An Internationl Peer Reviewed

SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

Mar-Apr,2014, vol-2/11

Impact Factor: 1.38

ISSN: 2278-8808

Date: 2014-05-04

MARCH-APRIL, 2014

EDUCATIONAL APPROACHES IN E- LEARNING

Vidyadevi Patil

Page No.: 1157 - 1162

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In this paper we are delighted to be able to support E- learning as an effective tool of

learning. E- learning gives an opportunity to the learner to complete his/her

education/sessions easily and conveniently. It is a very flexible and self paced method of

education.

E-learning is a worldwide service and it motivates adults to learn. The urge to learn can be a

result of desire for recognition, self esteem, natural curiosity, enhance the self confidence and

the opportunity to self actualize which itself is a learning at its core. E- learning allows a

needful based learning. The paper presented throws light on the approaches used to deliver

E-learning. Also the technological support is an absolute necessity of e- learning. This paper

tries to explain the technology used for delivering these approaches.

BODY INDICES OF THE FRESH WATER SNAIL, THIARA LINEATA

Ahirrao K. D

Page No.: 1163 - 1172

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The snail is economically important from ancient time and also harmful which serves as an

intermediate host of various trematod parasites, which causes severe diseases to human

being as well as domestic animals. The gastropod mollusc, Thiara lineata is a filter feeder at

secondary level of fresh water ecosystem. The reproductive potential, resistance, survival

abilities, feeding habits and most of the peculiarities are depending on the presence or

absence of the body fluids, proportions of organs and organ index in the body of animal.

Hence, it felt necessary to study alteration in the organ indices, reproductive index, shell

index and water percentage throughout pre-reproductive, reproductive and post-reproductive

period in the body of snail, T. lineata. The healthy, active and same sized mature adult

animals were considered for an experiment. Whole body and different parts of the body, viz.,

brain, gonad, hepatopancreas, accessory gland, foot, reproductive tract, visceral organs

(rest of the body) were estimated. The results were statistically analyzed and were found to be

significant.

Keywards: Thiara lineata, Reproductive tract Index, Water percentage, Shell and Organ

indices.

THE STUDY OF HUMAN VALUES ON CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHER TRAINEES IN RELATION TO THEIR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Minakshi Biswal

Page No.: 1173 - 1187

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Distortion of values is partially due to imbalance between ancient values and explosion of

knowledge in war field technology. Atomic weapons, bio-weapons, explosives, missiles etc.,

are threatening the whole man-kind. Developed countries possess all types of dreadful

modern weapons and trying to boss over developing and underdeveloped countries. Todays,

the entire mankind is living in the shade of fearful atmosphere. Man’s very existence is at

stake and hence he is indulging himself in all wicked activities. As value crisis is rampant in

our society, there is a need of value integration society. This could be possible only through

incorporation of values in education system which in turn directs value oriented teachers.

This is a study deals with the effect of academic achievement and creative development of the

progressive teachers on their attitude towards human values. It is found that creative

development and academic achievement have a positive effect on the attitude towards human

values.

Key Words: Values, Academic Achievement, Creative Development, Student Teachers.

OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY AMONG THE SCHEDULED CASTES IN MAHARASHTRA

Jagan Karade

Page No.: 1188 - 1202

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After 1960, Maharashtra Govt. has made an attempt to initiate multidimensional

(Educational, social and economical) policies in order to bring about radical changes in the

position of SCs. However, after 50 year of independence, the time has come to evaluate the

extent of which policies have been successful in eradicating the inequality in society. This

study is attempted to measure the impact of Reservation Policy, besides it, what are the major

responsible factors for bringing occupational mobility among the SCs. The leading caste as

an occupational mobility is concerned. After the religious conversion, the Buddhists people

threw their traditional attitudes, beliefs and customs. Therefore, their life style has undergone

changed. But various researchers have treated Buddhist as Mahar. In this research,

researcher found that, Govt. has treated SC as Buddhist. But Govt. has not given any

separate identity to them. Buddhists community is more aware about the educational and

occupational development and their rights than other communities in the schedule. Hence,

the development of the Buddhists could be treated as an ideal model for other Backward

Classes.

