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Sangam

An ancient Indian unit of area approximately equivalent to one-quarter hectare.

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Too much coaching by central authorities will lead to sameness in public sector banks that successive Gyan Sangams have criticized," said Rajan, speaking at the FICCI-IBA banking conference on Tuesday.

MORE FLEXIBILITY NEEDED FOR PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS

They are organized into ' Sangams' and the saving scheme is operated within the ' sangam'.

The social action group has organized women into ' sangams' and going by the present trend, if somebody is organizing women groups, he is a social activist with more respect.

Invisible Injustices-8

The earlier ' Hindu Sangams' were held in Dang ( Gujarat), Jhabua and Mandla ( both in Madhya Pradesh).

In these ' Hindu Sangams', the supporters of RSS and its over 40 affiliate organisations come together and exchange views for preparing the roadmap to building a Hindu nation based on Indian values.

RSS chief asks all Hindus to stand together

Maoists recruit children aged between six and 12 into their children's association, called Bal Sangams, where they are trained in Maoist ideology, used as informers and taught to fight with non-lethal weapons.

As far as their training is concerned, the women Maoists, who are capable of leading the operation, are appointed in the Bal Sangam. Students aged 6-12 are trained in the Bal Sangams," Kumar said.

Maoists training cadres in Guerrilla warfare in Chhattisgarh

18) referred to the whole of the ancient Tamil-speaking area, corresponding roughly to the area known as south India today, consisting of the territories of the present-day Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, parts of Andhra Pradesh, parts of Karnataka and northern Sri Lanka" ("Sangam Period").