scholarly journals Eradicating Poverty in India by Sun using Dye Sensitized Photovoltaic Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-46
Author(s):  
P. Sudheer ◽  
Ch. Chengaiah
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Local Competition ◽  
Dye Sensitized ◽  
Marginal Areas ◽  
The People ◽  
Solar Energy Utilization ◽  
Almost All

Almost all 1.6 billion people in developing countries have no access to electricity; approximately 85% of the people live in rural areas. Poor people and people in marginal areas, presently depend on natural resources such as wood, charcoal, dung etc. to provide energy for cooking and heating. By 2030, in this category is expected to rise from 2.4 to 2.6 billion people. The result will be greater local competition for traditional energy. So, the rural development can be achieved by promoting locally available renewable energy to meet the basic electricity needs. Decentralised production units are appropriate wherever locally renewable sources of energy are available. Efficient use of traditional and commercial fuels. The main focus of this paper is to present the energy management techniques and different applications of solar energy utilization for the rural people in India to eradicate the poverty in addition to this the role of youth, educationalists, researchers, scientists, politicians and bureaucrats etc. to eradicating poverty in the nation.

scholarly journals Information Asymmetry and Trust: A Framework for Studying Microfinance in India

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
M S Sriram
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Imperfect Information ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
Financial Transactions

In recent times, microfinance has emerged as a major innovation in the rural financial marketplace. Microfinance largely addresses the issue of access to financial services. In trying to understand the innovation of microfinance and how it has proved to be effective, the author looks at certain design features of microfinance. He first starts by identifying the need for financial service institutions which is basically to bridge the gap between the need for financial services across time, geographies, and risk profiles. In providing services that bridge this gap, formal institutions have limited access to authentic information both in terms of transaction history and expected behaviour and, therefore, resort to seeking excessive information thereby adding to the transaction costs. The innovation in microfinance has been largely to bridge this gap through a series of trustbased surrogates that take the transaction-related risks to the people who have the information — the community through measures of social collateral. In this paper, the author attempts to examine the trajectory of institutional intermediation in the rural areas, particularly with the poor and how it has evolved over a period of time. It identifies a systematic breach of trust as one of the major problems with the institutional interventions in the area of providing financial services to the poor and argues that microfinance uses trust as an effective mechanism to address one of the issues of imperfect information in financial transactions. The paper also distinguishes between the different models of microfinance and identifies which of these models use trust in a positivist frame and as a coercive mechanism. The specific objectives of the paper are to: Superimpose the role of trust in various types of exchanges and see how it impacts the effectiveness of repeated transactions. While greater access to information fosters trust and thus helps social networks to reduce transaction costs, there could be limits to which exchanges could solely depend on networks and trust. Look at the frontiers where mutual trust cannot work as a surrogate for lower appraisal costs. Use an example in the Canadian context and see how an entity that started on the basis of social networks and trust had to morph into using the techniques used by other formal nonneighbourhood institutions as it grew in size and went beyond a threshold. Using the Canadian example, the author argues that as the transactions get sophisticated, it is possible to achieve what informal networks have achieved through the creative use of information technology. While we find that the role of trust both in the positivist and the coercive frame does provide some interesting insights into how exchanges with the poor could be managed, there still could be breaches in the assumptions. This paper identifies the conditions under which the breaches could possibly happen and also speculates on the effect of such breaches.

scholarly journals Religion, Moral and Modernisation of Urban Society: A Study on the Roles of Religion in Youth Development in Lampung, Republic of Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-116
Author(s):  
Suhandi ◽  
Azhar Jaafar
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Reduction Process ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Process Data ◽  
The People ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Multi Access ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Role Of Religion