SURVEY OF EXISTING COMMUNITY BASED EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES FOR PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN

Suman Saggu

Page No.: 1203 - 1215

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The present research is an attempt to study and analyse the early intervention practices and

to evaluate the effectiveness of these services on the different aspects of development of child

such as physical, social, emotional, cognition etc. The study was carried out with the

objectives to survey the existing community based early intervention services for pre-school

children in Chandigarh and to assess the quality of early intervention services of young

children in age group of 3-6years.13 Anganwari workers, 22 Nursery school teacher and 160

children between the age group 3-6 years were included for observation of early intervention

practices in the following areas of development i.e. physical, motor, cognitive, social,

emotional, language and self help skill. To collect the data for the study two tools were

prepared by investigator : Questionnaire on early intervention practices in Anganwadi

centres and Pre-primary schools; and Observation schedule of the child for early

intervention activities. It was encouraging that these services are doing a commendable job

regarding the physical and the mental development of children. Besides that, opportunities

are provided for the social development of the children as well. There are various activities

organised for the children. It helps children to become productive members of the society,

imbibe leadership qualities among children. Children coming to these centres learn

cooperative living, tolerance and social norms, they learn to behave and adjust with others.

So these centres are helping in the overall development of the children. No doubt the

programme has been quite effective but there are certain areas which need to be

strengthened. As observed by the investigator there is no financial help from the local

community, most of the Anganwadi centres are not getting funds regularly from the govt. due

which they are not able to organize health related programmes for children, so local

community can also contribute to make this programme effective.

Keywords: Community based early intervention services, pre-school children, Anganwadis,

Nursery School, Education, Chandigarh, Balwadis, Survey, Childhood, Development

FOREINGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN INDIA: NEED AND CHALLENGES

Prabhjeet Kaur

Page No.: 1216 - 1223

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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays an important role in accelerating the development

process in a nation. By developing employment opportunities, revenue, infrastructure,

technology etc,, FDI had helped the Indian economy to make rapid progress in many

spheres. In India, Initially FDI inflows were very low due to restrictive government

policies and trade barriers. But after liberalizing the regulatory the need FDI in India an

also the issues or challenges that FDI possesses for the Indian economy.

Keywords: routes for FDI ,Indian government policies & issues relating to FDI.

MOBILE COMMERCE - THE NECESSITY OF TIME

Sumit Goklaney

Page No.: 1224 - 1232

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Mobile Commerce is the subset of e-commerce, which includes all e-commerce transactions,

carried out using a mobile (hand held) device. This paper attempts at figuring out the

relevance and potential role that M commerce in India is at its infancy. With significant

uncertainties and complexities due to evolving business and regulatory models, which are

further complicated by the involvement of large member of interrelated players in it. Timely

and correct public policy intervention are needed to allow it to unravel its potential and help

the country to reap the benefits. The basic purpose of topic is to throw light upon increasing

use of mobiles & smart phones in business, trade & commerce industry. The topic has been

divided in to four phases. In the first phase, general introduction about mobile commerce has

been discussed. The third phase of the topic describes the key statistics on use of mobile &

Smart phones by Indian in various market segments. In the final phase, efforts have been

made to explain the impact of M-commerce on Indian Youth & issues and challenges which

still to be concentrated and addressed in the area.

Keywords: mobile commerce, m-commerce, customers relationship management, M-Banking

PRINCIPAL SHANKAR BAGDE’S METHOD OF PERFECT SQUARE

Shankar Narayan Bagde

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PRINCIPAL SHANKAR BAGDE’S METHOD OF SQUARE ROOT

Shankar Narayan Bagde

Page No.: 1236 - 1239

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A STUDY OF PROBLEMS ARISEN DUE TO CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR IN DAILY DIET

Neeta Sawant & Seema Gorivale

Page No.: 1240 - 1244

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This research survey was conducted with hundred families regarding lack of information

about ill effects of consumption of sugar in daily diet. The information was collected from

residence of locality of Navpada slum of Santacruz (East) area in Mumbai.

