Urbanization is an important demographic shift worldwide. India’s urban population of 300 million represents 30 % of its total population; with the slum population in urban cities registering a 5 % growth in the last few years. Responding to the healthcare needs of urban poor is therefore very...

The paper describes the process of designing the implementing management interventions in the health department of Uttar Pradesh. The interventions were in the areas of planning, monitoring and performance evaluation, organizational behaviour, interagency coordination and communication. Three...

This paper gives a comparative evaluation of operating performance of KVIC and Janata model biogas plants in India. The comparative analysis is based on the extensive field survey of KVIC and Janata model plants in five States in India. Comparison is based on cost, operating problems, usage of...

We bring out the fundamental and more important problems with the current framework of land acquisition in India, regulations on land and the functioning of land markets. We argue that reform is overdue and the current framework would be unsustainable in a democracy that is India. Current land...

This paper gives a historical account of trade unionism. It considers political, economic and social developments which have moulded the growth pattern of trade unionism in India. The survey is divided into various phases in which trade union membership has increased, beginning with the early...

The corporate form of organization is being used in many spheres of economic and social activity. Public enterprises and development corporations have swelled the ranks of the mass of existing private sector companies. All corporations face the problem of evolving, establishing and utilizing a...

This paper reports the findings of an empirical study, designed to test the following four hypotheses: H1 : When consumers rate the same advertisement on two language versions of the same work (adjective), the mean ratings of the advertisement in the two languages are not statistically...

With the opening of the Indian telecom sector in the overall context of favourable policies for foreign direct investment, changing telecom technologies and aspirations to develop a telecom sector on par with the best in the world, new opportunities for collaboration have been created. There are...

Marketers have always aimed at improving quality of relationship with consumers. Recent efforts exploring into brand-consumer relationships indicates that individuals use the interpersonal relationship elements to forge associations with brands and stores. This paper draws from interpersonal...

This paper presents a general framework for industrial growth strategy from the view point of central industrial planner. The framework allows for a planning horizon and several periods and the growth strategy can be divided periodically the framework can be meddled by mixed integer programming...