Modernisation is the consequence of the demands of the development that brings negative impacts to the society. It is undeniable that modernization also brings abundance of positive impacts that ease the life of people and that modernization and humanization cannot be separated. In this context, the youth are considered as unstable being, who easily being controlled by multi-access communication technology; from social, fashion, behaviour, lifestyle, and ideology. Almost all of the damaging sides of technology affect the youth. Religion as the spiritual agent has a major role in combating this change in the society. Religion can act as the social control to hinder from immoral behaviour and worthless actions among the society. The main issue in the current study is to investigate the role of religion in strengthening the moral among the teenagers. This research was conducted by using qualitative method. Data were collected through observation, interview and documentation. The participants of this research were the people of the rural areas in Bandar Lampung. After data collection was carried out, the data were processed qualitatively using the data reduction process, data exposure, and data verification. To conclude, the existence of the negative effects of modernization resulted from lack of religious virtues and parents’ control over their children’s social behaviour.

Women Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Rural Development in India

2020 ◽  
pp. 246-259
Author(s):  
Badal Chandra Das ◽  
Sebak Kumar Jana
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The People ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Development Support ◽  
Unemployed Youth

Rural development implies both the economic betterment of the people living in rural areas as well as bringing out holistic development. Accordingly, government has made paradigm shift from individual-centric rural development support to creation of gainful self-employment as well as wage employment among rural masses. Entrepreneurship, in this direction, has become an important consideration. Economic growth of a region largely depends on the involvement of poor and marginal sections into the process of entrepreneurship development. Globally, a large number of unemployed youth and women are becoming self-employed through entrepreneurship and creating employment opportunities for others. Researchers have worked on women's empowerment, economic development, and their role on micro-credit movement. The work on role of women in sustainable development is very limited. This chapter has tried to analyse issues related to women entrepreneurships in light of sustainable rural development in India to meet the research gap in the current context of Indian rural economy.

scholarly journals Microfinance Institutions in Yemen “Hurdles and Remedies”

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Saleh Alshebami ◽  
V. Rengarajan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Remedial Measures ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Physical Infrastructure ◽  
Banking Institutions

The objective of this paper is to investigate the different types of hurdles limiting the growth and development of microfinance institutions operating in Yemen, and to suggest relevant recommendations that be used as a backup in the process of taking remedial measures. The study is both descriptive and analytical in nature. The data collected is based on both primary and secondary sources. The primary data was collected during the field study of ongoing PhD research study on the role of microfinance in mitigating poverty and unemployment in Yemen conducted in October 2015 by Mr. Ali Alshebami. Only a sample of nine MFIs was selected from The MFIs operating in the market, as the remaining MFIs could not be easily reached due to the prevailing persistent internal war situation. A few of these hurdles include but not limited the existence of insufficient funds necessary for financial business and the availability of poor physical infrastructure in the rural areas. In addition, the shortage of qualified human resources, the poor diversification of products and services, the political instability of the country, the wrong perception about lending to the poor and many others. Among other remedial measures, investible funds and designing of integrated financial products with the inclusion of micro insurance are essential, these two vital ones along with including the financial linkages between MFIs and formal banking institutions should be adopted for more enhancement. The study confirms that there are several difficulties and challenges, which hinder the MFIs from progressing and achieving their mission in terms of outreach to the poor people.

scholarly journals ROLE OF TAGARADI CAPSULE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ANIDRA (INSONIA) – A CLINICAL STUDY

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 3850-3857
Author(s):  
Rajnik Jadav ◽  
Alankruta Dave ◽  
Swati Dabhi
Keyword(s):  
Rating Scale ◽  
Acute Stage ◽  
Rank Test ◽  
The People ◽  
Falling Asleep ◽  
Signed Rank Test ◽  
Hypnotic Drugs ◽  
Trial Drug ◽  
Almost All

