Journal of Social Welfare and Management

A peaceful and just society could be founded by preserving human rights. Every state is bound to ensure these rights. The failure of the states to protect human rights in the country would eventually lead to the string of anarchy of rule, and the outbreak of insurgencies, and armed conflicts which themselves can, in turn, cause the manifest of human rights infringements. In the arena of human rights, Sri Lanka remains in one of the countries which stand severely accused for alleged a series of violations of human rights and freedoms in the international arena. Despite certain constitutional immunities for violations of fundamental rights, successive governments in Sri Lanka have been accused of indulging in denying the equal social, civil, political and economic rights to the minority communities in the country since post-independence. This paper aims at discussing the statement that the root causes of the conflict in Sri Lanka could be traced to the abuse of collective and individual human rights. It is asserted to re-establish legal mechanism and social norms to protect human rights in relation to the root causes of the conflict in order to further achieve a sustainable peace in the country.

Sustainability concerns are An epochal issue nowadays and when it related to consumers health and ecological point of view or for future generations it becomes a prime issue for the business or corporations to adopt, maintain, sustainability practices as it enhances the Brand value as well as Brand image and brand survival capacity. These values can be critically important or small in consequential things but above all they are the things which give the brand its worth and differentiate from all others. Through these brands value a product or service is enhanced beyond its functional purpose. In this context the brand provides the consumer with more value and this is why they are prepared to pay a premium to acquire it. This paper attempts to conduct study on how far sustainability concerns are epochal for the companies brand value. An effort has been made in the present study to conduct the study on the scenario by conducting t test in order to explain the understanding and importance of the respondents in this relatively new aspect from the point of view of company’s product Brand value is the noteworthy aspect in every company as it by and large responsible in getting attention wherein in current scenario it was observed that brand value is dependent on sustainability measures. This paper assesses and examines Brand value of companies affected by sustainability and sustainability concerns impact the performance and profitability aspect of the companies. This paper concludes that sustainability issues improving the brand performance and image and obviously the value which will be possible by strict and a well utilization of resources and adoption of green practices.

Medicinal plants defend the means of support of millions of people, predominantly in the Indian Himalayan region. The present paper deals with the trend and growth of export earnings from medicinal plants and aswahagandha in India. The study has the following objectives 1. To study the earnings from medicinal plants during the 14 year period from 2004–05 to 2017–18. 2. To find out the trend and growth of export earnings from medicinal plants and aswahagandha in India. 3. To analyse the percentage share of Aswahagandha in medicinal plants exports from India. The study based on secondary data from 2004–05 to 2017–18. The secondary data collected through internet, books, newspaper, journals records and brochures. The tools used for the study were percentage analysis, mean, standard deviation, linear trend and compound growth rate and coefficient of variation. It reveals that the earnings from these items gained momentum only in the 2010s and the trend in earnings from export of medicinal plants is found to be inconsistent. Earnings from Aswahagandha are found to have to have increased from `3542.02 lakhs to `16586.44 lakhs in 2015–16. The trend in export earnings from Aswahagandha continues to be positive except for the year 2005–06 and 2017–08. The share of Aswahagandha in the overall export earnings though not uniform in finding to be high and the percentage share varies from 25.84 per cent to 97.33 percent. Hence, the earnings from export of medicinal plants in India show a positive growth at a rate of 3.45 percent. In the case of Aswahagandha, it is showing a positive trend growing the rate of 10.55 per cent.The overall picture reveals that the demand for Aswahagandha is found to have increased and Aswahagandha has a good market in both Western and Eastern Countries.

Mathematics is utmost important for the daily life of the people. It is one of the significant subjects which improve the abilities and skills in a variety of calculations. Learning mathematical skills at the secondary level is highly emphasized because it will help the cognitive skills of the children. This is an experimental study using single group pretest treatment post test design. The major objectives of the study wereto diagnose the mathematical performance of Grade 08 students who are identified to be improved, and to assess the efficacy of Metacognitive and Neurocognitive Intervention strategies in enhancing mathematical performance of Grade 08 students. For this study, a sample of 35 Grade 08 Students studying at AK/Al-Muneera Girls High Schools, Addalaichenai who were identified poor in proficiency in mathematic ability was selected by using purposive sampling technique. Data were collected using Mathametic Achievement Tests (Diagnostic Test, Pretest, Post test, and Progressive Test) and Observation Sheet: The findings of the study have revealed that Metacognitive and Neurocognitive Intervention Strategies were effective in enhancing mathematical achievement of students.