English language is a legacy of the British rule in India. While, being the language of rulers, it was but natural f or English t o enjoy the t opmos t position during the British rule over India, it is in t eres ting t o not e that the pres tige of this language con tinues t o have a upward sweep even aft er the att ainmen t of independence by coun try from the British rule – so much so that this language has come t o occup y the dignified s t atus of being queen of all language in India

Environmental awareness is gaining more importance in recent years because of environmental crisis. The present day needs environmentally conscious citizens who can save our mother earth from artificial and natural disaster. Awareness can create a positive attitude towards environment as well as sustainable development. The major purpose of the present study is to know about the perception of secondary school students towards environment and sustainable development. The study attempts to determine 'perception' (which is a qualitative phenomenon) of secondary school students in a quantitative way through an Attitude Scale. The study offers a general idea on the fact how today's pupil of secondary level think and perceive about environment and sustainable development.

The problem of the “missing” girl child or the practice of female foeticide is not uncommon to the country. This practice robs missing daughters not only of their right to a healthy environment, good nutrition and education and the opportunity to reach their full potential, but most basically, their right to birth. Among the 18 indicators of women empowerment, sex ratio is the 1st and most important indicator for social empowerment of women. Although the census 2001 has registered marginal improvement in the overall sex ratio from 927 female per 1000 male in 1991 to 933 females in 2001, the sex ratio in the age group 0-6 has sharply declined from 945 in 1991 to 927 in 2001

The paper aims to highlight the bitter relations that prevailed between the Justicites and Depressed Classes from 1921- to 1923 in Madras Presidency in general and Tamil Nadu in particular. The Pulianthope Troubles, as they came to be called, created growing disgust and distrust among the Depressed Classes towards Justice Party. The Pulianthope Troubles revealed that in spite of the broad –based non-Brahmin sensibility which inhered in non-Brahmin caste Hindus and the Depressed Classes alike , on occasion , the two groups could revert to traditional positions of domination and subordination respectively. It was the Justice Party that was most affected by the Pulianthpoe events. The Pulianthope Trouble severed the relations between the Justicites and Depressed Classes. Thus the Justice Party's dream of constituting a unified non-Brahmin fraternity was retarded in its realization in Madras Presidency and Tamil Nadu

The Nile catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) is a promising candidat e f or in t ensive aquaculture in Africa, Asia, Europe and USA (De Graaf and Janssen, 1996; Na-Nak orn and Brummet t, 2009). The catfish is an air breathing aquatic organism and e xhibits high t olerance t o poor wat er quality (Bishai and Khalil, 1997).In E gypt, C. gariepinus is regarded as one of the mos t economic ally import ant fresh wat er fish, providing cheap and valuable source of animal prot ein t o the community

T ourism indus try has a huge scope of income generation in a humble way , if properly utiliz ed. Within the sphere of t ourism indus try , eco-t ourism is such an alt ernative f orm of t ourism which will permit the sus t ainability of the ecos ys t em and ensure bet t er in volvemen t of the locals in earning pursuits using the local level resources. The Rambha Es t at e mouz a in Ganjam dis trict of Odisha has immense pot en tial t o develop eco-t ourism. The presen t paper att empts t o det ect and analyse the scope of eco-t ourism in Chilk a Lak e cen t ering Ramha with orien t ation in Rambha Bay region

The presen t research was planned with the primary objective to asses the relationship be tween W ork Motivation and Occupational Stress among two diff eren t t elec om employees. The secondary aim was t o find out the significan t diff erences among these groups on given dimensions. Method: F or this purpose 96 t elec om employees from Mysore city were select ed, using randomiz ation t echnique, as responden ts. The sample comprised of 48 Airt el employees and 48 BSNL employees with mean age of 25.41 and 25.68 respectively . The SD was 4.91 f or Airt el employees and 4.85 f or BSNL employees

The presen t s tudy was f ocused on the attitude of youths t owards se x education as well as eff ectiveness of se x education programme on such at titude. F or the presen t s tudy researcher t ook the 60 s tuden ts sample by purposive sampling from colle ge of P arola T ahsil in which 30 male & 30 f emale s tuden ts. F or s tudy the eff ectiveness of se x education programme on the attitude of youths t owards se x education, e xperimen t al method and the one- group, pret es t- pos tt es t e xperimen t al design was used

