IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature

7-16

Authors: S.Sunil Kumar & G. T. Ramachandrappa

The political ideologies are broadly categorized into three groups such as leftist ideology, rightist ideology and centrist ideology. The 1920s and 1930s saw the fading of traditional right-wing politics. Post-war Europe and the USA have seen the emergence of extreme right-wing politics, fuelled by several factors. The developments in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s necessitate the inclusion of recent studies which illustrate the growth and potential of the extreme-right phenomena in the post-communist context. The radical right has reemerged as an electoral force in Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand democracies. The political landscape of Western Europe has undergone rather radical changes over the past two decades. The emergence of the new radical right stands out as a principal event, along with the emergence of the new social movements and related political parties. The right wing political leaders do not approve the principle of egalitarianism since they believe that hierarchy is the order of nature. The right-wing politics has affected the common people who have become prominent losers of globalised economic processes. The people are facing the problem of identity crisis since the goal of right-wing radicals is an ethnically homogeneous society

25-30

Authors: Suresh Sharanappa & R.Sarangapani

In this article, an attempt has been made to study the results of survey of students and teachers of degree colleges in six districts of Hyderabad Karnataka region on the use of library sources and its searching habits. A total of 1390 respondents are covered (students and teachers) using survey method. Results reported and conclude that there is a need for proper orientation and technology enabled access to the users for better use of information sources and searching habits of users

41-60

Authors: M.R Kolhe & P. G Khot

Today the world is on track for dangerous climate change, reached to an extreme limit having nearly lost room for further pollution in the mix of gases that make up the atmosphere. Despite a rise in clean, renewable energy supplies in certain countries, and a partial shift from coal to natural gas in others, global greenhouse gas pollution continues to rise at an increasing pace in the most recent years. Nations worldwide have to make major changes in energy supply, soon, if they are to restrain climate change to no more than 2 degrees Celsius. That is a threshold beyond which serious harm is likely to occur to human civilization as well as the natural world, as concluded by the IPCC and other's scientific judgements. Geo-engineering will probably also be required to solve the planet’s global warming pollution problem. To meet its energy needs, every country uses various energy sources available to it, in different proportions as single energy source is not sufficient to satisfy all the needs. The energy mix of an individual country is formed up by the contribution of their available resources. During the last decade, the establishment of proper energy mixes for countries has gained much importance, and energy drivers should enforce long term plans and policies. The structure of energy mix vary significantly from one country to another, fossil fuels dominate the energy mix at the global level, accounting for over 80% of the total. Although, every energy source has its limits, merits & demerits, if they are used in combination with balance proportion, the gravity of demerits can be reduced. This paper evaluates energy issues the market and countries are facing today regarding energy mix, scheduling and panorama and seeks to improve methodology available that are applicable to optimal energy mix plan for the future. It covers the themes driving the future energy mix methodology proposal and estimation of energy supply & demand by mathematical model for selection of optimum variant and Key Factors identified, established and assessed through this paper for the common implementation. Those have a clear influence and are closely related to future environmental policies.

71-78

Authors: Geeti Mehra

Future economic growth of India largely rests into skilled and capable workforce. An increasing share of the youth population with increased school and college enrollment rates is not less than an asset for Indian Economy. However, due to inelastic employment opportunities, a high proportion of educated youth does not find suitable work and hence adds to the problem of educated unemployment. What causes unemployment is regularly a subject of substantial open deliberation in the scholastic and strategy exploration. It is the ingrained certitude that each nation needs to accomplish complete avocation for its developing populace. In a significant number of nations, including India, the unemployment rate is still alarming. Many examinations have been directed till date to comprehend the real drivers of unemployment. This paper aims at giving a deep insight into the nature of unemployment in India, its various causes, impact on the economy and major steps taken up by government for reducing rates of unemployment in India.

