India is the first Asian country, and amongst the first in the world, where English Studies was established as an academic discipline in higher education (HE). Developments therein from the mid-nineteenth century onwards have often been significant for disciplinary pursuits elsewhere, especially as the study of English language and literature tried to accommodate diverse cultural contexts, and insofar as the post-colonial condition came to be regarded as a fulcrum for understanding past and current political dimensions of such study. Equally, debates about English Studies in HE provide a useful index of social developments in India after independence. This chapter registers some of these developments and debates with a view to assessing the current condition of English Studies in India and considers its future prospects.

For the purpose of this study the investigator randomly selected thirty two volleyball players (N=32) from Sports College Gorakhpur and Regional Stadium Civil line, Gorakhpur (U.P) who were equally divided into experimental group and control group (n=16). Their age ranged from 20 to 25years. The experimental group got sports vision training according to training programme and each training session was for one hour and the total duration of the training programme was for six week. During this period, the control group was let off without any training. The effect of vision training on the serving ability was tested. The pre-test was conducted on the experimental and control group. After six weeks of training post-test was conducted‘t’ test was used to analyse the data. From the statistical analysis it is evident that in serving test item significant changes were noticed after training.

he purpose of this study is to identify the effect of yogic practices on a selected physiological variable Tamong the high school obese girls. The chosen 40 subjects are randomly divided into two groups equally as Experimental Group – I which went through yogic practices, Group – II acted as Control Group. The subjects selected for the study are in the age group of 13 to 17 years. Each group consists of twenty subjects, Experimental group as Group I (n=20) and Control group as Group II(n=20). The following physiological variable is selected as dependent variable namely Resting Pulse Rate and the following variable is selected as independent variable namely Yogic Practices. The data collected on the chosen study variables statistically analysed using the Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to locate significant differences between both the groups on Resting Pulse Rate.

Shortly after partition of the subcontinent in 1947, India took the initiative to build a dam on the Ganges side and commissioned it in 1975. Over the last decades, several of the 54 Bangladeshi rivers originating from the India, have been diverted or barred upstream, inside India. All of these hydro-development initiatives have had a profound impact on Bangladesh as it is at the end of the Himalayan river system. In particular, agriculture, fisheries, human health and welfare in Bangladesh have been significantly affected by the disruption of natural water flows in its rivers. The debate over water-sharing issues between India and Bangladesh dates back to their birth, but historical developments in disputes have never been adequately addressed in problemsolving. This article analyzes political developments in Bangladesh and India on Farakha from historical perspectives. It also reveals the negative effects of Farakha Barrage on the environment in Bangladesh. The objective is to provide decision makers with ideas on historical developments of disputes centered on Farakha Barrage to contribute to better water governance.

The purpose of the study was to see the relationship of selected motor fitness components, anthropometric measurements and physiological variables with shot put performance of throwers. Twenty male athletes aged between 14-18 years were selected from sports authority of India (SAI) Lucknow. The Motor Fitness Components included Speed (50 yard run), Muscular strength (Pull-ups), Muscular endurance (Bent knee sit-ups), Muscular power (Standing broad jump), Circulatory respiratory endurance (600-yards run/walk test), Flexibility (Sit and Reach) and Agility (Shuttle run). Anthropometric Measurements included are Standing height, Weight, Leg length, Upper leg length, Lower leg length, Arm length, Upper arm length, Lower arm length, Hip width,Shoulder width, Chest width, Calf girth, Thigh girth, Chest girth, Upper arm girth and Lower arm girth. Physiological Variables are Resting pulse rate, Positive breath holding time, Negative breadth holding time, Body composition, Systolic blood pressure, Diastolic blood pressure, Respiratory rate and Maximum expiratory pressure. The performance ability of throwers in motor fitness components namely muscular strength (Pull-ups), and Muscular endurance (Bent knee sit-ups) are significant related to shot put performance. Anthropometric measurements namely Weight, Upper arm girth and Lower arm girth are significant related to shot put performance. Physiological variables namely Resting pulse rate are significant related to shot put performance. To find out the motor fitness components, anthropometric measurements and physiological variables to shot put performance correlations, Pearson product moment correlation, multiple correlations, and regression analysis statistical technique were employed.