mpervious surf aces are anthropogeni c f eatures through which wat er cannot infiltrat e in t o the soil, such as roads, driveways, sidewalk s, parking lots, rooft ops and so on. In recen t years, impervious surf ace has emerged not only as an indicat or of the degree of urbaniz ation, but also as a major indicat or of en vironmen t al quality . The amount of imperviousness presen t can act as an indicat or f or det ermining the overall en vironmen t al health of that area. The main objectives of this s tudy was t o map and es timat e impervious surf ace co ver f or Pune city with the help of remot e sensing and geographical inf ormation s ys t em t echniques. Moderat e spatial resolution (30 m * 30 m) Landsat TM/ETM+ sat ellit e imagery f or the years 1990 and 2008 were obt ained from NR SC Hyderabad and Glovis websit e. An in t egrative application of GIS and sat ellit e R S t echniques using Normaliz ed Diff erence V eget ation Inde x (ND VI) and T asseled Cap (T C) band 2 greenness ranges were e xplored t o es timat e the amount of impervious co ver f or two summer months spanning over 18 years. These t echniques while pot en tially underes timating t ot al co ver were deemed pref erable t o other analytical t echniques

The advent of globalisation has changed the focus of traditional higher education institutes in India, resulting into requirement of a major transformation, so that they can meet the demands of global market economy. The exposure to 'global village' has opened new vistas of challenges for these institutes and they are encountering problems relating to academic governance, leadership styles, organizational culture and values, etc.

The presen t paper purports t o e x amine the view of GirishK arnad t owards the martial relationship between Rani and Appanna in Naga-Mandala. The conjugal relationship between Rani and Appanna is lop-sided and imbalanced where the latt er ignores the e xis t ence of the f ormer as human being. The position of Rani is analogous t o that of slave and animals. She is subject ed t o various f orms of deprivation, violenc e and t orture, and left with no choic e and voic e. The playwright fuses energy in Rani t o enable her t o subvert the patriarchal value s ys t em which helps Appanna subjugate her on various planes of lif e. He s trik es a balance in their relationship by decons tructing the patriarchal value s ys t em.

The Haridasa a devotional movement is considered as one of the turning points in the cultural history of . Over a span of nearly six centuries, several saints and mystics helped shape the culture, philosophy and art of and in particular by exerting considerable spiritual influence over the masses and kingdoms that ruled South India.

The present paper discusses overall aspects of library automation and the different software's available for libraries. All questions starts with 'W' are discussed in detailed. Library and Information Science professional can select a software for their library. The detailed discussion is carried out and lastly conclusions are given . Keywords: Mechanization, Computerization, automation, Library automation, need essentials, barriers, advantages, planning of library automation, software, library software, categories, specifications , packages, characteristics and evaluation of ideal software , conclusion

Project funding is supposed t o be critical t o the succ ess of inf ormation s ys t ems developmen t and enactmen t. Howe ver , there is narrow research on the eff ect of vendor-based sponsorship on the managemen t of inf ormation t echnology (IT) projects. This paper subsidiz es t o that emerging body of sugges tion. Drawing on lit erature on emotional inden ture, managemen t con trol and project funding, the authors propose that vendor based sponsors impact project perf ormance in two main ways. One is t o guard project quality by renegotiating con tract with the clien t; and the other is t o resource the project. Based on a s tudy of senior managers in IT services vendor organiz ations, it reports that project funding improves the quality , but not the cos t or timeliness, of vendor delivery of IT projects. The findings recommend that IT services vendors can improve their project dis tribution compe t ency by assigning project sponsors.

his Study aimed t o e x amine the attitude of t eacher trainees t owards B.E d Semes t er S ys t em and s tudy the problems f aced by t eacher educat ors in dealing with new semes t er s ys t em along with the analysis of the curriculum of B.E d Programme (Semes t er Scheme). The in ves tigat or randomly select ed a t ot al number of 6 B.E d. colle ges f or the s tudy that included Governmen t, Privat e aided and Privat e unaided schools. Sample comprised 204 t eacher trainees f or the s tudy . It is f ound that majority of the t eacher trainees have mildly positive and mildly negative attitude. The in ves tigat or concluded that new curriculum creat ed a lot of changes without considering the time duration of the Course from the dat a colle ct ed through uns tructured in t erviews conduct ed

Indus trial sickness is becoming e xtremely common in India during the las t two decades or so not only in the traditional indus tries lik e cot t on t e xtile, jut e and sugar but even in new industries lik e cemen t, engineering, chemical and rubber . The problem of indus trial sickness has grown over the years. The problem of industrial sickness varies by sect ors and across regions. Sickness in simple t erms means that a firm or an indus try is s ys t ematically making losses and the accumulat ed losses outweigh its assets. A sick unit may be defined as one which does not fulfill the minimum s t andards of productivity and profit ability due t o in t ernal short comings while other units in the indus try are flourishing. It f ails t o generat e in t ernal surplus on a con tinuing basis and depends f or its sur vival on frequen t infusing e xternal funds. A sick unit is one in which the capacity utiliz ation is 20% or less.

