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Impact of Merger Announcements on Shareholders’ Investments in India: Empirical Analysis in Selected Sectors
Authors: . Krishnaveni , Sathwik Teja P.
Published: August 2021

This study makes an attempt to estimate the impact of horizontal mergers and acquisitions that have taken place in eight selected banks/companies of five Indian private sectors. An event study methodology has been used to explore the effects on the investments of shareholders of the selected company mergers that have taken place during the period 2010 to 2018. This study of stock market valuation and estimation of effective, abnormal and cumulative average abnormal returns in the context of Indian horizontal mergers has shown interesting findings. The results indicate that the mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector have shown a positive impact on the investors of both Kotak Mahindra bank, the bidder bank and ING Vysya bank, the target bank. Further, in the case of pharmaceutical sector the M&A has shown a positive impact on the investors of both bidder company (Torrent Pharma) and the target company (Unichem Laboratories Ltd). In case of first merger considered under the steel sector and in the Oil &Gas industry (only one merger), the negative impact is found both on the investors of bidder and target companies.In the rest of the mergers considered for this study, mixed reaction of both positive and negative returns has been found. The findings of this study provide input to both the acquiring and the target company shareholders. The acquiring company tends to overbid for acquiring the target company, therefore this process mostly benefits the target company’s shareholders at the cost of acquiring company shareholders. Hence, the management of the acquiring company should be vigilant.
Organizational and Family Challenges Impacting the Career Decision of Women Professionals in the Rohilkhand Region, Uttar Pradesh
Authors: Nath Abhinav , Shukla Arvind
Published: August 2021

The present study is a work done on women professionals in the Rohilkhand region – comprising of Bareilly, Badaun, Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur districts with Bareilly being the divisional headquarter. The study is aimed at exploring and identifying those challenges that act as an impediment in the career growth of women professionals in this part of the country. For a women to be career conscious comes with various kinds of challenges and obligations in our society, and amidst that to be a career conscious lady in this part of the country which is still developing in terms of its approach and accepting changing societal trends and patterns becomes even more challenging. Therefore, majority of the ladies who are working professionals in this region takes their employment merely as a job rather than a career. They generally, succumb to family and societal norms and restrict their working domain to a mere time bound job. Also, there are various organizational and work related challenges that add up to this pressure. Those are organizational specific and vary accordingly. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to trace out by exploring and identifying all those challenges that women professionals face and present various implications of it in a rational and objective manner.
An Assessment of Supply Chain Finance and Working Capital Management in Organizations
Authors: Dass Joydeep
Published: August 2021

The wave of globalization have dispersed supply chain internationally as production moved beyond national boundaries. Information Technology &communication have made the operations of supply chain much easier and all pervasive. The demands for operating globally has increased and businesses have transformed and identified valuable hidden sources to tap liquidity from within their own processes. [1]. Supply chain finance (SCF) is a hot topic in business circles and connects with supply chain management and trade finance. Organizations the world over are trying to merge the approach of supply chain management and trade finance into tangible benefits. With cash drying up & credit squeeze, Organizations are tapping new sources to finance their working capital needs and avenues for cost reduction are being explored in the entire supply chain. Financial managers have taken the lead to acquirecash and generate savings from supply chain logistics. For Organizations, working capital management is a key priority for increasing profitability without compromising on the day-to-day liquidity available for business. SCF is a niche segment in liquidity management & enormous value can be derived by pulling unnecessary cash locked from the processes in supply chain. This paper is an attempt to study the various supply chain finance topics in discussion today and how it is affects the working capital of an Organization. [2]
Performance Management System of a Security Agency in the Philippines
Authors: Amistoso Jay , Etcuban Jonathan O. , Llamedo Eddie , Gimena Judy Ann , Capuyan Dennis , Lumantas Bernabe
Published: August 2021

The human asset is for the most part acclaimed as the most significant asset. It is through the human asset that an organization can make the most advising commitment to its aggressive edge and eventually, its main concern gainfulness or acknowledgment of its destinations. The study determined the performance management practices of a Security Agency in Cebu, Philippines. The study used a descriptive correlational design. The respondents were the 131 respondents consisted of security guards, security officers, head guards, and shifts-in-charge. They were advised to answer the researcher-made questionnaire. The accumulated information was investigated utilizing recurrence, straightforward rate, weighted mean, and Chi-square trial of autonomy. The discoveries uncovered that most of the respondents assessed that performance management was highly practiced as to commitment and target setting, performance appraisal, monitoring and evaluation, and developmental intervention. It was concluded that the level of best practices and administration of performance management practices is highly practiced as managers continuously conduct monitoring on their plans and actions in order to maintain effectiveness and efficiency in carrying out the functions of the management. The researchers recommend the adoption and implementation of the proposed performance management system manual.
Impact of Responsible Leadership on Organizational Behaviour
Authors: Rajeev Sankar
Published: August 2021