Anidra (Insomnia) is a type of sleep disorder in which individual feels difficulty in falling asleep, staying asleep or both. In Ayurveda, Anidra is indicated as VataNanatmajaVikara by Acharya Charaka. Insomnia affects most of the people at any stage of life due to today’s stressful day to day life. Allopathic hypnotic drugs are used to treat insomnia in acute stage, but long-term use can lead to dependency and withdrawal symptoms along with other side effects. In present study a polyherbal compound Tagaradi Capsule consist extracts of Tagara, Jatamansi, ParsikaYavani, Ashwagandha, Brahmi, Shankhapushpi, Pippalimula and Sarpagandha is used to check its efficacy in the management insomnia. Aim: Role of Tagaradi capsule in the management of Anidra (Insomnia). Materials and methods: Total 33 newly diagnosed patients of age group 18 to 70 years of insomnia who were not taking any other hypnotic medicine were selected and administered 2 capsules each of 500 mg of Tagaradi compound extract along with a cup of warm milk at bedtime for 2 months. Assessment was done considering the overall improvement of sleep quality according to Pittsburgh Insomnia Rating Scale, im-provement in associated complains, relieving of anxiety according to Hamilton Anxiety rating Scale and relieving of depression according to Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. Observations: The information gathered on the basis of observations was subjected to statistical analysis. The Paired ‘t’ test was used to check the significance of objective criteria and Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test was used to check the signifi-cance to subjective criteria. Results: The results showed that the trial drug had highly significant effect on almost all the mentioned parameters of Insomnia.

scholarly journals The Role of Union Digital Centres in Reducing Social Inequalities in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Minhajul Abedin ◽  
Muhammad Ferdaus ◽  
A.M.M. Mubassher Shah ◽  
Md Abu Sayem
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Network Connection ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
The People

Union Digital Centers have been inaugurated to accomplish the vision ‘Digital Bangladesh’ to empower rural people by providing digital services. The study attempts to assess the role of union digital centers in reducing social inequality. It also tries to identify the barriers in providing digital services to the local disadvantaged people. In this purpose, the study exerted a cross-sectional mixed-method approach. Data were collected from 399 service receivers of UDC through questionnaire survey, 16 KIIs and 5 FGDs. From principal component and correlation analysis, it is found that the grassroots people’s easy accessibility, citizen’s empowerment by minimizing information gap, quality service delivery at affordable price and time-cost-visit reduction play a significant role in reducing social inequality in rural areas. These factors are positively correlated with the effective service delivery of UDCs to reduce social inequality. Lack of awareness, conflict of job responsibility with UP secretaries and weak network connection are the major barriers in providing effective services of UDCs. Still UDCs bring a new dimension in the public service delivery system which empowers the people and reduce social inequalities in rural areas. 

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF PUNJAB RURAL SUPPORT PROGRAMME IN PROVIDING HEALTH FACILITIES TO RURAL WOMEN;

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (05) ◽  
pp. 1033-1038
Author(s):  
Ayesha Riaz ◽  
Sher Muhammad ◽  
Ijaz Ashraf ◽  
Aisha Siddique ◽  
Khalid Mahmood Ch
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Health Facilities ◽  
Poor People

Despite the fact that women account for more than half of the total worldpopulation, they are still not considered equal to men. The health of rural women in Pakistanis very poor because of the lack of health services and competent health workers. Besidesgovernment health centres, hospitals and many Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)are also working in the rural areas for providing social services to rural women. Punjab RuralSupport Programme is also working for socio-economic empowerment of rural women. PRSPbegan to provide health facilities to the poor people in villages through Basic Health Units(BHUs). Objectives: To analyze the role of PRSP in providing health facilities to women in ruralarea. Design: A multistage simple random sampling technique was used for the study. Setting:District Faisalabad. Material & Methods: The population for the study consisted of rural womenonly who were members of the Community Organizations (COs) of PRSP. Out of the eight townsof district Faisalabad, four towns which cover rural areas (Samundri, Iqbal town, Jaranwala,and Chak Jhumra) were selected. Four field units of PRSP are working in these four towns i.e.Salarwala in Chak Jhumra, Satiana in Jaranwala, Khidarwala in Samundri, and Dijkot in IqbalTown. These field units had 214, 203, 170 and 238 female COs, respectively. A sample of 10%COs was selected from each field unit randomly. Thus the total selected COs were 82. Fivemembers from each CO were selected at random. In this way the total sample size for the studywas 410 respondents. A reliable and validated data collection instrument consisting of openand close ended questions was used. The data were analyzed using SPSS. It was concludedthat respondents were satisfied with certain facilities like availability of female doctors in BHUs,availability of medicines and availability of competent and qualified paramedics. Provision ofbasic tests (blood, sugar, pregnancy and haemoglobin etc.) was very weak area which neededmuch improvement. Conclusions: It was also concluded that respondents were satisfied withthe behaviour of staff at BHUs. However, provision of basic medical equipment needed attentionfrom the authorities.