Secondary education prepares the students either for higher education or for the world of work. Hence it is considered as a crucial stage in the educational hierarchy. As far as Indian situation is concerned, the universalization of elementary education UEE is a Constitutional mandate, where as universalization of secondary education USE is a result of global thrust. The proved success of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Scheme Implemented at National for success of UEE Motivated to Government to launch as Similar Programme to USE called Rastriya Madhyamika Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA).

Metacognition is the ability of a person to have awareness and consciousness of its mental processes. Research has shown, the learners using Metacognitive strategies always achieve effective learning. This paper emphasizes on learning and various metacognitive strategies used by learners in the acquisition of foreign language. It discusses how students use metacognitive knowledge to enhance their learning of foreign language. Thus, this article explained about the use of such strategies by teachers among students to cultivate their knowledge on metacognition which will further help them in planning, regulating and evaluating their language learning.

Curriculum and content have to be continually renewed through teaching and learning support networks and specific skill development network may be set up. Though BPO is a newly emerged sector of employment, no one programme was relevant to give in-depth knowledge and skill about various functions, techniques and processes involved in BPO in India. B.Com. BPS/BBA BPM, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore is the first industry centric curriculum among state Universities of Tamil Nadu. This study is aimed to determine the performance of students in industry centric curriculum with the objectives of 1) identifying the relationship between the demographic profile, career awareness and career preparation, 2) determining the impact of performance of students in schooling in industry centric curriculum, aptitude test and core subject test conducted. All final year of students (N=150) of B.Com. BPS/BBA BPM undergraduate programme of 4 affiliated colleges of Bharathiar University was selected as a sample. Results showed that there is no significant association between demographic variables and performance of students in industry centric curriculum, aptitude test and core subject test except board of education, there is no significant association between career awareness and career preparation with performance of students in industry centric curriculum, aptitude test and core subject test, there is significant association between aptitude coaching classes conducted at colleges and performance of students in aptitude test, and there is significant impact of performance of students in schooling on performance of student in industry centric curriculum, aptitude test and core subject test.

All science is the search for unity.The Ancient Indian texts discovered the unity in the Atman,it followed its own method relevant to this field of Inquiry.But it illustrated its conclusions with whatever positive knowledge was available at the time.In recent centuries yhis knowledge has been advanced radically and vastly by modern science. In fact, further radical advances in modern science by which its own spiritual vision may be corroborated by positive scientific knowledge, so that the spirituality of science and the spirituality of religion may flow as a united stream to fertilize all aspects of human life. Referring to this fact and hope in his ‘Paper on Hinduism’ read at the Chicago parliament of religions on 19th September 1893,Swami Vivekananda said.

This study is explored to find out the social maturity of higher secondary school teachers. A random sample of 150 teachers is selected in and around Gudiyattam of Vellore District. Data is analyzed by t-test and Fratio. Findings showed that there is no significant difference in social maturity of higher secondary school teachers with respect to gender, locality, type of management, socio-economic status, and subject stream.

This paper is based on the concept of malnutrition and construction of conceptual framework on the basis of literature survey to analysethe factors influencing nutritional status of children. Better social and economic status enhances the access of the population to health care system. The sex of the children play an important role in determining allocation of food, preference in breast feeding and priority in treatment in an expensive health care system. Preferential treatment given to sonrather than daughters overrides the fact that the female infant/child has biological advantage over boys during the first few years of life. The under-nutrition is a serious problem in rural areas, particularly among households having low wealth index, SC & ST households and among families with illiterate parents particularly mothers. The model given by UNICEF is useful for exploring the important characteristics like social, economic, demographic, political and health care which are important for identifying nutritional status of children. Literature suggests that there are four broad factors such as sociocultural, economic, demographic and health care factors that can be considered as determinants of nutrition status of children.