Agriculture plays an important role in the economic development of India. Agriculture is the source of livelihood of more than 65 per cent of the population in India and contributes less than 19.5 per cent(2003-2004) to GDP, with a sizable share of exports. To meet the requirement of the growing population and rapid developing economy, agriculture has to grow fast and get modernized. This requires the use of high pay off inputs, adoption of high yielding varieties, fertilizers, plant protection chemicals, modernized equipments and machineries which need huge investment

The se x ratio aff ects the social and economic conditions in a variety of ways. The marit al s t atus and marriageability , the s trength of man-power , availability of diff eren t types of labour f orce, the death rat e and vit al s t atis tics, the school going population, the e xten t of employmen t of women outside the home, the s t atus of women in the community and the man y other social conditions are more or less directly relat ed t o the se x ratio of population. The K olapur dsis trict of south Maharashtra is select ed as case s tudy and t ahasil is considered as a basic unit of in ves tigation

Human Righ ts movemen t in India got its germination during the Emergency Rule during 1976-1979 and developed during the pos t emerging period. T wo major trends were mark ed by civil liberties conc ern and the righ ts based perspectives. In the las t 35 years, the Human Righ ts movemen t has been enriched by the colle ctive wisdom emerging from the tribal movemen t, personal struggles, en vironmen t al movemen t, women's liberation movemen t, child rights movemen t, Dalit movemen t and s truggles of diff eren t abled persons. The s t at e and diff eren t social ins titutions have had love-hat e relationship with diff eren t type of Human Righ ts movemen ts of diff eren t phases of his t ory . This paper is an att empt t o trace the pas t, presen t and future perspective of Human Righ t practices in India

Black money ref ers t o funds earned on the black mark et, on which income and other t ax es have not been paid. The money that is earned and hoarded by dishones t and unf air means and k ept in secret t o evade t ax es is called black- money . Black money remains unaudit ed /acc ount ed in the duration of coun try's t ax assessmen t period. It causes big losses of t ax revenues t o the governmen t. It becomes black because no t ax es are paid on it.

Co-operation is now regarded as one of the mos t powerful ins trumen ts f or recons tructing and remodeling the economic s tructure of the under-de veloped c ountri es in the world. Its need in India is imperative. Salary earners c o- operative credit society working in a particular area or a business house f or mutual help and co-operation t o meet their common economic requiremen ts. The labours and employee's are absolut ely dependen t on their wages and salaries mos tly they are financially weak. The y c ould not balanc e its needs with their inc ome always the y are under t ension due t o economic problems. They spend their lif e in solving various financial problems

Health care and education are the main ingredien ts that con tribut e t o the quality of woman lif e in rural India. Howe ver , the s t ark reality is that women are careless about their health and always blame their shouldering of f amily responsibilities, lack of time and cert ain religious cus t oms and traditions. Thus the urgen t need of the hour is t o t ak e a proper care of these women by giving them proper health care and education and remove the misconc eptions about various cus t oms and traditions that are prevailing in India which is s t opping women from having nutritious f ood and t aking care of her health properly .

Though F olklore is considered as old as mankind the s tudy of this particular field has emerged as a scien tific discipline in the ninet een th cen tury . The t erm 'f olklore' was coined by a British anti quarian William John Thomas in the year 1846. In a let t er sen t t o a daily published magazine named “ A thenaeum” , Thoms in troduced the t erm 'f olk-lore' t o mean 'the lore of the people'. He proposed the word F olklore t o be used as an umbrella t erm that would co ver the knowledge of the people which are traditional as well as creative acc ording t o the en vironmen t al needs. It is also conc erned with the traditional ways of lif e and cus t oms of the people

Though Folklore is considered as old as mankind the study of this particular field has emerged as a scientific discipline in the nineteenth century. The term 'folklore' was coined by a British antiquarian William John Thomas in the year 1846. In a letter sent to a daily published magazine named “Athenaeum”, Thoms introduced the term 'folk-lore' to mean 'the lore of the people'. He proposed the word Folklore to be used as an umbrella term that would cover the knowledge of the people which are traditional as well as creative according to the environmental needs. It is also concerned with the traditional ways of life and customs of the people

Rapid changes are t aking place in the inf ormation en vironmen t and managing change in the libraries and inf ormation cen t ers is the great es t challenge of libraries. Library personnel play k ey role in managing the process of change in the libraries. A scien tific policy on personnel is essen tial f or the library and inf ormation prof essionals working in universities and colle ges. It should f acilit at e recruitmen t, induction and promotion of s t aff and get ting required quantum of s t aff . A con tinuous eff ective training scheme is essen tial t o cons t antl y updat e the t echnical knowledge and compe t ency of the s t aff recruit ed. Ins t ead of the vacancy dependen t ratio or time bound promotion, a Fle xible Complemen ting Scheme of promotion is advoc at ed. The universities and colle ges have t o change their e xis ting obsole t e s t affing policies t o enable their sus t ainable developmen t

