Volume 11 | Issue 4

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Dividend policy, a crucial corporate finance decision, determines the portion of company income distributed to shareholders. Despite extensive research since Lintner's work in 1956, whether dividends enhance or diminish firm value remains unresolved. Dividend strategy, rewarding shareholders while reducing internal capital, is intertwined with investment and financing decisions, impacting shareholder value maximization. Utilizing databases like Scopus and Web of Science, a systematic literature review on dividend policy examined 768 articles over 47 years. The analysis highlights a surge in publications since 2005, indicative of increasing research interest. Affiliation statistics show the US as the highest contributor, followed by the UK, with most top contributing organizations based in the US. This study underscores the ongoing academic curiosity and the importance of dividend policy in corporate finance, shedding light on areas for future research and emphasizing the role of databases like Web of Science in facilitating such investigations.

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Dividend Policy, decision making, shareholder's wealth

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Education is the backbone for the progress of the country in the 21st century . The state has enacted the Right to education 2009 in response to the recognition of fundamental right to education under Article 21Aadded by the 86th amendment to the constitution .The state is duty bound to provide for free and compulsory elementary education . The child enters the world of learning first in preschool followed by Elementary education up to 8th grade and further for high school education up to 10th grade . During these years the individual has to be provided with quality education to sustain the competition beyond school. Besides the RTE Act the state has implemented various schemes , appointed commissions, agencies to improve the existing quality of education. The RTE Act has provisions for the involvement of community in the development of the School. This paper explores the role of school management committee(SMDC's) in rural elementary school by adopting the case study method .The paper tries to highlight the functioning of the SDMC towards improving the quality of education

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Education ,RTE, SDMC, Quality ,community ,Rural School.

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This paper attempts to analyse the backward class movement in India and its effects on Indian society. Due to the negative effects of the caste system, a backward class movement arises. It also includes the Dravidian, SNDP, and Mahar movements. People in other countries are not divided like this. The caste system in India creates a bundle of social problems because some castes deliberately outnumber others. Social differences on the foundation of the caste system have remained constant due to the long tradition of giving importance to castes. Violence and terrorism take place when people from one caste attack people from another caste. With the expansion of the national movement, backward caste/class movements emerged among the depressed castes and the marginalised sections of the society in different parts of India. The difference between the religious and caste movements is that while the former attacked the evil practices of Hinduism, the latter encouraged its supporters to find solutions to their problems in the contours of Hinduism, i.e., rejected their religion.

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Backward Class, Movement and Discrimination.

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pradhanmantri ujjvala yojna ka mhilao ke swasthya me bhumika

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pradhanmantri ujjvala yojna ka mhilao ke swasthya me bhumika

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Bajjikanchal, Hindi vishay, Uccharan, Sikshan adhigam, Matra, Abhyas

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Confrontational thinking and a lack of risk management understanding have resulted in a difficult competitive climate for Indian general insurers. The general public's faith in the insurance business has become a critical issue for the industry's success. The insurance sector's regulator demonstrated through statistical data that the general insurance market is not growing at an acceptable rate. For many years, penetration has been exceedingly low. The existence of insurance firms is dependent on effective human resources, particularly agents. As a result, general insurers strive to focus on sales agent performance in order to enhance firm sales and grab a substantial market share. Therefore, the goal of this study was to examine the existing relationship between salesperson abilities and agent performance in India's general insurance industry. Using a quantitative methodology, the study mailed surveys to 400 insurance brokers in the general insurance industry at random. The study utilized salesperson sales performance as independent variables and selling skill components (interpersonal skills, salesmanship skills, technical skills, and marketing skills) as dependent variables. According to the study, a salesperson's performance is most strongly influenced by their interpersonal abilities.

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Insurance, Selling skill, Sales performance, Relationship

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'Work from Home' or 'remote work' is a very popular term these days. During the COVID-19 pandemic that forced the majority of office employees and workers to work from home. Prior to that, the practice of working full days from home, or out of the office was largely known as the telecommuting. Many terms have been similarly confused over the years. These include distributed work, remote work, mobile work, work-from-home (WFH), home working (primarily used in the U.K.), flexible work, agile work, hybrid work and others. The confusion in terminology is not simply a matter of semantics. Despite the steady rise in remote work, most of them are from IT industries, the majority of the workforce (59.1%) still work in the respective offices. This percentage underscores the fact that while remote work is on an upswing, traditional in office work cannot be obsolete present or in future also.

