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Working Papers | 1990

A Study of the Training Needs of IAS Officers (10-16 Years Group)

Joseph Jerome

The study has made an attempt to gain an insight into the training needs of IAS Officers in the 10-16 years category from their own point of view. Data for the study was generated from programme feedback reports, exploratory interviews and through Training Needs Case Studies of officers in the category.

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Working Papers | 1990

MOU: More Memorandum than Understanding

Murthy K R S

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Government of India and public enterprises is the latest technique adopted to improve management of these enterprises. Will the MOU's improve the situation? Based on the experience so far, as also international experience with MOUs and management of large diversified corporations, this paper discusses why MOUs may not achieve the results expected and indicates the direction in which solutions should be sought.

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Working Papers | 1990

An EOQ Model Under Price Change Anticipation for A System with Insufficient Storage Capacity

Shah Nitin and Shah Y K

When a price change is announced in an inventory system, a one time decision has to be made to purchase a large quantity Q' before the price change becomes effective, to take advantage of current lower price. In this note, we consider a system having a limited storage capacity W<< Q', so that additional units are required to be stored in rented warehouse. Optimum value of Q' and corresponding gain are determined. The model is illustrated with an example.

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Working Papers | 1990

The Revelation Principle for Arbitration Games

Lahiri Somdeb

In this paper we prove the validity of the revelation principle for arbitration games and also establish that a large class of game forms can be represented as a Bayesian Statistician. This adds force and appeal to the concept of an arbitration game.

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Working Papers | 1990

European Economic Community: Reactions Abroad and India: Review of Literature

Gaikwad V R

Author's earlier paper, 'European Economic Community: Underlying Motives and Their Implications' (Working Paper No.841, January 1990) analysed four basic motives underlying formation of EEC. Analysis indicated that for Monnet (Father of EEC), the Common Market was a strategy to unify Europe. Similarly, Gorbachov's perestroika and glasnost are strategies to provide 'freedom' to East European communities and European Russia to ultimately become members of a United States of Europe. The analysis further indicated that the driving force behind the 'Unity of Europe and of people of European origin was genetic-ethnic-racial. It also indicated that Europe's march from nationalism to supra-nationalism would lead to supra-Euracialism. This from historical perspective means leading to War of Races. In this sense the analysis validates the early warning of influential American columnist James Reston in 1961: “The great conflict at the end of the century will not be ideological but racial”. EEC-1992 is of great symbolic significance for non-European communities. It is exactly 500 years after Columbus reached North America in 1492, the beginning of ruthless exploitation of non-European communities for five centuries. EEC-1992 is a landmark, a symbol of consolidation of European community's power. It can also be a prelude to War of Races. The analysis raised a number of questions and issues. For example, what is really happening in EEC? Whether the 1992 schizophrenia and intense attention given to economic and commercial interests have hidden the deadly politico-racial objectives of EEC? In this paper, we seek answers to many such questions and related issued from the writings of western scholars, diplomats and columnists. This also provides a backdrop for analysis of reactions to EEC in India presented in the author's third working paper in the series to be brought out in March 1990.

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Working Papers | 1990

Agro Climatic Regional Planning in India: Role of Agro Industries and Infrastructure

Srivastava Uma Kant

This paper is designed to (i) comment on the work on agro-climatic regional planning done so far; (ii) discuss the role of agro processing industries in agroclimatic regional planning exercise underway; (iii) comment on the data collected on infrastructure activities; and (iv) comment on the data base required for modelling and optimization of activities in each zone, keeping the above mentioned scenario in mind. While the initial attempt by the planning commission to introduce agroclimatic regional planning is pioneering in nature, it is a t best only indicative and is amenable to arrive at some general strategic guidelines. In the subsequent phases, an effort should be made to delineate more homogenous producing regions and consuming centres. In addition, the effort should now be to move from descriptive to modelling and quantitative analysis by the collection and compilation of the type of data and crop and livestock activities for each region and its sub zones. Similarly the available information on agro industries need to be segregated at the regional and sub zonal level so that this forms the base for generation of alternatives for future growth of opportunities (within the framework indicated in Section II of this paper) with the additional raw material projected to be available for processing due to appropriate policies for adjustment of production in the light of each regions comparative advantage. In this context, association of a technology development institution like the Central Food Technology Research Institutes would be extremely helpful in generating alternatives.