Unbalance diet and improper food habits in children could lead to various physical and

mental ailments. This could adversely impact the growth and development of the child. In this

research study was conducted on the harmful effect of improper food consumption on human

body. The information collected in this research related that there is no awareness about side effect

of sugar in daily diet and every family of member of each family was found to be consuming

sugar in their daily diet. Also in this research guidance was given to families on how the sweet sugar which liked by everybody is so harmful to the body. How to prepare a balanced diet and sugar free food was

demonstrated to these families.

Key Words:-Balanced food, Health improper diet, sugar

SWITCHING FROM E-LEARNING TO M-LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Mohammad Naeemullah

Page No.: 1245 - 1251

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Due to increasing use of mobile devices and its latest features, E-learning concept is

switching to M-learning that is the intersection of mobile computing and E-learning. It has

great potential to make learning even more widely available and accessible. As far as Higher

Education is concerned M-learning can offer opportunities for optimizing the interaction

between educators and learners and also because of mobile devices learning can possible

anytime & anywhere. M-learning can contribute to improve the quality and interaction in the

learning process. The present study aims to study the different factors for switching from Elearning

to M-Learning in Higher Education Environment.

THE ROLE OF MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICY IN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

Jagriti Jaiswal

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The purpose behind to construct the macroeconomic policies is to stabilize the fluctuation in

business cycle. Usually, fiscal and monetary policies in industrial countries have been

expansionary in response to weak domestic conditions.In spite of high prevalence of

vulnerable employment and working poverty in developing Asia, full employment is not a

legislated objective of any industrial countries. This paper presents a broad overview of

fiscal issues dealing with developing countries. We focus the factors which associated to

weak institutional framework that play a key role in explaining sub-optimal policy decisions

and weak integration to either domestic or international financial markets.In this paper we

investigate the multifaceted correlation between industrial development and economic

structure, by focusing on one of its trade implications, the effect of international

specialization patterns on export performances of countries.This analysis is stand on

secondary data which is based on industrial policy of India, ILO, Indian government-annual

industrial growth data and World Bank report. This study is favored by critical approach and

shows that the trade performances and their evolution over time can be explained by the

specialization pattern in the international distribution of economic activities as well as

macroeconomic aspects.
Key words: monetary policy, fiscal policy, industrial growth and economy.

IN-SERVICE TRAINING SPELLS ITS IMPACT ON CLASSROOM PRACTICES: OBSERVATION OF SOME SIGNIFICANT VARIABLES AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL

Sankar Prasad Mohanty

Page No.: 1264 - 1274

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This research paper speaks about in-service training for teachers at elementary education

level with an objective to explore any Changes in Classroom Practices of Elementary Schools

as a result of such training. The classroom teaching processes were observed through a

Classroom Observation Schedule (researcher’s made) from 90 (ninety) classes of both

trained (56 classes) and un-trained (34 classes) teachers working in elementary schools. The

analysis was made through simple percentage calculation on the activities of the teachers

and critical ratios (CR) were calculated to find the significance of the difference between two

percentages obtained from classes of trained (56 classes) and un-trained (34 classes)

teachers. The results depict that in-service training has significant positive effects, in favour

of trained teachers, on dimensions of classroom practices: teachers’ response and treatment/

pupil-teacher interaction students’ attentiveness; activities during lesson / scope for

interaction among pupils; and student evaluation and textbook usage.
Key words: In-Service Training; Positive Impact; Classroom Practices; Elementary School

ANALYSIS OF SELF-EFFICACY AMONG VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS AT VARIOUS LEVELS OF COMPETITIONS

