Physical Sciences and Engineering

Gajah Mungkur reservoir is a multipurpose reservoir with broadness of 8,800 ha . Its functions mainly for irrigation, hydroelectric power, source of drinking water, tourism, aquaculture and fisheries. Presently the sustainability of reservoir function is distressed by emerging of sedimentation. The sedimentation may be reduced water volme, create siltation, decrease carrying capacity, create rust and corrosion on the turbine engine. The aims of the research is to observe the sedimentation rate at Gajah Mungkur Reservoir as a base line study on the reservoir management model.

The method of training programme has certain aims to fulfill. These are concerned with the determination of change in the organizational behavior and the change needed in the organizational structure. Hence evaluation of any training program must inform us whether the training programme has been able to deliver the goals and objectives in terms of cost incurred and benefits achieved. The analysis of the information is the concluding methods of programme. The analysis of data should be summarized and then compared with the data of other training programmes similar nature

This study set to investigate the secular attitude and attitude towards discipline among the professional college students. This was with a view to ascertain the extent to which variable like gender, location of the residence and religion may influence the secular attitude and attitude towards discipline of the professional college students. A 972 item questionnaire was designed to elicit responses from the students. A random sample of 972 professional college students was chosen from 15 professional colleges within the rural and urban areas of Tamilnadu.

In the Present investigation, an attempt has been made to study the Predictive Correlates of the Knowledge of Natural Hazards and Knowledge of Eco-System of College Students in Madurai District, Tamil Nadu, India. It is found that 92.5% have average level of the knowledge of Natural Hazards and 79.5% of them have average level of the knowledge of Eco-System. Also it is found that the gender and locality caused no significant difference in respect of their knowledge of Natural Hazards whereas subject group caused significant difference in respect of their knowledge of Natural Hazards.

The instructional role perception of working college of education is high. The rank order preference of the different value pattern shows that the teachers working in college of education have given first preference for political value followed by religious, social, aesthetic, economic and theoretical value respectively.

The Present investigation has been under taken in order to study the environmental knowledge of school teachers in Cuddalore District. Environmental Knowledge of school teachers scale was constructed and validated by the investigators (2011) has been administrated to a random sample of 300 higher secondary school teachers. It is found that there is a significant difference between BT teachers and PGT teachers and there is no significant difference between male and female teachers, and school teachers in the rural and urban area on their environmental knowledge.

This study is an attempt to develop two multidimensional between-group inequality measures by reviewing two multidimensional interpersonal inequality measures. These measures of multidimensional between-group inequality are characterized and applied on Indian data to assess between-group inequality in household monthly per capita consumer expenditure and educational achievement across fourteen major states of India.