93-98

Authors: Madhu Jindal

The emergence of women writers in the last quarter of the 19th century, carried with it a double significance. It indicated the birth of a new era of emancipation for the Indian women, an era of increased opportunities and a more dynamic participation in the social and intellectual life of the country. Feminism emerged as a worldwide movement to secure women’s rights. It focused on women’s struggle for recognition and survival and made them realize that the time has come when they should stop suffering silently in helplessness. Simone De Beauvoir has very precisely exposed the condition of woman in her most famous book ‘The Second Sex’. Of course, the miserable condition of woman all over the world inspired the women of talent like Virginia Woolf to do something in this field and the result was the emergence of Feminism, a great movement in the western world in 1960’s. It is a movement for the emancipation of women and their fight for equal rights. The condition of woman is equally miserable in Indian society. The Indian society is basically patriarchal, where a woman is given the secondary role. This study seeks to identify the contours of feminine quest in the novels of Manju Kapur, with special reference to ‘Difficult Daughters’ and ‘Home’.

193-198

Authors: Daiwatabai & Gavisiddappa Anandhalli

Creating conducive environment for the libraries is significant for better productivity and innovative services in the libraries for the benefit of users. The study attempts to determine the job satisfaction of library professionals with respect to Professional development, Recognition, Management support, Salary, Promotional benefits, Communication and working environment. Questionnaire method was adopted as a data collection tool and Questionnaires were filled up by the library professionals who are working in the 81 colleges of Gulbarga and Yadgir district of Hyderabad tool Karnataka region and results are reported.

207-218

Authors: Nirmala Raghavan & S. Panboli

The aim of this current pilot study is to develop a self-report measure of emotional intelligence specifically for school children aged between 14 to 17 years of age. For this purpose, a list of 50 items including items from tested questionnaire relating to emotional intelligence was framed. Exploratory factor analysis was used to extract 5 factors of emotional intelligence based on Daniel Goleman model. The sample respondents were 248 Government school children with age ranging between 14 to 17 years of age. A total of 140 ninth grade and 108 eleventh grade children with equal number of boys and girls i.e., 124 participated in the current study. The items were further validated using face, content, and construct, concurrent and convergent validity. Cronbach’s alpha scale was used to find the reliability of the emotional intelligence self report measure.

227-234

Authors: Varsha Saini & Sheela Sangwan

The present study was conducted in Hisar district of state Haryana. The objectives of the study were to assess and create awareness on gender empowerment and Beti Bachao Beti Padhao. Fifteen girls and fifteen ladies from labour colony (CCS Haryana Agricultural University) of Hisar district were selected randomly. The result indicated that the girls and ladies both were not aware of gender empowerment and scheme i.e. Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao. The further intervention program was implemented and evaluated that impact of the program was assessed positively on girls and women.

239-250

Authors: Triptimoy Mondal

Eradication of poverty is the main objective of planning in India, since the inception of planning period for the overall development of the country. At present, Self Help Group (SHG) and Micro- finance are being considered as important tools for poverty alleviation through empowering the poor and underprivileged section of the society throughout the globe. In our country, poverty alleviation programmes have been given more and more importance in the field of economic development. The present research paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of Self Help Group (SHG) and Micro-Finance on poor tribal women of a tribal inhabited area from Bankura district of West-Bengal. This paper attempts to give an account of the SHGs of the study areas, the participation of poor tribal women into the SHGs and the role of SHGs on women empowerment. Result of the study indicated that there is a significant difference between the level of empowerment between pre-SHG and post -SHG situation.It also indicates that period of participation is not the sole criteria for the empowerment. Actually empowerment is a multidimensional phenomenon.Finally the paper concludes with some suggestions of the author for the eradication of poverty by the socio-economic empowerment of women through SHGs-mechanism in the study area.

257-264

Authors: Fouzia Kousar. A

The world is discovering new ideas, inventions and innovations each second. The technologies have gone up to the level of space and deep water travelling touched the end of remote sensing and what not? But on the contrary, it has at least one billion people without enough to eat each day. These contradictions would not come as a shock to the greatest of humanity, including Aristotle and the Buddha. Material life must be harnessed to meet these human needs, most importantly to promote the end of suffering, social justice, and attainment of happiness. The challenge is real for all the part of the world. The socioeconomic inequalities have widened considerably, the trust of government and society has come down. The relatives of poverty, anxiety, environmental degradation and unhappiness in the midst of great plenty should not be regarded as mere curiosities. The objective of this paper is to manifest the inter-relationship between the World Happiness Index and Farmer suicides. The secondary data have been collected from journals, magazines and the internet. Indian farmers challenged by the serious issues like bankruptcy, drought and other farming works and family problems etc. This paper has made an attempt to examine the non-linear relation between India’s ranks on the World Happiness Index with Farmers’ suicide.