Charanjit Singh , Jaspal Singh & Mukhwinder Singh

Page No.: 1275 - 1282

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The present study aims to find out the significant difference between high performing and low

performing volleyball players of schools, colleges and clubs. Sample of two hundred and

forty (n=240) volleyball players of schools, colleges and clubs were taken to compare the

self-efficacy level among high and low performing volleyball players. The test of self-efficacy

prepared by Bandura (1977) was administered to record the response of subjects. The test of

significance (t-test) was applied to see the difference between mean scores of volleyball

players. Further ANOVA was applied to see the significant difference among high performing

groups of school, college and club level volleyball players. The level of significance was set

at 0.05. The t-values 5.79, 8.14 and 3.40 of school, college and club level volleyball players

respectively found highly significant in favor of high performing Volleyball players. On the

basis of results it is concluded that high performing volleyball players of school, college and

club are significantly better with regard to self-efficacy. On other hand ANOVA reveals that

high performing volleyball players of school, college and club did not differ significantly. The

self-efficacy is one of the most important psychological variables to produce high performing

volleyball players. So, implications of this study are important from development stages to

high performance level.
Keywords: Analysis, Self-efficacy, volleyball players, competitions.

COMPARISON OF MENTAL SKILLS BETWEEN MEDALIST AND NON-MEDALIST FOOTBALL PLAYERS

Mukhwinder Singh & Jaspal Singh

Page No.: 1283 - 1291

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The purpose of present study was to compare the mental skills level between medalist and

non-medalist football players of schools, colleges and clubs. The sample of three hundred

(N=300) football players were taken to compare the mental skills between medalist and nonmedalist

school, college and club level football players. Hardy and Nelson stated that mental

Skills questionnaire was used to record the response of subjects. The t-test was applied to see

the mean difference between medalist and non-medalist school, college and club level

football players. Further ANOVA was applied to see the mean difference among school,

college level medalist and club players through S.P.S.S. Significant level was set at 0.05. The

results of study show that t-values, 13.72, 11.57 and 8.45 between medalist and non-medalist

school, college and club level football players clearly indicated that medalist players having

significant better mental skills as compare to their counterparts non-medalist football

players. Further results of high performing groups conclude that club level football players

are significantly better in comparison to school football players. The results clearly

supported that mental skills played very crucial role to win a medal in football game. Mental

skills training need to be introduced from school level players for better results in football.

Keywords: mental skills, medalist, non-medalist, football players.

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Sanjay J. Nimbalkar

Page No.: 1288 - 1292

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Earth is the only planet in this universe which has been gifted with life supporting elements.

In the modern era development is more inclined towards industrialization and technology

Due to more population and urbanization forests are disappearing at rapid pace, the evil

effect of industrialization and deforestation for human activities are now apparent. The

wounds inflicted on the environment are so severe that nature has started sending us warning

signals in the form of drought, floods, tsunamis, and change in climate pattern. The survival

not only of human being but of entire planet is at stake. The present generation is mindlessly

pursuing its needs without thinking for the future generation to come .Therefore to achieve

the goal of sustainable development the citizens must be empowered with essential

knowledge, sensitivity through environmental education. The author feels that it is need of

hour to introduce the different measures like, use of 3-R, 3-A and interdisciplinary approach

of environmental education, and undertake research for education for sustainable

development. The present paper examine the need of environmental education and suggest

the measures for sustainable development to be undertake at every level of education.
Key Words: Environment Education , sustainable development

CULTURAL VALUES OF TEACHERS INFLUENCE THEIR ROLE AS CULTURAL TRANSFORMERS

Kuldeep Singh & Seema Dhawan

Page No.: 1296 - 1304

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Culture is the "lens" through which one views the world. It is central to what one sees, how

one makes sense of what he/she sees and how one expresses him/herself. Cultural intelligence

is the capability to grow personally through continuous learning and good understanding of

the diverse cultural heritage, wisdom and values and to deal effectively with people from

different cultural background and understandings. It is key to the success of today’s cross

culture, cross border, cross organizational jobs.Cultural values predict multiple forms of cultural adaptation, including psychological wellbeing,general adjustment, work adjustment, and communication adjustment. In today\\\'s globalizing world, cultural Value is a necessary tool for every teacher who deals with diverse

teams of students, parents, competitors, government and others. Teachers are the transformer

of cultural values to the society. The present paper deals with the study of cultural values of

pupil teachers.
Keywords: Cultural intelligence, pupil teachers, Cultural Transformers

INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES (ICDS) in Jammu & Kashmir

Shazia Tabasum & G. R. Rathod

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Since Independence, the Government of India has launched a number of Central Schemes,

Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) and Community/Area Development Programmes in the

areas of health & family welfare, education, employment & poverty eradication, agriculture,

women & child development, sanitation, housing, safe drinking water, irrigation, transport,

tribal development, border area development, social welfare, etc. both in rural and urban

areas of the Country, including Jammu & Kashmir. The State of Jammu and Kashmir is

situated between 320 17\' N and 37° 6\' N latitude, and 73° 26\' E and 80° 30\' E longitude on

the northern extremity of India. It occupies a position of strategic importance with its borders

touching the neighboring countries of Afghanistan in the north-west, Pakistan in the west and

China and Tibet in the north-east. To its south lie Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, the two

other states of India. Female population of J&K State slashed down from 47.15% of the total

population in 2001 to 46.88% (prov.) in 2011. As per details from Census 2011, Jammu and

Kashmir has population of 1.25 Crore souls over the figure of 1.01 Crore in 2001 census.

Total population of Jammu and Kashmir as per 2011 census is 12,548,926 of which male and

female are 6,665,561 and 5,883,365 respectively indicating a reduced sex ratio of 883. The

corresponding figures of male and female as per Census 2001 were 5,360,926 and 4,782,774

respectively indicating sex ratio of 892. Finally the researcher concludes, all vacant positions

of the CDPOs and ACDPOs should be filled up at the earliest so that the scheme does not

suffer any more. This will help in proper planning, implementation, supervision and

monitoring of the scheme. All the departments must regularly coordinate and meet the

expectations from each other department. All vacant positions of the Supervisors should be

filled up at the earliest so that supervision and monitoring is strengthened both in the urban

and rural areas. The Panchayats should be made functional in areas where these are nonfunctional.

Further, Panchayats should be involved in planning, monitoring and supervision

of the AWCs.
Keywords: Integrated Child, Development, Jammu & Kashmir

PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHERS ON QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Franky Gupta & Charanpreet Kaur

Page No.: 1320 - 1332

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In the present study an attempt has been made to investigate the perceptions of teachers on

quality assurance in higher education. The sample consisted of 86 teachers selected randomly

from five colleges affiliated to Panjab University Chandigarh. Self made questionnaire

containing 25 items about teaching, research and extension was used to collect data. The results

show that for planning teaching strategies through interaction with students the teachers get

feedback about evaluation. Quality assurance architecture should be institution specific. The

curriculum should be monitored on regular basis. Results show that CAI helps the teacher in

providing quality education. There is need to check the degradation of quality and this can be

avoided if students have knowledge to choose their subjects. For making research projects a

success internal seminars are conducted. In these seminars the teachers are given knowledge

about various other topics related to their studies on which further research can be made. The

courses introduced should be such which provide both theoretical as well as practical knowledge

to students. Further it was found that 3 hours are not enough to check the knowledge of

students. Assessment methods should generate appropriate learning activities and provide

feedback to students. Students are given extension lectures and through this they get knowledge

about various topics. With the help of Right to Information the students having access to
information can become empowered in knowledge and technology driven economy.

ANALYSIS OF STRESS AND ANXIETY AMONG JUVENILE OFFENDERS

D. Samuel & D. Ushalaya Raj

Page No.: 1333 - 1340

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The research study focussed to analyse the stress and anxiety of Juvenile offenders in the observation homes. Survey method is employed to collect the data through questionnaire by adopting random sampling technique. The sample size of the study is 132. The main objectives of the study are, to analyse the level of stress and anxiety among juvenile offenders, to find out the stress and anxiety among juvenile offenders based on family configuration and parental occupation. The major findings of the study show that the Juvenile offenders have high stress and anxiety. There is a significant difference between stress and anxiety among juvenile offenders based on family configuration and parental occupation. Keywords: Analysis, Stress, Anxiety, Juvenile, Offenders

