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R. Uma Devi ¹

Affiliations
1 PG Department of Commerce, Dr.S.R.K.Govt. Arts College, Pondicherry University, IN

Abstract

Poverty is widespread in India, with the nation estimated to have a third of the world’s poor. In 2010, the World Bank reported that 32.7 percent of the total Indian population lived under the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 per day (Purchasing Power Parity) while 68.7 percent live on less than US$ 2 per day. According to 2010 data from the United Nations Development Programme, an estimated 37.2 percent of Indians live below the country’s national poverty line. According to 2011 Poverty Development Goals Report, as many as 320 million people in India are expected to come out of extreme poverty in the next four years, while India’s poverty rate is projected to drop to 22 percent in 2015. Poverty eradication has been one of the major objectives of economic planning in India. Major determinants of poverty are low levels of per capita income, high population growth, unequal distribution of wealth, inadequacy of infrastructure, unproductive employment, and under-employment and disguised employment etc. Unemployment in India is chronic due to the structural defects in the economy. Widespread unemployment is the most striking symptom of inadequate development of the country. After Independence, the government gave a push to the standstill economy and for this purpose it employed the technique of ‘Democratic Planning’. It recognized the seriousness of the problem at the very beginning of the planning process and accordingly, Employment Generation was accepted as a goal of development planning. And hence the Government of India (GOI) launched several schemes of self-employment in order to alleviate poverty. These schemes have gained a significant role in alleviation of poverty by generating employment opportunities. On the above backdrop, the present study is undertaken to evaluate the performance of poverty alleviation schemes in India in general and Puducherry in particular.

Keywords

Poverty Alleviation, Unemployment, Self-employment, Employment Generation, Self-help Groups, Below Poverty Line, Centrally Sponsored Schemes

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R. Uma Devi ¹

Affiliations
1 PG Department of Commerce, Dr. S. R. K. Govt. Arts College, Pondicherry University, Yanam, IN

Abstract

Globalization leads to economic transformation throughout the world which necessitates structural reforms. Developing countries like India need huge capital, infrastructure, improved technology etc. to compete with other countries and emerge as a developed one. Over the past decade, India is facing chronic financial crisis and to overcome this problem, it needs plenty of foreign exchange. Foreign exchange can be earned either through exports or through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). After 1990s, the Indian Government recognised the significance of FDI in the development of the economy and designed its FDI policy and economic policies for attracting the foreign investors. Nowadays retailing is the fast growing sector and its contribution towards capital formation is also significant (20 percent of GDP). In 2011, the Government has undertaken various retail reforms for attracting the single-brand and multi-brand global retailers. It adopted a ‘welfare motive’ policy of FDI by protecting the domestic retailers and opened the doors for global investors and retailers. FDI is considered as a major component for the growth of retail sector which ultimately leads to the development of the economy as a whole. On this backdrop, the present study is undertaken to analyze the impact of FDI policy on Indian retail sector.

Keywords

Globalization, Reforms, FDI, Organised and Unorganised Retail Market, Single Brand and Multi-Brand Retailers

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R. Uma Devi

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Women play an important role in the family and society, but they were discriminated in all essential areas of life, whether in terms of education, income, partner choice, inheritance laws, property rights, decision-making processes, community organization, or access to leadership positions in education, business, or politics. The need for empowerment of women thus arises from this harsh social scenario. And hence women empowerment has become a major task now-a-days. Empowerment is a process of awareness and capacity building leading to greater participation, to greater decision making power and control and transformative action. Empowerment of women signifies harnessing women power by conscientising their tremendous potential and encouraging them towork towards attaining a dignified and satisfying way of life through confidence and competence as person with self-respect, rights and responsibilities the progress of any nation is inevitably linked with social and economic plight of women in that particular country.The present study has been planned with a view to discuss the various issues related to the Empowerment of Women and to suggest measures for achieving this end.

Keywords

Empowerment, poverty, gender inequalities, self-reliance, capacity building

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R. Uma Devi

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Tourism has become a global phenomenon in the last 50 years. Better and faster means of transport and communications have resulted in a massive movement of people. Today tourism with its rapid growth rate is not only a big business but is also the world’s fastest growing industry next to petroleum. It represents the largest segment of invisible international trade and earnings. Tourism can be a small enterprise or a multi-million project, both labour intensive and capital intensive activity. Tourism industry besides exchange of ideas also generates foreign exchange. Thus, tourism industry is of paramount concern for India’s economy as it is a major source of foreign exchange earnings and it can help cored adverse trade balances and regional imbalances and create employment opportunities to give a direct stimulus to the socio-economic development of backward areas in our country. Puducherry is a fast growing region with development in industrial sector, agricultural sector and also tourism sector. Tourism is developing in this region since last 10 years and attracting many tourists which emerged as one or the major sources of incomes to the government exchequer. The basic materials for tourism industry are culture, heritages, natural vegetation, beaches, parks, monuments and sculptures, etc. which Puducherry possesses abundantly and can be exploited for the betterment of the economy. On the above backdrop, present study was undertaken to evaluate the growth of tourism industry and its impact on the overall growth of the Union Territory.

Keywords

Tourism, progress, infrastructure, development, foreign tourists, domestic tourists, Foreign exchange earnings

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B. Bavishna ¹, R. Uma Devi ², S. Gopala Krishnan ²

Affiliations
1 Post Graduate, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Sree Balaji Medical College, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai - 73, IN
2 Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Sree Balaji Medical College, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai - 73, IN

Abstract

The incidence of type 1 diabetes and heftiness in youngsters and immature is rising. Today it commonest endocrine cum metabolic issue of youth and immaturity with extensive consequences for kid's physical and passionate advancement. It is assessed that youth diabetes represents about 5% of absolute populace of diabetes. In India alone, there are likely going to be around 4,00,000 babies and kids with this disease1. Diabetes the board rules offered by the American Diabetes Association and Health care terms naturally place a high weight of duty on parental figures to check youthful kids’ blood glucose levels, manages insulin, and screen diet and physical action with extreme objective of keeping up high glycemic control. Type 1 diabetes can be physiologically hard to control, child rearing pressure can be raised; Despite the conceivably extraordinary administration needs explicit training and clinical administrations for overseeing diabetes in youthful youngsters are seldom offered and conduct examine with this youthful tyke age gathering has been constrained in degree and quantity1.

Keywords

Young Kids, Child Rearing, Examinations, Insulin.

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