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Impact Assessment of Investment Returns in Indian CPSEs: A Study at Aggregate Level in the Disinvestment Environment
No full textPurpose: The CPSEs were established by the administration of Indian Govt. to serve macro-economic objectives of our country. They are viewed as a device for growth of the economy with fairness and social justice. Due to unsatisfactory performance of the CPSEs towards fulfillment of the socio-economic objectives of our country, the Govt. of India started the process of disinvestment from the financial year 1991-92 to ensure optimum utilization of national wealth and to augment return on investment of the CPSEs in India. With this background, the current paper is an effort to measure the change (i.e., impact) in investment returns of the CPSEs in the disinvestment environment during the period 2010-11 to 2019-20.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Traditional investment ratios are employed for measurement of investment returns of the CPSEs on the basis of secondary data. To capture the impact in investment returns, paired t test is used in the study. Furthermore, the rate of growth related to investment returns are calculated by log linear regression method. Significant difference (if any) in the rate of growth related to different components of aggregate investment returns is measured by Chow statistic.
Findings/Result: Aggregate financial investments have significantly increased. Though the growth rates of selected performance indicators are observed to be significantly positive in majority of the cases, no significant differences in growth rates of the same are found between the two sub-periods (except shareholders’ equity). Though significant increase in financial investment is observed during the years under study, impact of investment returns in the disinvestment environment is observed to be negative i.e., it indicates that investment returns (particularly ROCE and ROE) of the CPSEs at aggregate level have decreased significantly during the study period.
Originality/Value: In the uninterrupted disinvestment environment, the present study has been conducted to examine the impact of investment returns through ROA, ROCE, and ROE.
Paper Type: Empirical Research
Implication of Business Strategy in Indian Automobile Industry: A Case of Tata Motors
No full textPurpose: Strategic Analysis is a process of business organization which involves studying the business environment and its operations. For the effective decision making and smooth functioning of business organization, the strategic planning is an essential tool. An Indian multinational automobile manufacturing firm founded in 1945 by the Tata group under the name TELCO (Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company). Indian automaker Tata Motors is the biggest in the world. Since Tata Motors was founded, the company has been engaged in many charitable endeavours, including philanthropy. Strategic planning took a major role in the growth and profitability perspectives of this company. Tata Motors' acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover is a unique example of a corporation making a strategic decision based on its internal strengths and external opportunities in order to succeed in a competitive market. Tata Motors sought to broaden the scope of its offering and the geographic scope of its market. A steady rise in the number of mergers in the Indian business has been observed over the past decade. Recently completed mergers and acquisitions are a good indicator of an industry's level of competitiveness, potentials, and capabilities. This research is undertaken to examine the firm's potential and capabilities by comparing its performance before and after mergers and acquisition.
Design/Methodology/Approach: When a company expanding its operations in the global level, some factors such as Economic, technological, customer-segment and international competitions will take a major role. The author of this paper has studied the growth of TATA Motors, both domestically and globally, in this study. For the purpose of the study secondary data is collected through various sources such as journals, research articles, newspaper articles and websites of Tata Motors and other ventures.
Findings/Result: The study highlights the critics of Tata Motors' acquisition desire factor out that the timing of the deal is affecting the worldwide economy. The call for business and passenger motors declined because of a slowdown with inside the home and international economy. The newly introduced Tata Nexon could be a game changer for the electric car market in the country due to India's large population and rising standard of living. Due to lack of innovation and major competitors in the market Tata Motors needs to be more innovative in its approach.
Originality/Value: This paper studies the effectiveness of mergers and acquisitions in terms of change in company’s potentiality and capabilities.
Paper Type: Research Case study based on Company Strategic Analysis
Holistic Integrated Student Development Model & Service Delivery Model – A Best Practice of Srinivas University, India
Get PDFPurpose: To showcase an innovative higher education training model at the university level for students’ all-round holistic development by studying an existing university model as best practice in the university system.
Methodology: As an exploratory case study methodology is followed for the collection of information from university personnel, University website, faculty members, and students and analysed the information under the best practice model and ABCD framework.
Results & Outcome: An effective innovation and best practice for the all-round development of students to improve graduate attributes. The models support to create quality graduates with employability and entrepreneurability skills to make them independent, confident, and successful citizens of the country.
Originality/Value: The paper contains identification, analysis, and interpretation of two successful innovative models in the higher education space with quality training and quality service to make it student centered.
Type of Paper: Case Study on Best Practice
A Simulated 3D Printer in CoppeliaSim
Get PDFPurpose: Now, 3D Printer is becoming popular. Not only used for printing toys but also to print some needful items for prototyping. We go for final production after prototype approval. So the researcher needs a 3D printer for their research. A good 3D printer is not only costly but cumbersome also. Carrying a 3D printer is too much problem. We can use the simulator to continue our research work in this scenario. Here we provide the procedure for building a 3D printer in the simulator. We used Coppeliasim to make it. It is an excellent open-source simulator. It has a good user interface. Following the step, the researcher can build it quickly. All project code and simulator files are available for the researcher in Github. They can download, use and integrate into their project without any issues.
