Journal of Social Welfare and Management

The Importance of religious values though has great impact on the management ethics, has rarely being understood by the Indian business scenarios of today. We find that all religions show a positive relationship with extrinsic work values. Furthermore, we find that religions show a positive relationship with intrinsic work values. We also find that those who report no religious affiliation also view work values positively. We suggest that these results are perhaps a result of the converging effects of globalization. Management researchers are also accurately tring to define and promote these concepts based upon logic and reason. A religious person follows his code of conduct because he believes that it is proper behaviour and reaction to the varying challenges and circumstances which arise during the course of life. Since a religious person does his good deed not necessarily for its own sake, but because he has been instructed to do so by God his act is non-moral. One has to understand the underlying principles mentioned in the religious scriptures and try to make an analysis with relation to the management ethics, so that one will be able to create a relationship between the two.  

Pulses are the major sources of dietary protein in the vegetarian diet in our country. Besides being a rich source of protein, they maintain soil fertility through biological nitrogen fixation in soil and thus play a vital role in furthering sustainable agriculture. The study attempts to focus on the yield constraints of small and large farmers producing black and green grams of pulses in Tuticorin District. The proportionate random sampling technique has been adopted to select 150 each of pulses cultivating farmers from 12 villages. The data relates to the month of February 2012. The Garrett’s ranking technique was applied to identify the major constraints to the attainment of potential yield and it was found that severity of disease and pest attacks and water shortage were identified as major constraints for both Large and Small farmers cultivating Black Gram of pulses . In the case Green Gram, Large farmers have reported that the inadequate credit facilities and water shortage to be the main constraints to maximum yield. Similarly, the majority of the Small farmers have identified water shortage as a major constraint.Thus, it may be concluded that severity of diseases, inadequate credit facilities and water shortage were identified as major constraints in the study area. 

Key words: pulses, protein, soil fertility, yield, constraints, Garrett’s ranking.

Infrastructure development is one of the pre-requisites for economic development of any nation. Quite often it is considered as an index of economic development of a country. Conceptually, infrastructure development should precede or at least be parallel to pave way for economic development. Finance occupies a significant role in infrastructure development. India, being a democratic country and a mixed economy, the responsibility for infrastructure building primarily rests with the Central Government, State Governments and local bodies. As tax payers’ money in the exchequer is quite insufficient to provide for developmental activities, infrastructure financing in developing nations like India is a crucial problem demanding alternative sources of capital and efforts. In addition to taxes, there are several other sources for infrastructure financing like issue of bonds, finance from institutions like Housing and Urban Development Corporation, Infrastructure Development Finance Company Ltd., Financial Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services, Public Private Partnership (PPP) etc. But, severe scarcity of finance for the development of infrastructure in the country is quite evident. The different States in India with multifarious social, geographical and demographic characteristics have their own different requirements in creating and developing infrastructure. This paper examines the different aspects of infrastructure financing in the Indian context. 

Key Words: Infrastructure financing; Infrastructure development; Infrastructure finance sources;Indian infrastructure financing; Indian infrastructure growth. 

Post Independent India tried to uplift the disadvantaged sections through the inclusive policy of reservation, in education and occupation, so as to enable them to catch up with the main stream society. It is almost five decades since the provision of reservations and welfare inputs to the backward classes in all the states. What is the impact of these welfare inputs? Whether or not these backward classes made use of these reservations and inputs to scale higher education more so in engineering and medical streams of professional education? Whether or not the inclusive policy of reservation resulted in ushering of equality of opportunity in education and subsequently their social empowerment on a scale of social parity is being examined in this paper.  

Key Words: Backward classes: The artisan and castes who ranked just above the so called untouchables in the caste hierarchy and rendered services to other castes. Professional Education: The higher education, specializing in the streams of engineering and medicine, which are ranked as premier in the country.   

The growing incidence of farmers all over the country has shattered the farmers’ households. Piled up debt, erratic and insufficient monsoon burden of the family, farming have fallen on the shoulders of the widows of farmers who had committed suicide. India being an agricultural nation and its commitment being welfare state cannot afford to lose one lakh farmers every year. It is of importance to see as to how these widows cope up the tragedy befallen on their families. Are they reeling under pressure of the farm and the family? or are they also likely to follow their spouses in ending a hapless life?, Whether or not they able to bail out themselves and their families from the distress is examined in this paper.

Key words:Farmers’ Suicide: The self inflicted deaths willfully carried out by the farmers, due to the debt burden and the loss of self esteem. 

Coping: The ability to bear the tragic death of their spouse as a widow and efforts put in to bail out themselves and their families from the distress.