PSYCHO-SOMATIC AND COGNITIVE COMPETENCE OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS

In the recent years, there is an increasing number of suicides amongst the students, reflects the state of emotional imbalance. Which demands some concrete, effective, feasible proactive programmes to address the issues of the socio-emotional and health problems of the students appropriate to evolve more effective and student friendly educational system? This study was carried out on 311 engineering students to find out how they rate themselves on some cognitive parameters, state of anxiety, depression and general health problems, getting reflected in the form of psychosomatic symptoms and the whole effort has been made to explore cognitive, emotional and health profile of the student as they perceive on seven points scale with purpose of understanding of students on these cognitive competence, affective strength and physical health, which cause serious challenge to the educational institutions. The findings are alarming! A large percent of students are having severe anxiety, higher depression, problems in cognitive and health parameters. The results suggest that, the crisis among the engineering students is deeply rooted in to family, past educational system; many unresolved conflicts at 10+2 level travel to the new campus due to several social, educational and age specific factors. Findings strongly suggest for initiating effective programmes of counselling and guidance services for students, surveillance of those having poor family and peer groups support.

M.S. Nagananda 

Research Scholar,

Center for Bio-Medical Engineering, 

Indian Institute of Technology (IITD) & AIIMS, New Delhi.

A.M.Khan

Head, Department of Social Sciences,

National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), New Delhi.

Amit Sengupta

Adjunct Professor, Bio-medical Engineering,

Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CBME), IITD & AIIMS, New Delhi.

S.M.K. Rahman

Senior Design Engineer,

Center for Bio-Medical Engineering, IITD & AIIMS, New Delhi.

J. Santhosh

Computer Services Centre IITD, New Delhi.

S. Anand

Professor,

Center for Bio-Medical Engineering, IITD & AIIMS, New Delhi.

STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL TENDENCIES IN MANIPAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BASED ON GETT

Do the Indian students have the required traits in expected measures to pursue entrepreneurship as an alternative to their career? Is there any difference in the traits possessed by the students in comparison with the international averages? A Study of students of Manipal University, Karnataka, India was conducted using the General Entrepreneurial Tendency Test GETT) developed at Durham University by John and Caird to identify the entrepreneurial traits of the students. The purpose of the study is to explore the entrepreneurial traits of Indian University students and compare it with international averages. The study is also made to explore if there are any variation of traits amongst the gender, background or streams which the students are studying in.This paper helps in understanding whether the Indian students possess required traits which are necessary to enable them to consider Entrepreneurship as an option for their future goals. Secondly ithelps to understand if the scores of the Indian students are deviating from the average scores in order to draw conclusions based on the same.Thefindings revealed that the scores for all the traits were below average. However, it also revealed that the female students are scoring higher in many of the traits as compared to male students. Future research using a wider sample isnecessary to understand the entrepreneurial traits amongst various groups in order to develop different approaches to teaching entrepreneurship as well as capacity building of entrepreneurial students.

H.S.Sethu 

Associate Professor 

Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration 

Manipal University

MANAGEMENT OF CUSTOMERS’ VIEWS AND ANTICIPATIONS OF SERVICE DELIVERY IN SELECTED BANKS IN ANDHRA PRADESH

Today, meeting customers’ anticipations are the major challenges facing by the employees of banking services in India. This is why improvement of quality of service delivery is a vital concern for banking services. Quality of service delivery is increasingly being seen as a key strategic differentiator within the financial services sector, with most major players undertaking some form of quality initiative. Thus, the present study focuses on customer views and anticipations of service delivery in selected public, private and foreign banks in Andhra Pradesh. The study conducted among six banks of Andhra Pradesh, viz., State Bank of India (SBI) and Punjab National Bank (PNB) in public sector banks being the largest and oldest banks in India, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank in the private sector banks being the 2nd largest bank and most successful bank in India, and Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank having the maximum operations in India among the foreign banks. Technology and people are playing an important role in the service delivery process, the optimum mix of these (technology and people) decides the competitive advantage of an organization in the service delivery process A sample of 600 useable questionnaires of customers has been analyzed. The study concluded that delivering high quality of services delivery is one of the best ways for banks to react to competition. The outcome of the study shows that banks can assess dimensions of service delivery to determine the level of services provided and to decide which dimensions need improvement.

N. R. Mohan Prakash 

Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing, GITAM Institute of Management, 

GITAM University, Visakhapatnam 

RETENTION OF TALENTED EMPLOYEES IN THE IT SECTOR: A STUDY WITH REFERENCE TO INDUSTRIES IN BANGALORE

The Indian IT industries sector facing the challenge of tremendous growth in the present days, retaining the best workforce to sustain organizational growth and competitiveness had become strategically important. This paper makes an attempt to study the opinion of the employees working in IT Industries in Bangalore with respect to various issues and factors influencing talent retention in these organizations. The study has revealed that variables like those of Conflicts avoided among employees, Company rules and regulation made to benefit the employees, Employee Satisfaction in Working Conditions; Ergonomics to work were identified to be important retention variables preferred by respondents. Respondent demographic variables such as age had significant association with retention dimensions such as organizational image and supervisory support. Similarly marital status had significant association with working conditions and welfare as retention dimensions. On the other hand, the retention variable like Performance appraisals and stay motivated, Incentives, perks cash prizes with annual income level of the respondents. People working in IT industries in Bangalore have expressed their dissatisfaction on the training and development opportunities and working hours in their organizations.

