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All IAS officers, regardless of the mode of entry, are appointed by the President of India. [18] President Murmu with a group of IAS officers (2020 batch) at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi. Only about 180 candidates out of over 1 million applicants, who apply through CSE, are successful, a success rate of less than 0.02 per cent. [10] [22 ...
Divisional Commissioner, an IAS officer is the head of administration on the divisional level. The administration in each district is headed by a District Magistrate, who is also an IAS officer, and is assisted by several officers belonging to state services. District Magistrate being the head of the district administration, is responsible for ...
Human geography – one of the two main subfields of geography is the study of human use and understanding of the world and the processes that have affected it. Human geography broadly differs from physical geography in that it focuses on the built environment and how space is created, viewed, and managed by humans, as well as the influence humans have on the space they occupy.
Geography Network; MapChart EarthAtlas, free online atlas with interactive maps about topics like demography, economy, health and environment. National Geographic MapMachine; History of atlases. Atlases, at the US Library of Congress site - a discussion of many significant atlases, with some illustrations. Part of Geography and Maps, an ...
[10] [11] The second quadrant is an e-content which could include e-books, illustrations, Case studies, Open source content, reference links, further reading sources, etc. [12] The third quadrant is about clearing students' queries where students can interact with each other and faculty; any student or faculty can answer a student’s question ...
Land is often defined as the solid, dry surface of Earth. [1] The word land may also collectively refer the collective natural resources of Earth, [2] including its land cover, rivers, shallow lakes, its biosphere, the lowest layer of the atmosphere (troposphere), groundwater reserves, and the physical results of human activity on land, such as architecture and agriculture. [3]
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands consist of 572 islands which run in a north–south axis for around 910 km. The Andaman group has 325 islands which cover an area of 6,170 km 2 (2,380 sq mi) while the Nicobar group has only 247 islands with an area of 1,765 km 2 (681 sq mi). India's only active volcano, Barren Island is situated here. It last ...