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Working Papers | 1975

Agricultural Development Through Community Action: Scope and Limitations

Gaikwad V R

The purpose of this paper is to generate discussion on certain basic issues pertaining scope and limitations of community actions for agricultural development. For this purpose a sociological-historical-cultural approach has been followed keeping in mind the two roles of agricultural development, viz., production of food with the optimum utilization of human energy and other resources and socio-economic transformation. Various components of the environment that affect community participation in agricultural development are analysed. Community participation is influenced by the structure and organization of the community. These in turn are influenced by the nature of the technology used. This paper examines the close interrelationship between agricultural technology and social structure, organization, and processes. The interaction of four major components of the environment, viz., land-man ratio, nature of traditional agricultural technology, law of inheritance, and joint family system is analysed. This is followed by an analysis of micro-level realities covering the spatial distribution of settlements, pattern of land ownership, and pattern of social interaction. At the end, some suggestions are given keeping in mind the demands and constraints of the environment.

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Working Papers | 1975

Production Function in Indian Sugar Industry

Gupta G S and Patel Kirit

The purpose of the study is to (a) examine the degree of substitutability between labour and capital, (b) estimate returns to scale, (c) compute the factors' marginal productivities and relative contribution to output and to (d) test the predictive ability of the estimated relationship. These objectives are pursued with the aid of annual time series data for the period 1946 to 1966. Both inter-regional and inter-temporal comparisons have been attempted. The multiple regression technique is applied to various forms of the production functions. It is found that the elasticity of factor substitution is unity in the Indian Sugar Industry. It has experienced increasing returns to scale. Labour as a factor of production is more important both in terms of marginal productivity and contribution to the output and it is more efficient in all-India than in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and more in Bihar than in Uttar Pradesh. All these findings imply that there is a good scope for employment of more labour and the expansion of sugar industry in India. The paper suggests that the output of a manufacturing industry can reasonably be forecasted through the multiple regression technique.

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Working Papers | 1975

The Communication Effects Gap: A Field Experiment on Television and Agricultural Ignorance in India

Shingi P M and Mody Bella

This paper attempts to interpret a part of the findings of a communication experiment carried out in India in the light of the communication effects gap hypothesis. Recent research in the U.S. mainly concentrated around the issues of perceived inequalities-the knowledge gap-created by the existing information delivery systems. The hypothesis that "as the infusion of mass media information into a social system increases, segments of the population with higher socio-economic status tend to acquire this information at a faster rate than the lower status segments, so that the gap in knowledge between these segments tends to increase rather than decrease" was tested in this paper. The results, however, indicated that television as a medium of information delivery did not discriminate between the socially powerful and the economically poor and seemed to be an equalizing tool.

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Working Papers | 1975

Behaviour of Income Shares in a Developing Economy - The Indian Experience

Dholakia Bakul H

This paper makes an attempt to analyse the behaviour of relative factor shares in an underdeveloped country passing through the early stages of rapid economic development. The main purpose of the analysis is to advance some broad hypotheses regarding the pattern of income distribution and the trends in factor shares in a developing economy. The empirical basis of the analysis is provided by the data relating to the Indian economy for the period 1948-49 to 1968-69. The analysis is conducted by dividing the economy into two broad sectors, viz., the agricultural sector and the non-agricultural sector. The main finding of the analysis, which is offered largely in the spirit of a general hypothesis, is that the overall share of labour would be steadily rising in a developing country, though the major factors that account for the rising trend would be essentially different during the different stages of development.

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Working Papers | 1975

Stewart Maturity Scale (Practice Stores)

T. V. Rao

This is a continuation of Technical Report No. 77. There are 5 sets of practice stories. Scoring system is described at the end of each set. Reliability coefficients have to be computed on the basis these stories and the keys supplied in this.

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Working Papers | 1975

Perception of College Environment Work Values and Professional Aspirations of Students of a Medical College

T. V. Rao and Sarupriya D S

This study sponsored by ICSSR, attempted to assess the perceptions of campus climate by the first, second and third year medical students. Differences in the work-value patterns and Professional aspirations were also studied. The results revealed that students of final years view their medical college environment less favourably than those in the early years. Students in the final years had work-values emphasizing the economic and status aspects more than those in the early years and academic aspects less than those in the early years. Creativity and independence were valued the most. The results of this study indicate the need for value education in the medical colleges.

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Working Papers | 1975

Interactive Evaluation and Bound Procedure for Selecting Multiattributed Alternatives

Sarin R K

An evaluation and bound procedure is developed which offers substantial improvement over conventional approach. The improvement is measured in terms of the simplicity of the judgments and the number of judgments that are required from the decision-maker in identifying a preferred decision alternative. An extensive experimental study is reported. Some experimentally verified rules for implementing the procedure on an interactive computer are discussed.

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Working Papers | 1975

An Intemative Procedure for Subset Selection with Ordinal Preferences

Sarin R K

Many decision situations involve the selection of a subset of alternatives (items, projects or actions) when the pay-offs of these decisions are difficult to quantify. An interactive procedure is developed to identify an optimal subset of alternatives when the decision-decision-maker can supply only ordinal preferences over the subsets. The procedure enumerates the subsets of alternatives such that the number of subset comparisons made explicitly by the decision-maker are minimized.

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Working Papers | 1975

Change and Innovations: A Select Bibliography of books for the Use of Those who are Concerned with Educational Innovations

Pareek Udai

It is a classified annotated bibliography of recent books on various aspects of change and innovation. The bibliography is meant for those who are concerned with educational innovations. The bibliography has been classified into four heads. (A) Social Change: General (theories and review, social and technological change, organisational change, process and planning of change and evaluating change), (B) Innovations, (C) Educational Change and Alternatives (General, Education and Social Change, Alternatives in Education, Process and Process Strategies, Curricular Change, Other Areas), (D) Educational Innovation, (E) Case Studies, (F) Bibliography.

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Working Papers | 1975

Towards Understanding the Values of Future Managers

Saiyadain M S

This study attempts to look at the effect of sex, previous academic background and the annual family income on the value patterns of students who have opted for management education. Barring a few exceptions the results suggests that these biosocial variable do not influence the value patterns. It is concluded that perhaps values are a function of peer culture rather than the conventional biosocial differences.

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