J. Vijayakumar 

Asst. Prof. Department of Management Studies,

Acharya Institute of Management and sciences, Bangalore -58 

Dr. Navaneetha Kumar

Prof & HOD, department of Management Studies, Adhiyamaan

College of Engineering Hosur.

Mr. R. Nagarajan

Asst. Prof. Department of Management Studies, Acharya Institute

of Management and sciences, Bangalore -58,

GOOD GOVERNANCE AND ORIENTEERING PERSPECTIVE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Every era itself arise natural queries of good governance through anthropological, social, ideological, ethical, cultural, educational, economical, political and factual commands. Relations of good governance and bureaucracy are obvious which in dearth of professional standards. An introspect from bureaucracy which leads to variform reaffirmations.

Mohammed Viquaruddin 

Assistant Professor in Political Science 

Deogiri College, Aurangabad. 

POVERTY IN INDIA: IS INCOME A REAL MEASURE TO IT ?

Poverty is an economic issue for the government, but for the poor, poverty is a social issue. Poverty as a global issue is associated not only with insufficient income or consumption but also with insufficient outcomes with respect to health, nutrition, literacy, and with deficient social relations, insecurity, low self-esteem and powerlessness. In poor economies, incomes for rural households may fluctuate during the year, according to the harvest cycle. In urban economies with large informal sectors, income flows may also be erratic. This implies a potential difficulty for households in correctly recalling their income, in which case, the information on income derived from the survey may be of low quality (Coudowel, Hentschel & Wodown, 2002). This is not to deny that poverty has close links with low income. But what about a country like India where poverty is all that the poors have and poverty is the choice they make? In this case income can neither be a measure nor be a remedy to poverty, where people neither have the urge nor the scope to earn. Again this monetary measure is unidimensional and neglects the different characteristics of households. It concentrates on anti-poverty strategies on increasing an individual's income level, rather than on investing in public services (Minujin, Delamonica, Gonzalez & Davidziuk, 2005). The objective of this paper is to throw light on the parameters of poverty other than income, which may be the cause of poverty and can provide remedial measures to eradicate the chronic disease. The paper is prepared to justify that income is not an end to measure poverty but only a means to it and to deal poverty as a social issue with a very common view, rather than dealing with it as an economic issue.

Antarjeeta Nayak 

Research Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Science 

NIT, Rourkela 

Ramakrishna Biswal

Assistent Pro. Department of Humanities and Social Science

COMPARISON BETWEEN SPIRITUAL BEHAVIOUR AND SLEEPING BEHAVIOUR OF DIABETICS AND NONDIABETICS

The research was conducted with the purpose to study the spiritual behaviour and sleeping behaviour among diabetics and non-diabetics. It was hypothesized that non-diabetics spend more time on spiritual activity and have healthier sleeping behaviour than diabetics. The sample consisted of 200 diabetics and non-diabetics in the age range of 40-60 years. The data was collected with the help of self-constructed questionnaire. t test was applied to study the significance of difference between the spiritual behaviour and sleeping behaviour of diabetics and non-diabetics. Results showed that mean score for spiritual activity behaviour is 5.27 and 20.28 for diabetics and non diabetics respectively. Similarly, for sleeping behaviour mean score is 3.64 and 3.24 for diabetics and non diabetics respectively. t value for spiritual behaviour is 3.96 which is significant at .01 level and for physical activity behaviour, t value is 4.97 which is also significant at .01 level. Results revealed that non-diabetics spend more time on spiritual behaviour and have healthier sleeping behaviour than diabetics. Therefore, it can be concluded that healthy sleeping behaviour and high spiritual behaviour, which leads to better well being, diminishes chances of occurrence of diabetes.

Ira Das 

Head, Department of Psychology 

Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra 

Shraddha Sharma

Project Fellow, Department of Psychology

Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra

SUICIDAL IDEATION, SELF ESTEEM AND PERFECTIONISM: THE VICIOUS TRIAD.

It is estimated that over 100,000 people die by suicide in India every year. Majority of suicides occur among men and among adolescents. Research and epidemiological studies indicate that suicidal behaviors appear particularly problematic among college students and young adults. Since 1980s, researchers have been interested in the relationship among certain personality traits and suicidal ideation, particularly perfectionism. At the core perfectionism is thought of as: "the irrational belief that you and/or your environment must be perfect, while striving to be the best, to reach the ideal, and to never make a mistake". When perfectionists fail to achieve their unreasonable goals, they turn inward and become excessively self-critical and demoralized; consequently, this endless cycle ultimately leads to lower self-esteem, anxiety and depression, which has led many to postulate that these self-defeating thoughts and negative appraisals may lead to suicidal ideation. In order to explore this relationship between perfectionism, self esteem and suicidal ideation, the present study was conducted. A sample of 100 undergraduate students (40 males; 60 females) were taken. They were administered Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Dr. Randy O. Frost, 1990), Rosenberg self-esteem scale (RSES) (Dr. Morris Rosenberg, 1965) and Adult Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire (Dr. William M. Reynolds, 1991). Results revealed significant association among Maladaptive Perfectionism was positively correlated with Suicidal Ideation whereas Self Esteem and Suicidal Ideation were inversely related. Overall findings were in line with the hypothesis formulated.

Mandeep Kaur 

Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Punjabi University, Patiala 

Anju Rani 

Research Scholar, Psychology Department, Punjabi University, Patiala.

PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE SCIENCE OF RESEARCH

The science of research is pentahedral. I define the science of research as, “study of research behavior of researchers’’ in relation to the wants and needs of the society, but under the frame work of the broadest perspective beyond the wants of an individual, total individual, and universal social organization”. The definition may be explained as: individual has wants (economics), he behaves as a unit (psychology), he behaves as an integral part of the whole, the social organization (sociology), and finally, with universal perspective (philosophy). The science of research has five foundations viz sociological, philosophical, psychological, economical, and educational. Among the five, each one has got its own significance in visualizing and developing the science of research. Research is from the society, by the society, and for the society. Philosophy directs the research, the psychology is the real process of research, and economics economizes the research resources, efforts, process and products. The educational foundations serves two functions viz. (a) sustenance of research trends, and content for generations together and (b) facilitate enhancement of the research methods and content to keep up-to-date in flow of time. Hence forth, the second cycle starts – education to sociology, philosophy, psychology, economics to the third cycle and so on.

Professor Subbarayan Peri, Ph.D., D. Litt. 

Professor of Education Director Internal Quality Assurance Cell 

R. S. University Tirupati - 517 064, India.

DISTANCE EDUCATION - A POWERFUL INSTRUMENT OF KNOWLEDGE EXPLOSION

Distance education is an empowering vehicle and provides access to higher education to a large segment of society. The need for distance education is felt due to the information explosion, population explosion and its in-built characteristic of cost effectiveness. Distance learning system is a boon for the learners who are self-motivated; belong to the marginalized or unprivileged groups and residents of remote places, physically impaired people, drop outs but willing to continue their study. It offers flexibility, autonomy to learners, and application of modern technology, cultivates the habit of independent learning in the absence of peer learning group and caters to the needs of heterogeneous group of learners. Thus, it could be concluded that this century is full of competition and there is lots of demand for interdisciplinary skills. Distance Education is boon to this era as it helps in continuous skills up gradation using latest technology.

Shailendra Gupta 

Principal, Calorx Institute of Education, Ahmedabad 

Avani Trivedi 

Asst. Regional Director, IGNOU, Ahmedabad

TEACHER’S SELF-EVALUATION: A CONSTITUENT PART OF IQAC

Evaluation can take many forms, but any process directly involves the teacher. Teacher’s Self-evaluation is a process whereby teacher collects the data on his own teaching effectiveness and analysis the information to consider improvement to that teaching. This process can be undertaken in a number of ways. However, the unique benefit of teacher’s selfevaluation is the close involvement of teacher in the consideration of the effectiveness of their own teaching. This article considers self-evaluation, teacher’s self-evaluation and suggests a technique that has been found to be successful for teacher himself, students, institution and by this, Quality Enhancement in Education and quality assurance in education system.

D.M.Bakrania 

Associate Professor in Education, P.G. Department of Education, 

K. S. K. V. Kachchh University, Bhuj- 370001, Gujarat, India. 

Jalpa H. Gajjar

Lecturer, S. M. N. K. Dalal College of Education for Women,

Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

TEACHER EDUCATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS

This paper explored that teacher education has a significant role in responding to the environmental problems. For effective teacher education, it needs to be re-oriented. Our education system has traditionally been very weak in nurturing such capacities i.e. Capacities to feel, examine the prominence of environment related issues. Policy planers and teachers should actively participate to this change. Necessary political actions should be planned for environmental awareness at all educational level.

Jitesh K Talati 

Principal 

Shree R. P. Ananda College of Education, Borsad, Anand

Jignesh B. Patel

Lecturer

Smt. S. I. Patel Ipcowala College of Education, Petlad, Dist. Anand

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN SECONDARY EDUCATION A NEW DIMENSION IN EVALUATION

Education today has become tough, complex and tedious process. The Lack of quality in Education and Present Evaluation system adds to the degradation of Education. To achieve the goals of high quality education, we just have to feel Education. We ought to do duty with responsibility. Professionalism penetrating in Education should be curbed. Education should be imparted with feeling by considering the feeling because education process deals with live, emotional personalities. Least stress on marks and grade, developing positive attitude, avoiding negative reinforcers and prejudice, removal of unwanted fear, developing confidence and morals, imparting value education, active participation of teachers & Student, hard work by teachers, free discipline, devotion and dedication towards the job, students and Nation must be considered and developed by Education. The freedom to speech, thought and expression should be given by developing thinking ability among the students. The idea of working on students for students with patience, confidence and full spirit should be practised. Education should be not for students rather for our children.

Milan Mistry 

Associate Professor 

Education Department Gujarat University

KEY-ROLES OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION FIELD: NOT TO BE TAKEN AS PANACEA

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have played a paramount role and penetrated in every aspect of human activity and have a vital role to play in the field of education and training, specially, in distance education to transform it into an innovative form of experience. The need of new technologies in teaching learning process grows stronger and faster. The information age becomes an era of knowledge providing sound and unmatched feasibility for discovery, ICT and exploration to strengthen the teaching learning process. ICT help in promoting opportunities of knowledge sharing throughout and all over. Accurate and right information is necessary for Decision making, Effective teaching and learning. Learner is independent and they can make best decisions possible about their studies, learning time, place and resources, in a distance mode learning and teaching. Students are able to work in collaborative and interactive learning environments effectively communicating, sharing information and exchanging ideas and learning experiences in all walks of life. In this paper role of ICT and their application and constraints have been brought in a simple form, so that ICT is not to be taken as panacea, rather modern and useful technology to be used in our advantage.

Smita Dave 

JG College of Education for Women (P.G.) 

