Kutch is extremely arid, hot and short in agricultural quality ground water. Greenhouse is expected to reduce water requirement in such conditions. It is for this reason that this approach is being followed. In the write-up we present the design of irrigation system for greenhouses.

This report presents the psychosocial maturity patterns of management students at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Comparative data from different executive groups are also presented. Psychosocial maturity in this study was assessed on the basis of TAT stories written by the...

The healthy growth of democracy depends upon the emergence of decentralized, dispersed, polycentric spurs of social, ecological and economic entrepreneurship. Networking among these seemingly disparate cross currents some times gives enough momentum to the civil society initiatives to transform...

Potential for family size biogas plants is estimated to be about 12 lakh in Gujarat. Nearly 2 lakh units have been actually installed by 1993. Deenbandhu model appears to be the most popular. In this paper we present an estimate of the reliability of denbandhu plants. We also present an analysis...

This paper presents a hierarchical framework for integrated energy planning and applications of the framework for planning at different levels. The proposed planning framework links macro level national and/or state (regional) energy planning with micro level block and village energy planning....

Entrepreneurship amongst women has been a recent concern. Women have become aware of their existence their rights and their work situation. However, women of the middle class are not too eager to alter their role in fear of social backlash. The progress is more visible among upper class families...

This paper describes data correcting algorithms. It provides the theory behind the algorithms and presents the implementation details and computational experience with these algorithms on the asymmetric traveling salesperson problem, the problem of maximizing submodular functions, and the simple...

Using a survey of 1774 users and non-users in 84 slums in three metropolitan cities (Delhi, Ahmedabad and Kolkata), we try to understand the impact of mobiles on their social and economic lives. Urban slum dwellers spend significant amounts on communications, both for a first time acquisition of...

Historically, retailing was carried out in traditional store format, with minor non- store variation, like catalogue selling, direct sailing and telemarketing till the last decade of twentieth century. Even those non- store formats were restricted among fringe players, while big retail houses...

The marketing discipline is evolving and so is its agenda with the advent of relationship marketing, networks and other related sub-fields. Till recently, business literature focused largely on competition, and cooperation, its counter part, has received insufficient attention. With a view to...