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Work from Home - A Revolution in Indian Scenario

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This article analyzes Muslim treatment of other religions in Medieval Bengal from 1204 to 1757 CE with a special reference to Muslim rulers and Sufi saints. The study is based on historical content analysis using a qualitative research design. The study shows the Muslim sultans and Mughals in the medieval period played a vital role in promoting interreligious harmony and human rights in Bengal. In addition, the Muslim missionaries and Sufis served as a force against religious hatred in society. The Muslim sultans and Mughals applied liberal and accommodative views toward non-Muslims. They did not force non-Muslims to accept Islam. Muslims and non-Muslims were integrated society, and they enjoyed full socio-economic and religious rights. Moreover, Sufis conducted various approaches toward Muslims and non-Muslims as well. They promoted the message of equality and moral conduct among the diver's faiths of the people. They also applied liberal, syncretism, and accommodative attitude in attracting non-Muslims to Islam in Bengal. The study concludes that most rulers were sympathetic and cooperative in dealing with the people of other religions.

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Syncretism in Mediaeval Bengal Society: A Historical Interpretation

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Teachers are backbone of a country, so producing good teachers are the responsibility of a teacher training institution. The role of teacher is crucial in any programme of education. We should have well qualified teachers who have not only academic and professional competencies of a higher order but also earnest responsibility and commitment to constantly strive for achieving all the development goals of education without such teachers, it is not possible to improve the quality of education. In the present study researcher studied the achievement motivation and self-concept of B.ED student teachers. For this purpose researcher selected 600 students from private and government managed B.ED. training institute by stratified random sampling technique. Deo and Asha Mohan (2011) Achievement Motivation Test and Self-Concept Rating Scale by R. K. Saraswat (2011)was used. A significant and positive correlation between achievement motivation and self-concept of B.Ed. student teachers was found in this study.

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The study endeavors to organize the literature with regard to the repercussions of workplace incivility in which several individual and organizational issues have been examined as its outcome. The incidents related to incivility are spreading in almost all the organizations and exist all over the world which indicates a growing concern as it will affect the employee and organizational wellbeing. This study especially highlights the effects of workplace incivility so that its far-reaching consequences can be avoided. There are various issues can be incurred as a cost to incivility such as increasing withdrawal behaviour, low level of job satisfaction, engagement and commitment etc. This article will also be helpful for academicians, management and HR practitioners in perceiving the destructive role of incivility which will induce them to investigate its practicality in the form of conducting future studies on such issue and also to prevent incivility at workplace through remedial measures.

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Workplace Incivility, Employee & Organizational Wellbeing, Withdrawal Behaviour, Job Satisfaction, Engagement, Commitment

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The growth of any economy is often reliant on capital, and in the case of a developing country like India, domestic capital alone is insufficient to meet the demands of the economy. Hence, foreign investment plays a significant role. Foreign investment can be categorized into two forms: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment (FII). FDI is generally considered a more stable form of foreign capital compared to FII. However, the inflows and outflows of FIIs have a direct impact on the stock market. Consequently, FIIs have gained prominence in India's stock market. This research aims to analyze the trend and pattern of FII flows in India, as well as the link between FIIs and the Sensex, which is the most widely recognized and systematic stock market index used by market participants for benchmarking purposes. The study focuses on examining the influence of FIIs on the Indian stock market using data from the past 17 years. By studying the FII-Sensex relationship, the research aims to shed light on the impact of FII activities on stock market performance in India.

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FII, Stock Market, Foreign Capital, Capital Market

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The current trends in supply chain operations and management of products and services have led to an overwhelming amount of information inundating warehousing companies and logistics centers. Effectively utilizing this logistics-related knowledge can help businesses reduce costs and improve customer loyalty. To achieve these goals, warehouse management systems (WMS) are commonly implemented and utilized. This thesis focuses on adopting an objective resource-based approach to implementing and utilizing WMS. Additionally, it presents a research agenda to guide future efforts in WMS-related research and the broader field of Logistics Information Systems (LIS). Simultaneously, resource management plays a crucial role in determining the structure and arrangement of stored items within warehouses. Following standardized and planned procedures for processing and storing goods at multiple locations within a facility or across a supply network is essential. Effective and efficient management of an organization necessitates the cohesive functioning of all its components, including separate strategic business units (SBUs) or facilities, as well as the organization as a whole. Given the dynamic nature of the market environment, businesses face increasing pressure to enhance their warehousing practices. Many organizations have even modified their value propositions to improve the quality of customer support, leading to changes in warehouse operations. In today's ever-evolving retail landscape, companies are continually striving to improve their warehousing activities. They recognize the importance of enhancing customer support levels and have therefore taken steps to strengthen their warehouse operations. This includes considering various factors that influence the quality and effectiveness of the warehouse network.

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Warehouse management system, Inventory management system, supply chain, cost benefit analysis,

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The contemporary Indian society displays a wide spectrum of gender-related value system and cultural practices with related types of violence. Recognizing the complexity of the issue and many forms of violence against women that exist, one cannot account for a single factor to be the reason for violence perpetrated against women. The consequences of violence against women are far reaching. It impacts all aspects of women's lives, their health and that of their children, and also on larger society. Structural violence embedded in the patriarchal structures of Indian society has many harmful consequences for women and it lower their performance levels due to increased subordination and subjugation to the established patriarchal order. Therefore an attempt has been made in this paper to emaphasise upon the consequences and the intervention coping strategies.

