The present case discusses the pasture development (PD) project in Sayla Block of Surendranagar District of Gujarat state in India. The PD project was identified as the key project for the block level plan (BLP) scheme in June 1980. The case brings out merits of the PD project as a rural...

The importance of fertilizer in agricultural production has increased substantially in the last 25 years. The current level of its use, however, is insufficient to arrest depletion of soil fertility. Under our circumstances the use of organic manures alone will not suffice to arrest this...

A case is developed for some basic changes in the conceptual repertoire of the marketing discipline in view of the changes in the economic and social environment in India today. It is argued that the adaptation of existing marketing concepts, techniques, and institutions is not enough because...

The purpose of this paper is to provide axiomatic characterizations of the additive and weighted additive choice functions which are now defined over the entire domain of convex, compact, comprehensive choice problems.

L.C.Gupta’s Committee on Derivatives has recently submitted its final report to SEBI. It major recommendation is to introduce index futures in order to provide the facility for hedging against market risk in the most cost-efficient way. There are four pertinent questions that need to be...

The policy environment for management of land-use in India has been quite mud-died. Part of the reason is lack of accountability among senior level public administrators, policy planners and various constituents of the existing institutions who decided not to complain even when institutions...

In this paper, the author discusses his experiences of field work in a factory for collecting data for sociological research. As the main methodological approach in this study was social, anthropological, i.e. based on participant observation, the author reflects on the symbiotic relationship...

The paper briefly sketches the history and special features of Indian management education. It offers an analysis of its strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities. It concludes that while the prospects are uncommonly bright, there may be rough passage for weak schools.

Environmental problems encountered in most of the developing countries arise due to conditions of poverty and under development as well as the negative effects of development progrmmes which have been badly planned and implemented. In most of the developing countries, particularly those in the...

The Forest Development Corporations (FDCs) in India have the responsibility of formulating and implementing intensive forest development projects for their respective areas. Since the FDCs operate on the lands currently under natural forests, it is important to decide on the procedure for...