Opp.Gulab Tower, Sola Road, Ahmedabad-61

STORY TELLING IN MATHEMATICS

We like to tell stories. We tell stories about mathematics, about mathematicians, and about doing mathematics. We do this because we enjoy it and because the students like it. And we do it because we believe that it is an effective instructional tool in the teaching of mathematics. There is ample literature to support the enjoyment of storytelling on the part of both the story teller and the story listener. There is also an abundance of data that suggest that telling a story creates more vivid, powerful and memorable images in a listener’s mind than does any other means of delivery of the same material. There is beauty in a story well told, and there is beauty of a story that can move a listener to think, to imagine, and to learn. This paper deals with how a teacher can make mathematics teaching-learning interesting by storytelling.

Kalpana Modi

Associate Professor,

P.V.D.T. College of Education for Women,

S.N.D.T. Women’s University, Mumbai- 400020

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT : CONCEPT & UNDERSTANDING

Formative assessment is a range of formal and informal assessment procedures employed by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment. Formative assessment is more valuable for day-to-day teaching when it is used to adapt the teaching to meet students’ needs. Formative assessment helps teachers to monitor their students’ progress and to modify the instruction accordingly. It also helps students to monitor their own progress as they get feedback from their peers and the teacher. In mathematics education, formative assessment is diagnostic. To employ formative assessment in the classrooms, a teacher has to make sure that each student participates in the learning process by expressing their ideas; there is a trustful environment -in which students can provide each other

with feedback; she/he (the teacher) provides students with feedback; and the instruction is modified according to students’ needs.

R.S. Patel

Professor & Head,

Department of Education,

Director, School of Psychology, Education & Philosophy,

Gujarat University, Ahmedabad-9.

EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERACTION ANALYSIS OBSERVATION SYSTEM TOWARDS MODIFICATION OF TEACHER’S BEHAVIOUR

The general notice of education a few thousand years ago, was that of someone assigning lessons to a group of young people and punishing them for their mistakes. But now with the introduction of several communication media in transferring sophisticated knowledge into simple and understandable form and with substantial change in the education norms as well as is moving towards a speedy evolution. So, teacher education programme is must in order to have efficient and really capable teachers. The behaviour of teachers can be modified desirably by these programmes. In the present study teacher behaviour means the behaviour or activities of persons as they go about doing whatever is required of teachers particularly those activities which are concerned with the guidance and direction of the learning activities of students. The objectives of the study were to study the observation pattern of classroom interaction at both primary and secondary levels in the light of Flander’s interaction analysis and to compare them. The multi stage sampling was used. Ten primary and ten secondary schools of Bhiwani district were randomly selected. Survey method was used. For the analysis and interpretation of data Mean, S. D. and ‘t’ test was used.

Precious Sheoran

Research Scholar

Shri J.J.T. University, Chudela, Jhunjhunu (Raj.)

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF STANDARD TWELFTH STUDENTS

This paper major objective was to find out the level of emotional intelligence with reference to the gender, area and category of the students of standard twelth. Normative survey method was employed. The stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample. Out of 100 sample 45 male students and 55 female students from higher secondary schools of Lunawada taluka of Gujarat state. Emotional Intelligence scale was used for the present study. This scale was developed and standardized by Dr. Pallaviben P. Patel and Dr. Hitesh P. Patel. The ‘t’ test was used for data analysis statistical technique. The result revealted that the level of emotional intelligence of standard twelth students in Lunawada taluka moderate. Significant differences were found in emotional intelligence of standard twelth students with regard to gender and area. However, open category and reserved category students were found to have similar level of emotional intelligence.

L.G. Malav

Associate Professor

Department of Education,

Gujarat University, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad-9

CONSTRUCTION OF THE SCALE TO MEASURE THE SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS

The commonly used available scales for measurement of socio-economic status (SES) with some cross regional applicability are old and have lost their relevance. There is a need for the development of a valid and reliable instrument for measurement of SES in rural and urban communities in India. The present study was undertaken to develop a cross regionally applicable scale for the purpose of enlisting true measures of socio-economic items applicable in multilingual, multicultural, multi religious, setting of the country. For developing the scale, 10 components presumably determining the socioeconomic status were selected. These indicators were named as profiles. The final version of the scale was arrived at through two trial administrations on rural and urban families. The basis of selection of the families for the two trials was stratified random. The validity and reliability of the scale was established through defined test-retest methods. Both the initial version as well as the final version of the scale for the measurement of SES of incumbents had ten components. The difference between the two versions was in terms of contents and range of items in different categories of SES. The final version was arrived at through field trials and suggestions of the experts. The reliability of the scale was high with a correlation coefficient.

Nehaben Dahyabhai Thakkr

Lecturer

Christian College of Education, Anand, Gujarat.

MENTAL HEALTH OF VISUALLY DISABLED, ORTHOPAEDICALLY DISABLED AND NON-DISABLED STUDENTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Present study compared the mental health of Visually Disabled, Orthopaedically Disabled and Non-disabled students. The sample consisted of 90 male students (30 visually disabled, 30 orthopaedically disabled and 30 non-disabled) of grade 8 to 10 purposively selected from Panipat, Ambala and Chandigarh. The researcher used descriptive survey method for the present study. The 56 items Mental Health Inventory (MHI) developed by Dr. A. K. Srivastava and Dr. Jagadish (1983) was used for collection of data. Data obtained were analyzed using statistics like Mean, Standard Deviation, and t-test. Findings indicate significant difference in the mental health of visually disabled and orthopaedically disabled students, with orthopaedically disabled students having better mental health than their visually disabled counterparts. Significant difference also exists in the mental health of visually disabled and non-disabled students, with non-disabled students having better mental health than visually disabled students. Results further reveal a significant difference in the mental health of non-disabled and orthopaedically disabled students, with non-disabled students having better mental health than their ortjopaedically disabled counterparts. Implications of mental health were suggested for visually disabled and orthopaedically disabled students specifically.