The presen t s tudy is aimed at s tudying the Social Maturity among Higher Secondary School Studen ts and t o see the gender and locale diff erences between the studen ts from Arts, Commerce and Science Discipline. The s tudy was conduct ed over a sample of 300 (150 boys and 150 girls belonging t o urban (150) and rural (150) area) Higher Secondary Studen ts s tudying in 11th class from Arts (50 s tuden ts), Commerce (50 s tuden ts) and Science (50 s tuden ts) discipline in diff eren t schools of Navapur T ehsil. Dr . Nalini Rao's Social Maturity Scale was used t o measure Social Maturity of the select ed sample

The developmen t of a coun try is predict ed upon the equal participation and con tribution of its human resources. Howe ver , one of the problems that have long been recogniz ed as mos t challenging and adversely aff ecting the succ ess of ins titutional programmes in developing coun tries is lack of sufficient number of prof essional male and f emale resources

Education, which is a tool for social mobility is important for everybody in the community. It is only through education that the present power structure can be broken. Upward mobility and empowerment are only made possible through the process of education. To emphasize the importance of education in a fast growing world, there was the World Declaration on Education for ALL (EFA),

Li+ substituted CoFe2O4 and MnFe2O4 nano particles were synthesized by sol-gel auto-combustion method. The samples were obtained by annealing at relatively low temperature at 600 ºC and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD). Lattice constant is increases with increasing Li+ substitution in both the systems. Hopping length is higher in Li-Mn system as compared to Li-Co ferrite system. All the allied parameters such as tetrahedral bond (dAX), octahedral bond (dBX), tetra edge (dAXE) and octahedral edge (dBXE) shows increasing trend in both the Li-Mn and Li- Co ferrite systems.

"Communication is an exchange of facts, ideas, opinions, or emotions by two or more persons." - W.H. Newman Today the obligation of acquiring perfection in employing all the communication skills has become the need of the hour. Every field necessitates those aspirants who are not only skilled and talented in their field but also they are good communicators from the word go.A candidate with these skills has an edge over others, puts him in limelight and raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

The place and s t atus of Indian poetry in English bef ore and aft er Independence are open t o debat e. The unity holds diff eren t views about the quality of Indian poetry in English. Indian situation f orm a vit al part of the new f orm of poetry . The supers titions and f olk beliefs that e xis t in Indian Society become f avorit e themes of the English poets. Jayant a Mahapatra, A.K. Ramanujan, R. P arthasarath y , Arun K olathar ad K amala Das turn in ward t o get in t o their roots. There was a need t o accli matiz e English language t o an indigenous tradition t o writ e poetry eff ectively .

The presen t in ves tigation att empts t o s tudy on the s t atus of empowermen t of working and non-working women in Chennai city . The s tudy was carried out in various schools, colle ges and hos t el. The sample consis t ed of 100 working and 100 non-working women, out of 100 women in each cat egory 50 women were unmarried and 50 women were married. Out of the 50 women who were unmarried, 25 women were living with paren ts and 25 women were s t aying in hos t el. Similarly , with ref erence t o married women, 25 women were living with in-laws and 25 living as nuclear f amily . The ques tionnaire on women empowermen t was adminis trat ed. The colle ct ed dat a was t abulat ed and subject ed t o s t atis tical analysis using Mean, St andard Deviation and “t ” t es t. The results of the presen t in ves tigation revealed that no significan t diff erence e xis t ed on empowermen t between working and non-working mothers.

The paper analyses Nect ar in a Sieve as an in t erpret ation of man-woman relationship in Indian culture. K amla Mark andaya has a knack of represen ting relationship in the wak e of rural hardship agains t the con t e xt of social, economic f orces and vagaries of callous nature. Rukmani the heroine never loses her love f or her husband and children- despit e her endless s truggle agains t the changing times and dire poverty . She s trik es conc ord in her relationship. Rukmani is the cen tral consciousness through which various even ts come filt ered t o the readers K amla Mark andaya's approach is both realis tic and humanis tic

The att empt has been made in this paper t o s tudy the role of periodic mark ets in rural developmen t. The spatial dis tribution of periodic mark ets and their functions are responsible f or spatial in t eraction. As a result, the presen t paper aimed to iden tify the ser ved and un-ser ved area/ set tlemen ts by the periodic mark ets based on their functions. The mark et and mark et functions have become so eff ective with the efficien t channels of dis tribution, when the surplus and deficit areas have been link ed by the mark et.

