Rajesh Timane

This Mission by Government of India looks for use a multi-pronged strategy to increase the use of the sun as a renewable source of energy by providing subsidies for solar cookers, lamps and water-heaters. It calls for boosting renewable energy’s share of the national generation from 2% to 5%, with specific emphasis on significantly increasing [...]

Greenex Composition and Sectoral Classification Greenex has been developed by the Bombay stock exchange in collaboration with gTrade. The concept is all about screening companies doing good on the carbon side, as the concerns for climate change is growing among the stakeholders. Launched on 22-Feb-2012, the new BSE-Greenex index will comprise of 20 stocks based on [...]

The Technique of Investigation Research Methods are the ways or techniques employed by the researchers in conducting research operations. On the other hand, Research Methodology is a scientific and systematic way to solve research problems. A researcher has to formulate the approach i.e. in addition to knowledge of methods; the researcher has to apply the [...]

On 24th April 1993, the Constitution Act 1992 (73rd Amendment) came into force to provide constitutional status to the Panchayati Raj Institution. The salient features of the act are: To provide three-tier system of Panchayati raj for all the States having population of over 20 lacs To hold the Panchayati Election every five years To [...]

Questionnaire Design and Research Process All survey questions have to be actionable if you want results (Frank Schmidt, Senior Scientist, The Gallop Organization). A questionnaire should be such that it can be investigated through advance analytics as Kate Lynch of Leo Burnett puts it – ‘In the future, we will stop moaning about perfect data [...]

Replacement of items that fail suddenly   There are certain items which do not deteriorate but fail completely after certain amount of use. These kinds of failures are analysed by the method called as group replacement theory. Here, large numbers of items are failing at their average life expectancy. This kind of items may not [...]

Role of ‘Self Help Groups’ in the Development of the Rural Economy of India Abstract The Self Help Groups (SHGs) Guiding Principle stresses on organizing the rural poor into small groups through a process of social mobilization, training and providing bank credit and government subsidy. The SHGs are to be drawn from the BPL list [...]

The Young Water Professional Program (Water 2011) under CSIR, New Delhi was concluded with a bang in front of a full house Workshop of young audience at NEERI (National Environmental Engineering Research Institute). The objective of the Workshop has been fostering relationship amongst Young Water Professionals with established professionals in the water sector. Further, to [...]

What is Management? Ever since people began forming groups to accomplish aims they could not achieve as individuals, managing has been essential to ensure the coordination of individual efforts. As society has come to rely increasingly on group effort, and as many organized groups have become large, the task of managers has been increasing in [...]

Progress of Ministry of Rural Development The Ministry of Rural Development accords foremost priority to development in rural areas and eradication of poverty and hunger from the face of rural India. A number of new initiatives have been taken in the recent years for creation of social and economic infrastructure in rural areas to bridge [...]