Radhakanta Gartia
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Education, Kurukshetra University,

CONSTRUCTION AND STANDARDIZATION OF A METACOGNITION INVENTORY FOR THE STUDENTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Metacognition has application for many arenas of school success. The essence of metacognition is awareness of one's cognitive processes, as well as an ability to develop a plan for achieving a goal and evaluating one's effectiveness of reaching that goal. The importance of metacognition for high quality learning and problem solving is widely accepted. For example, experts, as well as possessing deep understanding of their specific subject areas, have also been found to be highly metacognitive.Thus, in the field of educational research, researches regarding metacognition are very useful. In order to understand metacognitive processes better, individual differences in metacognitive activities should be examine. And for that purpose it is necessary to know or identify the level of student's metacognition.

Viral B. Jadav

Prakash College of Education

Thaltej, Ahmedabad

DRUG DE-ADDICTION AND REHABILITATION CENTERS FOR DRUG ADDICTS IN MANIPUR

Drug addiction is one of the phenomenons of human pollution in society, which is an alarming situation in the state of Manipur. Not only the young boys and girls, many matured and distinguish persons of social status groups in the adult members of the society had also been found addicted day by day. Due to drug addiction and alcoholism, many precious life

of the young and adult have been killed during last three decades and also the victims of HIV/AIDS have increasing in an alarming rate in the state. Many wives, children and persons have been becoming living death. For controlling these situations many social activists, social reformers and ONGs have made various attempts to eradicate the problems. They

also establish many de-addiction centers for drug addition in the state under the funding of central government. Here, the investigator tried to find out strong and weak points of the different de-addiction centers that how far these centers tried to normalize the lives of addicted persons. And it also tried to find out some of the remedial measures to improve the functions of the said centers for the welfare of the state as well as nation.

K. Manitombi Devi 

Research Scholar 

Department of Education, CMJ University, Meghalaya

A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE SECONDARY TEACHER EDUCATION IN MANIPUR

The article attempts to enquire the quality status of teacher education is given at the different teacher’s training colleges located in the state of Manipur, by examining the strong and weak points of the whole systems/process of secondary teacher education on the basis of teacher’s opinions and student’s opinion. The article also tries to find out some of the suggestive measures in order to improve the quality of secondary teacher education under Manipur University given in the state of Manipur. It is the new area of study, which is not conducted by anybody before.

By, Taorem Surendra Singh, 
Research Scholar, CMJ university, Shillong,(Meghalaya), India.

DREAM COLLEGE – A CASE OF WHISTLE BLOWING

This case speaks about the concept of Whistle Blowing (Loyal to Organization-An act of disclosing wrong doing in an organization. like blowing a whistle to call attention to something wrong going on. A whistle blower is a person who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged dishonest or illegal activities (misconduct) occurring in an organization.) in Managerial practice of an Educational Business Organization, but still owners fails to understand the whistle of loyal employees.

By Akanksha Ritesh, Shweta Mittal

Keywords: Dream College, Whistle blowing

(Full article is published in Voice of Research-An International Journal)

ROLE OF FOLK MEDIA IN NATION BUILDING

In today’s dynamic world, communication and its role has become very specialized and significant. In India, modern mass media alone cannot reach to the millions of people in rural areas who have no regular access to TV, newspapers, internet etc due to poverty and illiteracy. The modern media’s reach is largely restricted to urban areas. Information, education and entertainment do not reach to a large majority of the people in rural and remote areas. The mass media has proved to be glamorous, impersonal and unbelievable. Thus, the modern media is not suitable for preserving cultural heritage and promotion of folk performing traditions and arts. The folk media has remarkable impact on rural society because of the acceptable idioms, functional significance and the cultural values. Folk media can overcome the difficulties of language, speech, words and other barriers of communication like interest, understanding, interpretation, attitude and perception. Folk media is one of the most important vehicles of social change and nation building. While a lot of modification may be needed to convey social messages, folk media will easily carry social issues related to rural development. Therefore, we need to keep our traditional media alive by continuously and cautiously safeguarding and preserving from the adverse effects of globalization. Against this view point, the present paper purports to examine the role of folk media in the nation building and suggesting measures for preserving and transmitting cultural traditions and values to the next generation. It also examines the role of folk media in national integration and conservation of cultural heritage.

By Shailendra Kumar

Key words: Communication, Folk Media, rural development, cultural, tradition and values

(Full article is published in Voice of Research-An International Journal)

AN OVERVIEW OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Entrepreneurship generally studies the why, when and how of opportunity creation, recognition and utilization for providing goods and services through the creation of new firms and within existing firms for both profit and nonprofit purposes. Women have come out of their role which was laid back and which related with their father, brother or husband. With the spread of education and awareness, women have shifted from the kitchen, handicrafts and traditional cottage industries to non-traditional higher level of activities. Despite, government is running several programmes for women entrepreneurship development, this section is far behind the optimum line. Current paper evaluates the status of women entrepreneurship in India.

By Abhishek Kumar Tripathi

Keywords: Women Entrepreneurship, Multinational Companies (MNCs), & Government Programmes.