he presen t s tudy was t o in ves tigat e eff ect of age and gender on loneliness of responden ts. 160 responden ts had t ak en the s tudy (80 old age and 80 young age). The objectives of the s tudy were t o search the eff ect of age and gender on loneliness of responden ts. Hypothesis of the s tudy are 1. Old age responden ts have significan tly high loneliness than the young age responden ts. 2. F emale responden ts have significan tly high loneliness than the male responden ts. And loneliness scale used by Dr pravin k umar jha. It was conclusion that 1. Old age responden ts have significan tly high loneliness than the young age responden ts. 2. F emale responden ts have significan tly high loneliness than the male responden ts. Support the h ypothesis

The presen t s tudy was aimed t o carry out t o find the level of job satisf action in the f ollowing aspect:in trinsic aspect of job, salary promotional avenues and service condition aspect, ph ysical f acilities aspect, ins titution plans and policy aspect, satisf action with authorities aspect, satisf action with social s t atus and f amily wel f are aspect, rapport with s tuden ts aspect, relationship with co-work ers aspect and t ot al componen ts of job satisf action. Sample of 250 t eachers comprising of 124 male and 126 f emale was select ed randomly

The t erm agricultural efficiency is donat es the productivity of a particular unit of land. Agricultural landuse efficiency may be defined as the e xten t t o which the net sown area is cropped or resown. The gross cropped area as a percen t t o the net sown area give a measure of land use efficiency which means the in t ensity of cropping. The s tudy of agricultural land use efficiency gives the idea about iden tify the problem region relat ed t o agricultural land use efficiency . t oids.

It is generally recogniz ed that the 21s t cen tury will be a cen tury of globaliz ation. Notwiths t anding all the benefits of economic globaliz ation, it causes the subs t anti ve threat of cultural globaliz ation. Theref ore, it is fundament al for every community to iden tify and maint ain its own characteri s tic f eatures that reflect diversity an d iden tity of the place. One of such f eatures is cultural herit age. T ourism is increasingly being regarded as a positive f orce f or the preservation of nature and culture; its con tributions should bring about benefits f or the hos t community and provide its members with significan t resources and incen tives t o look aft er and main t ain their herit age.

Though India is traditionally perceived t o be a 'dry' culture, but alcohol use in some f orm has always e xis t ed in the coun try . The view of alcohol as impure and polluting, that man y middle class Indians have been predominan tly influenced by W es t ern temperanc e campaigners in the 19th cen tury . An eff ort was made in this article t o study the f act ors those influence alcohol consump tion in diff eren t set tings and populations across the s t at e. Howe ver , in order t o meet the above objective the NFHS -3 K arnat ak a dat a was used f or the analysis purpose. The s tudy shows that, as the age of the responden t increase the probability of husband drinking alcohol is increasing and as the marit al duration increases husband going f or alcohol become common. It is f ound that there is positive relationship between alcohol consump tion and number of living children. There is common believe that as the people income increases they spend the money f or enjoymen t especially in alcohol, but the s tudy show that there is in verse relationship between s t andard of living and alcohol consump tion, the results are showing that the husband of working women go f or more alcohol consump tion than the non working women

St eel plat e shear walls have been used more and more in the s t eel s tructures t o resis t earthquak e and wind f orces. This s ys t em off ers several advant ages as compared t o the other usual lat eral load resis ting s ys t ems. St eel saving, speed of erection, reduced f oundation cos t, and increased usable space in buildings are some apparen t advant ages of the s t eel plat e shear walls. St eel plat e shear walls also provide major s tiffness agains t building drift f or the hi-rise buildings

n this paper , we revie w the economic eff ects of in t ellectual property righ ts and specifically address the economics of the pat en t s ys t em. The production and dissemination of new knowledge is fraught with mark et f ailures because knowledge is a public good. P at en ts provide a second-bes t solution t o the resulting appropriability problem. W e revie w the main benefits and cos ts of the pat en t s ys t em, f ocusing on the role that pat en ts play in providing incen tives f or innovation, in promoting the dissemination of knowledge, and in helping t echnology transf er and commercial iz ation of new t echnology .

W omen have a significan t place in K amala Mark andaya's novels, in a s tudy of her work s woman subject cannot be ignored. In mos t of her novels women are the chief prot agonis t as well as the narrat ors. Her novels off er a wide variety of woman pictures. H.M Williams aptly observes that Mark andaya has a “ particular in t eres t in analyzing women charact ers and sugges ting the unusual poignancy of their f at e. ” 1 K amala Mark andaya is the pioneer Indian woman writ er t o portray women in English lit erature.