Employees have feelings, attitudes, values, moods and emotions which when directed in the desired manner leads to organizational effectiveness. One of the foremost contributions of a manger is leadership, because all organizations thrive on human resource as a vital factor. Success of a leader or ability to undertake risk management is an epitome of organization and its behavior, characterized by the leader, group and structure. Organizational environment thus created has evolved a dynamic condition which has given rise to a relatively innovative concept “Responsible leadership” considering maturity level of the group. This is not a theoretical framework but an approach to leadership. Responsible leadership advances the existing definitions of leadership and this research proposes to analyze the impact on organizational behavior.
Measuring Customer Satisfaction for Customer Relationship Management Activities Perform by Indian Commercial Banks in Surat City
Authors: Jausukhbhai Limbad Shaileshkumar , Patel Vinod
Published: August 2021

The primary purpose of this paper is to measure customer satisfaction for CRM activities perform by Indian Commercial Banks in Surat city. The other purpose is to measure overall customer satisfaction with the services provided by top 3 Indian private and top 3 Indian public commercial banks in Surat. Qualitative methods were used to develop the scope of research to study customer perception. This research study is descriptive in nature. The most appropriate method for selecting the target population is the sampling method of non-probability comfort followed by stratified sampling technique. Of the 1,200 questionnaires distributed, 973 questionnaires were finally considered to correctly analyze the data. Appropriate statistical tools and techniques were used for the research study. Factors were found to differentiate performance based on types of banks. For the reliability of private banks, the response elements and the marketing mix have a great relationship with overall satisfaction, as well as an important relationship between overall customer satisfaction and loyalty. For public sector banks, there is an important relationship between the elements of collateral and the marketing mix, the overall satisfaction of customers, and the overall satisfaction and loyalty. ICICI is the leading bank in terms of performance from a customer perspective and among the public sector bank BOB (Bank of Baroda) which has performed much better than other banks. With the researcher the researcher tries to establish a relationship between customer satisfaction and effective management of the customer relationship. The researcher concludes that for some factors, there is an important relationship between CRM and overall customer satisfaction and an increase in the customer base. Therefore, the management of banks is encouraged to implement CRM programs so that they can take advantage of the current competitive business environment.
Quality Management of Islamic Educational Institutions Service: A Study of Customer satisfaction analysis in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Al-Husna Ciledug Tangerang City
Authors: Mashed Imam
Published: August 2021

Management is a staple component that cannot be separated from Islamic educational institutions. Without management, the purpose of the institution cannot be realized optimally, effectively, and efficiently. Problems in educational institutions, usually dealing with the service to the customers of Islamic education. This research is a qualitative research aimed to know about planning, organizing, implementation and evaluation of the quality management of Islamic education services. This research method uses quantitatif approach, in the process of data collection is carried out in four types of data collection techniques, namely observation, interview, documentation, and questionnaire. The results of the calculation of customer satisfaction of Islamic education, in order to get a satisfaction index of 71% of the services provided by Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Al-Husna Ciledug, so that it must make improvements in the quality of service, this is because in the calculation of the overall servqual gap value still shows a negative value of -0.71 to the service provided by Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Al-Husna Ciledug. Improvement of service quality is carried out on attributes that have the highest gap. The purpose of improving the quality of service so that the satisfaction of parents as customers of Islamic education can be accommodated.
Flood Mitigation in Developing Countries: A Case Study of India
Authors: Karar Ahmad Md.
Published: August 2021

Floods are the common natural disasters in most of the developing countries, and India isno exception.Due to the geographic and climatic conditions the country remains under threat. Floods have been recurrent phenomenon in many parts of India, causing loss of lives and public property and bringing untold misery to the people. The floods that occurred in India in 2013 were highly catastrophic based on the number of victims. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC (2013) continues to steer the evacuation efforts as well as in rescuing the stranded victims. Methods of structural control of floodwater can be grouped into four types; namely, storage, diversion, enhancing channel capacity, and constriction of the water within the channel. The following flood mitigation measures could be adopted to mitigate the adverse impacts of severe floods and to prevent normal floods. Flood walls are constructed out of materials such as concrete or steel in order to control the flow of flood waters and prevent the flooding of specific areas. The construction of floodwalls and embankments has been the traditional means of protecting low lying communities and infrastructure against flooding. Flood hazard maps contain information about the probability or magnitude of an event whereas flood risk maps contain additional information about the consequences. Flood insurance is one of the effective ways in order to cope with the aftermaths of flood events. The Indian government acknowledges the problems the country faces because of the various natural disasters that occur. Consequently, various agencies have been instituted to evaluate the country’s exposure to disasters and to develop ways of mitigating or managing the impacts of the disasters.
Radio ‘X’: The Dawn of Emerging Digital Marketing World
Authors: Kumar Saurav
Published: August 2021

