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Personnel management for rural banking
(2010-03-14)This paper presents an analysis of the problem of adjustment to the rural environment among the branch managers in commercial banks working in rural areas in consequence of the lead bank scheme. The analysis is based on ... -
A study on share valuations of Indian companies
(2010-03-14)Different share valuation methods are suggested by the Central Board of Direct Taxes for wealth tax purposes. While market price of shares is widely regarded as the fair market value of the shares of quoted companies, the ... -
Transfer of technology to India: the case of indo-frg industrial cooperation
(2010-03-14)Foreign collaborations have played in important role in the building up of the industrial infrastructure in the country. In fact, it has increased considerably during the last few years with the gradual liberalization of ... -
Study of the wealth ratios of Indian companies
(2010-03-14)This study seeks to find out the extent to which the shareholders of the top companies in the Indian private sector have been benefitted from the investment they have made. Shareholders' rewards have been measured by the ... -
Economics of gobar gas plant
(2010-03-14)The oil crisis has led us to explore the alternative sources of nitrogen. One of the alternatives for nitrogen is cow dung (Gobar). Scientists have invented a gobar gas plant which gives methane gas for fuel and rich slurry ... -
Autonomy of public sector enterprises
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Transient analysis of multiple unit reliability systems
(2010-03-14)The 'inverted-U' relationship between stress and performance is well-known. It is reasonable to assume a similar relationship between stress and creativity. However, very little is known about the reverse relationship; the ... -
Interregional variation in the access of females to the working force in India, 1981
(2010-03-14)In the present paper, we make an attempt to examine the interstate variation in the proportion of females in the total working force in India during a given bench-mark year 1981. The exercise is expected to provide interesting ... -
China after Mao
(2010-03-14)The working paper is based on a month-long visit to China investigating socialist development strategies of China. There has been significant shifts in development strategies in China in the Post-Mao era. The paper examines ... -
On estimating home workers in India
(2010-03-14)Although home-working is a phenomenon prevalent in almost all societies, it sometimes takes disturbing form especially in the labour surplus countries of the third world. It is artued that from the viewpoint of social ... -
Crew scheduling in Indian railways: a case study of Vadodara division passenger train crews
(2010-03-14)In this paper we discuss the crew scheduling problem in Indian Railways and propose a methodology to minimize crew requirements. In Particular, we deal with the scheduling of passenger train crews in Vadodara Division of ... -
Sources of economic growth in India implied by the seventh five year plan 1985-90
(2010-03-14)Two volumes of the 7th plan released by the government of India have provided a reasonably good empirical base to look into the implicaitons and consistency of the plan targets. In the present short paper, all attempt is ... -
Corporate investment in 1981 - a forecast
(2010-03-14)This paper attempts to make a forecast of the growth in private coprorate investment in 1981. Corporate investment is taken to cover gorss capital expenditures of all companies in private and joint sectors. The study also ... -
Tax functions under imperfect markets
(2010-03-14)This paper provides tax functions when product and input markets are subject to imperfection simultaneously. These functions are estimated for the industrial sector of the Indian economy. It comes out clearly that such ... -
Organisational buying: supplier evaluation criteria for standard products
(2010-03-14)The basic objective of the study was to understand the relative importance of various supplier attributes as perceived by purchase executives in India. The second objective of the study was to find out whether there were ... -
Lower bound on fleet-size in variable-schedule fleet-size problem
(2010-03-14)This paper discusses an approach to compute a lower bound on fleet-size in variable-schedule fleet-size problem. The lower bound is computed in two stages. In stage one, a fixed-schedule fleet-size problem is solved for a ... -
India's trade with South and Southeast Asia: scope for further cooperation
(2010-03-14)This paper briefly examines the current status of India's trade relations with two developing sub-regions of Asia, namely, South Asia and Southeast Asia. South Asia covers seven countries who have recently loosely grouped ... -
Experience with case method in short duration executive development programmes
(2010-03-14)Short Duration Executive Development Programme (SEDPs) bear certain characteristics that pose significant problems to instructors and coordinators in the effective use of case method in achieving the learning objectives ... -
Policy issues for long term growth of fertilizer use in Bangladesh
(2010-03-14)This paper discusses policy issues relevant to sustained rapid growth in Bangaladesh's fertilizer consumption. Section II is an overview of fertilizer consumption as it has evolved over the years. It also provides comparative ... -
Conflict between employment and inflation: theory and facts
(2010-03-14)In this paper, we have examined the Indian data in relation to price changes and output changes in the industrial sector. Employment and output are well correlated but the rate of growth of the former is lower than that ...