A study on operational performance of selected public and private sector banks in India

The banks are prime intermediaries in mobilising the resources to various sectors of Indian economy. The flow of bank credit has a positive impact on the growth of the banking sector and contributes increasing the national income, employment and production. The present study analysing the operational performance of the public and private sector banks in India. The purpose of the study two public and private sectors banks SBI, PNB and HDFC, ICICI banks selected. The study period covers five years 2015 to 2019. The data analysis has been done using the ratio analysis, descriptive statistics like mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation.

A Critical Study on Implementation of Section 357A of the Criminal Procedure Code with reference to the Rights of the Victims

It is a weakness of our jurisprudence that the victims of the crimes, and the distress of the dependants of the prisoner, do not attract the attention of the law .The District Legal Service Authority (DLSA) or the State Legal Service Authority (SLSA) needs to decide the quantum of compensation to be given under the scheme. Section 357A was a necessary enactment, and is useful, because the victim need not prove his case to get compensation under this section, which should hasten the process, but unfortunately the scheme is not being implemented completely. This paper analyses the plight of the victims of crimes under the Indian Criminal Justice System, and the importance of section 357A for protection of their rights. It further argues that that the scheme is not being implemented properly, and there is a lack of uniformity in the statute of each state. The verification procedure of these states is justified only if it does not hinder the compensation of a genuine victim. It explains the importance of immediate compensation, and the role of judiciary in the journey from the enactment to implementation of any scheme and statute. This paper concludes by suggesting changes that could be brought into the Indian Criminal judicial system for the betterment of the victim’s right and society atlarge.

A study on the economic status of women domestic workers and Covid-19 treatment affordability in private hospitals in Kerala State

Background: The women domestic workers are neglected class of unorganized sector, although many social security measures and wage guarantee legislations are enacted, yet the working conditions and socio-economic status of women domestic workers are still in malady. The onset of covid-19 pandemic towards end of 2019 made matter highly worse for women domestic workers, by making them jobless and restrict to stay home finding hard to meet both ends. Many of these women are infected by covid-19 and several died of insufficient treatment and poor health conditions. The treatment charges in private hospitals for covid-19 is too high to afford by daily earning women domestic workers. Even after Kerala government put a cap to various covid treatment costs in private hospitals, the second wave of covid-19 witnessed filling up of government hospitals with patients and many of the people are forced to rely on private hospitals to save life. It is high time to think the insufficient economic and health schemes of women domestic workers and provide a comprehensive multi-faceted developmental policy toadopt by government. Objectives: The primary objective of the study is to analyze the covid-19 treatment affordability of women domestic workers in private hospital in association with their monthly family income. Methods/Statistical operations: The study is conducted in Palakkad district of Kerala state. The sampling technique adopted is simple random method from different age group of women domestic workers. A total of 150 women domestic workers is identified and tool used for survey is structured interview according to the convenience of the respondents. Findings: The study found that the covid- 19 treatment charges fixed by government is still unaffordable to majority of income range groups and only 5 percent have monthly family income to afford thefive-daygeneral ward treatment charges with normal medicines in private hospitals.

Fine motor skills in patients with Parkinsons disease: effect of auditory cueing

Background and purpose - Parkinson’s disease with cardinal feature of bradykinesia is a movement disorder. The effect of cueing in disorders like parkinsons patients ,stroke, spinal cord injury for improving motor skills and gait and lower limb functions have long been investigated by the Researchers, but there are dearth of studies evaluating the effect of cueing on fine motor skills in patients with parkinson’s disease. Hence this study tries to investigate the effect of auditory cueing on fine motor skills in Parkinson’s disease. Methodology - 25 diagnosed Parkinson’s patients having primary level of education, with mean age 72±5 yrs in Hoehn and Yahr stages 1 to 3 of disease and MMSE score above 24 were included in the study. Two groups were formed; one group performing activities with auditory cueing and other group performing activities without auditory cueing. Scores were calculated using Jebsen Taylor Hand Function Test. Results - Mean values of pre and post intervention timings on Jebsen Taylor Hand Function Test were calculated. Group with auditory cueing showed improvement in total sores of subtests of Jebsen Taylor Hand Function Test with mean and standard deviation (58.51±2.69) seconds in dominant hand and (54.59±2.43) seconds in non-dominant hand, whereas, Group without auditory cueing showed improvement in total sores of subtests of Jebsen Taylor Hand Function Test with mean and standard deviation of (13.39±2.07) seconds in dominant hand and (13.52±1.96) seconds in non-dominant hand. Conclusion- Auditory cueing is proved to be an effective method in improving fine motor skills in patients with Parkinsons disease.