Origination of radio is one of the greatest Inventions ever in human history due to its existence in today’s world. Not just surviving but it is also competing with Ultra-Smart Devic-es (USD). Nobody thought that this invention will survive that long, A lot of devices introduced like Walkman, CD and DVD player, Pagers, Floppy Disk, Typewriters and they all vanished after a particular age, but among all the oldest member (radio) still competing with the Ultra-Smart Devices (USD) like high end phones and lightning fast internet. Radio sector is flourish-ing rapidly instead of so much of technological up-gradation, People have started listening to the radio on a regular basis in respective of their leisure or work time and finally, listening to various radio program became the part of this people’s daily life, not only as a listener but also as a participant in various Programmes organized by theme. When we brief into this me-dia industry, radio Programmes are offered and generates a lot of business opportunities too. I would proudly say that one day or the other Radio Programmes are the dawn of the new emerging digital world, whereas people will understand the power of radio and its infinite scope. There are also several problems in this industry that need to be solved, which can be brought into notice through this media of radio Programmes. This paper will attempt to explain all about Indian radio in-dustry, the rise of radio in the 21st century with opportunities, growth, problems and possible solutions which would certainly reveal the major facts and major observations, so that each and every individual in this digital era can make use of it in a right way .
English Skills Learning Authority Dimension in History Learning
Authors: Suganya M.
Published: August 2021

India Service of Instruction in light of the want of a dynamic and extraordinary in impacting the world forever an obligatory pass subject in constrain in 2013, is an acknowledgment to the legacy and fortunes of the country in keeping up the true realities and data to the age without bounds. In the audit of parts of the position of authority of educators in applying the exploration of history is incorporated on the Rationality of Training Instructors, which upgrade the instructing calling to maintain moral instructor grand, dynamic and logical disapproved, willing to maintain the desires of the nation and commended the nation’s social legacy, guarantee the improvement of the individual and keep up a group that is joined together, fair, dynamic and restrained, bear the part of instructors as specialists of progress and initiative in training that started of the classroom through formal or casual training process stretches out past the school, group and nation. The concentration of this paper is an exchange on the part of educator authority impacts the adequacy of instructing and learning in the history classroom atmosphere that prompt instructors’ recognitions about the part of instructor administration, initiative lessons, part of instructor authority and the position of authority of the successful instructor. There are discourses to underscore the parts of the variables that influence the atmosphere of the classroom, molding the plan classroom, execution strategies for powerful classroom, learning atmosphere appropriate for history, and additionally the obstructions and difficulties infers the adequacy of educators in the instructing and learning process.
Gender Differences in Rural Dwellers’ Involvement in Developmental Projects in Osun State
Authors: Joseph Odeyemi Oladele
Published: August 2021

Rural development is the integrated approach to food production as well as physical, social and institutional infrastructural provisions with an ultimate goal of bringing about both quantitative and qualitative changes which result in improved living standard of the rural population. The study was conducted to investigate gender difference of rural dwellers’ involvement in rural development projects in Atakunmosa-west Local Government area of Osun State. It also described the demographic characteristics of the respondents, identified different rural developmental projects undergone by the respondents, showed the problems associated with their involvement and determined the men and women perceived benefits of their involvement. Data were collected with the aid of well-structured questionnaire and were administered to 60 males and 60 females in 6 communities. A multi stage random sampling technique was employed in the selection of respondents and data analysis was by the use of SPSS. Some of the findings revealed that men were well involved and women were poorly involved in development projects. Majority of respondents were Christians, were not youths and married. All the respondents encountered one problem or the other during their involvement in rural developmental projects and at the same time perceived many benefits from their involvement. It was recommended among others, that women should be encouraged to be actively involved in physical development activities by giving them adequate recognition and attention so that they can have that sense of belonging. Government and non-governmental organization should introduce more gender responsive projects to rural areas, in order to ensure active and equal involvement of both men and women.
Food Habits of Adolescent Girls and their Nutritional Status in Select Areas of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Authors: Valarmathi M. , Srisiva R.
Published: August 2021

