Ravinder Kumar

Occupational safety is very important for organisations to develop and to gain competitive edge. Occupational safety and health programs protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers, and others who might be affected by the environment of workplace. Safety compliance is the core safety related activities which needs to be performed by workers to maintain workplace safety. Safety participation is the involvement of workers in safety related activities like attending safety meetings that are not compulsory but helpful to maintain overall safety of the organisation.Welfare of the worker is a vital matter for the business organisations. Job-related accidents could be a prime factor to undying frailties or deaths and financial losses or both. The objective of this study is to find out the current status of safety in small scale manufacturing industry and find out the impact of various factors on worker safety.

Agricultural Economics plays a very important role in analysing any agro based enterprises using economic principles.This book presents a detailed comparative economic analysis of Direct seeded rice technology vs. traditional transplanting method of rice cultivation in Haryana (India).Rice being a staple food of more than half population of world is grown mainy by transplanting method in Haryana and India also . Traditional method is very labour and water consuming method. This study, by using primary data, analyse how much water and labour efficient the Direct seeded rice (DSR) technology is as compared to trans-planted rice (TPR) method.The study shows that net return in DSR technology is higher as compare to transplanted method.The subject matter has been presented in simple language ans is supported with latest data.This book will be helpful for not only policy makers and farmers but also for research workers for further research in this direction.

Hinduism flourished in the districts around Poona in Bombay to a far greater extent than in the rest of India, hence the problems facing the British administrators of Maharashtra were quite different from those confronting them in other parts of India. The solutions they proposed and the policies which emerged determined the social changes which took place in the Maharashtra in the nineteenth century. This book analyses these changes by focussing on the rise of new social groups and the dissemination of new values and shows how these social groups and values interacted with the traditional order in Maharashtra to create a stable regional society. Originally published in 1968.

Hinduism flourished in the districts around Poona in Bombay to a far greater extent than in the rest of India, hence the problems facing the British administrators of Maharashtra were quite different from those confronting them in other parts of India. The solutions they proposed and the policies which emerged determined the social changes which took place in the Maharashtra in the nineteenth century. This book analyses these changes by focussing on the rise of new social groups and the dissemination of new values and shows how these social groups and values interacted with the traditional order in Maharashtra to create a stable regional society. Originally published in 1968.