The role of nurses in traditional–modern medicine conflict

2018 ◽  
pp. 110-113
Author(s):  
Nevin Gunaydin ◽  
Funda Ozpulat
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Scientific Validity ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
Almost All

In almost all societies around the world, traditional medicine applications are being resorted to for diagnosis and treatment of various diseases. As modern medical methods encounter difficulty in reaching the public and being expensive, traditional medicine methods are preferred to modern medical methods andti can be used more frequently in rural areas. Traditional methods can also be used for a variety of reasons although its scientific validity is discussed. There is a constant conflict between modern medicine and traditional medicine and they often coexist in spite of the fact that modern medicine usually does not approve traditional medicine. The nurse enhances the quality of care by taking into account the cultural characteristics of the individual and broadens the perspective of the nursing. It is the right approach for nurses to avoid conflict with the individual they care for in cultural practices, act together and guide them to develop a healthier lifestyle.Keywords: Traditional medicine, modern medicine, nurse

scholarly journals Micro-Finance for Poor and Non-Poor Communities of Nepal

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra Prasad Dhakal
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Poor Communities

 The micro-finance institutions are providing service to the people with the noble purpose to improve their socio-economic status which ultimately helps to reduce the poverty Nepal. In the Nepalese context, micro-finance institutions are providing the equal services to all people living in the remote and rural areas. The main objective of this study was to identify the economic importance of micro-finance institutions for poor and non-poor communities of Nepal. The study was conducted in Syangja district among the 385 beneficiaries of micro-finance. This study found that there was no significant association between the poor and non-poor people regarding the success of small scale business with the support of micro-finance, and increasing the amount of saving because p = .524 and .402 respectively which was greater than .05 significant levels. The difference could be observed in the increase in income level of poor and non-poor. Slight better improvement could be seen among the poor people, there was significant association between poor and non-poor because of p = .019.

Impact of an Outbreak of Dengue Fever: A Case Study from Rural Puerto Rico

1997 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Torres
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Dengue Fever ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
The People ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

This study documents the impact of an outbreak of dengue fever for the people who experienced the disease in Lares, a rural municipality in Puerto Rico. Symptomatology presented by reported cases of the fever corresponds to the clinical picture of the mild form of the dengue virus. The study utilizes a combined quantitative/qualitative methodological approach. The findings indicate that social status is a significant factor in terms of who is affected by the dengue fever. The impact of the outbreak was greater for poor communities in the urban and semi-rural areas, particularly for women who described themselves as housewives and mothers, and their children. Social expectations and the family's demands for these women to fulfill the role of caretaker superseded their own sick role. In addition, they experienced the greatest loss of time as a consequence of the outbreak. The main effect of the outbreak on work activities not traditionally remunerated with money, such as housework, was the inability of adult females in the household to perform their routine activities to maintain family life. Moreover, the monetary costs of health care absorbed a significant percentage of the household weekly income. The impact on psychological well-being was related to the stress produced by the clinical, social, and economic consequences of the outbreak for women. Implications of salient results for dengue fever prevention and control, as well as for the field of applied medical anthropology are discussed.

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