This paper is based on the Pilot Study conducted by the Research Scholar in the four areas ─ Devangapet, Gandhi Park, Periyar Nagar and Venkatiapuram that comes under the jurisdiction of 11th Project of ICDS at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The paper presents the details of analysis of data collected by administering Interview Schedule to 110 adolescent girls who come to the ICDS Center for periodical meetings. This paper deals with 15 aspects related to Personal Profile of the Respondents, their food habits ─ snacks intake pattern, Breakfast Intake Pattern, Lunch Intake Pattern and examines the Nutrition Awareness of Respondents in respect to Recommended Dietary Allowance by WHO standards, Assessment of Nutritional Awareness Status and the Reasons for Skipping Breakfast. The study employed application of descriptive statistics such as Mean, Standard Deviation, Correlation, and Factor Analysis. The paper begins with describing the Need and Importance of the Study, Objectives of the Study followed by portrayal of major analysis of data and reports the major findings of the study.
Short Term Liquidity of Foreign Banks in India
Authors: Budhedeo Shradha H.
Published: August 2021

Foreign banks have been associated with India for almost two centuries now. Yet, there presence has been prominently felt after the recommendations of the Narasimham Committee on financial sector reforms ushered a competitive era that triggered the entry of new private and foreign banks into the country. Foreign banks have always adapted well to the changing financial landscape in India. They have been offering products and services that suit the Indian way of living and enterprise, providing cross-border borrowings, capital and access to global markets. Foreign banks have made considerable contribution to the banking sector over time by bringing capital, technology, efficiency and best global practices to India. The present study examines the foreign banks in India for their liquidity management capacity and liquidity performance over the post financial crisis period. The liquidity of selected Indian foreign banks has been evaluated on the basis of their short-term liquidity ratios. The foreign banks fail to meet the preferred requirements of short-term liquidity parameter for the banking sector. Nonetheless, in relative terms, Citibank shows much better liquidity management in the short-term as compared to HSBC and Standard Chartered banks.
The Creation of Particular Learning Methods for Blind Children
Authors: Roy Krishnendu
Published: August 2021

The aim of the research is to provide a disseminate view on the methods for learning for visually impaired children. The economic factors along with psycho-social aspects have impacted blind education in India. Due to the lesser number of population, not impacting much on the productivity of the state, visually impaired children suffer the consequence of social and political ignorance leading to incomplete education and illiteracy. The current research is based on thematic analysis of the information gathered from literature review. As per the research it can be concluded that the role of family, specialized teachers and schools for special education in educating blind children is crucial for their academic achievement, building good grades which would further contribute to their employment. With several innovations on learning techniques, Braille method has always been the oldest and common used. Apart from Braille the use of virtual reality method for spatial knowledge have been quite frequently used to teach blind children. It can be recommended that in order to fit into the cut-throat competition of achieving educational success for future progression, it is equally important to educate physically disabled children by making them specially-abled through several learning techniques utilizing other skills apart from visualization.
Early Indian Languages: An Evolution Perspective
Authors: (Ghosh) Sumana Mallick
Published: August 2021

Sound, signs or signals, gestures, urge of transferring higher levels of thinking and feelings and also exchange of ideas were the beginning of the formulation of languages despite the controversies in the origin of languages through the Speculative Theory, Signaling Theory, Mother tongue Hypothesis and so on. Civilization and progress have paved the origin of languages for communication and vice versa. Whatever been the reason and whenever been the time of development of language in this subcontinent or in the Earth, India always possesses a rich linguistic heritage. The Proto-Indo-Aryan language is the prime language of India followed by Old Indo-Aryan covering Vedic-Sanskrit, Classical-Sanskrit; Middle Indo-Aryans of Prakrit, Pali and Modern Indo-Aryan language. This analysis is an attempt to point out the origin of Vedic, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali and Dravidian languages and also these roles in the formulation of other languages and enrichment of in this subcontinent.
Future Prospective of Tea-Tourism along with Existing Forest-Tourism in Duars, West Bengal, India
Authors: Datta Chandan
Published: August 2021