A part generally e xperiences various s tresses, which either acc elerat e or decelerat e the part's f ailure, during its lif etime. Howe ver , in con ven tional reliability analysis, the influence of varying s tresses is seldom e xplicitly included in t o reliability es timation. Time-varying s tress acc elerat ed lif e t es ting (AL T) is t o s tudy the f ailure time and f ailure mode of a part under pre-planned changing s tresses. Comparing t o the cons t ant s tress AL T , time-varying s tress AL T is able t o further reduce t es ting time, as well as es timat e product lif etime under a similar varying s tress operation condition

A person's behavior changes from place to place and situation to situation or, says it is very inconsistent. The person when has a need, is willing and able to satisfy the need is called a Consumer. A business community that is ignorant of consumer preferences cannot possibly fulfill its obligations in a meaningful and responsive manner.

This act was enact ed t o define with sufficient precision the condition of employmen t of work ers employed in indus trial es t ablishmen t and t o mak e the same known t o them. The object of the act was t o have unif orm s t anding orders in respect of the matt ers enumerat ed in the schedule t o the act regardless of the time of their appointme n t . The Cons titution henc e plac es emphasis on the c oncep t of social jus tice as one of the fundamen t al objects of St at e policy , and these prot ective provisions edify the spirit of Indian indus trial laws. It's in t en tion so t o do by notification in the Official Gaz et t e,apply the provisions of this act t o an y indus trial es t ablishmen t employing such number of persons less than one hundred as may be specified in this act.

Creation of employmen t opportunities with f ood security has been an import ant objective of developmen t al planning in India. T o provide a great er thrus t t o additional wage employmen t, infras tructural developmen t and f ood security in the rural areas, an ambitious New Scheme named Sampoorn Grameen R o z gar Y ojan launched with an annual outlay of Rs.10,000 crores. Sampoorna Grameen R ojgar Y ojana (SGR Y) was a dual objective programme that aimed t o break the cycle of unemploymen t and f ood insecurity by providing wage employmen t during the lean agricultural season, and by creating rural infras tructure. The self-t argeting programme was open t o all rural poor with a desire t o supplemen t their primary income by doing unskilled manual work near their villages but laid special emphasis on women, Scheduled Cas t e (SC), Scheduled T ribes (ST) and paren ts of children withdrawn from haz ardous occupations. During the year 2001-02 t o 2007-08 the t ot al funds was available f or the scheme was Rs. 40,139.9 Crores and e xpenditure was incurred Rs. 30,125.67 crores. During the years 30,943.06 lakh mandays employmen ts was generat ed by the SGR Y .

Cus t omer service is the provision of service t o cus t omers bef ore, during and aft er a purchase. Acc ording t o T urban (2002) “Cus t omer service is a series of activities designed t o enhance the level of cus t omer satisf action – that is, the f eeling that a product or service has met the cus t omer e xpect ation” Its import ance varies by products, indus try and cus t omer .

Kerala achieved development in various fields and the major role played behind this development was internal and external migration of the labour class. Because of the migration the aged, children, and wives are physically detached from the care and concern of the relatives. When there was a problem nuclear families were not capable of providing a solution to the households. Consumerism, false pride of Malayalees, unemployment, family conflicts, alcoholism, dowry harassment etc., work together for the suicides in general. Because of globalization and free trade prices farmers have faced a financial crisis

A virtual prot otype of fle xible multi-body crankshaft s ys t em of engine is used t o do the dynamics simulation. The theory of fle xible multi-body s ys t ems dynamics is combined with FE A method t o s tudy the crankshaft, the dynamic boundary loads on the join ts in a working cycle are det ermined by the simulation on the crankshaft s ys t em. The real-time dynamics response of the crankshaft in a cycle is achieved. It provides an import ant f oundation f or the crankshaft optimum design.

Recently there have been dramatic changes in the field of rural markets. The traditional culture in the rural market has been some how affected with the change in the behavior of average rural people. The advancement in information and technology, the advent of new electronic gazette, change in the crops and crops pattern, the rural electrification, road and rail connectivity and implementation of sanitation programmes are the factors determining the nature and concept of new rural market. The rural markets are treated now as a point of potential business and the changes will foster growth and advancement in the rural area.

T eaching and Learning are comple x set of ins tructions. There is no unique t echnique or s trat egies t o improve t o learn how t o t each? T raining colle ges have t o schedule this multidimensional program t o enhance the t eaching ability of s tuden t t eachers from multidisciplinary majors in limit ed span . The R ole of t eacher educat or is multidimensional

Traditional urban centres had generally grown in an unplanned and spontaneous manner all over the world, triggering numerous problems in socio-economic and environmental dimensions. These problems are of common parlance world over but more acute in the third world countries like India. To overcome these problems, restructuring of old cities as well as establishment of new planned cities were noticed in India. Thus the urban geographers started to put their interest on it and analyze the negative and positive aspects of both planned and unplanned cities. The present paper takes an attempt to analyze the basic morphological characteristics of Kalyani, a modern planned new industrial township, built in 1960s in Nadia district.