269-282

Authors: Vishnu N S & Issac Paul

Skills and knowledge are the driving forces of economic growth and social development of a country. The skills challenge becomes acute for India, considering that the country has a large portion of its population below 25 years of age. This young population can be transformed into a productive workforce, giving the Indian Economy a ‘Demographic Dividend’. Currently, a major proportion of this population is not productively engaged in economic activities due to a ‘skills v/s jobs requirement’ mismatch. As the Indian economy continues to transform and mature, large scale sectoral shifts in the working population are inevitable, particularly from agriculture to other sectors of the economy. These sectors, however, require significantly different and often specialist skill sets, which require training and skill development. This skill gap needs to be addressed through comprehensive efforts, at various levels and catering to different needs of the society and industry. The present study focuses on the need for Skilling in commerce education.

291-296

Authors: Gurpreet Singh

Indian traditions and ways of life are very ancient and home to the earliest civilizations. This land has contributed to the field of literature, mysticism and philosophy significantly. The ancient four Vedas are the perennial storehouses of eternal knowledge. Literature has a deep relationship with the tenets of mythology, history, culture and philosophy. There is one perspective that when history becomes too antique to count the number of years, it becomes mythology. The Indian mythology has given the division of perpetual time in the form of Yugas (epochs). Satyuga, Treta, Dwyapar and Kaliyuga are the four Yugas that are spokes of the wheel of time. At one time, one Yuga is dominating with its peculiar qualities. The estimated period of each Yuga is in hundred thousand of years. Each Yuga has its avataar (incarnation of God) for the eradication of the evils and establishment of the dharma (righteousness). Lord Rama and Lord Krishna are revered as the incarnations of God in the Yugas of Treta and Dwyapar respectively, who had their predestined divine functions for the welfare of the exploited and downtrodden people.

301-310

Authors: Gurusiddaiah. C, B. P. Mahesh Chandra Guru, Abhilash. M. S & Sreekantaiah

Tipu Sultan had strongly resisted the British colonialism and never submitted himself to the paramount of foreign powers. Tipu had displayed sound martial qualities and brought about structural and operational changes in military administration. Tipu endeavored likewise to create a disciplined army in the European manner, recruiting mercenaries of diverse origins. Tipu Sultan continued his determined resistance to British colonialism and equipped his army with modern arms and ammunitions during 1797-1798. The real strength of Tipu’s fire-arms was his rockets and missiles, which had created a lot of fear psychosis in the enemy’s camp. Tipu had developed modern ship building industry and built a good number of ships by using the local resources. Tipu had achieved remarkable progress in building a modern army, manufacturing modern weapons and giving economic development priority among other forward-looking measures. Tipu was far ahead of other Indian rulers in the development of strong and stable defense system against European colonial forces.

317-330

Authors: Mary Mejrullo Merlin & M. Fabiana Jacintha Mary

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps are fuzzy structures that strongly resemble neural networks and they have powerful effect as a mathematical tool for modeling complex systems. FCM combines the robust properties of fuzzy logic and neural networks. In the past, there has been a lot of development in the curriculum and in learning strategies like Actively Based Learning for the Primary School Students for effective, stress free learning. Teachers have the great responsibility of sharing their knowledge in journey of each child’s life, as facilitator guide. Strategies need to be adopted to make the environment positively, delightful, building an emotional balance in children to learn freely and joyfully. Childhood is the most important phase of one’s life to prepare a proper foundation filled with rich experiences and opportunities for achieving the purpose of learning and sense of well being. So active, joyful and effective learning is possible by the whole hearted effort of the teachers through gentle approach and understanding. This study is to analyze and prioritize various factors that will enhance AJEL in the classroom.FCM is a tool for formalizing understandings of conceptual and causal relationship. Since crisp logic cannot accurately represent human understanding we use fuzzy logic to represent truth values on a continuous scale from 0 to 1, providing mathematical methods for representing concepts and causalities that are true to some degree.