Duars has wider potential in the development of tea tourism as a separate industry. Government of West Bengal has focused on Tea Tourism in making it popular among tourist. Duars is land of natural beauty of mountain, dense green forest, waterfall, river, cave which act as a pull factor for tourist attraction. The tea garden adds new dimensions to the beauty of Duars. Tea tourism has been flourished with countries like China, Srilanka and Kenya. It is now spreading in India. Tea tourism which integrates the natural environment of tea garden, tea leaves plucking, tea production, tea packaging and tea labour-culture. It is a new type of tourism which covers different types of tourist entertainment such as sightseeing viewing, roaming in tea garden, having tea in tea stall from different tea factory, watching evening tea-labour cultural performance etc.
Gender Pay Gap in India: A Sectoral and Regional Analysis
Authors: Sharma Hemlata
Published: August 2021

This paper attempts to measure Gender Pay Gap (GPG) in India using NSSO data for the year 2011-12. Our results show that Gender Pay Gap in India is higher in rural sector as compared to urban sector. In both rural and urban sector agriculture and private households with employed persons account for highest Gender Pay Gap. Our results also show that GPG is higher among illiterates and below matric literate employees. However, state level analysis of Gender Pay Gap shows that economically developed states have lower Gender Pay Gap and the poorer states have higher Gender Pay Gap in India.
Graphing Capital Structure Analysis of IT Sector With Special Reference to HCL
Authors: Suresh Kumar M. A. , Paulraj Kannan , Naveen Prakash R.
Published: August 2021

This study employs two different analytical tools namely, financial ratios and statistical tools. To calculate the growth of the select IT Industry, the compound annual growth rate and trend analysis were used. To find out the capital structure position debt-equity and leverage of select IT Industry and Information Technology industries were analyzed. The Summary statistical co-efficient of variation, correlation, multiple regression analysis and structural equation model were also used appropriately to compare the profitability and the leverage position of the select IT Industry. There were evidences from foreign studies to support Capital Structure theories which have studied various determinants of Capital structure with IT Industries. The Industries range from small scale to very large scale company. The researcher had made an attempt to study the structure of capital in IT Industry in India. The researcher was motivated to carry out a study on these IT industries. By using various capital related terms such as long -term debt, short-term debt, operating cost, operating profit, expenses, dividend payout, net profit to net worth, total debt, capital intensity, firm’s asset structure, age of the firm, size of the firm, growth of the firm and firm’s risk the current research has been designed. The required financial data have been collected from the time boundary of 2006 – 2007 to 2016 – 2017. The present research work is a rewarding exercise to the scholar and the researcher will be delighted if the suggestions are incorporated to earn good return on equity. The restructuring of capital, where the companies are suffering with sickness will enhance a good and viable financial performance. For academics, trainers and consultants, the present research will help them to look into it with a new insight and analyze the same with various dimensions in IT Industry. The findings of the study certainly provide a framework for understanding the capital structure and financing of Small and medium enterprises, and have significant theoretical and practical implications. Based on the findings suggestions were given to improve the efficiency of determinants of capital structure and its operations by proper mobilization of funds thus highlighting the prominent role of the finance manager. This study aims at finding out the trend and pattern of financing by the Indian IT Industries.
Demography of Jammu and Kashmir in Historical Perspective
Authors: Khan Bilal Ahmad
Published: August 2021

At the time of the birth of India and Pakistan, the state of J&K with a population of four million people, most of it concentrated in the fertile valley of the Jhelum River of the Indus River system, was one of the least developed regions in the Indian sub-continent. The economy of the state was overwhelmingly rural and agricultural in character. Nearly 90 percent of people lived in villages and derived their livelihood from agricultural and related pursuits using traditional and low productivity techniques. The extreme backwardness of the state was reflected by the abysmal mass poverty, low literacy, high birth and death rate, low life expectancy, low population density etc. The size of population and its growth have a direct bearing on the economic development, social well being and political stability of a region. The history of population growth in the Jammu and Kashmir State is a record of constant impulses of immigration from the north-west, west-south and east directions. The main objective of the paper is to look the nature and trends of population change since the birth of Jammu and Kashmir and also examine thedemographic trends in view of historical perspectives of Jammu & Kashmir State. The State has great diversity in its terrain, climatic conditions and resource base which resulted uneven distribution of population.
Understanding of India’s Soft Power Dynamics
Authors: Khara Nabin Kumar
Published: August 2021