This paper exhibit how ICT is related with professional development of educators. In the present scenario, ICT is gaining more importance in teaching learning process, accessibility in education system anywhere and anytime. It also helps to develop quality education for educators in various ways with the help of internet access. On the other hand, teacher’s professional development involves teaching effectiveness and professional growth of educators. Teacher’s professional development demands growth in knowledge, skill and judgment. Professional development focuses on developing survival skills, leadership’s qualities, decision making skills. ICT used as a tool for professional development of educators. This paper focuses on the concept of professional development and use of ICT for the professional development of educators.

E-commerce provides competitive advantage to the companies in footwear industry. Many companies benefitted from their e-commerce that have the positive impact on consumers. Individual or business involved in e-commerce whether buyers or sellers rely on Internet-based technology in order to accomplish their transactions. Potential of B2B e-commerce in the footwear industry with respect to the current Indian market is to be essential thing in these competitive market. These study investigates the potential of the B2B ecommerce in the footwear industry along with its problems.

The present study aims to gain the knowledge about personality traits of higher secondary school students which is an important factor in the overall development in the life process. A survey was conducted on 300 higher secondary school students in and around Gudiyattam. The data was collected with the help of Personality Inventory by Singh & Singh (2011). A simple random sampling technique was used for sampling. Findings indicated that there is no significant difference in personality traits of higher secondary school students with respect to gender, locality, family annual income,type of family, and parental educational qualification.

Two varieties of soybean (Glycine max (L) Merill) viz., JS-335 and PKV-1 were treated with different measurements of physical (gamma beams) and synthetic (EMS) mutagens. A dosage subordinate lessening was seen in the vast majority of the characters like plant survival germination. The most extreme lessening was found in higher measurements of mutagens in both the cultivars, while expanded dust sterility was related with the comparing increment in dosages of mutagens. Comes about showed that higher measurements were more compelling in all the three eras (M1, M2, and M3). However the M1 indicated more articulated diminishment in germination and survival than M2 and M3. The expansion in dust sterility was more in cv. PKV-1 demonstrating its greater affectability when contrasted with cv. JS-335.

MGNREGA is the most ambitious anti-poverty and pragmatic scheme launched by the Government of India in 2005. This scheme provides 100 days guaranteed wage employment to the rural households in a financial year to enhance the livelihood security and fostering social equity. The State Government of Haryana implemented this scheme in 2006. This paper attempts to assess the effectiveness of MGNREGA in selected villages of Hisar and Rohtak districts of Haryana. To accomplish this objective, information from village panchayat, personal interviews, narratives, and primary data of household of 120 families of Modakhera and Mohhabatpur villages of Hisar district and Anwal and Kahnaur villages of Rohtak district has been collected. The rationale of the study is to know whether the MGNREGA scheme has been effective and successful in the sample villages or not.

This article provides an overview of the of geopolitical determinants of Central Asian Republics. There are several factors which make Central Asian Republics very significant. Geographical Location of Central Asia has a great importance in determining the geopolitics of Central Asian Republics. The Silk route played a major role in the present day geopolitics of the region. The Silk route became the interaction hub and connectivity for the western world and eastern world that is the European cultures and the Asian cultures respectively. Central Asian Republics because of its landlocked location and size has been dependent on its neighbor for various reasons. The Central Asian Republics inaccessibility to Sea plays a major role in the geopolitics of the region. Neighboring Countries have a great impact on the geopolitics of adjacent or nearby countries. The availability of resources such as Oil, natural gas, uranium, cotton, hydroelectricity, coal and other valuable resources.