(Full article is published in Voice of Research-An International Journal)

OPPORTUNE AND EFFECTIVE MARKETING OF THE RURAL WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

The study on the women of the rural areas is to bring together an extensive amount of information on various entrepreneurship and women's development programmes introduced in India. The study looks at the socio-cultural, educational and legal barriers to women's entrepreneurship in India. It also includes profiles of the key agencies involved in promoting women's entrepreneurship and recommendations for policy-makers aimed at enhancing the economic empowerment of women throughout the country. This study has been conducted in pockets of the Mahakoshal region of Madhya Pradesh. The objectives of the study included, understanding the working style and manner of operation of these women entrepreneur for creating a market for their products. The study was conducted on two sets of target respondents; the women involved in vegetable selling and second set included women who were involved in preserved food compliments and other miscellaneous things. The methodology followed was of convenient sampling and the respondents were interviewed on, one-on-one basis. FGD’s (focus group discussion) of customers/consumers were also organized to get the feedback on the attitude and behaviour of these women agri-vendors and also on the parameters of reliability, cost efficiency and quality of the products being offered etc.

By Uma V.P.Shrivastava, Jeetendra N. Mulkikar

Key Words: Rural Women entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs in Mahakoshal region, Agri-vendors, Preserved Food compliments.

(Full article is published in Voice of Research-An International Journal)

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: A LEAD DRIVER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an integral part of an open and effective international economic system and a major catalyst to development. The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in driving economic growth and development has been contested one. Countries have liberalized of economic development and modernization, income growth and employment. Some argue that FDI leads to economic growth and productivity increases in the economy as a whole and hence contributes to differences in economic growth and development performances across countries, but others stress the risk of FDI destroying local capabilities and extracting natural resources without adequately compensating poor countries. Developing there have always been views in favor of FDI and against it. Countries, emerging economies and countries in transition have come increasingly to see FDI as a source their FDI regimes and pursued other policies to attract investment. This paper examines trends in the relationship between FDI and development.

By Mani Kansal, Puja Paliwal,  Gunjan Maheshwari

Key Words: Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Development, Employment, Increase Productivity.

(Full article is published in Voice of Research-An International Journal)

A STUDY OF VARIOUS HRM ISSUES IN BEEDI INDUSTRY SITUATED IN NIZAMABAD DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

The beedi manufacturing is a traditional agro-forest based industry in India, highly labour intensive and predominantly unorganized.  The beedi industry is one of the largest employers of workers in India, after agriculture, handloom and construction.  However, the estimates of the numbers of beedi workers engaged in this industry vary depending on who is making the estimates. The beedi rolling is generally done by poor households in backward areas where the workers have usually no other means of sustainable employment.  Although beedi rolling began in the factory sector, over the last three decades, the beedi manufacturers have increasingly shifted the work from factories into the household.  Currently, about 10% of the beedi manufacturing takes place in the organized factory sector.  Beedi industry is completely dominated by the manual work where there is an involvement of 90% women who are either illiterates or semi- literates and have no bargaining power this leads to good chance of exploitation.  The basic objective of this research paper is to assess the situations prevailing in the beedi industry especially with regard to human resources from their selection to retirement.  And all welfare measures/provisions available to them.

By Girish kumar Painoli ,S. G. Losarwar

Keywords: Beedi Industry, Issues in Beedi Industry, HRM Issues

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NPA MANAGEMENT OF URBAN CO-OPERATIVE BANKS - A STUDY IN HOOGHLY DISTRICT OF WEST BENGAL

Urban Co-operative Bank (UCB) refers to the primary co-operative banks which were set up to meet the banking and credit requirements of urban and semi urban people and to protect them from exploitation. One of the vital problems which vitiate cooperative banking is inability of the borrower to repay their contractual obligations of interest and principal, leading to Non-Performing Assets (NPA). The presence of NPA has had an adverse impact on the productivity and efficiency of UCB. Therefore an attempt has been made through this paper to study management of NPA by the UCBs especially in the district of Hooghly in the state of West Bengal.

By Anupam Mitra

Key Words: Urban Co-operative Bank, NPA.

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CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR AND IMPACT OF BRAND – A STUDY ON SOUTH ZONE OF KOLKATA CITY

Consumer behaviour is the study of when, why, how and where people do and do not buy products. It attempts to understand the buyer’s decision-making process, both individually and in groups. Relationship marketing is an influential asset for consumer behaviour as it has a keen interest in the re-discovery of the true meaning of marketing through the re-affirmation of the importance of the customer or buyer. A greater importance is also placed on consumer retention, customer relationship management, personalization, customization and one-to-one marketing. The aim of the present investigation is to study the impact of brand on consumer behaviour as expressed by the inhabitants belonging to South zone of Kolkata City. Accordingly, a group of 200 inhabitants (100 male and 100 female) were selected as sample in this investigation. A General Information Schedule and Perceived Impact of Brand on Consumer behaviour Questionnaire were used as tools. The findings reveal that although impact of brand on consumer behaviour is more upon the female than upon the male. Not only this, the more the duration of stay in the same environment, the more is the impact of brand on consumer behaviour. On the contrary, the more the monthly income level, the less is the impact of brand on consumer behaviour. Adequate measures may be taken to create more positive impact of brand on consumer in comparison to the existing scenario.

