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Working Papers | 1978

Inflation and Project Evaluation: A Case Study of the Effect of Price Changes on Rate of Return

Gupta Ramesh

Inflation is one important economic variable which is playing an ever-expanding role in the decision making process of business, industry and government. The evaluation of capital expenditure projects are based on estimation of future economic benefits from such expenditure, and if such benefits are susceptible to changing prices, it becomes necessary to measure such effects. The major thrust of this study is that the discounted cash flow rate of return measure used in making capital investment is sensitive to prive-level changes. Several factors constitute the determinants of the resulting effects of price-level changes on rate of return. We have to separate the responsiveness of operating expenses from revenue, it is wholly conceivable that two are not equally responsive to general price-level changes. In this study, we used the empirical data as opposed to a hypothetical example to gauge the sensitivity of Internal Rate of Return to price-level changes.

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Working Papers | 1978

Corporate Investment in 1978: A Forecast

C Rangarajan

Investment in the private corporate sector, including the joint sector, has shown a substantial rise in 1977 as compared with 1976. However, this substantial rise has been contributed largely by the projects in the joint sector. Corporate investment in 1978 is likely to rise above the 1977 level by 5 to 8 per cent. The study entailed an analysis of the projects sanctioned by the all-India term lending institutions to the private corporate sector including the joint sector. Capital expenditure on all the projects sanctioned by these institutions will amount to Rs. 955 crores in 1977 compared with Rs. 702 crores in 1976. This steep increase in investment is largely accounted for by the 18 new joint sector projects initiated in 1977 which will alone incur capital expenditures of Rs. 102 crores. As of new, based on the projects sanctioned until the end of 1977, the capital expenditures in 1978 will be Rs. 735 crores. If we add to this the likely expenditures to be incurred on projects to be sanctioned in 1978, the total capital expenditures in the corporate sector in 1978 should rise above the 1977 level by 5 to 8 per cent.

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Working Papers | 1978

Educational Activities

Pareek Udai

Various organizations are recognizing the social responsibilities. One of the responsibilities of the organization is to look at change in a more planned way. The various innovations which the organization can make may be more systematically planned. Organizations interact with the environment. Environment may consist of the community in which the organization is located, the customers and their plans, resources institutions, and educational systems. Planned interventions of educational nature are used by organizations both for influencing external environment and for managing internal changes. These interventions can be both processed interventions and structured interventions. The various kinds of educational activities which organization can undertake may include sponsoring educational institutions, sponsoring project in the community, action programmes, getting involved in the community. Regarding educational activities within the organization important dimensions are socialization, training, and organizational development. Special attention may be paid to learning process as the underlying process of using educational activities whether external environment or within the organization.

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Working Papers | 1978

Designing and Conducting Microlab for Training

T. V. Rao and Pareek Udai

Microlab is a technique evolved originally as a part of T-group technology to unfreeze the participants before their participation in a T-group. This technique has been used in several innovative training programmes to communicate the innovativeness in the designs of these programmes and also to set a proper attitude for learning. This paper discusses the details of microlab along with some examples on its use in different programmes.

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Working Papers | 1978

Action Research on Rural Development Experiences of ROP Group

Gupta Ranjit

The paper describes the methodology and strategy adopted by the RDP Group to prepare and facilitate the implementation of the first action research project located in Dharampur, and the lessons it gained in the process. The paper is presented in two parts. The first part describes the methodology adopted by the Group to prepare the action plan and the institutional linkages it established to facilitate its implementation. Towards the end of this part questions having a wider bearing have been raised to underscore certain concerns crucial to the task of improving the lot of the rural poor. The second part contains further details of the methodology the Group followed to study the area's resources, growth constraints, development potentialities, social structure, functioning and structure of development administration and other agencies in the area. Most of this information was collected from secondary sources. A list of these sources is given at the end of the paper. The paper was presented by the author at the Second Seminar on Management Research held at the IIMA on January 19-20, 1978.

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Working Papers | 1978

The Two Hundred Mile Economic Zone and its Implications fir Fisheries Management

Shyam Manjula

This paper deals with a broad overview of the international legal context in which problems of fisheries management have to be viewed. After discussing the weaknesses of the old fisheries regime, the new international system based on the Economic Zone concept which is being formulated at the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea is examined. Implications of the Economic Zone for fisheries management are considered first in more general terms and then specifically for the Indian Ocean. Some suggestions are made for future research in fisheries management.

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Working Papers | 1978

A Linear Programming Model for Optimal Water Transmission System: A Case Study for Ahmedabad

Mukherjee Shishir K and Mehta Ashok

This paper presents methodology for the optimal design of a water transmission system, given a source of supply and demand values for water from various zonal divisions in the city. The Linear Programming Model developed considers the detailed design of the water transmission system including the choice of pipe lengths and diameters, and the computation of pressure losses due to friction, and pumping head required to meet minimum allowable discharge pressure at each demand centre.

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Working Papers | 1978

A Network Planning Model for Power Generation and Transmission System: A Suggested Module for Wasp Programme

Mukherjee Shishir K

This paper describes a Network Planning Model for formulation for power generation and transmission system planning in detail, illustrated by an application for the Northern regional power network in India. The Network planning model simulates the operation of existing and proposed generating plants and transmission lines and the locational aspects of the generating plants and the topology of the transmission network is considered. The application of the Network planning model is expected to provide a capability for simultaneous optimization of the generation and transmission system expansion in a power system.

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Working Papers | 1978

Energy Consumption in India: Recent Trends and the Problem of Demand Forecasting

Mukherjee Shishir K

This paper describes a Network Planning Model for formulation for power generation and transmission system planning in detail, illustrated by an application for the Northern regional power network in India. The Network planning model simulates the operation of existing and proposed generating plants and transmission lines and the locational aspects of the generating plants and the topology of the transmission network is considered. The application of the Network planning model is expected to provide a capability for simultaneous optimization of the generation and transmission system expansion in a power system.

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Working Papers | 1978

Production and Marketing Problems of Villagers in Various Asian Countries

Desai B M

IIMA