E ducation is the remedy f or all the social ills in the Emerging Modern Society . Thanks t o the spread of wes t ern liberal thoughts, philosophical ideas, writings of the scholarly Chris tian Missionaries and the generosity shown by the liberal and egalit arian British Adminis trat ors, there began a period of transition in the knowledge sect or .After the es t ablishmen t of British P ower in T amil Nadu, import ance was given t o the wes t ern model of education. The need of educating Indians was highly f elt by the Colonial British Authority . There was a gradual developmen t in the port al of education. E ducation Sect or got impetus through the emergence of higher education ins titutions

A five-fingered robot hand having sixteen Degree of F reedom is developed. The robot hand is driven by a unique method using ultrasonic mot ors. All the componen ts are placed inside the hand because the ultrasonic mot ors have charact eris tic of high t orque at low speed and compact siz e. A five-fingered R obot hand is designed. Howe ver , it is not enough t o reproduce the motion of human hand, because the con ven tional hand has problem in respect t o degree of freedom and versatility . The fivefingered robot hand having siz e, shape and sixteen DOF is developed in this work. The main goal of the project is t o mak e a model & analyz e the five-fingered robot hand f or indus trial applications

This s tudy aimed at in ves tigating the eff ect of using a CAELL ins tructional program of English grammar , the Degrees of Comparison, under the Cognitive Load theory framework on the achievemen t of IX St andard school s tuden ts. The sample of the s tudy consis t ed of 240 s tuden ts dis tribut ed randomly on three e xperimen t al groups and three con trol groups. The ins trumen ts of the s tudy were an ins tructional software program f or t eaching the Degrees of Comparison and an aut omat ed assessmen t is incorporat ed in the module itself . An Analysis of co variance was used t o find out the significanc e of the V ariables V s Multimedia eff ect on the s tuden ts' achievemen t in the Degrees of Comparison.

Man y SEZs have been est ablished in our econom y in the recen t pas t. Th e idea of building special economic z one is under furious debat e. The purposes of e s t ablishmen t of SEZs are e xport promotion, generation of additional socio-economic activities, increase in in ves tmen t-domes tic and f oreign, acc eleration in growth and job creation, developmen t of rural infras tructure and main t enance o f security within the s t at e and friendly relation with f oreign s t at es. Indus tries at large believe that SEZ will be able t o promot e indus trializ ation by improving infras tructure, enhancing in ves tmen t and reducing transaction cos t . T o attract the level of in ves tmen t in infras tructure creation, governmen t incen tive appears t o critically import ant, undoubtly necessary . But the criticism is that the incen tive off ers are e x cessive and inequit able and will en t ail revenue loss. This paper look s at the policy of special economic z ones in India and their suit ability f or fulfilling the goals of e xport promotion, employmen t generation and main t enance of the economic growth of Utt ar Pradesh

The aim of this s tudy is t o det ermine runoff depth of the Vijayawada city by Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) method using remot e sensing and geographic inf ormation s ys t em (GIS). The Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) method is widely used f or predicting direct runoff volume f or a given rainf all even t. The applicability of the SCS-CN method and the runoff generation mechanism were thoroughly analyz ed in Vijayawada. The region is charact eriz ed by a Medit erranean semi-arid climat e. While det ermining the results we need t o use various dat a sets such as sat ellit e image, 1:50000 s t andard t opographic map, and soil map dat a. St andard 1:50000 t opographic maps are used t o derive digit al elevation model.

The s tructure and composition of se x ratio is an import ant aspect of population. Which is of manif old significanc e among the various elemen ts of population se x composition age composition and economic composition holds a primary place f or population geographer . The dis tribution of population by se x ratio is an import ant demographic charact eris tics and one of the easies t aspect t o obt ain.

Participation is both an activity and an attitude. As an activity it is a social activity. Someone taking a morning walk is not participating in anything. Someone taking part in a 100-meter race does. Someone staying in a neighborhood for a long time without knowing any of one's neighbors is not having a participant attitude. What then is political participation? Of course, we mean a kind of political activity and a kind of political attitude. Since the 50's however it has attracted widespread attention and there seems to be a general agreement among the Political Scientists on the value and necessity of further political participation. But this apparent agreement conceals major disputes both at the levels of political theory and practical politics. Before we explore these we should begin with the concept of political participation itself.