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Gender, violence, patriarchy, culture

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The status of women entrepreneurs in India has changed drastically in 21st century whose whole credit belongs to the women themselves, society, public institutions, government policies etc. They persuaded social and economic improvement of women entrepreneurs in India. This paper will focus on studying the role of skill development programmes for women entrepreneurs and suggestions are also broached up to further improve the condition of women entrepreneurs in India.

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Entrepreneurship, Skill development programmes, Public institutions, Government policies, Women entrepreneurs.

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A Passage to India by E.M Forster is a literary work which portrays an unusual friendship between the colonisers and the colonised people in India, during the colonial era. This inappropriate camaraderie became a source of controversy in the novel's subsequent reception. This research paper examines the complex dynamics between the coloniser and the colonised against the background of the India under British dominion, as portrayed in E.M. Forster's novel, A Passage to India. It examines the portrayal of orientalism stereotypes associated with colonial subjects and the systematic process of indoctrination aimed at creating uniformity. Additionally, this research paper also delves into the depiction of the hostile land that exacerbates the colonists' sense of alienation and displacement. Drawing upon Albert Memmi's work, The Colonizer and The Colonized, as well as insights from other cultural philosophers, the article offers an analysis of these themes. It is hoped that this paper will encourage further exploration of Forster's novels, particularly A Passage to India, and their exploration of the challenging issues surrounding identity formation, race relations, and the complexities of colonial discourse in hybrid contexts.

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Colonialism, Friendship, Native, Coloniser, Colonised, Anglo-Indian.

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In this paper, attempts have been made to show the origin, objectives, deposit, advance, recovery, cd ratio of U.B.G.B., Muzaffarpur. In this paper, attention has also been given on the role of credit in the rural areas of the state particularly in the rural areas of Muzaffarpur. The research work will clean not only the concept of poor but it will also reveal the impact of credit provided by U.B.G.B., Muzaffarpur on income and employment in the rural areas of Muzaffarpur district.

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RRBs, Credit, Poverty, Rural Area, Muzaffarpur

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The most critical issue in wireless sensor networks is data collection. The primary goal of data collection is to collect a large amount of data while minimising data loss due to sensor node memory capacity limitations. Effective data collection techniques can boost sensor network performance. Many researchers have proposed different methods for collecting data in sensor networks. A survey on data collection in wireless sensor networks is described in this paper. We review recent advances in this research area in this paper. We begin by highlighting the unique characteristics of data collection in WSNs. Then we talk about issues and previous solutions for the data gathering protocol design and the data dissemination protocol design. Our discussion also includes various data gathering protocols, which are an important component for energy efficient data gathering and have a significant impact on the overall performance of a data collection WSN system.

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Wireless sensor networks, routing protocols, data collection, network lifetime, Data Dissemination, Data Gathering.

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A wireless sensor network (WSN) is made up of numerous sensor nodes that are distributed throughout a planned area and have limited power, computation, and communication capabilities. Applications involving high security wireless sensor networks, such as military target tracking, border security, and scientific research, are in a dangerous environment. In our proposed scheme, sensor nodes in WSNs are grouped according to a hierarchical structure. An end-to-end secure communication protocol is used in the top wired layer to distribute group keys for subgroups to trusted head nodes.

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Wireless sensor networks, pre-distribution, Security, Sensor nodes, Hierarchical WSN, Distributed WSN, Security Issues, Vulnerabilities.

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This paper aims to create a prototype for a smart vehicle system that provides real-time location of the vehicle upon detection of a crash and alerts the police station and the user's relatives, as well as a panic button feature for the safety of a passenger. We also show a cabin monitoring system and an interactive interface between a user and a car, in which the user can send a text message to the car's GSM module to inquire about temperature, humidity, and other factors within the vehicle. The GSM module communicates with the Arduino, which retrieves sensor data and sends it to the user via text message. In a good automobile, anyone can simply manage the system and speech recognition, as well as the mechanism to conceal the checkout distance. To tend the square measure victimisation Bluetooth module, the speech should recognise.

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Smart Car, Embedded system, IoT, GSM Module, Smart Vehicle.

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The main purpose of present study was to find out the difference of Psychological Violence upon Working and Non working women during Covid-19. The sample consists of 40 women (20 working & 20 non working) randomly selected from Nashik, Maharashtra. The research tool used to assess Psychological Violence upon Working & Non Working Women was Emotional Abuse Questionnaire developed by Neil & John. t-test was applied to see the significant difference.

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Psychological violence, Working Women, Non- Working Women.

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