335-338

Authors: A. Diana Josephine & R. Aseda Fatima

Toni Morrison’s first novel “The Bluest Eye” examines the ideals of beauty of a female African American girl, Pecola Breedlove. Pecola searches for love and acceptance in her community, but she is being devalued in her own race. As through the voice of Claudia, it is understood that Pecola longs for feminine beauty like fair complexion, blonde hair and blue eyes which is highly regarded in American Society. Pecola prays for blue eyes, because she believes that life would be better after it. Pecola becomes the African American community’s scapegoat of her own fears and feelings of unworthiness. Finally, Pecola is left alone and lives in an imaginary world with blue eyes.

347-352

Authors: Billa Raja Rubi Kishore

CCE refers to a system of school based evaluation of students that covers all aspects of students’ personality. Continuous means that the evaluation of identified aspects of student’s growth and development is a continuous process rather than an event. It is built into the teaching learning process and spread across the entire academic session. Comprehensive means the scheme attempts to cover both the scholastic and the co-scholastic aspect of student’s growth and development. That is, to study the implementation of evaluation (CCE) process in secondary schools, to know the implementation of grading system in summative and formative evaluation process, to know the conduct and evolution of extracurricular actives at secondary schools in Guntur District and to study the opinion of the teacher about CCE, grading, formative and summative evaluation process. Teachers have high appreciation for the grading and CCE. Some schools are not following SCERT norms and standards in conducting and evaluating formative assessment. They are not giving proper importance to conducting and evaluating other curricular activities. Most of high school teachers were in favor of the regular monthly formative evaluation and summative evaluation. Continuous monitoring helps teachers in strengthening their understanding of various techniques of evaluation. Teachers need training in preparing formal diagnostic tests and remedial exercises. High school teachers’ perceived grading procedure is responsible for improving the school environment. A study with the similar objectives may be taken up with larger sample covering different parts of the states. A study may be taken up on the student opinions. The teacher should undergo training on CCE Programmes according to changes in the education system and the evaluation system should change for every 5 years.

361-364

Authors: Somashekara

Women play an important role in dairy activities in rural areas. Dairy production is an important field for Women’s Empowerment in rural Karnataka. STEP provides intensive knowledge to all the members of the society. It ensures women empowerment and effective participation and equal opportunities in various levels of decision making process in economic and public life. This paper tries to analyze how STEP helps in empowering & strengthening rural women through Women Dairy Cooperative Societies (WDCS) in Karnataka

377-384

Authors: AnjuDuhan & Satbir Singh

The development of any area, region, state or country is dependent upon the development of its economic and infrastructural indicators. Entrepreneurs always search for an opportunity to invest in generating profitable inflows in the future. The success and prosperity of any business depend to a great extent on the availability or on the level of development of the economic and infrastructural indicators of the environment in which it exists. The present study aims to assess the level of economic and infrastructural development of different districts of Haryana with the composite index based on the optimum combination of twenty two development indicators. The district-wise data on these indicators for the year 2013-14has been used for obtaining the level of development of all the twenty one districts of the state. The level of development has been estimated separately for the social infrastructural sector and socioeconomic sector. The study found that the Faridabaddistrict is at the top in terms of overall socioeconomic development, whereas Mewat district is lagging behind at the bottom qua this development. The study also revealed that there are widespread disparities in the level of development between the various districts of Haryana. It can be observed from the study that infrastructural facilities of the people are positively associated with the socioeconomic development. Moreover, the infrastructural development and literacy status of the people were found to be positively related with the socioeconomic development. In order to bring out uniform regional development, a potential target of various developing indicators has been estimated in case of low developed districts. These districts require improvement in some of the indicators for enhancing the level of development, thereby encouraging business success and attracting entrepreneurs.