A study to assess the level of happiness among nursing officers working in Jipmer hospital

A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted among single group nursing officers working in JIPMER hospital, Puducherry in morning and general shift. The result was calculated using expected proportion level of happiness from previous study which showed 28.9% of nurses having very good level of happiness. The sample size estimated using 10% precision, 5% significance level and sample size is 274, rounded of to 275. The sampling technique used was simple random sampling. The data was collected by using Oxford happiness scale questionnaire and association with demographic variables was done like- age, gender, education, years of experience, occupation, family income, marital status, and type of family. Overall it took around 15- 20 minutes only. After one week, same nursing officers were asked to assemble in a common place at the same time. The same questionnaire was given to them to assess the reliability of the tool – by test and re-test method.Descriptive statistics, mean, standard deviation and t test were used to statistically analyze the data. Mean value of happiness was 66 +_ 0.365, there was no significant correlation between happiness and socio demographic variables like- age (P=0.84), gender (P=0.26), occupation (P=0.60), education (P=0.61). However there was a significant relationship between years of experience and happiness level (P=0.047)

MOOCs - Colour up your life

MOOCs create enormous learning opportunities for those who are interested to learn new courses irrespective of curriculum. MOOCs provide learners to access resources from anywhere. With the changes in technology and availability of various tech gadgets people are interested to get access of1 resources in these gadgets and are interested to learn online rather than traditional mode. By identifying the shift in learning process of learners most of the Universities are offering online modules in the form of MOOCs and they also made it as a part of curriculum. This paper mainly focuses on historical background, types, essential characteristics, trends, advantages and disadvantages of MOOCs.

Effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge of school going children regarding Dengue Fever in a selected Government School, Ankoli, Berhampur, Ganjam, Odisha

Background: Dengue is a very significant world public health problem which has largely been ignored in the developed world. Objectives : To find out the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge of school going children regarding dengue fever and find the association between posttest knowledge scores with their selected demographical variable. Methods: Data were collected from fifty school going children selected through simple random sampling technique, by using self-structured questionnaire from 17.4.2017 to 2.5.2017. Results: Highest percentages (50%) of the school children were in 11-12 years of age group. 56% of them were female. 62% of them were studying in sixth class. The overall pre-test mean knowledge score was 10.02±4.04 which was 29.47% of the total score whereas in post-test it was 25.24 ± 5.00 which was 74.23% and effectiveness was 44.76%. Further highly significant (p<0.05) difference was found between pre and post-test knowledge score whereas no significant (p<0.05) association was found between post-test knowledge score and all the selected demographic variable of the school going children revealing effectiveness of planned teaching programme. Conclusion: Findings of the study revealed that the knowledge of the school going children regarding dengue fever and its prevention were less before the introduction of PTP. Hence it can be concluded that PTP was an effective strategy for providing information and to improve knowledge of school going children regarding dengue fever. and this PTP can be utilized in creating awareness programme in prevention and control of dengue fever.

The Development of Thinking Skills for the Future of Hospitality Industry in India

Thinking skill in the hospitality industry in the modern day is the focal point which is missed in many students. The students are been taught in India from early schooling to memorization which has little time for the development of thinking skills, which fails to address the deeper understanding and overall learning experience. Learning to raise a suitable question to the problem and presume information in order to construct a better association with the information is also crucial. This research paper highlights on exploring the possibility of guiding student’s thinking skill abilities in hospitality school to include the opportunity for progressive learning. The prospective students of hospitality should be encouraged to combine an ethical and monetary element in their later business practices. The intention of this research is to recognize the bridge in understanding, enumerate their capability to compose their knowledge of the material, and for the hospitality students to realize the material sufficient to create a perceptive question showcasing their understanding of the material. A secondary aspect of this research thinking skill ability will give better opportunity to the students to prosper in the hospitality industry.

Monitoring the quality of life in urban area using TDVI- Case study of Kalaburagi city

Many vegetation indices have been proposed over last decades made specialists search for the most suitable vegetation index for a given remote sensing application. Measuring the Quality of Place (QOP) is a hard task since it involves both physical and socio-economic dimensions. Being one of the major land use categories, urban vegetation plays a significant role in one‟s judgment for QOP in a neighborhood. Both quantity and quality of the community parks and recreation areas are major determinants of neighborhood attraction. For these reasons, detection of urban vegetation cover has been one of the important implication areas of urban image classification techniques. “Transformed Difference Vegetation Index (TDVI) developed by Bannari et al. (2002), is tested in a previous work where the index has performed better than NDVI and SAVI. In that work, a comparative study between TDVI, SAVI and NDVI for estimating vegetation cover in urban environment from the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1D) imagery has been conducted. The validation of the obtained results according to the ground truth showed that the TDVI is an excellent tool for vegetation cover monitoring in urban environment. It does not saturate like NDVI or SAVI, it shows an excellent linearity as a function of the rate of vegetation cover. This paper adds on the previous work by analyzing the performance of TDVI in urban image classification. Results indicate that, the performance of TDVI in urban image classification is better than NDVI and SAVI. The new index not only differentiates the urban vegetation cover better but also helps to minimize the error in classifying other unclassified pixels of urban categories.

A Sociological Study On Construction Workers (With Special Reference to Chitradurga District)

India is a largest growing economies in the world. There are several sectors helps to the expansion of economic growth. Among these sectors construction industry is the main field which leads to the spread of economic activities. Eighteenth century witnessed industrial revolution in England. The term industrialization refers the process which assists to the expansion of economic condition of any Informal or unorganized sector. In India nearly 273 million workers engaged in construction Industry in which 92 % of them are working in unorganized sectors. Undoubtedly the process of industrialization helps every nation for the economic development, simultaneously creates various social problems. Considering the fact, the present study aims to find out the socio- economic condition of construction workers with a sociological point of view in Chitradurga district. Because the construction workers facing perilous condition and leading vulnerable life. Health hazards, economic instability, seasoned job are the main problems of these workers. Nonetheless, the present study tries to explain the difficulty of construction workers in a sociological background.