By Swaha Bhattacharya, Sritama Mitra

Keywords: Impact of Brand, Consumer Behaviour, Gender Difference, Duration of stay

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A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF HUMAN RELATIONS IN SCHOOL ORGANIZATION

Human relation in an institute exists in varied form. The human resources comprises of the student, teacher, principal, administrative staff, management and authorities in an institute. There exists teacher-student, teacher-teacher, principal-teacher, teaching-non-teaching, management-teacher and management-staff relationship that tends to bear key effect on the prevailing school environment. In the present study human relation means the ability and potential of the human resource to achieve the school goals and develop the healthy school environment. The present study is restricted to the teachers of Ahmedabad district. The objectives of the study comprised to know the effect of the relationship amongst the human resources on the school environment. 50 teachers from ten different schools were selected by purposive sampling from Ahmedabad district.  The survey was used to administer the self made tool on the teachers. The raw data was then grouped and percentage was used to do the analysis and interpretation. The study concluded that the positive student–teacher, teacher-teacher, principal-teacher, teaching-non teaching staff, Management-Principal relationship and Management-staff relationship lead to the strong and healthy school environment.

By A. K. Kulsreshtha, Jesal S. Patel, Harishankar Singh

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A STUDY OF CREATIVITY OF THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO CERTAIN VARIABLES

The high school students tend to bear the ability to think or imagine in a different way. In the present study the sum of fluency, flexibility and the originality in an individual is creativity. The objectives of the study comprised to know the levels of creativity, intelligence, achievement motivation, anxiety and self-concept of the high school students and to know the effect of their intelligence, achievement motivation, anxiety, gender, self concept, and area on creativity. The study was limited to Gujarati medium high school students of Ahmedabad district. The sample of 620 high school students was selected by cluster multistage sampling. The standardised tools available in Gujarati and survey method were used to collect the data. The analysis was conducted by correlation, and F-test. The results depicted difference in creativity of the high school students of Ahmedabad with different levels of intelligence, self concept and anxiety.

By Avdhesh S. Jha

Keywords: creativity, intelligence, self concept and anxiety

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GAPS IN TEACHER EDUCATION - MODELS FOR BRANDING AND SUCCESS

It is rightly said, “The destiny of a country is shaped in its classrooms”. Teachers are the back bone of any education system and under their care the future of the country is shaped. The present paper is an attempt to study the successful teacher training models globally, analyze & reflect on the gaps in teacher training models in India and recommend the teacher training models to train “teachers by choice”. The recommendations of different committees and commissions set up for Education by Government of India and UNESCO will be reviewed and analyzed. The paper also covers the Comparison of Business and Educational Management, methodology and curriculum content which can be adapted from other professional training models like medicine, engineering, law etc. The paper discusses at length the strategies to attract the best minds into teaching, giving a professional touch to teacher training and branding.

By Shailendra Gupta

Keywords: Teacher Education, Branding, Success, Models, Models for Branding and Success 

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TEACHING COMPETENCY AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS: A STUDY

One of the major goals of Education is to develop students who are capable of and dedicated to life time learning. This means helping them to understand their goals, needs, interest and problems and the ways of solving them. The teachers become the guides philosophers and counselors. They guide the students to formulate their goals and how to achieve them. The main objective of education is to help the student develop those qualities and abilities that will serve him and the community. Teacher acts as an important formative force in the development of society. It is only a competent teacher who can in some measure be worthy of the trust that is placed on him by society. Therefore it is no doubt to say the teachers of present day have no interest in their profession. The most important points is the lack of recognition of the teachers in the society compared to the doctors, lawyers, police or any other Government servants.  Job satisfaction refers to a person’s feeling of satisfaction with the job, which acts as a motivation to work. Here, it is not merely satisfaction, happiness or self- contentment, but it is always in relation to the job. Job satisfaction is necessarily one “on the job.”

By S. K. Panneer Selvam

Key words: Teacher’s Competent- Teaching Experience-Job Satisfaction- Teaching Competency.

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DEVELOPING FIELD WORK COMPONENTS OF PSYCHOLOGY FOR LIFELONG LEARNING

In the psychology field work have immense importance. A field experiment applies the scientific method to experimentally examine an intervention in the real world rather than in the laboratory. The use of experiments in the lab and the field has a long history in the natural and life sciences. Social psychology has a history of field experiments, including work by pioneering figures Philip Zimbardo, Kurt Lewin and Stanley Milgram. This paper examines various psychology field work components useful for developing curriculum for lifelong learning. As well as paper also emphasizes the need for hands-on reflective experiences for deeper understanding of the complexities of human behaviour. The benefits, advantages and limitations of undergoing field study by learners are also discussed.

By Nilesh Thakre

Keywords: field experiments, psychology, lifelong learning

PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN CHILD’S ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AT ELEMENTARY STAGE OF EDUCATION

Parental involvement in child’s environmental education has been a topic of interest among those concerned with optimal developmental and educational outcomes for preschool and elementary school children. The study describes, the correlates and forms of parental involvement, as well as teacher and school influences on involvement, has been an important part of the current effort to understand why parents choose to become involved and why their involvement often functions to create positive outcomes for their children. This research focused on parents perspectives on involvement. Recommendations for policy and practice are necessarily focused on parents and on school interaction with parents. If parents come to the school-family relationship with strong to moderate standing in both areas, they will likely find through parent-initiated interactions with schools ways to be effectively involved in their children’s environmental education. And the need for environmental education is today recognized by every reasonable adult. 

By Asha Thokchom

Keywords: Parents, Environment, Education, Correlates, Involvement.

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PERSONALITY FACTORS HARRIA VS. PREMSIA: A STUDY IN RELATION TO SOCIO - ECONOMIC STATUS AND TYPES OF CHILDREN

The present study was conducted to explore the development of personality factors harria vs.  premsia among handicapped and non-handicapped children of various socio- economic status on children ranging between 8 to 12 years of age. Children personality questionnaire (1972) constructed and standarized by Potter and Cattell 1972 and socio-economic scale constructed and standardized by Bharadwaj 2006 were used to measure the Harria vs. Premsia personality factor and socio-economic status of the children. It was revealed that spastic and blind children possess more harria than normal children. In addition to it, socio-economic status doesn't affect this factor and no interaction exists between handicappedness and socio-economic status while affecting the harria vs. Premsia personality factor.