Design/Methodology/Approach: In the CoppeliaSim simulator, we created a 3D printer model. We adopted the Ender 3D printer specification, a popular and economical 3D printer. After completing the model, we add the LUA script associated with the base. Some code is kept as a module inside the project folder for better understanding. After running the simulation, it will draw a square on the work area for the working demonstration.
Findings/Result: We can create a virtual 3D printer through this research work. So without having an actual printer, we can test our written algorithm, try the 3D model file, and understand the functionality of the 3D Printer. It can be integrated into the researcher’s project by customizing some physical parameters or making a different 3D printer model following the procedure described here.
Originality/Value: This research work may add value to the researcher’s work. We provide the information on creating a workable 3D printer as simple as possible in the CoppeliaSim robot simulator. Customizing some physical parameters can be a tool to help the research work rapidly.
Paper Type: Simulation-based Research
Predictive Analytics on Contractual Faculty Future Retention Rate in Rural Areas of India with the help of Clinical Stress cum Retention Rate Model
No full textPurpose: Predictive Analytics study has been conducted on contractual faculty working in various engineering and management colleges in the border area of Gurdaspur, Punjab to find the retention rate of these faculty members against the various personnel policies adopted by these institutions.
Objective: Stress is described as a state of physiological unevenness. Albeit contemporary education sector in an eminent country such as India where regular jobs become penurious obsolete perhaps people still accord in this sector because of their interest in the teaching. On the contrary, most of the new faculty work on contract basis and their jobs are not secured or may be secured for a few months depending upon the contract period. A repercussion of this probe, the purpose of the exploration is to review job satisfaction level and their retention rate.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Study has been conducted with the help of non-probability convenient sampling by distributing questionnaires and conducting interviews on 150 faculty members working on a contract basis in government and private engineering and management colleges surrounding near an area of Gurdaspur district of Punjab, India.
Findings/Result: Personnel policies, faculty development, career growth, research support and work culture, all these parameters should clearly have considered by the administration of the engineering and management colleges of district Gurdaspur, Punjab during making any policies for the contact faculty in the future so that their satisfaction level and retention rate won’t be affected.
Research limitations/implications: Research has been conducted in Gurdaspur district of Punjab. Findings may vary from other geographical area of country. Study only covers faculty members; non-teaching faculty has not been covered in this study. Time constraint is another factor for the limiting sample size.
Originality/New knowledge/Interpretation/Value: Paradoxical to previous studies, this study also tests out the connection between anxiety feeling with job security of contract faculty dwelling in engineering colleges of Punjab, India with the aid of a stress model to assess the future of teaching in rural areas.
Paper Type: Analytical Research pape
Arundhati Roy as an Environmentalist with Special Reference to the Context of Covid-19
Get PDFPurpose: This paper examines the environmental concerns of Arundhati Roy as expressed in her fictional writings, assessing the impact of her thoughts and views on the human endeavour to curb environmental hazards.
Methodology: The primary sources of information are the texts’ The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’. The secondary sources, scholarly articles in journals are taken from internet resources. Qualitative research is done based on the available literature.
Findings: This study attempts to show that environmental issues need a lot of attention in order to gradually tackle the main problems and the effects of COVID-19 on the environment and society. Roy is of the opinion that everyone in the world ought to have access to basic necessities including food, housing, and medical care.
Originality: This paper analyses how Arundhati Roy has played a significant role in being an environmentalist, analysing the issues in the environment and trying to find solutions for them.
Paper Type: Analytical Research Paper
Combination of Soft Tissue Mobilization Assisted with Instrument (IASTM) Technique and Myofascial Release for Chronic Low Back Pain – Single Case Study
Get PDFBackground: Pain and limited range of motion with impaired musculoskeletal function in lower lumbar spine area was more frequently reported musculoskeletal problem in now day’s sedentary populations who are doing job in information technology field. Myofascial Release (MFR) is a technique that facilitates stretching restricted fascia to improve the movement and flexibility of affected musculature. Application of Soft Tissue Mobilization Assisted with Instrument (IASTM)varies from conventional friction methods and it facilitates more flexibility in affected musculature. Specially designed instruments with alloy materials are taken to apply longitudinal pressure along the course of muscle fibres in IASTM.
Aim of the Study: To learn the effect combined application of IASTM and Myofascial Release (MFR) in chronic low back pain patient.
Data Analysis and Results: Significant improvement in pain and SLR Range of motion bilaterally after combined intervention of MFR and IASTM.
Conclusion: This study outcomes concluded that there is reduction in pain and straight leg raise range of motion in both legs while treating chronic low back pain when physiotherapy intervention were given with combination of Myofascial Release (MFR) and Soft Tissue Mobilization Assisted with Instrument (IASTM).