The article aims to analyse the increasing importance of soft power in the context of globalization and the growing conflicts over the use of military power for achieving foreign policy objectives. This article specifically focuses on the role of soft power in the foreign policy of India and sources of India’s soft power. It also examines the factors that affect India’s soft power adversely and how to increase its soft power. In international relations, the role of public diplomacy, among other aspects, is to brand the country and the nation through its culture and art. This article also argues that the increasing acceptability of its culture and values opens up possibilities for India to realize its foreign policy goals. In recent years, India’s leaders have increasingly focused on its diaspora, multicultural ethos and its ancient practices like yoga, through official campaigns and foreign visits. The article traces the evolution of India as a soft power since its emergence as an independent country. It explores how this soft power has shaped India’s foreign policy and behavior. India’s soft power assets are not of recent origin, but there is an increasing activism to use those assets effectively.
Utility of Physical Infrastructure and Rural Development: An Analysis of Physical Infrastructures in Kalvarayan Hills Block, Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu
Authors: Ramesh Babu P. , Murugesan P.
Published: August 2021

Infrastructure is generally a set of interconnected structural elements that provide the framework supporting an entire structure. The term has diverse meanings in different fields, but is perhaps most widely understood to refer to roads, airports, and utilities. It involves the following:-Physical structures that form the foundation for development. Infrastructure includes: wastewater and water works, electric power, communications. Basic services necessary for development to take place are for example, roads, and electricity, Sewerage, water, education and health facilities. The public facilities and services needed to support residential development, including highways, bridges, schools and sewer and water systems. Permanent resources serving society’s needs, including roads, sewers, schools, hospitals. Railways, communication networks etc. Lack of infrastructure is the main obstacle for the economic development of the rural area; mass poverty leads to poor health, backwardness, illiteracy, ignorance, and isolation; these social conditions working further as a cycle to encircle the pro poor marginalized people in the strong bound of poverty line.
A Study on Livelihoods of Agricultural Workers of RishivandhiyamVillage Panchayat in Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu
Authors: VijayKumar B. , Murugesan P.
Published: August 2021

Agriculture is considered to be the key sector in India as a result of quite 70.0 % of the population is relying upon agriculture. As a result, a lot of stress has been created for development for agriculture through the setup amount. Such stress is absolutely even on the cluster that agriculture is allotted the key role, trying into the magnitude of the world in terms of employment and financial gain and also the importance of the agriculture merchandise during a developed country like India. Though there has been tremendous progress in India since independence this sector isn’t developed up to expect and is meriting of terribly special thought. so as to utilize their fullest capability for max production they must be supplied with a minimum of blank minimum needs i.e., enough food, shelter, cloth, medical facilities education etc., as a result, the agricultural productivity can increase. The steps taken to higher the condition of the staff through varied schemes and plans has not been denied however all those don’t seem to be enough of the quantum of efforts created and time concerned are put together taken in to thought whereas creating a “cost benefit” analysis of all rural economic development programs. The agriculture sector plays a vital and important role in development of the rural and national economy, agriculture labourer is socially and economically poorest section of the society they are landless people, unemployment,low wages and social backwardness constitute the poverty syndrome among agricultural labourers. In this study was conducted on the economic status of agricultural labours in Rishivandhiyam village panchayat in Villupuram district, further the study to analyse socio economic status, wage structure, nature of work and problem. Finally, the study was found that major findings on the basis empirical evidence and give to suitable recommendations for upward mobility of socio-economic condition of agriculture labours.
Performance Reflections on Quality Education in Respect of SDGs: A Re-Assessment of Indian States and UTs Using TOPSIS Approach
Authors: Chattopadhyay Ayan , Chakraborty Somarata
Published: August 2021

The success of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has led to the initiation of Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations, earmarking a time frame of 2016–2030 for its achievement. The Sustainable Development Goals framework consists of 17 goals and 169 targets within the three broader dimensions of economic, social and environmental development. The performance evaluation of Indian states and union territories, available in SDG India Index Baseline Report, 2018, has been recently concluded by NITI Aayog. Focusing on goal 4that puts thrust on quality education, NITI Aayog has considered 7 criteria capturing targets 4.1 besides 4.c and 36 alternatives (Indian states and union territories) within a multi criteria decision making environment where criteria weights are assumed to be equal, performance calculated on the basis of simple arithmetic average theory and missing value cases not considered in their computation. This simplistic approach partially captures the effect of complex interplay between the multiple criterions. The purpose of this paper is to re-evaluate the performance of Indian states and union territories with respect to goal 4of Sustainable Development Goals, as estimated by NITI Aayog. It also aims to provide a more holistic picture on performance ranking by incorporating varying weights of criteria, as obtained from Shannon’s entropy, and replacing arithmetic average theory with a more rigorous mathematical model within the domain of multi criteria decision making. In this study Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution have been used to generate an index for ranking alternatives and all missing values have been figured from expectation maximization algorithm. As expected, rank reversal phenomenon has been observed and a very low level of convergence between ranks obtained from the proposed approach and that of NITI Aayog emerges.
Expansion of Self-Boundaries Foster Humans’ Ecological Behaviors: Relationship Between Self-Transcendence and Connectedness to Nature
Authors: Satheesh Varma M. , Sreenath K.
Published: August 2021

