The one facility one commodity network design problem OFOC with flow costs considers the problem of sending d units of flow from a source to a destination where capacity is purchased in batches of C units. The two commodity problem TFOC is similar, but capacity can be purchased either in batches...

Problems of poor in ecologically fragile environments like drought prone regions have not received adequate attention either from academicians, planners or from international aid and research organizations. The issue is not merely the scale of efforts but also the theoretical paradigm which...

In all irrigation projects, field level distribution of water is continuing to be a major problem. This task is handled departmentally. To ensure participation by the beneficiaries some innovations like ‘Wara Bandhi’ system has been tried. In 1978 India’s first surface irrigation...

In this paper we propose a local search based improvement heuristic called diversified local search for the traveling salesman problem. We show through computational experiements that this algorithm outperforms tabu search with similar neighborhood structures on large sized traveling salesman...

We provide a brief but comprehensive overview of linkages between higher education and the high tech sector and study the major linkages in India. We find that the links outside of the labor market are weak. This is attributed to a regulatory structure that separates research from the university...

This paper analyses financial performance of corporate hospitals in India. While studying the financial performance of hospitals in our previous work we observed that there are some distinct differences between unlisted and listed hospitals. It is hypothesised that corporate hospitals which are...

Deferred tax arises due to difference in the reported income and taxable income. In India it is not obligatory for corporations to provide for deferred tax which results in mismatch of tax liability and pre-tax income. In this study we look into the incidence of tax deferral due to difference in...

Background- India accounts for 22% (117,000) of all maternal deaths in the world and 62% of all maternal deaths in South Asia. Death registration in India is patchy, and the number of maternal deaths is under-reported in the country. To know the correct estimates of maternal mortality, it is...

Stochastic Multiple Item Inventory System of (S, s) type is studied with general lead time distribution and Poisson demand. The demands occur according to Poisson process for one unit of a specific item at a time. The demand types are characterised by a discrete distribution An order is placed...

The paper aims at the (a) measurement of the extent of income inequality across countries, (b) measurement of the change in income inequality over the last decade, (c) examination of the factors responsible for the income inequality, and (d) identification of the shape and position of the...