Global Journal of Research in Management

Biren Saikia , Bashanta Mangal Dutta

Abstract

Economic development truly falls on human capital formation. Human capital formation extend competency in terms of knowledge, skills, efficiency, technology adoption, time management, labour mobility of the work force. Even human capital formation increase welfare by reducing interpersonal and interregional disparities. The study on human capital for economic development is much more important in a labour surplus economy like India than a developed nation. Available literature in this area indicates a district level study gape especially in Assam. Therefore, this study is taken to fill the gape to some extent and to focus the importance of human capital in economic development

Keywords

Human Resource, Human Capital, Human Capital Formation, Economic Development

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Biren Saikia , Bashanta Mangal Dutta

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The concept of globalization has generated significant place in the Indian economy. India opened up the economy in the early 90s to overcome the major crisis that led to foreign exchange crunch that dragged the economy close to defaulting on loans. The new economic policy of Liberalization, privatization, and Globalization (LPG) move the economy to a more open and market oriented economy. This paper is an attempt to focus the "Extent of globalization and liberalization process on the Indian economy and it's impact on North-Eastern Region". This paper content four segments first part of the paper is introductory and it explains the meaning of globalization. Part two deals the major polices of globalization. Part three describes the extent of globalization with some specific indicators. Part four describes the potential of North-East in the era of globalization. In the end findings and conclusion of the paper has been discussed.

Keywords

Globalization, Indian Economy, Economy

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Biren Saikia ¹

Affiliations
1 North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Arunachal Pradesh, IN

Abstract

Human groups have a tendency to move towards and settle in the areas of plenty from the areas of scarcity due to economic factors. However, when sociopolitical aspects are involved, such movements are really of serious consequences. The ever-changing demographic and ethnic composition of people influenced the political and economic set up even before partition of India. Consequences of Bangladeshi immigration in Assam can be viewed in different ways but it cannot be separate from each other. First the economic consequences by immigrants, second the conflict between indigenous tribal and immigrants due to illegal occupation of land, third the crisis of identity of indigenous population and the fourth is the most important and the recent one, the movement against foreigners. The later one is the most important factors in Assam for its social disruptions and political instabilities and also important from the point of view of different act and law related to immigration and citizenship and governmental roll in the state. This paper also try to analysis all the push and pull (economic) factors of migration and its consequences of major streams that have taken place during pre and post-independence period in Assam, with special reference to illegal immigration from Bangladesh.

Keywords

Conflict, Immigration, In-Migration, out Migration, Internal, International, Consequences, Identities, Assam, Bangladesh.

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Biren Saikia ¹, Sangeeta Borthakur Tamuli ²

Affiliations
1 North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST) Arunachal Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Economics, Lakhimpur Commerce College, Assam, IN

Abstract

The overall development otherwise known as all round development of a state or nation primarily depends upon its economic development. Thus, an economic development means the development or progress in all sectors of an economy. The economic development or various sectors in the economy can sustain only when its crore elements are fundamentally strong and sustainable. Hence, in order to make the human resources more strong, productive and employable, a nation ought to stock of human capital is very much essential. It is the various human earned quantities over the years which enhance his choices, creativity and productivity on income over time. It shows several qualitative lengths of human activities in contrast to their capacity to carry physical labour. It is that type of typical stock of skills, knowledge, understanding, technical know-how, managerial skills, ethics, personal characteristics and creativity embodied in an individual which can be used to performing as a labour to produce some economics goods or values. These attributes or characteristics gained by a worker through education and experience from different relevant fields. Thus to understand the stock of human capital and economic development a case study has been conducted for covering the three districts of Assam namely- Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Sonitpur by using primary and secondary sources of information. The primary data are collected through multi-stage random sampling of the districts. Each district are stratified into development blocks which are also further stratified into villages. All total six development blocks are randomly selected two from each districts and in the next phase, 30 villages (5 from each block) are randomly selected from 6 blocks. From these 30 sample villages in the six development blocks, households are selected on the basis of proportionate sampling method. In all the 30 villages, overall 423 households are randomly selected considering 10 percent of the each villages and data are collected through personal interviews using standard questionnaire. The study reveals that the stock of human capital has the direct relationship in economic development of Assam in general and the studies districts in particular.

