Social Sciences and Humanities

Civilization has lived along the River Satluj basin for centuries, but the impacts of Satluj flash floods were not felt to the same extent in the past as is experienced now. Rapid increase in population and urbanization along River Satluj basin accelerated the economic and developmental activities in the region. Human activities within Satluj valley, land clearance for farming, upstream development and construction of channels, levees and reservoirs change results in increased runoff.

The European Comission has included the “development/training of language teachers” in the action plan for the multilingualism promotion. The foreign language teachers have to adapt to the growing demands of the multicultural era and help all the students develop the language skills needed for their future.  The way the students acquire the language has changed and will probably change in the following years, so it is more than necessary the teacher to go on a professional development.

This study uses provincial export and import data and household consumption expenditure data (Susenas) to analyze the impact of globalization on inequality in Indonesia for the period 2000-2010. In a fixed effect panel regression framework, the relationship between globalization and inequality is estimated. The main results show that globalization has an inequality enhancing effect on inequality for provinces with globalization rate beyond a certain critical threshold. While it had a decreasing effect on inequality for provinces below the critical rate of globalization.

With growing scarcity of water and deteriorating quality, water resources management in India is becoming more challenging with the passage of time. The imminent onset of climate change will exacerbate these impacts, placing even greater pressure on already stressed resources and regions. The National Action Plan on Climate Change of the Government of India (2008), provides useful insight on climate-change impacts on water resources. The plan sets a goal of a 20% improvement in water use efficiency through pricing and other measures.

The main objective is to identify the employability skills required by public and private companies and to conduct a comparative evaluation of how the public and private sector employers perceive the employability skills. Fourteen variables that make up employability skills based on past research were examined in this study. Data were collected through questionnaire on online survey mode that intended to gauge employers’ perceptions. The sample respondent had taken employers from public and private sector.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a term that includes any communication device or application, such as radio, television, mobiles, computer and network, hardware and software, satellite systems and so on, as well as the various services and applications associated with them, such as videoconferencing and distance learning. The ICTs are often spoken of in a particular context, such as the ICTs in education, health care, or libraries. The term is somewhat more common outside of the United States.

This paper coins how tourism sector is significant for Indian economy. Developing country like India tourism has become one of the major sectors of the economy, contributing to a large proportion to GDP and employment opportunities. Tourism is one of the fastest growing service industry in the country with great potentials for its further expansion and diversification. Tourism industry plays a major role in any country’s economic development. It helps significantly to the country for creating the employment opportunities to the large number of people.

The Neo-Assamese Muslims or the immigrant Muslims of the char area (or reverine islands) of Brahmaputra Valley of Assam constitute an important segment of the total population of Assam. As a social group of contemporary Assamese society they are often at the centre of many controversial issues mostly with respect to the question of survival of identity of Assamese speaking people of Assam as a majority community. However, very little is known about the socio-cultural and politico-economic life of this community.

The foremost purpose of this paper is to explore the factor productivity of chemical industry in Tamilnadu during the Post-reform period from 1990-91 to 2009-10. The study established that, the labour and capital productivity is very low during the post-reform period. In conclusion of this paper implies that to improve the productivity and reduce the variations in productivity of chemical industry in Tamilnadu. Thus, government has to frame separate policy for stabilizing the growth of chemical industries in Tamilnadu.

Population ageing has profound, major consequences and implications for all facets of human life. Its effect is determined by the subjective and objective environment and health status particularly the older person. This paper examines the subjective and objective environment, health status and different aspects of human deprivation in the old age and how it varies across gender, sector and state.