This study is aimed to examine the life satisfaction of secondary school teachers. Normative survey method is adopted for the study. A sample of 200 secondary school teachers is selected in and around Gudiyattam by systematic random sampling technique. Life Satisfaction Index (LSI) by Neugarten (1960) is used for data collection. F-ratio and t-test are used for data analysis. Results showed that there is no significant difference in life satisfaction of secondary school teachers in terms of gender, locality, and type of family. Findings indicated that there is significant difference in life satisfaction of secondary school teachers with regard to type of management and marital status.

The present study was attempted to find out the effect of school environment and school adjustment on academic achievement of secondary schools students of six districts of Hyderabad Karnataka region. A sample of 300 secondary schools students were randomly selected for this study. Correlation analysis and t- test treatment was given to find out the significance relationship and difference between the two variables. The result review that there is positive effect of school environment and school adjustment on academic achievement of secondary school students.

The present study was aimed to find out the significant difference in personality traits of higher secondary teachers. Survey method was adopted for this study. The sample consists of 372 higher secondary teachers in Virudhunagar district by using simple random sampling technique. Data was analyzed by Mean, SD, and ttest. Findings showed that there is no significant difference in personality traits of higher secondary teachers in terms of gender and locality; and there is significant difference in personality traits of higher secondary teachers with regard to marital status.

Foreign direct investment is alleged to confer several economic benefits to the host country. Due to globalization and liberalization countries obliterate the restriction on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Nowadays the inflow of FDI in India is escalating spectacularly. Based on the world investment report “in south Asia, FDI inflows have turned around after a slide in 2009-10, reaching $39 billion, mainly as a result of raising inflows in India, which accounted for more than four fifths of the region’s FDI”. So the study relating o the impact of FDI in India is vital. When the impact of FDI on economic development is evaluated in a recipient country, a question arises: does FDI crowd in domestic investment or does it have an opposite effect of displacing domestic investment? So the benefits of the host country are questionable. There are large numbers of study on the impact of FDI on domestic investment, whereas empirical studies pertaining to crowding out and crowding in a domestic investment are a few. This paper mainly discusses the debate that, whether FDI causes crowding in or crowding out of domestic investment in India in terms of two macroeconomic variables, rate of interest and inflation and uses a model of investment that was developed by Agosin and Mayer (2000). The present study customizes the model into the Indian context. The estimated result reveals that FDI contribute to the private capital formation in India. But the effect of FDI on domestic investment is by no means always favourable. It is found that in the sectors like industry and infrastructure, FDI is making crowding in of the private investment, where in sectors like banking and insurance there is crowding out of private investment.

Islam religion is considered as one of the important religions in Indian Social structure. When considered on the basis of populations, it stands second in India and for that reason, it holds the same number in the global view point i.e. India has second largest Muslim community in the world of course in this respect, Indonesia, stands as number one country. Once upon a time Muslim Community had ruled over India, however, today it has been living in a strange kind of conditions. The Islamic administrators ruled over India for about 700 years, a really very long period. But, at present they have lost their social status and have been living the life that is deplorable, extremely complex and one of suspicion. It has been following away from the main stream of national life and this picture, certainly is very tragic.

The Indian subcontinent has always remained susceptible to natural as well as man-made disasters. Encompassing huge land mass within and being the second largest populated nation, India has always lost lots of lives and property. This vast land mass has seen many earthquakes, hurricane, floods and drought that have impacted not only lives of people but also the socio economic growth of the country. Still India has emerged as a fast growing economy and a nation full of business opportunities. We always have felt a lack of an adequate disaster management system to encounter the phases of such emergencies. Our preparedness and counter response system has always worked out around the deployment of armed forces in such situations. However recently there has been a paradigm shift of the government towards adopting and working out new methods in this regard since the enactment of Disaster Management Act 2005. This paper tends to highlight the effects of disasters, efforts made by the government, issues related to disaster management and preventive actions. It also highlights the importance of national GIS (Geo Information System) for helping as a coordinating mechanism and preventive tool in times of disaster.