By Ritu Aggarwal

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COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY AND GROUP COHESIVENESS

The Indian society including the present educational system is mainly based on competition. This scenario is also found in the system of teacher education. If the prospective teachers need to be productive and efficient collaborator, then the same need to be ingrained at the stage of the pre service education In order to improve collaboration the factors affecting teamwork must be examined to identify. One factor contributing to teamwork is group cohesiveness. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of Cooperative Learning Strategy on group cohesiveness. Subjects (N=84) were randomly placed into two groups. The experimental group was subjected to intervention using a Training Package on Cooperative Learning Strategy of fifty hours duration and Post test was administered to both the groups after completion of the intervention. The results of posttest of both the groups were compared to determine the effect on group cohesiveness. 

By Usha Borkar, Madhura Kesarkar

Key Words: Cooperative Learning Strategy, Group Cohesiveness, Student teachers, Teacher Education, Training Package

PERCEPTION OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS TOWARDS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Adolescence is a crucial period of life, since dramatic physiological and psychological changes take place at this age. Likewise, lifestyle and healthy/ unhealthy behaviour are established during these years may influence adult behaviour and health status. Hence this study was taken to collect information on perception of adolescent girls towards physical activity with objectives such as To assess the perception of the adolescent girls with regard to physical activity, the attitude of the adolescent girls with regard to physical fitness and the physical activity level of the adolescent girls.

Survey method and questionnaire was the tool used. Sample consisting of 120 adolescent girls were selected through purposive random sampling technique. A Likert scale was used in the questionnaire to assess the perception on physical fitness, Barriers and benefits of physical activity among adolescent girls. The data revealed that higher percentage of the respondents fall under light active physical activity level. Most of the respondents had some barriers to engage in the physical activities.

Higher percent of the adolescent girls agreed that physical activity enhance concentration, sense of achievement, increased flexibility, self esteem, confidence and feeling physically good, stress relief and relaxation. Further 44.2 percent remained neutral for pride as a perceived benefit of physical activity.

Perception on physical fitness by adolescent girls varied from low to moderate.

Key words: Adolescent, Physical activity, Physical activity Level, Health

By. Mamatha, B

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EMPLOYMENT TRENDS IN INDIA-1983 TO 2009-10

This paper is principally focused on the employment trends in India during 1983-2010 with a focus on the latest employment figure from NSS, 2009-10. The results indicate that Work Participation Rate has declined for all segments of population except rural male, particularly in 2009-10. Among the industrial distribution, agriculture and manufacturing made negative contributions to the increase in employment, whereas construction played the dominant role followed by finance, insurance and real estate and business services and electricity, gas and water sector. The proportion of both male and female in both the areas engaged in the agricultural activities gradually fell. On the other hand, there has been an increase in the proportion of both male and female engaged in industrial and services sector. In terms of status of employment, SE group has declined with the increasing share of CL and RW employment where the CL benefited most of it.

By Deepak Kumar Vivek Bhatt 

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A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON EFFECT OF RELIGIOUS FASTING OVER HEALTH OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY (URBAN AND RURAL)

The present study was undertaken to identify the effect of religious fasting on health of women in urban and rural society. Fasting means absolute abstention from taking any kind of food for a definite period with a view to give rest to the different organs of the body and their processes, thereby helping them to get cleaned. Waste products and impurities which can show seeds of disease in the human body can be removed in simplest, easiest and most natural way through means of fasting. In other words fasting have several health benefits including increasing insulin sensitivity, stress resistance, reduced morbidity and increase in life span. The present study was conducted on hundred respondents of Sonbhadra district of which fifty respondents were from rural population and fifty were from urban population The data was collected by a pretested and predesigned questionnaire-cum interview schedule method .The study revealed that the rural population follow more rigid fasting pattern than urban population without taking any food sometimes even water which is not true for health. Restricted food and meals during twenty four and twelve hour fasting cause weakness, headache, flatulence, acidity and constipation more in rural women than urban women. The study shows that although rural women fast strictly on the fasting day but on the day next to fasting they take extra or compensatory diet to overcome the weakness whereas in urban population a less per cent (fourteen) does the same, because they were liberal in food intake during fasting.

Key words- fasting, health benefits, complications, flatulence.

By Richa Singh and Sunita Singh

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ENCOURAGEMENT OF POSITIVE EMOTIONS AMONG HANDICAPPED AND NONHANDICAPPED CHILDREN OF DIVERSIFIED SOCIO- ECONOMIC LEVELS

The present study was conducted to study the encouragement of positive emotions amongst blind,spastic, normal of different socio-economic status by implying a 3x3 two factor factorial design. The elements of the sample were 600 out of which 270 elements were selected as the final sample as per requirement of the research paradigm. Two standardized tests ; the emotional competence scale (2007) and socio-economic status scale (2006) constructed and standardized by Sharma and Bhardwaj and Bhardwaj were used for the collection of data. It may be concluded that encouragement of positive emotions have been found more in spastic children high socio-economic status in comparison to both the normal and blind children of same status. Both the normal and blind children of low socio-economic status also have more positive emotions as compared to spastic ones of low socio-economic status.

By Dr. Ritu Agrawal 

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