Environmental sustainability is one of the major social issues discussed in the current scenario. Connectedness to nature is the key factor fosters humans’ ecological behaviors. Self-transcendence is the expansion of the self-boundaries through connectedness with the self, individual, environment and transcendent beings. The current study examines the relationship between self-transcendence and connectedness to nature. We hypothesized that self-transcendence significantly predicts connectedness to nature feelings of participants. To verify this hypothesis we conducted a survey among 102 participants in the age group 20 to 58 from the southern states of India. Selected tools were administered to the participants and obtained data was analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and linear regression. The results showed that self-transcendence significantly predicted the participants’ feelings of connectedness to nature.
Women Food Vendors in the Hills of Manipur: An Empirical Study
Authors: Zingkhai Masot , Anand Sarita
Published: August 2021

Ukhrul a hill district in Manipur State, India was selected for a study of women food vendors. One of the key objectives of the study was to find out the many reasons that drive them into food vending venture and to draw a light upon their everyday struggle. Purposive sampling method was used for the study. The investigator used in-depth interview method with the help of structured interview schedule. The leading factor that came up when looked into the reason that drives them into this business was for them to be able to provide for their family livelihood. Most of the women belonged to a less privilege backgrounds and for them to be able to have a means to make available the needs for their family and be independent financially is a strong hold of empowerment and motivation. Poor educational background and lack of other employment opportunities compel most of these women to look for an occupation like food vending that does not require much start-up capital and requires little or no educational qualification. Major management of their family needs was met by their income. Food variety and availability for their own family consumption significantly magnifies when women enters this venture. The major challenges experience by them in their business was their constant everyday struggle to get profit from their perishable food items before they get spoiled while keeping up with their fellow competitors. Dealing with complains and disapproval of occupation of certain space by permanent shop keepers and local authorities are also their common struggle. They make the food preferred by the people in the region easily available in the street at cheap affordable prices and making the street effortlessly lively as well with their presence. But yet their contribution for the society in which they exist still seems to be invisible or ignored in general with hardly any provision of basic facilities such as vending sheds or toilets, etc. Measures to meet their basic necessities and improving their social security, needs to be urgently addressed by the concerned authorities.
Care and Services for the Welfare of Geriatric Population in India: A Critical Appraisal
Authors: John Kaviarasu S. , Jai Dinesh J.
Published: August 2021

A paradigm shift from the joint family system to nuclear family, a fast changes in lifestyles, changing and fluctuating social values and the pressure of working conditions create impediment for the younger generation at present in loving and caring their elderly parents. The age-old traditional institutions in the country are not successful and sometimes failing in accommodating the needs of their elderly, it is the duty of the state to evolve good policies and design necessary programmes for the welfare of the geriatric population to keep the elderly alive and safeguard them with human dignity. It is a constitutional obligation. The present paper analyses in detail about the various policies and programmes of the elderly and how they are implemented from time to time of the various states in India. The findings show clearly about the large scale inadequacy of political economy of elderly welfare in India. The states could not do anything concretely to cater to the needs of the growing geriatric population in India as they are suffering from insufficient availability of resources. If this is the state of elders in India for more than two decades, how the poorer sections of the geriatric population in the society will have dignified living and respect. It reflects clearly at every level on the part of the state, community and family for seeing/finding the lack of genuine commitment in caring the elders and for their welfare in India. The younger generations of today have sidelined to capture and also to possess the wisdom and experiences of the elderly. Instead they are going after the materialistic values. Therefore, they do not give importance in meeting out the needs of their own elders’ care. This has resulted in utterly pushing the geriatric population to the state of helplessness.
The Evolution of India-US Nuclear Relations: Conflicts and Co-operation From Past to Present Scenario
Authors: Ahmed Jesmine , Mohapatra Niranjan
Published: August 2021

India and the United States have long historical, diplomatic, strategic and cultural linkages. Since the genesis of the Indo-US engagement in the international politics, the issues relating to nuclear aspects have been a great source of divergence and convergence between the two countries. This relation is mostly revolve around the three major shifts; Pokhran-I (1974), Pokhran-II (1998) and Civilian Nuclear deal (2005). However, before the signing of civil nuclear deal, both the countries had many clashes for not signing India in NPT and CTBT. However, this paper focuses on the evolution of India –US nuclear relations since past and also discuss how US response to nuclear tests that India had conducted. It also concludes the agreements that led to the cordial relations between the two countries at present.
Emerging Demographic Transition in India
Authors: Sunitha S.
Published: August 2021

