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Working Papers | 1995

Macroeconomic Analysis of Union Budget 1995-96

Dholakia Bakul H

Union Budget for 1995-96 was the fifth consecutive budget presented by Dr. Manmohan Singh, the main architect of India's recent economy policy reforms. Formulation of this budget was, however, a more difficult task than the earlier ones for various reasons. An attempt has been made in this paper to present a broad macroeconomic analysis of the main proposals and provisions of the Union Budget 1995-96 in the context of the stated objectives of the budget and examine the likely impact of the budget proposals on the economy especially in the short run.

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Working Papers | 1995

Managing Personal and Professional Roles A Training Module

Parikh Indira J

This paper Managing Personal and Professional Roles explores the social cultural context of women and the issues which confront women as they manage both home and work and deal with the dilemmas of multiple roles and membership in multiple systems. The training modules are designed from the experiences of women in life both at home and work. the paper is divided into sections: Section I introduces the theme, Section II introduces the 1) training module, 2) objectives of the training modules consist of a) social system and social roles, b) work systems and professional roles, c) integration of social and professional roles, d) self role and identity and e) new directions and action choices for women both at home and work. section III then actually goes into conducting the workshop. Conducting the workshop is divided into five modules. Each module has its own objectives, design, role of participants, role of the resource person, steps of the design, duration of each module and concepts arrived at from issues of each modules. The entire training module is anchored in the perspective of women's entry into management, their life space, dilemmas of life space, strengths and resilience of women, the stereotypes of social and work roles held by women themselves and men and society and the directions and action choices to redefine and redesign their roles. There is a bibliography at the end of each section and a comprehensive bibliography at the end of the paper.

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Working Papers | 1995

Aspects of Cognitive Competence and Managerial Behaviour

Das J P and Misra Sasi B

We present arguments for viewing decision making by managers in the context of both cognitive psychology and neuropsychology of planning. Individual differences in managerial decision making are explained within the framework of a model of cognitive processes that has for its components planning, attention, information coding and knowledge-base. But all decision making are influenced by irrational factors contained in motivation and emotions and the failures of logic. The conditions under which these failures occur are discussed. Next we consider if strategies for good planning can be learned and recommend inductive rather than deductive rule-learning procedures. In our Concluding Remarks we discuss this further and in the Appendix we have provided a list of strategies that can be taught inductively through structuring the executive's experience.

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Working Papers | 1995

Economics of Joint Forest Management Programme: A Case Study of Soliya Village, Gujarat

Tewari Devi D

This paper discusses the organizational and economic issues related to the Joint Forest Management programme in India with respect to Soliya Village in Gujarat. Using the private-benefit cost analysis (PBCA), the case study suggests that it is financially feasible and bankable scheme but needs revision of sharing arrangements between Forest Department and village communities.

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Working Papers | 1995

Fourier Representation of Ambient Temperature and Solar Radiation

Girja Sharan and Kumar M Krishna

This paper contains fourier representation of ambient temperature and global solar radiation for Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Bombay and Jodhpur. The results may be useful for those working on solar thermal appliances, crop growth models, green house models etc.

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Working Papers | 1995

Impetus for Firm/Entrepreneur and Technology Institution Interaction Through Indian Developmental Financial Institutions

N Prabhu Ganesh

The Indian government recently reduced funding to technology institutions (TIs), forcing them to seek greater commercialisation opportunities. Indian firms/entrepreneurs (f/Fs), facing increasing technological competition, are exploring indigenous R&D facilities for new technology. Providing impetus to this mutually beneficial and important trend, developmental financial institutions (DFIs) in India are encouraging F/Es to complement their internal R&D with sponsored or commercialisation projects with Tis. This paper examines the role of Indian DFIs in facilitating F/E – TI interaction. These initiatives are important in the developing country context as they combine institutions, increase resource utilisation and facilitate entrepreneurship.

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Working Papers | 1995

Effective Management Styles: An Indian Study

Khandwalla P N

Management style is defined to be the distinctive way the management of an organization carries out its various functions, in this exploratory study, ten archetypal styles of top management are described, operationally defined, and measured vis-à-vis a sample of 90 Indian corporate organizations. The ten styles are the conservative, entrepreneurial, professional, bureaucratic, organic, authoritarian, participative, intuitive, familial, and altruistic. The data on the relationship between these ten styles and ten indicators of perceived organizational effectiveness are presented and discussed. The participative, professional, and altruistic management styles had the most correlations with the indicators of effectiveness. Implications for management excellence are drawn.

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Working Papers | 1995

Synthetic Daily Rainfall Data Generation

Girja Sharan and Kumar M Krishna

Long sequences of daily rainfall are often needed for simulation. These (when available) are cumbersome to input. Also in many cases historical data are to short to include all possible patterns. Hence the need for synthetic data. Discovering the stochastic structure underlying daily rains is the key to devising method for synthetic generation of data. Some works have been reported that treat daily rains as multi-state Markov chain. This is useful in studies where one needs for instance the distribution of only the dry and wet spells etc. However, for use in simulation of run-off from a watershed, or for moisture budgeting and crop planning, or for scheduling of irrigation etc. one needs the magnitudes of rainfall and not just an interval. For these applications it appears necessary to look at daily rains as a Markov process as was done for instance by Carey and Haan for Kentucky. In this paper we report the results of using C&H method to generate synthetic data for Panchmahals district of Gujarat, a drought-prone area.

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Working Papers | 1995

From Inspection Systems to Peer Learning: Teacher Development in Primary Education

Vijaya Sherry Chand and Shukla Shailesh R

The inspection system is a visible link between the large numbers of village-based teachers and the district-level administration. While it may be successful in its 'school audit' function, dissatisfaction with the system seems to be related to its inability to play a 'teacher development' role. Perhaps this failure is not of the inspection system, but of the mechanisms for teacher development. Other institutional mechanisms like the panchayati district education committee, the in-service training opportunities currently provided, or the meetings of school complexes and the pay-centre schools are unable to pay attention to teacher development issues. An alternative to such “top down” mechanisms is necessary. A perspective which puts the practices of teachers first can lead to decentralized “peer learning systems”. These systems – teacher driven and controlled – can drawn on resources already available within existing information systems, for instance, the contributions of outstanding teachers or insights from the inspection reports. District-level management systems like the inspection set-up or in-service training centres, whether bureaucratic or panchayati, can play a supportive role in the financing and monitoring of such initiatives. Such a perspective can also provide an understanding of how, in the context of the current debate on democratic decentralization, a partnership between the teaching community, the administration and panchayati raj institutions can be solved.

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Working Papers | 1995

Seed Industry in India: An Analysis of Status

Gurdev Singh and Asokan S R

Seed industry in India has been making great strides since independence. The government through policy initiatives helped the development and growth of the nascent industry. As a result quality seed production which was just 0.18 million quintals in 1953-54 has risen to 5.3 million quintals in 1992-92. Although the growth seems impressive, quality seed production has been far below the requirement for most of the crops. This paper examines the government policies for seed and analysis the performance of the three sub-systems of the seed system to highlight their strengths and weaknesses and constraints to the growth of the industry.

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