The pr esent study is based on exploring the link between brand building and the Pr omotional Campaigns. Companies ar e spending millions of rupees on these pr omotional Campaigns with an objective of build their brands thus this study is an attempt to study the connectivity between them. W ith this objective carbonated soft drink market was selected and various umbr ella / sub-brands of Pepsi along with their pr omotional Campaigns wer e studied to assess their contribution in the brand building pr ocess. Also the various parameters on which consumers evaluate a particular brand along with per ception of the consumers about these Pr omotional Campaigns wer e studied so to conclude that “Ar e they successful in changing the per ception of the consumers?” Finally , Pr omotion was studied br oadly and the various Pr omotional tools used by these companies wer e studied and the consumers wer e asked to rate these tools on a five point likert scale to assess the effectiveness in the brand building pr ocess. Thus findings of the study suggested that also to consider new Pr omotion strategies along with traditional methods of Pr omotion

T errorism is one of the mos t heinous phenomena on a worldwide scale in the 21s t cen tury . The presen t paper tries t o f ocus on the causes and consequenc es of violence and t errorism around the world. T agore opines that t errorism can only be root ed out if Upanishadic thought of universal, simple, and holis tic attitude t owards lif e can be embraced. Finally the authors have tried t o show the increasing relevanc e of T agore's views on t errorism in that t error-haun t ed world

The presen t communic ation deals with description of a new species s tilesia k anegaonensis n.sp. is report ed from ovis bharal (sheep) at k anegaon dis t. Osmanabad.It diff ers from all known species of the genus, with the charact ers lik e scole x large, oval, elongat ed longer than broad, mature segment are thin, short, broader than long, t es t es 17-19 in number , medium, oval in two lat eral groups, cirrus pouch small, cirrus thin, vasdef erens short, thin tube, ovary medium oval, compact, ut erine cap small, elongat ed, vagina thin tube, ootype small, round, placed on the lat eral side of the ovary

ndia is one of the larges t producer , processor and e xport er of cashe w in the world. It has tremendous pot en tial of production and mark eting especially e xport t o other coun tries. It is t ermed as 'Whit e Gold' t o describe its import ance in the econom y . Hilly region of K olhapur dis trict and its en vironmen t is suit able f or cashe w production. The cashe w has significan t import ance in the lif e of hilly region people of this dis trict. Thus, cashe w-nut indus try can play very decisive role in the developmen t of the hilly region. The K olhapur dis trict is recognizing as a hilly region area dis trict. The thousands of people are living under poverty in the hilly area of the dis trict.

Now you have tampered with the women, you have struck against rock, you have dislodged a boulder, Now you will be crushed. Search for identity is a typical feature of the diasporic writings. Let us at the very outset look at the team diaspora. The scattering of the Jewish people across the earth. /glossary.htm. The movement, migration or scattering of people from their original homelands .

The use of multimedia in t eaching and learning presen ts challenges t o ins titutions of higher learning. Multimedia ref ers t o an y comput er-mediat ed software or in t eractive application that in t egrat es t e xt, color , graphical images, animation, audio sound, and full motion video in a single application. Multimedia learning s ys t ems consis t of animation and narration, which off er a pot en tially venue f or improving s tuden t unders t anding (Mayer & Moreno , 2000)

he generation of the electrical energy was s t art ed with the Direct curren t (DC) power in lat e 18th cen t aury . So the firs t transmission s ys t em was DC transmission s ys t em. The DC transmission s ys t em was inefficien t because of the power losses in the transmission line, and the line losses were less in Alt ernating curren t (A C) transmission s ys t em. It was also possible t o transmit the A C power at the high volt age t o minimiz e the line losses. In the las t f our decades P ower Electronics wen t through various in ven tions, these made eas y the transmission of DC power at higher volt age with the minimum losses.

"One is not born, but rather becomes a woman- The Second Sex (New York: Vintage Books, 1973), 301 Born in the morning of January 9, 1908, Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a precocious and intellectually curious child from the beginning. Beauvoir's intellectual zeal was nourished by her father who provided her with carefully edited selections from the great works of literature and who encouraged her to read and write from an early age. Beauvoir always wanted to be a writer and a teacher, rather than a mother and a wife and pursued her studies with vigor

W omen's empowermen t is a process where by women become able t o organiz e themselves t o increase their own self reliance, t o assert their independen t righ ts t o mak e choices and t o con trol resources which will assis t in challenging and eliminating their own Subordination. The goal of women's empowermen t is t o address issues relating t o women's subordination, inequality & inequity . Hence it is a process where women are able t o change from a s t at e of powerlessness t o a s t at e of colle ctive self-confidenc e