Demographics of India is remarkably diverse. India is the second most populous country in the world with more than one sixth of the world population. The stock of any population changes with time. There are three components of population changes which are fertility, mortality and migration. Socio economic phenomena of population development and their impact and differentials like urbanization, infant mortality rate, migration and causes of death are important to understand the population characteristics. It is observed that the growth of population depends on birth rate and death rates in India. During first phase birth rate as well as death rate was high. In the fourth phase birth rate and death rates are decline. It was also found that life expectancy at birth had been gradually increased in India. There is a need to coordinate the population policy with education policy. Employment generation programmes has been launched in the country to solve unemployment problem and mitigate rural unemployment.
India-Iran Relations and the Global World
Authors: Ara Yasmeena
Published: August 2021

India and Iran being neighbours have been historically and culturally connected. Both share a long tradition of ideas since civilizations. Both countries had linkages since the pre-historic times. Various historical leftovers found in India resemble those with those found in Dejleh and Forat rivers in Iran show that both nations had cordial interactions with each other. However with the passage of time different factors erupted in between the two, particularly after end of Cold War. U.S. and Israel have affected ties between the two. India-Iran relations have been subject to several factors; be it regional or global. At regional level, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, and the Central Asian region and globally US and Israel have played major role. The present study is a humble attempt to analyse the impact and effect of global factors in Indo-Iranian relations.
Corporate Social Responsibility of Selected Businesses in Cebu City, Philippines
Authors: Bueno Niña Lyn , Etcuban Jonathan O. , Gimena Judy Ann , Bonghanoy Charito , Capuno Reylan , Espina Raymond
Published: August 2021

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) involves enhancing the personal satisfaction of the workforce and their families just as of the nearby network and society everywhere with the proceeding with responsibility by business to act morally and add to financial enhancement. This study determined the benefits of businesses from engaging in CSR programs. This study applied the descriptive method. This study utilized the researcher-made questionnaire to gather data on the characteristics of the business, the profile of the respondents as to years in the firm, the scope of activities of the CSR undertaken by the company and the benefits of the CSR towards the business enterprise. It was highly evident that the businesses undertook the following CSR initiatives or programs such as community development, information education, and teaching, environmental conservation and protection, and feeding program. It was also highly evident that the benefits that the business entity gained out of engaging in CSR programs or initiatives were positive public image and business sustainability. Moreover, it was also moderately evident that the other benefits gained from CSR were cost savings and tax incentives. The study concluded that the organizations that take social actions that are beneficial to the community, business society and the environment benefited from a myriad of dimensions such as improved public reputation and gained more patronage of its products and services that they offered. It was recommended that the proposed CSR model be adopted by the organizations that undertake various socially-beneficial initiatives.
Understanding Gift: From Mauss to Derrida
Authors: Ghose Sudeepta
Published: August 2021

This paper probes into the practice of gift-giving and tries to find out the true character of gift. The paper begins with the common perception about gifts and proceeds to present an insightful analysis of Marcel Mauss’ understanding of gift. It then delves into Jacques Derrida’s take on the subject. The paper brings out the moments of convergences and divergences in thoughts of Mauss and Derrida before drawing up some conclusions about the nature of gift and its differences with other forms of exchange.
Coverage of Issues Related to Sexual Violence: Comparative Study of The Indian Express and The Times of India
Authors: Ahmad Afaq
Published: August 2021

Newspapers are considered the important platforms to mobilize and sensitize the people regarding different social issues. The issues of the women, their rights and atrocities meted out against them, need to be raised in various forums including the newspapers. This study is aimed at understanding news media’s agenda on issues related to women with specific reference to sexual violence meted out against them. To analyse the coverage of the issues relating to sexual violence against women, two mainstream national English dailies. The Indian Express and The Times of India were purposively chosen. The systematic random sampling technique was employed to select the contents published in the newspapers between 01 January to 30 June 2017. It was revealed that the newspapers had given more prominence to negative aspects of women’s issues and presented their image as a consumable product. There has been a little variance in tonality and resonance of reporting between the two newspapers under study. The findings also reveal that there are numerous incidents of sexual harassment against women to which the newspapers paid scant attention and it seems that they are not in the news agenda. Most of the times, the news stories pertaining to women’s rights were presented in negative frames.