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Working Papers | 1990

Computer Graphics, Peripheral Vision & Non Euclidian Geometry

Jayanth R. Varma

Computer graphics in Decision Support Systems is often confronted with the task of providing the decision maker with a visual picture of some object which is too large to fit on a computer screen unless the image is scaled down so drastically that much of the detail is lost. The viewer is then asked to work with a partial view of the object, and use a keyboard or a mouse to (a) scroll this image horizontally or vertically, or (b) zoom in or out, or (c) rotate the object. These techniques are strikingly similar to those that the human visual system uses to deal with a similar problem. One crucial difference is that of peripheral vision-the human eye while concentrating on a small part of the field of vision still retains a hazy view of the peripheral region preventing it from losing sight of the total picture. This paper argues that the lack of a similar peripheral vision is perhaps the single gravest deficiency in computer graphics today. It then goes on to develop a mapping technique which simulates this peripheral vision, and thereby makes computer graphics truly powerful and versatile. The paper analyses the distortions induced by such a mapping, and argues at length why these do not pose serious problems. The suggested mapping is closely related to non Euclidian geometry; this ties in with the fact known to psychologists for over fifty years that the perceptual geometry of human visions strongly non Euclidian. Thus, if one were to adapt the Turing test for artificial intelligence to computer vision, then non Euclidian geometry can be expected to play a key role in any attempt to satisfy that the test. Building on these ideas, the paper demonstrates that computer graphics has a great deal to lean from non Euclidian geometry, and that in turn computer graphics can contribute significantly to the intelligent application of non Euclidian geometryies to real life problems. What is needed is the willingness to set aside the shackles and shibboleths of Euclidian geometry.

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Working Papers | 1990

European Economic Community: Underlying Motives and Their Implications

Gaikwad V R

This is the Introductory chapter to Author's forthcoming book entitle, “ European Economic Community and Non-European Communities”. What is happening in Europe is gigantic with far-reaching implications for Indian and other developing countries. The paper analyses in depth the ideas of Jean Monnet, the Father of European Economic Community, and the basic motives underlying formation of EEC and their implications. Common Market is only a strategy to achieve the primary politico-economic objective namely, a United States of Europe. The process by which Common Market might become a supra-national state is shrewdly set up in such a way that process is gradual and imperceptible. The recent developments in East Europe and Russia are not spontaneous but part of the long-term strategy for uniting Europe and people of “European Origin”, and for “Unity of West”. Europe's march from Nationalism to Supra-nationalism may lead to Euro-racialism, creating a threat of War of Races in near future. India and other developing countries which are mostly non-European countries have to keep in mind these implications of EEC.

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Working Papers | 1990

Lessons for Learners

Gupta Ramesh

How do we conceptualize the process of learning in public development organizations which are designed to deal with only articulated, aggregated and persistent demand from the clients. I have listed in this paper some lessons which have been culled from the experience of 'developmental deviants 'or' 'Organizational Insurgents'. Several propostions have been listed which point to the need for further research in collaboration with the administrators and development managers. Barriers to learning have been identified along with the ways by which learners can generate experiential knowledge. International aspects of learning have been given precedence over the individual aspects. It is argued that generating choices for actions both for poor and the development managers without creating capacity amongst them to exercise these choice will impair the learning abilities of both.

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Working Papers | 1990

The Right to Resource: Present Knowledge Protocol of Its Extraction and Ethics of Collaboration in Extractions

Gupta Ramesh

Paper deals with the dilemma that arise in the mind of scholar using on the issue of local technical knowledge. How can academics extract sent by using knowledge produced by peasants and what are the ways if dealing with it are discussed in the paper.

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