Category: Industry

The popular Bollywood film star celebrated his 67th birthday in October, 2009, and received unprecedented accolades from not only the film industry but also from those not connected with the films. He has now emerged as one of highest paid film stars in the country. His income from the brand advertisements on the small screen is stupendous.His fortunes had dipped on account of successive flops and losses in business, but were lifted spectacularly by the popular TV show, “Kaun Banega Crorepati”. His wax figure has been displayed in Madam Tussaud’s museum in London. Politically, he has aligned himself with the Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh in Jan 2010, he was getting closer to Narendra Modi the Gujarat Chief Minister. ADVERTISEMENTS: His wife Jaya Bachchan is now…

The aim of education according to realism is to give to the pupil a complete knowledge and understanding of human society human nature, motives and institutions. Education must explain to the pupil how he is related to the world of man and to the world of nature.The purpose of this explanation is to enable the pupil to adjust himself in the environment in which he must live. Rabelais, a realist, says that the aim of education is “the formation of a complete man, skilled in art and industry,” the development of the whole man, physically, morally, intellectually.To Milton, another realist, education should prepare for actual living in a real world when he writes: “I call, therefore, a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform skillfully, justly,…

Aims of education are generally based on educational values, certain bases are necessary for such values. Image Source: cdn2.freedomoutpost.comThese bases may be the following ones: ADVERTISEMENTS: 1. A historical analysis of some social institutions.2. General ideals of life.3. Scientific analysis of modern life.4. The basis of various philosophical ideas. ADVERTISEMENTS: Out of the above four bases the philosophical basis has been accepted as the most appropriate one. With the philosophical basis, the path for effecting improvement in the life of people may be easier.General ideals are not of particular importance, although their acceptance, too, may be a social necessity at times. Scientific bases may indicate the paths for leading a comfortable life, but they cannot awaken us to sublime ideals of life. Therefore philosophical bases are regarded as best.Because of…

An international network of biosphere reserves, national parks and protected areas has been set up under the MAB Programme (UNESCO, 1974) with the objective to conserve the diversity and integrity of natural plant and animal communities and to safeguard the genetic diversity of species for continued evolution.These reserves include representative and unique areas of the world’s biomes and the selection of the reserves has been greatly facilitated by a thorough knowledge of the important biotic communities. Such protected reserves are intended to help meet scientific, economic, educational, cultural and recreational needs of present and future generations of mankind. Their chief importance lies in the maintenance of the gene pools of living species.Some representatives of man-modified areas are also conserved under this programme, in addition to natural areas. Most of the…

The theory of Malthus produced a great controversy. Most of the leading economists of his times accepted it. But there were critics who thought that the theory was too pessimistic.Nowadays it is believed that the theory contains elements of the truth but that it is an oversimplification of the problem of population growth.The main criticisms levelled against the theory are summarised below: 1. Growth formulas not correct and oversimplified: ADVERTISEMENTS: The mathematical formulas regarding food supply and population growth are not correct. This criticism is beside the point because Malthus used the formulae only as examples to illustrate the dissimilar and unrelated nature of the growth of population and food supply. 2. The effects of additional population: Malthus failed to consider that the additional increments of population are also capable…

A number of new developments had taken place since the formulation of the 1948 policy. These developments included the adoption of the constitution of India, successful implementation of First Five year Plan (1951-55), formulation of Second Five year plan with greater thrust on industrialisation, adoption of a socialist pattern of society (Avadi session) as the goal of economic and social policy.These, necessitated the announcement of a new Industrial Policy of 1956 replacing the Industrial Policy of 1948. The IPR of 1956 is popularly referred to as the economic constitution of the country. Image Source: cdn.historydiscussion.net ADVERTISEMENTS: Under the new policy, industries were classified into three categories.(a) Schedule A: Industries which were to be exclusive monopolies of the state- 17 industries were included in this category. They were arms and ammunition,…

The 3rd Plan with the goal of ‘self reliant and self generating economy’ saw the beginning of long term perspective planning as an instrument to achieve the objective of a integrated growth of industry balanced with agriculture.With the base created in the first two plans, the Third Plan called for the Maximum rate of investment to:(a) Strengthen industry, power and transport and ADVERTISEMENTS: (b) Hasten the process of industrial and technological change.i. 20% total outlay was allocated to industries and mineralsii. The overall financial outlay in organised industries and mining during the Third Plan period was Rs. 3,000 crores.iii. The aim of the plan was to make the economy self-sustaining in producers’ goods industries such as steel, machine-buildings, etc., so that the quantum of external assistance needed could be curtailed…

It is true that Evaluation of sales force management is widely considered as a strategic element in effective human resource management in pharmaceutical marketing.It has seen that pharmaceutical Companies has always given a top priority for Maharashtra region. The number of Management trainee/ marketing executive and district managers in Maharashtra is 350 that is comparatively half all India field staff that is reason for strong presence and continuous growth in the market. Also as per survey, average P.C.P.M (Per Capita Per Month sale) of the pharmaceutical industry is maintained around Rs. 2.75 laks and with Cipla P.C.P.M is average Rs. 4 laks per months that is far better than the expecta­tion, which is a result of good human resource planning. Rapid Staff Turnover: As per industry data Pharmaceutical Companies ranked…

The concept of Globalisation involves within its ambit the following features: 1. Liberalisation: It stands for the freedom of the entrepreneurs to establish any industry or trade or business venture, within their own countries or abroad. 2. Free trade: ADVERTISEMENTS: It stands for free flow of trade relations among all the nations. Each state grants MFN (most favoured nation) status to other states and keeps its business and trade away from excessive and hard regulatory and protective regimes. 3. Globalisation of Economic Activity: Economic activities are be governed both by the domestic market and also the world market. It stands for the process of integrating the domestic economies with world economy. Image Source: sociologydiscussion.com 4. Liberalisation of Import-Export System: It stands for liberating the import-export activity and securing a free…

The Constitution of India and several laws made under it have attacked the Indian Caste system with a view to weaken it, particularly for eliminating the evils of the caste system, including the inhuman evil of untouchability.The objective of the following features of the Indian Constitution has been to attack caste and casteism in Indian society and politics.1. The Preamble to the Indian Constitution, which is a very valuable part of the basic structure of the Constitution, affirms full faith in popular sovereignty and recognises the sovereign equality of all the people of India. ADVERTISEMENTS: 2. The people of India have united made, adopted and enacted the Constitution of India. By it they have declared India to be a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic, republic consisting of all the people of…