THE ROYAL WEDDINGS (World's 10 Most Expensive Weddings)

Kate-William's wedding will break all records of expense. An estimated cost of this Royal Wedding is around £52,659,500.

Where a general British spends around £17,880 in wedding program.

Let have a comparison between this Royal Wedding and general British wedding.

Expense in Royal Wedding    Expense in general wedding

1. Wedding Dress                   25,500                                1,500

2. Bridal Made Dress              15,000                                 1,000

3. Jewelry                             8,30,000                               800

4. Makeup                             2,000                                  180

5. Breast Main Dress              31,000                                 680

6. Ring                                  2.50 lac                               1,200

7. Flower Decoration             2,20,000                              750

8. Breakfast                          3,00,000                              2,030

9. Wedding Cake                   5,000                                  400

10.Invitation Cards                4,000                                  500

11.Cars                                 1,00,000                              520

12.Photography                      10,000                               900

13.Beverage                          2,10,000                            600

14.Honeymoon                       4,00,000                            4,000

15.Honeymoon Outfit             2,500                                300

16.Staff                                 5,00,000                            0

17.Internal Security                 10,000,000                        0

18.Outer Security                   30,000,000                         0

19.Security Instruments          9,000,000                          0

20.Church                              5,000                                52

21.Wedding Place                   0                                      2,000

(amount in British Pound)

World's Top Ten Expensive Weddings:-

1. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum - Princess Salma ($100 million)

Listed in the Guinness book of world record as the most expensive wedding of the word. 34 private planes were used to pick 20,000 guests.

2. Vanisha Mittal - Amit Bhatia ($78 million)

Flight tickets were sent to the guests. 1000 guests attended  5 days program.

3. Aleksandra Nikolic - Andrey Melnichenko ($30 million)

Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera, and Julio Iglesias entertained in the wedding of this Russian billionaire and model, with their performances, each of whom raked in an estimated $3.6 million for the gig.

4. Priya Sachdev - Vikram Chatwal ($20 million)

Take 600 guests for a 10-day wedding celebration and jet them from city to city in India. Chatwal owner of luxurious hotels such as Dream New York, managed to bring the event in at a tidy $20 million.

5. Coleen McLoughlin - Wayne Rooney ($15 million)

24 hours wedding celebration was held on $120 million yat. Couple wore a dress worth of $3 million.

6. Delphine Arnault - Alessandro Vallarino Gancia ($7 million)

Won award "Wedding of the Year 2005".

7. Chelsea Clinton - Marc Mezvinsky ($5 million)

Wedding celebrated in an AC tent worth of $6 lac.

Spent heavy amount on security.

8. Trista Rehn - Ryan Sutter ($4 million)

Rehn and Sutter, who met on the ABC show The Bachelorette, were married in front of 17 million viewers.

9.Liza Minnelli to David Gest ($3.5 million)

850 guests attended this wedding including Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Tailor. $7 lac spent on flower decoration.

10. Elizabeth Hurley - Arun Nayar ($2.5 million)

8 days wedding program ended in Jodhpur, India.

$1 lac hotel bill. Wedding dress of Hurley was of $10,000.

STOP CHILD LABOUR

Child is a bundle of joys a flower incarnate in person. A flickering smile of the child pleases everyone. Childhood is the most important period of life, as it shapes adulthood. If one desires to know a nation, he should look for it into its children. Child is not only the future of the nation and its aspirations but also, and mainly, its strength in reserve. The future of nation is best insured if its children are healthy and active, educated and informed, disciplined and trained.

The word "Child Labour" can be seen as the synonym of "Employed child" or "Working child". In this sense it can be understand as the work done by child for Profit or Reward. But in realty Child Labour is used in a Derogatory sense. Which suggests something Hateful and Exploitative.

UNICEF defines Child Labour as work that exceeds a minimum number of hours, depending on the age of a child and on the type of work. Such work is considered harmful to the child and should therefore be eliminated.

• Ages 5-11: At least one hour of economic work or 28 hours of domestic work per week.
• Ages 12-14: At least 14 hours of economic work or 28 hours of domestic work per week.
• Ages 15-17: At least 43 hours of economic or domestic work per week. 

An estimated 158 million children aged 5-14 are engaged in child labour - one in six children in the world. Millions of children are engaged in hazardous situations or conditions, such as working in mines, working with chemicals and pesticides in agriculture or working with dangerous machinery. They are everywhere but invisible, toiling as domestic servants in homes, labouring behind the walls of workshops, hidden from view in plantations. Children living in the poorest households and in rural areas are most likely to be engaged in child labour. Those burdened with household chores are overwhelmingly girls. Millions of girls who work as domestic servants are especially vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. Labour often interferes with children's education.

Child Laborers  ( The Cheap commodity of India) 

The 1991 Census carried out by Government of India states that there are 11.28 million working children under the age of fourteen years in India. Advocacy groups suggest the real figure could be as high as 60 million.

Main reasons of child labour in India are :-

• Poverty
• Family debt
• Administrative attitude
• Easier and cheaper availability of child laborers
• Social mindset

Most child labour occur :-

Asia - 60%

Africa - 23%

South America - 8%

Child Rights :-

• The Right to Survival - to life, health, nutrition, name and nationality
• The Right to Development - to education, care, leisure, recreation
• The Right to Protection - from exploitation, abuse, neglect
• The Right to Participation - to expression, information, thought and religion

Our little efforts can change the scenario. We have to aware about these issues and help children to get their rights.

SAVE GIRL CHILD

Amongst sweet smiles, pretty skirts and gentle manners, a girl child is surely a delight. Considered as Laxmi or the Goddess of wealth many families revere a girl child and in the North the girl child is never made to touch the feet of her elders including her parents. A girl child is surely special. A girl child is also a source of a joy as empathy in a girl is very natural. She has maternal rights from her childhood days and protective about her siblings. A constant endeavor needed within our families to preserve the respect of the girl child must be a matter of esteem.