Originality/Value: Modified new interventional study to progress in treatment.
Paper Type: Case Study Researc
Significance of New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 for Adult Education and Lifelong Learning Program
No full textPurpose: Adult Education Program is an imperative platform to spread literacy, raising awareness, functional amenabilities and sensitize each member of the community irrespective of age, region and religion. National Adult Education Program (NAEP) was initiated on 2nd October, 1978 to spread literacy among community belonging to the age groups 15-35 years. However, with emergence of various implementing challenges and demands of the community, Adult Education was transfigured to Lifelong learning to engulf people of all age groups and all regions with special emphasis on socially and economically deprived sections of the community.
Design/ Methodology/ Approach: Present review highlights the role of New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in proliferating adult education and lifelong learning programs in the current digital world. The emergence of Digital India and Atma Nirbhar Bharat makes it indispensable for each member of the community to be well aware of the basic skills that are imperative to be an independent and useful member of the society. To address the unforeseen challenges observed in India’s education landscape after COVID-19 pandemic scenario, it become inevitable to sensitize each member of the community with updated knowledge and skills.
Findings/Result: As explained by Maclver who was a member of American Sociological Society, has explained the concept of society as a web of social relations. Current scenario has made it imperative to realize the significance of Adult education and lifelong learning. The author suggested that Adult Education and Lifelong Learning is a web of Skill Development Program. In current digital India and Atma Nirbhar Bharat, where technology advancements has emerged on a significant height, Adult Education and Life Long Learning plays a vital role in making the society economically independent.
Originality/New knowledge: The novelty in current review and NEP 2020 lies in transition from National Education Policy 1986 aiming at spreading functional literacy among community to NEP 2020 aiming at enhancing skill development and dissemination of skill development programs among community to make them economically independent and a useful member in the society.
Paper type: Review Articl
Re -Negotiating the Trauma Theory in Select Partition Novels
Get PDFPurpose: This paper analyses the traumatic aspects prevalent in select Partition novels in Indian English literature. An inquisition of how these writers delineate the traumatic condition of the women characters in their partition narratives and the manner in which they interweave memories, pangs, sufferings, thoughts, riots and experiences with their past and the sense of trauma experienced by them. This study will be examined in detail on the effects of disaster or catastrophe on the inner psyche of characters and consciousness that dismantles the identity of an individual.
Design/Methodology/Approach: It will be a qualitative analysis including close reading, interpreting, comparing, and contrasting the primary sources chosen for the study. Critical essays on trauma theory and partition novels and books on partition narratives and trauma theory will also be incorporated to conduct the research.
Findings/Results: The outcome of the partition of the Indian subcontinent will ever be an issue of national prominence. The Partition event has enhanced many problems and inquiries about citizenship, national identity and traumatic experiences of the people. However, it is often examined, it still postulates from us an upholding pursuit for many essential answers.
Originality/Value: The literature of partition sheds light on the then subsisting doctrines and its shift due to partition, which renders in new discernment about the social, historical and psychological experiences during that time. Partition induced a great agitation in history that interwoven with the miseries and trauma. These novels investigate how people outlived the holocaust, how they survived grappled with the trauma and renew their lives. These writers have perceived the pathos of people and the human agonies that preceded and accompanied partition. These novels demonstrate the impressions of abstruse nostalgia of the survived and deposed and intense pain of missing their motherland forever.
Paper Type: Analytical research study.
Crossref DOI: https://doi.org/10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0181
The Efficacy of a Community-based Intervention in Bangladesh for Enhancing Successful Ageing Indicators
No full textPurpose: The aims of this research was to see whether a community-based intervention could be effective in promoting comprehensive indicators for successful aging.
Methods: The participants (60 years old and above) were recruited from rural and urban parts of Bangladesh's Rangpur district for this seven-month intervention program. Successful aging indicators included blood pressure control or diabetes management, adherence to recommended physical exercise and diet, cognitive impairment, depressive symptoms, engagement in social activities, religious activities, and volunteer activities.
Results: In the follow-up period the likelihood to control hypertension and diabetes in comparison to the baseline were 1.64 (95 % confidence interval [CI] = 1.12- 3.38) and 1.89 (95 % CI = 1.44- 2.87) times higher. Participants in the follow-up were 2.21 (95 % CI = 1.87–3.45), 2.01 (95 % CI = 1.61–2.99) times more likely to adherence to recommended physical activity and diet compared with the baseline. This intervention was shown to be significantly linked to lower likelihood of developing cognitive impairment and depressive symptoms. In the follow-up period group activities increased 98% as compared to baseline.
Novelty/Value: This community-based intervention was found to be helpful in boosting successful aging markers for chronic disease management, maintaining good mental and physical function, and maintaining life engagement.
Type of Research: Empirical Research