India has the second largest road system in the world with a road length of 3.3 million kms. In the past 50 years, while the aggregate length of the roads has increased eightfold, the traffic has increased to almost twentyfold, resulting in congestion. To reduce the congestion and improve road...

This study has been primarily concerned with the issues and perspectives on the historical evolution and working of the arrangements governing international trade in “textiles”, particularly the last such arrangement, popularly called Multi Fibre Agreement (MFA). While the problems of both...

Two alternative specifications of weighted average cost of capital are prevalent in finance literature. Though both the specifications result in consistent accept/reject or ranking decisions the net present value arrived is different under each method. This paper traces the origin of this...

This study undertakes empirical explanation of inter-firm variations in employee’s productivity by a set of organizational factors on the basis of firm level survey data drawn from the Canadian textile industry. Organizational practices of high degree of monitoring and profit sharing are...

The study has made an attempt to gain an insight into the training needs of IAS Officers in the 10-16 years category from their own point of view. Data for the study was generated from programme feedback reports, exploratory interviews and through Training Needs Case Studies of officers in the...

The steel industry, which has endured years of mediocre performance due to a supply glut and consequent depressed world prices, has seen considerable resurgence during the last several months. The ever-widening demand-supply gap, and greatly increased input costs have resulted in prices firming...

A facility for controlled environment agriculture is under investigation at Kothara (Kutch), a hot and extremely arid region. It consists of a greenhouse of 120 m2 floor area coupled in closed-loop mode to an earth-tube-heat-exchanger (ETHE) buried directly below. The ETHE provides conditioned...

This note describes the history of the Indian Motor Vehicles Industry and its current status. There are a number of manufacturers in the public, joint and private sectors. Several new manufacturers also intend to enter the industry, with either their own or foreign technologies. This paper also...

The role of voluntary (non governmental, non profit) agencies has been increasingly realised as significant, particularly in the organization and delivery of social services. Their contributions in functions and areas where the governmental system does not or cannot make an impact have now been...

This study is an attempt to understand current consumer joint sales promotion in India and thereby identify related prospects and problems. For a conceptual overview, relevant literature in this area was studied. To gain an insight into current practices, announcements of the offers through...