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDY HABITS OF ADOLESCENTS OF GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND THEIR RELATION TO PERSONALITY

Jyoti khanna

Page No.: 1341 - 1346

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Jimoh (2000) describes education as the totality of the experiences made available to individuals, in formal or informal situations to make them develop a rounded personality and to be useful to themselves and the society at large. And development of personality of the child’s depends on the adjustment with the environment. To help the pupil in making the changing environment is one of the important aims of education. Adjustment helps in having integrated and balanced personality. Considering the numerous advantages that are desirable from education, no amount of resources expended on it can be described as too much. Thus parents and guardians send their children and wards to secondary schools to acquire relevant educational skills, knowledge and good morals so as to be useful to themselves and society. Anameze (2001) noted that since education is regarded as an agent of nation development So factors that promote academic performance such as effective study habits should be encouraged among students. Keywords: Study habits , adjustment , education , personality , government schools , private school , adolescents

A RESEARCH PAPERON“DESIGNING OF EHS POLICY

D. B. Bagul

Page No.: 1347 - 1350

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E S POLICY EHS policy is "Environmental Health and Safety Policy". Environment: The

word „Environment‟ is most commonly used describing “natural environment”. In other

words, Environment is sum total of water, air & land inter-relationships amongthemselves &

also with the human being, other living organism & property.Health: According to WHO,

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental & social well-being & not merely the absence

of disease or infirmity”. Safety: Safety can be defined as “The condition of being protected

against physical, social, spiritual, emotional or other types of consequences of error,

accidents, harm or any other events which could be considered as non-desirable”. Policy:

Policy is generally defined as a “procedure or protocol developed & adopted to achieve

rational outcomes”. It can also be described as principle or rule. Policy can be considered

as a “Statement of Intent” or a “Commitment”. Thus, EHS Policy is any course of action

deliberately taken to manage human activities with aview to prevent, reduce, or mitigate

harmful effects on nature and natural resources, and ensuring that man-made changes to the

environment do not have harmful effects on humans. 1. EHS policy is applicable to all

sectors. Every industry or firm should have EHS policy, as it isa commitment of conserving

the environment. 2. Environments, Health & Safety are the 3 surrounding phases of an

individual. 3. Previously, the concept of Health & Safety existed, but with a view to

increasing effects of business processes on the environment, Environment entity was added to

„HS‟ forming „EHS‟.4. Employer employees the people in the organization. Thus, it is the

responsibility of the organization to look after the health & safety of the employees. 5. The

organization is not only responsible for employee\'s safety but also for maintaining the

balance of the environment. 6. Thus EHS policy is designed to carry out the functions of the

organization smoothly, by creating awareness among the employees.

Keywords: cEHS‚ Administration‚ Policy‚ Manual‚ Health‚ Insurance‚ Care‚ Safety‚ Legal‚
Norms,Illegal‚Overtime‚Environmentalsafety

E- LEARNING: WHAT, WHY AND HOW?

J. R. Sonwane

Page No.: 1366 - 1371

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We have seen that technology is always moving forward and there is no doubt that e-Learning will become a major contributing factor to education and training, but like all great developments, it’s how it can work together with existing technologies that makes e-learning such an important tool. e learning has already been adopted by a number of organizations across the world, developing short videos and documents to help with students and experts. This paper discusses about learning and e-learning with different types and uses.
Keywords. E-learning, e- classroom, smart classroom

A STUDY OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT IN RELATION TO SELF CONCEPT AND LOCUS OF CONTROL

Dr. Paresh B. Acharya

Page No.: 1373 - 1384

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The main purpose of the study was to examine the academic achievement in relation to self-concept and locus of control of boys and girls of high school students in Anand district. In doing so, a random sampling procedure was employed to elicit responses from 480 (263 males and 217 females) secondary school students identified in various parts of the Anand district. The Prof. K. S. Likhias inventory was used to measure self-concept while the respondents\' first semester Secondary Certificate Examination results were measures of their academic achievement. The data collected were analyzed using the ANOVA (one way) test statistical procedure. The findings revealed that that the gender was equal in academic achievement, also high self-concept,students and low self concept student were equal in academic achievement. In all analysis, internal locus of control students were higher in academic achievement at every calculation. Key words: academic achievement, self concept, locus of control

