SOUTH INDIA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Banking needs of women street vendors - A study with special reference to pollachi Taluk
Full text linkStatus of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the decades. Illiterate and poor women have to undertake street vending to mitigate the problem of unemployment and underemployment. They have to enter into street vending to generate a source of income for their day to day needs. Many women enter into street vending due to lack of credit and lack of confidence to start small businesses. Street vending provides scope to the poor women to sustain their life through small earning and also street vending provides livelihood and source of income to high percentage of women. The study was carried out to determine the banking needs of women street vendors. The study extends to women street vendors in the Pollachi Taluk, their socio economic profiles, business profile, income and expenditure, their sources of credit, awareness on banking services and the problems encountered in banking services. Traditions and customs of the different religions and nativity and the population has created an uncontrollable demand for the traditional products of vegetables, fruits, flowers and food. These items are demanded by the population over 365 days. There are traditional, political, institutional and family functions going on over the whole year regularly which has increased a stable demand forall the products. Women Street vendors are accepted by the population as they are the immediate source to satisfy the demands of all kinds of people for all kinds of functions and festivals. Women street vendors sell the products nearby the people according to their needs of the day
Impact of Skill Development Training Programmes on Personality Traits of the Youth Trainees: A Study of selected districts in Andhra Pradesh
Full text linkSkill development is defined as the development of skills or competencies, which are relevant for the workforce. Skill development is a key factor in improving the employability of individuals, increasing productivity and competitiveness of enterprises, reducing unemployment, poverty and exclusion, strengthening innovation and attracting investment. It also facilitates the transition from the informal to the formal economy. The objective of Skill Development programmes being implemented in India is to create a workforce encompassing the necessary and continuously upgraded skills, knowledge and internationally recognized qualifications to get access to decent employment and ensure India's competitiveness in the dynamic global market. Skill Development aims at improving the productivity and employability of workforce (wage and self-employed) both in the organized and the unorganized sectors. It requires increased participation of youth, women, disabled and other disadvantaged sections and to harmonize the efforts of various sectors and reorganize the present system with the better capability to adapt to changing technologies and labour market demands
Buddhism: India's Soft Power Diplomacy
Full text linkLooking at the nature of religiosity in the international politics especially the dichotomy of western v/s non-western ideology based on the 'securitization thesis', religion appears as dysfunctional and destructive entity in some cases. However, on its positive aspect, religion has strong and constructive potentials in generating "a powerful sense of social solidarity, connecting people to one another at a thick or deep level, as opposed to the thin connectedness that is conventional in modern societies”. Significantly, religion as a cultural soft power has optimum capability to maintain healthy relations with the other states. Soft power is considered as one of the crucial means to ensure the accomplishment of desired objectives/interests without applying force/ hard power. According to Joseph Nye, "this soft power - getting others to want the outcomes that you want - co-opts people rather than coerces them." In other words, soft power as "the ability to affect others to obtain the outcomes one wants through attraction rather than coercion or payment" . He emphasized three major sources of soft power; culture, political values and foreign policy, through which host country set the priorities of its foreign policy towards other nations. While interpreting America's foreign policy, he integrated culture as a mode of soft power that indicates the ability to manipulate the other state's behaviour. Therefore, soft power is an ability to upsurge the requisite conduct and renovate it into the outcomes. Further, Nye said, "if a state can make its power seem legitimate in the eyes of others, it will encounter less resistance to its wishes, if its culture and ideology are attractive, others will more willingly follow." Moreover, Gallarotti (2011) stated that soft power fetching significant and the useful power in world affairs, which depicted as the prerequisite to target to willingly do what soft state would want them to do, therefore, there is minimum frictions and clashes of interest in the procedure of soft power
Rural household livelihood vulnerability and mitigation strategies – Need for a Government intervention
Full text linkSustainable development report (2017) has observed that globally the natural and economic shocks have caused a loss of 250 billion to 300 billion US dollars a year. Also, the vulnerability to shocks is found to be high in developing and under-developed countries. In those regions, rural households are particularly more vulnerable to shocks in those regions. The most common household shocks are an income earner's illness or death, business failure, dwelling demolition, theft, drought, farmlands destruction due to fire or flood, long spells of unemployment, and price hikes for farm inputs and food stuffs. The studies have also observed that the risks\shocks are vicious in nature and they may hinder the household's capacity to recover and push them towards vulnerability. These observations bring to light an important possibility that the vulnerability factors could be both contagious and cumulative in its effect. Understanding the transmission mechanism and breaking the vicious cycle assumes importance in this context. There are different approaches to studying the vicious propagations of vulnerability
Environmental and Non-Conventional Security Threat in South Asia: A Study
Full text linkIndia is the seventh largest country in the world with an area of 32,87,2631 sq km. The country comprises plains, mountains and seas which give India a unique geographical entity in South Asia. Since the ancient times India has been a place of cultural and religious ethos having holistic approach with nature and environment. During colonization, natural resources and bio-diversity was destroyed largely to meet the needs of growing industrialization. India is an agrarian country and feeds 17% of the world population, majority of which depend on the natural resources to meet their needs and livelihood. India is also among the first ten industrial countries in the world and one of the fastest growing economies. Thus, India's environmental problems and vulnerabilities are shaped and caused by rapid growth of industrialization, urbanization, population, poverty, transportation etc. The environmental problems are challenges and threats that affect the wellbeing and survival of people often referred as non-traditional security threat. South Asia's prominent non-traditional security concerns are climate change, environmental degradation; water, energy and food securit