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Assessing the Regional and District Capacity for Operationalizing Emergency Obstetric Care through First Referral Units in Gujarat
(2011-05-26)This study is part of a larger project for strengthening midwifery and Emergency obstetric care in India. The study apart from giving an in-depth insight into the functioning of various health facilities highlights the ... -
Organization Development Experiences. A Case for Enriching HRD through OD
(2011-05-26)This paper reviews definitions of OD and identifies eight characters that are necessary to call an activity or experience as an OD activity or experience. It outlines also some advantages of using the traditional OD approach ... -
The Behavioural Equivalence of Organizational Culture
(2011-05-26)Three decades of organizational cultural (OC) studies have seen change in both content and emphasis. This paper presents findings from an extensive review of literature on OC and highlights the relevance of OC with respect ... -
Organizing the Un-Organized? The Rise, Recession, and Revival of the Indian Diamond Industry
(2011-05-26)The Indian diamond industry thrives in an atmosphere of secrecy and informality. However, it resembles a close-knit community composed of thousands of small, medium and large sized CPD (cut and polished diamonds) units and ... -
Implications of Global Crisis: Integrate Sustainability with Organizational Culture
(2011-05-26)Understanding, assessing, and managing organizational culture can help create both stability and adaptability for organizations, thus helping supportive integration of the sustainability strategy into appropriate organizational ... -
Encouraging Cooperation in Ad-hoc Mobile Phone Mesh Networks for Rural Connectivity
(2011-05-26)This paper proposes a rating based scheme for encouraging user participation in ad-hoc mobile phone mesh networks. These networks are particularly attractive for remote/rural areas in developing countries as they do not ... -
Why Should 5000 Children Die in India Every Day? Major Causes and Managerial Challenges
(2011-05-26)This paper brings out the nature and magnitude of child deaths in India and observations on the management of some of the national programmes of the government of India. It also highlights certain managerial challenges ... -
Analysis of Non Suburban Passenger Coaching Stock Utilization
(2011-05-26)This paper assesses the utilization of coaches on the parameters percentage of runtime, kms/day, and average speed of rakes servicing express/mails and passenger trains in the South Central Railway (SCR). This is done by ... -
How Can Indian Railways Service the Steel Sector Better?
(2011-05-26)The focus of this paper is on how Indian Railways can service the steel sector better. The steel sector is a core sector, with railways playing a critical role in its logistics. The paper examines the changing industry ... -
Situational Analysis of Reporting and Recording of Maternal Deaths in Gandhinagar District, Gujarat State
(2011-05-26)India accounts for 22 per cent (117,000) of all maternal deaths in the world and 62 per cent of all maternal deaths in South Asia. Death registration in India is patchy, and maternal deaths are underreported in the country. ... -
Indian Takeover Regulation: Underreformed and Overmodified
(2011-05-26)The takeover of substantial number of shares, voting rights, or control in a listed Indian company attracts the provision of the SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 1997. The regulations ... -
Reform of the Fiscal and Subsidy Regime for the Petroleum Sector (Based on a Report Commissioned by the Petroleum Federation of India)
(2011-05-26)Problems in the oil sector emanate from the structure of central taxes and the system of subsidization through prices. Solutions to the problems necessarily have to address both tax and subsidy simultaneously. The social ... -
Introducing Competition in Container Movement by Rail
(2011-05-26)Container movement by rail was a monopoly of Indian Railways (IR) until recently and its subsidiary, Container Corporation (CONCOR), was the sole operator of container trains. Entry of other entities has been driven by ... -
The Question of Land and Infrastructure Development in India: Urgently Required Reforms for Fairness and Infrastructural Development
(2011-05-26)Land in India is problematic largely because of archaic and perverse provisions in the practice and the law. The new Land Acquisition Amendment Bill does go some way to correct the anti-democratic and imperial provisions ... -
The Dynamic Relationship between Price and Trading Volume: Evidence from Indian Stock Market
(2011-05-26)This study investigates the nature of relationship between price and trading volume for 50 Indian stocks. Firstly the contemporaneous and asymmetric relation between price and volume is examined. It examines the dynamic ... -
Role of Universal Service Obligation Fund in Rural Telecom Services: Lessons from the Indian Experience
(2011-05-26)This paper outlines India’s experience of increasing rural teledensity, including its recent policy initiative to increase penetration through creation of a Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) that supports a variety ... -
A Study of Referral System for EmOC in Gujarat
(2011-05-26)This is a study of the referral system for emergency obstetric care in Gujarat, evaluate its strengths and weaknesses, and suggest ways of improvement for providing better referral service. The study has revealed a rudimentary ... -
Environmental Control in Greenhouse and Animal Houses with Earth-Tube-Heat-Exchangers in Hot Semi-arid North-West India
(2011-05-26)A programme was initiated in 1998 to develop technology to improve water and land productivity in Kutch, a vast semi-arid and hot region in north-west India. Greenhouse cultivation was identified as basic approach. A new ... -
Information System for Brand-Variety Performance and Decisions: Study and Application for Cotton in India
(2011-05-26)Information on brand-variety performance is critical for small farmers in India since every year they need to make crucial decisions on which brand-variety seeds to plant. The livelihoods from small farms and returns on ... -
Trends in Technical Progress in India Analysis of Input-Output Tables from 1968 to 2003
(2011-05-26)The paper is based on the eight input-output (I-O) tables for the Indian economy available over a period of 36 years from 1968-69 to 2003-4. The technical progress (TP) in the context of the I-O tables is based on the ...