Volume 8 | Issue 6 |

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Large investments, public as well as the private, will be needed in various infrastructure sectors to meet the growing needs of the Indian economy. The public sector would continue to play an important role in building infrastructure and would need to ensure efficient and timely construction of projects within the agreed costs. The various departments and undertakings of the Central Government as well as the State Governments have been undertaking construction projects through the conventional item rate contracts where the Government provides the detailed design as well as the estimates of quantities for different items of work (Bill of Quantities). Payments to the Contractor are made on the basis of measurements of the work done in respect of each item. Experience shows that item rate contracts are prone to excessive time and cost overruns, besides recurrent disputes involving large claims. The reasons for the poor performance of item rate contract include inadequate project preparation and estimation coupled with allocation of several construction risks to the Government.(CIDC).EPC Contracts have long been used in infrastructure sector and proven to be cost and time effective. NITI Aayog in a statement in year 2016 said, all the public sector buildings above 100cr shall be procured via EPC Contracts. This study aims to find out the suitability of EPC contracts in public sector building projects based on certain parameters and success factors of EPC Contracts.

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EPC Contract, FIDIC/NITI AAYOG, Risk management, Public-sector Buildings projects,

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Strength Based Approach, Emotional Resilience, Mental Health, Deficit Based Approach

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Abstract: Marriages are extremely expensive affairs in Afghanistan, with extreme prices for wedding halls, wasteful meals and usually a bride price. The bride price is the money paid by the groom�s family for the bride to her family. It is a challenged tradition that is viewed as having no basis in Islamic law and does not seem in the new draft marriage law. High bride prices can lead to debt for grooms and their families and early marriage to unsuitable men for the daughters of poor men; fathers of many daughters, however, may benefit from the practice.

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Marriage, Tradition, Customs, Wedding. Mahr.

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The article is an attempt to analyse the nature, causes, intensity of the problems faced by the children of street .A special attention is paid to the physically challenged children and their plight. Basically highlighting the quandary faced by these children amid coronavirus pandemic and sensitizing people and decision makers to chip in efforts to help them of their miseries.

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PHILANTHROPY, CHILD LABOUR, DISABILITY, EQUALITY, RIGHTS, SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK

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Wireless Sensor Networks are becoming more and more popular as cost of sensor gets cheaper. A wireless sensor device is a battery-operated device, capable of sensing physical quantities or environmental conditions. They become more and more important for applications like security, traffic monitoring, agriculture, battlefield surveillance, and also used to measure air pressure, temperature, acceleration, etc. Sensors in networks are responsible for four major tasks: data aggregation, sending and receiving data, and in-network data processing. The sensor nodes communicate together by routing protocols. Many routing protocols, data dissemination protocols and power management protocols have been specifically designed for WSNs where energy conservation is an important design issue to increase the lifetime of networks. The reliable routing of packets from sensor node to base station is the important task for the network. Redundant data can increase the size of message. This Increase communication cost, energy consumption and decrease the lifetime. In response to this challenge, over the last few years there have been increasing efforts to minimize energy consumption via new algorithms and techniques in different layers of the WSN, including the hardware layer (i.e. sensing, processing, and transmission), network layer (i.e. Protocols, routing) and application layer. Data aggregation by clustering is an important method to reduce the energy consumption of sensor nodes and improve the bandwidth utilization. The selection of particular routing protocols in network layer depends on the application and network architecture. Much research focuses on a single aspect of WSNs, In this project an energy driven architecture is designed for minimizing the total energy consumption and lossless data aggregation by clustering using Particle swarm optimization and results are compared with existing algorithms.

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Keywords: WSNs, Data Routing, Routing Protocol ,Fuzzy Clustering, PSO ?

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The development and quality evaluation of butter cookie enriched with native Bicol Pili (Canarium ovatum) and Sili-Labuyo (Capsicum frutescens) was laid out in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with three treatments in replications. It was evaluated using the Nine-point Hedonic scale and employed weighted mean and ANOVA treatments to analyse responses of the sample respondents. Such all-purpose flour (2nd class) star margarine/butter, eggs, baking powder were the main ingredients of the formula. Native pili and sili-labuyo were the added functional ingredients in the development of the sample product and therefore evaluated. This experimental research revealed that among the three replicated treatments tested in the study, Treatment 1 is the most preferred cookie by the respondents as resulted in the survey. There were no dislike responses noted from the respondents. The developed cookie possesses a high level of likeness as to color, palatability, texture, aroma, appearance, and overall consumer acceptability. Moreover, the nutritional contents of the product particularly sili-labuyo contained high levels of vitamins and minerals such as iron, copper, potassium, vitamin A, C, and B-6. Thus, it is recommended that this cookie can be developed using the Treatment 1 formula and can be used as functional ingredients in order to meet the nutritional requirements of individuals with special dietary needs.

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Bicol pili, butter cookie, product development, sensory quality evaluation, sili labuyo

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With ongoing lockdown Covid pandemic and the maximum usage of network technology, electronic marketing and electronic business has been picking up regularly, thereby reforming new business model in the crisis. In the upcoming field of online business, on line shopping has become the future of shopping world where social distancing is in practice. Super markets and shopping malls at present are switching over to and are doing online business of different products & services. This article aims to study about the consumer compulsions towards online shopping. Pre-covid period, on-line shopping in India is extensively influenced by various demographic factors like age, gender, marital status, family size and income besides the covid crisis. At present, during the Covid period self-restricted mobility is also influencing factor on online shopping.

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Covid pandemic, electronic business, online shopping, social distancing, satisfaction and challenges.

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The PRIs are to be responsible for plan and implement the schemes for economic development and social justice at the grass root. Gram Panchayats need to develop a five-year �Shelf of Projects� which involves the identification, ranking and preparation of projects of development activities. The XIVth Finance Commission of India earmarked Rs. 200,292.2 Cr to the panchayats and necessitates urgent need of empowerment of the gram panchayats to plan and implement the projects to fulfil the basic needs of rural people. It is called Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP). All the 2.5 lakhs Gram Panchayats have to prepare the GPDP pertaining to their local problems, conditions and local resources. But unfortunately, the GPs are facing problems like lack of supporting staff, lack of adequate knowledge, skills for planning, etc. This paper made an attempt to analyse the capacity gap, status of preparation of GPDP. This study is an outcome of field study conducted in five states namely Sikkim, Punjab, Kerala, Maharashtra and Bihar

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Gram Panchayat Development Plan - Decentralized Planning - Panchayat Raj Institutions

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Health status of a population is considered as an important economic indicator of development for Indian economy. Health services have a major influence on the social security of individuals and societies, and an important part of a nation�s politics and economy. Health Insurance sector has a long way in India since the opening of the market. Earlier only 2 policies were available Mediclaim and Personal Accident. However with arrival of private insurance companies and standalone health insurance companies there has been tremendous innovation in policies offered in the Indian insurance market. This study is carried out with the objectives to study health insurance market and health finance in India, to study various health insurance products available in India and to study the growth of health insurance market the way of forward. The study has concluded that, the health insurance in India is growing stage and there is wider scope for expansion if insurers provide specialized policy and rural masses for social development.

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Health Insurance, schemes, Social Security, Mediclaim, Health Financing and future of health insurance

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The unprecedented success of Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2014 parliamentary elections has brought a paradigm shift in India�s electoral politics. The party achieved an absolute majority in Lok Sabha on its own. Haryana is one of the states of North-Western region where it did exceedingly well by winning seven out of the eight seats that it had contested and by securing 34.7 percent votes while its vote share was merely 12.1 percent in 2009.

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Haryana Politics

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