Keywords

Skill Knowledge, Education, Training, Human Capital and Economic Development Etc.

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Biren Saikia ¹

Affiliations
1 Assistant Professor (Guest), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (NERIST) Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, IN

Abstract

Education is the most important instrument for changing the economic condition of the rural society. It is also crucial to every aspect of social and economic development. The economic development is a measure of the welfare of humans in a society and education is a prime leading piece for the development in a region. It‘s not only helps the farmers planning and management, rational decision making, record keeping, computation of cost and revenue, but it also provides knowledge to adopt improve methods of cultivation, to understand processing methods and storage procedures, to know the programmes, targets and policies of the government, to know the family welfare, health, nutrition and home economics etc. However, agriculture is the primary source of occupation to the Indian rural people who directly or indirectly depend on agriculture. The present paper deals with the role of education and economic development through agriculture at the micro levels in rural Assam. It also attempts to examine the spatial variation of agricultural development of the studied districts with the help of eight variables viz. net sown area (X1), cropping intensity (X2), crop productivity (X3) (Yag‘s Yield Index), irrigated area (X4), area under HYV seeds (X5), use of fertilizer (X6), agricultural Labours (X7) and commercial and Gramin Banks (X8) for determining the status of each districts separately on each variables. Besides, that the development of districts have been categorized into three classes viz, high, medium and low on the basis of their respective Z-score of the variables. On the basis of composite z-score the development of districts have been again categorized into three classes- high, medium and low. The result shows that there is a positive association between literacy and agriculture development of the different census years.

Keywords

Education, Agriculture, Planning, Management and Economic Development Etc.

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Biren Saikia ¹

Affiliations
1 Assist. Prof., Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, NERIST, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, IN

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Education is the powerful tool that changes all aspects of society for men and women, but our Indian society is still lagging far behind when it comes to educating women. The development of womens education is not only much more important in the development of a domestic family, but it is also more important in the development of the whole society. Therefore, it is urgent need to study the development of womens education in Assam. This paper aims to study the educational landscape of women past and present in Assam and its obstacles and has some suggested views on how to overcome it.

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Biren Saikia ¹

Affiliations
1 Assistant Professor (Guest) in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (NERIST) Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, IN

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The economy of the state Assam is based on Agriculture and the rural mass depends mainly on agriculture and allied activities for their subsistence. The socio-economic status of majority of rural communities in the state is poor. Besides cultivation of various agricultural and commercial crops, the population of the state also practices fishing, breeding, sericulture, ceramics, husbandry, pottery etc. for their livelihood options. To understand various problems and prospects of socio economic development of rural communities, a case study was conducted in the Lakhimpur district of Assam. As a part of the study, this present paper addresses the livelihood aspects and socio economic condition of the rural communities in the Lakhimpur district of Assam. The district Lakhimpur is situated in the northern bank of the Brahmaputra river and about 91 per cent population reside in the rural areas. For the primary data collections 8 villages are selected randomly 4 from each of two Developmental Blocks namely the Nowboicha and Narayanpur. In total, 160 household families are randomly selected considering each village’s 10 percent respondents are randomly selected for final data collection. The data are collected through personal interviews using standard questionnaire. The study reveals that although the agriculture is the main employment and livelihood options of the people, the productivity and economic performance of agriculture is very poor. Regular floods, as well as the lack of irrigation and modern facilities are found as critical factors of poor performance of agriculture. To meet their daily needs, people have adopted other options, such as fishing and fishing, cattle breeding, cattle rearing and handicrafts etc. but even these activities do not provide enough earning to meet fulfil their basic needs. The lack of various infrastructures not only limits the livelihood options of the rural mass but also hinders their socio economic development.

Keywords

economic condition, livelihood option, infrastructure and allied activities etc.

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