Description
 1  Credit Authorization Scheme (CAS) 1965 A scheme of Qualitative Credit Control of Researve Bank
 2  Scheme of Discriminatory Interest Rate 1972  To provide loan to the weaker sections of the societyat a concessional interest rate of 4%.
 3  Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India 1985  To provide financial assistance to sick and closed industrial units for their reconstruction.
 4  Formation of Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) 1988 To safeguard the interest of investors in capital market and to regulate share market.
 5  National Renewal Fund (NRF) 1992  To protect the interest of the employees of Public Sector.
 6  Group Life Insurance Scheme in Rural Areas 1995 To provide insurance facilities to rural people on lower premium.
 7  Social Security Pilot Scheme 2004 Scheme for labors of unorganized sector for providing family pension, insurance and medical.