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Network model for urban water supply system including desalination and wastewater renovation
(2010-03-13)
Most urban areas are facing an ever increasing demand for fresh water due to population and industrial growth. The paper presents a network programming model to evaluate alternatives for supplying water from various sources ...
Consumer view of cooperative outlets: a report of small-scale studies in Bombay and Ahmedabad
(2010-03-13)
Consumer cooperative system is the country's largest single distributive organisation of consumer products embracing agricultural produce as well as manufactured consumer goods.
Land and forest resource management for economic betterment of weaker sections in rural India
(2010-03-21)
The importance of providing the poor man with an opportunity to perceive and participate in the process of economic development has long since been realised. An examination of some past and current policies in India, ...
Corporate planning in the context of national planning
(2010-03-13)
Identifying the opportunities and constraints in the environment is considered as the essential first step in formulating a corporate plan. To what extent is this task rendered easy when a national plan exists for a country? ...
Patterns of MRTPC judgements
(2010-03-13)
In its report submitted in 1964, the Mahalanobis committee on distribution of income and levels of living found some evidence to the effect that industrial planning had been responsible for an increase in income disparities. ...
Development programmes for the poor: do strategies make a difference?
(2010-03-13)
The seventies have witnessed a number of development programmes whose objectives was to benefit the weaker sections of the society. Their accomplishments in relation to this objective have been varied. While many factors ...
Employment generation in Panchmahals
(2010-03-13)
Panchmahals is a relatively backward district in east-central Gujarat. It is largely hilly and tribal. The district as a whole is highly susceptible to droughts and scarcity conditions, owing primarily to the uneven and ...
Personal characteristics and job satisfaction - India - Nigeria comparison
(2010-03-13)
Date were collected on 778 Indian and 620 Nigerian employees representing a variety of organizations. A comparative study was made to see the effect of 7 personal characteristics (Age, Sex, Marital Status, No. of dependents, ...
A geometric programming approach to solve van der waerden conjecture on doubly stochastic matrices
(2010-03-13)
In this paper the problem of finding the minimum of the permanent of a doubly stochastic matrix has been formulated as a reversed geometric program with a single constraint and an equivalent dual formulation is given. A ...
Network programming model with nonlinear cost functions
(2010-03-13)
In this paper, a network programming model with nonlinear cost functions is described along with computer - based algorithms for the solution of the network model. The network model described is general as it can be applied ...