Socio-Economic Issues :-

1. Girl Fetus Killing (Bhrun Hatya) :- Girl fetus killing is a major cause of social problem that needs an immediate solution; more men than women. Twenty first century is going on but this ridiculous problem still sounds. Pregnant women take scans and tests to determine the sex of the fetus. If the child is found to be male, he is allowed to live, but if it is a girl, pregnancy is terminated.

In this problem women play equal role to the men. Women should think that they were also girls one day.

2. Girl Child Labour - The Cheap commodity of India

Every day number of girl children are rescued from the shops and houses working as a servant. They work more than 14 hours a day and are not paid as per norms.

The International Labor Office reports that children work the longest hours and are the worst paid of all laborers.

3. Education - The Right to Learn

“Educate a man, you educate one person, educate a woman, you educate a complete family.”

Reports estimate that more than 50 percent of girls in India fail to enroll in school and those who do are likely to drop out by the age of 12. Lack of education denies the girl child, the knowledge and skills needed to advance their status. Figures also report that there is discrimination even in the field of higher education. At least a 40% of girls are not allowed to pursue higher studies, due to the conservative familial ideologies.

Education enables the child to realize her full potential, to think, question and judge independently; to be a wise decision-maker, develop civic sense and learn to respect, love his fellow human beings and to be a good citizen.

4. Child Marriage :- A report by the UNICEF revealed that 82 percent of girls in Rajasthan are married before they are 18, 15 percent of girls in rural areas across the country are married before 13 and a major 52 percent of girls have their first pregnancy between 15 and 19. 

By the Indian law, it is illegal to allow or facilitate marriage of a boy under 21 and a girl under 18. Amongst all the states in India, it is Rajasthan that tops the list with the average age of a girl at marriage being 16.6 years, closely followed by Bihar (17.2 years) and Madhya Pradesh (17 years).

Sex Ratio :-

India's child sex ratio continues to plummet, indicating that female feticide and infanticide remain rampant. Provisional data released by the census office for 2011 shows that the child sex ratio (0-6 years) has further declined to 914 girls for every 1,000 boys as compared to 927 in 2001.

The divide between the north and south has got even starker with J&K's child sex ratio falling precipitously to 859, making it the third worst state after Haryana and Punjab. In 2001, J&K had a better child sex ratio than the Indian average. With the exception of Himachal Pradesh, no state in the north now has a child sex ratio above 900.

Overall, the last 30 years have been cruel for India's young girls. There are now 48 fewer girls per 1,000 boys than there were in 1981. J&K, Maharashtra and Haryana have had the worst 30-year decline in child sex ratios. 

(source http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sense-Of-Censu...)

In India male to female sex ratio -

at birth               under 15               15-64               over 65               total

  1.12                        1.13                          1.06                  0.9                      1.06

(for more countries visit-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio)

NGO's working to save Girl Child :-

1. CRY (Child Rights and You) - Mumbai

2. NANHI KALI - Mumbai

3. DREAM A DREAM - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore

4. POPULATION FIRST - Mumbai

5. CHILD IN NEED INSTITUTE - Kolkata

6. INDIANNGOS.COM

7. INDIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILD RIGHT

8. SMILE FOUNDATION, INDIA - New Delhi, Mumbai

Remedial Measure :-

Through active generation of political will and result-oriented action plans, the government can effectively Help & Support the situation.

Here we list some of the main solutions possible:

1. Provision of free and compulsory education in practice, not only in theory.

2. Effective implementation of the Dowry Prohibition Act and other relevant laws.

3. Grant of equal property rights to girls.

4. A department for women and a commission for women must be established at central and state levels.

5. Women’s organizations, media houses and magazines should offer forums for networking.

6. Extensive support should be available to NGOs and such organizations.

GENERATION GAP

A difference in Values and Attitudes between one generation and another, especially between young people and their parents.


More specifically, a Generation Gap can be used to describe the differences in actions, beliefs, tastes, etc. between members of younger generations when compared to members of older generations. 


Attitude is a way of thinking or feeling about someone or something.


A generation gap occurs when older & younger people don't understand each other because of their difference in opinion, experience and nature.


The main reasons i think for Generation Gap are :-


1. Most of today's Youth are influenced by Growing Western Standards and Culture. Be it Music, Behavior, Cloths, Fashion, Trends everything.


2. Education System :- Earlier people did not give whole attention to the studies. The competition was not so much. Focus was on the over all development. But now a days students spend more time in academics. The interaction between parents and children is very less.


3. Internet and Technology :- We are living in a smart world. Children spend their more time on internet for chatting and on mobile phones. So their social skills are spoiling.


There are a few more things that can be blamed. Lack of spirituality, The media etc. which play their part in their own way.


Moreover, the elder generations hold fast to tradition and old customs, which they consider as part of their cultural heritage or social values. Younger generations, however, prefer to adopt modern values, and as a result they create their own ways of behavior.


There always has been generation gap since the dawn of civilization. Old people act like a frog in the well. They are fully convinced with their ideas as ultimate and ideal. They ignore certain vital factors that are no longer valid in modern days. The young have always deviated from the older standards and it is good that they do or there wouldn't have been any progress today.




Bridging the Generation Gap :-


1. Lots of Communication and Involvement :- Try to increase the communication with children and show your presence in their activities.


2. Spend time together in Fun and Play


3. Clear Boundaries :- Keep free each other by giving freedom without worries. 


4. Clear Values :- Make clear that both should respect other's opinions.

It is a fact of life that the Generation Gap or "Clash" is something that has existed and will continue to exist as long as man exists on this earth.