STUDY OF THE STATUS OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS

Manju Gupta

Page No.: 1350 - 1365

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The history of education of persons with disabilities is a progression from segregation to integration, and now to inclusion as explained in the unit-1 of this block. The education of the disabled children in India is more than hundred years old, but our services are far from adequate. The past two decades has witnessed the mushrooming of inclusive education programmes. Inclusive education addresses the need to provide education to children with any kind of impairment. General educators, with assistance from professionals in special education, assume primary responsibility for students with disabilities. But in India we could not admit even 10% of educable children in the normal community.Different models in the integration are practiced in the country and some were successful but there was not a single model of perfection. The model should be based as per the need of Indian Culture and Heritage.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR INTEGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND EDUCATION

P.R. Kolhe, M.H .Tharkar, R.M.Dharaskar & S. Joshi

Page No.: 1394 - 1403

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One must have heard childhood anecdote that there was a magician who could bring anything in the world to a

piece of mirror, he held in this hand. This story has now become a true fact in the form of INTERNET.

This “Allauddin Chirag” can be used to ‘Save and Protect Environment’. Not only India but whole world is

echoing ‘kick out CO2 and protect environment’ on June 5, the ‘World Environment Day’. According to Dr. MS

Swaminathan, “New information and communication technologies offer the possibility of creating a level field

for both the rich and the poor, provided we know how to use them with a commitment to gender and social

equity”. This paper primarily discusses how Information Technology plays a vital role in integrating

environmental awareness and education; IT necessarily makes positive impact on community. Why do we need

security awareness programme? Why and how to design it? The answer to these queries lies in necessity of

motivation of people for ecological security- a prime motto and qualification, implementation of awareness and

training material suitably and efficacious transfer of information through application of apposite technologies.

We should introspect seriously on ecological security. Therefore everyone should invariably say “My promise to

environment, to protect ecological system of environment”. The process of awareness building should make the

best of every related component. The best formula for awareness is Information Technology tool +People

participations (ruler /tribal+ urban)+ NGO+ Government+ Management Support + Defined Roles + Budget +

Good Program = Success!
Keywords: Information technology, Internet, IT tool, Environmental Awareness and Education

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND ITS IMPACT ON WORKING OF THE COMPANY

Arun P Pardhi

Page No.: 1404 - 1410

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In today’s dynamic business environment, every organization wishes to be a successful

organization. Making an organisation successful cannot be possible without the involvement

and support of Human Resource (herein after referred to as HR). The HR is the most important

asset (man power) for any company and hence it is known as life blood of any organization. The

success of any organization depends upon the involvement, vision and performance of their HR.

For a question to find out the most important difference between ordinary organization and

successful organization, the only right answer would be their HR. Every organization wishes to

have quality people and to prove this greatest challenge of every organization that to recruit

competent , potential and right people in right place the HR is the only solution. As to run the

organisation rightly employee and employer both are important as they are the two sides of the

same coin and cannot operate without the desired services of the other likewise to run the

organisation in smooth way HR is required who can take care and protect the interest of both

the management as well as the employees .Depending upon the policies framed by HR

considering the factors like Industrial Relations, Employee Welfare, Employee Motivation,

Qualitative and Efficient production, Employee Satisfaction etc. the industrial environment

differs from organisation to organisation. HR is a process of treating employees as human

being, hence while framing any policy HR has to be very careful to prove the principles of

“Being Human” whereas Industrial Relations (herein after referred to as IR) is a “dynamic

socio-economic process”. It’s a field of relationship that exists because of the necessary

collaboration of men and women in the employment process of industry”.