389-394

Authors: PIKU CHOWDHURY

Teacher education is a field containing significant pressures in curriculum, practicum design and in the roles and relationships with schools. There is no standard approach in teacher education to prepare teachers to teach children with exceptional needs. In Canada, educators estimate that about 15 percent of students have special learning needs (Timmons, 2006). Some universities, in their teacher education programs, offer elective courses on diversity, while others have the subject as a core component of their curriculum. Lupart et al. (2004) highlight the need for teachers and administrators to be better prepared to meet the needs of diverse students in today’s classrooms. However, preparing teachers for an inclusive classroom is a complex endeavour. One of the first challenges is the question, who is a diverse learner. Another challenge that the teachers face as they are educated to teach in an inclusive classroom is that many did not graduate from a system that was inclusive, while another challenge is that the educational system often works against promoting inclusive practices. Another area of concern is the lack of diversity among teachers (Finley, 2000). This paper will try to address these questions and explore inclusive practices in relation to teacher education, a vital area of social justice.

403-412

Authors: Ambrien Ahmed , Vijay Kumar & Jyoti Jayal

In recent years, interest in the effects of burnout and strain in workforce in nearly every kind of human service professions has been increased; it includes teaching profession as well. The working conditions of the school, college or university have been changed to a great extent and are now significantly different from previous generations. The present study examined burnout between English Language teachers of Hindi Medium Schools and English Medium schools of Gautam Buddha Nagar. Data were collected from 240 teachers selected randomly from Hindi and English medium schools from all the four blocks of Gautam Buddha Nagar. Burnout was measured by Maslach Burnout Inventory (1996). Results of burnout through ANOVA revealed that English Language Teachers of Hindi medium school exhibited high emotional exhaustion and depersonalization followed by less personal accomplishment as compared to English Medium school. English Language teachers of English medium schools showed less emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, but higher personal accomplishment than English Language teachers of Hindi medium schools. Further, English Language teachers of Hindi medium schools differed significantly from English medium schools, showing that the former head burnout syndrome (high emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, followed by low personal accomplishment) as compared to the later ones. Results were interpreted in the light of existing theoretical framework and existing Indian organization culture in schools. The implications for the present research for theory and practice were also suggested.

419-422

Authors: Renu Bala, Sheela Sangwan & Krishna Duhan

Depression is a major factor in adolescent suicide, substance abuse, and a common cause of school failure and school dropout. Children and adolescents with major depressive disorders are at risk for suicidal behaviour, substance abuse, physical illness, early pregnancy, poor academic performance, impaired psychosocial functioning, and exposure to negative life events (Kovacs, 1996). The present study was conducted purposefully in two institutions, each from Haryana State and Delhi. Adolescents equally representing both the sexes i.e. 50 girls and 50 boys were selected on a random basis from both the institutions. Hence, a total of 200 adolescents constituted the sample for the study to assess the existing social and emotional skills. The adolescents were further assigned to experimental (50) and control (50) group. Life Skills Assessment Scale (LSAS) developed by Nair.et al. (2010) was used to assess the social and emotional skills among the adolescents. Beck et al. (1996) was used to estimate depression among adolescents. Majority of adolescents had moderate level of depression and negatively correlated with most of the social and emotional skill dimensions

429-434

Authors: Rujab Muchahary

Bodo is one of the languages of Tibeto-Burman branch of Sino-Tibetan language family. The speakers of this language are concentrated mostly in the Brahmaputra valley of Assam as well as more or less in the border areas of Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Megalaya of North-East India; North Bengal of West Bengal and the Nepal. There are many processes of word formation in Bodo. But the present study will highlight only affixation and compounding as two major processes of word formation. In Bodo, the prefixes and suffixes take very important role in the process of affixation of word formation. In compounding, root words like noun, verb and adjective take important role which will be highlighted in the paper.

443-446

Authors: Jayant Deshpande

The rudimental aim of this paper to show that in the present age of information age. Every human being would relish getting any piece of information as expeditiously as possible, for that we should acclimate with the latest technology & provide the information without wasting time. In this paper, we have done a comparative study of the information age and library science, and discussed the impact of the information technology revolution in library science. In this context, we forward to look professionals and managers of organizations how to achieve the goal in the current scenario. This paper outlines and discusses the professional skills and compulsory technological skills needed for library science professionals and managers.