Pub Date : 2024-02-28DOI: 10.1177/00195561241230244
Mayank Bhardwaj, Ashish Ranjan, Jyoti Sharma
There cannot be a more appropriate time for infusing the education system of India with flexibility, innovativeness and quality. National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, is a step in this direction which emphasises on inclusiveness, equity and quality with a clear focus on the attainment of learning outcomes. NEP 2020 promotes the adoption of learner-centric education which develops critical thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills and discourages rote learning methods. An effective education policy relies on strong curricular foundations for optimum results. An enriched curriculum should be rooted in India’s diverse culture, knowledge systems and traditions embracing local knowledge and cultural practices, on the one hand, and at the same time, should incorporate the modern-day learning perspectives developed by the curriculum theorists over the last century. This article analyses the idea of curriculum as conceived by different learning perspectives and how NEP 2020 draws inferences from them.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-28DOI: 10.1177/00195561231221823
Supriya David
Water resource management is one of the most intractable challenges for planners and policymakers today. Given the limited supply, continuously growing demand and declining quality of freshwater, it is imperative to safeguard and effectively manage this resource. In order to effectively address significant challenges to human health and environmental deterioration, it is necessary to adopt a comprehensive strategy for managing freshwater and wastewater. This approach should include inventive and context-specific methods, as well as active involvement from local communities. To attain better development outcomes, water must be made an integral part of all planning and management. Water had its impact on a wide range of aspects impinging on human wellbeing, from agricultural sustainability to food security, and further, environmental security. Therefore, it calls for a systematic thorough management.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1177/00195561231221807
Anima Barnwal
Medical tourism has been a rising service industry across the world for the last two decades. This paper outlines the theoretical perspective that governs the study of medical tourism, analyses the development of the sector in India and puts forth suggestions on how to promote further growth of medical tourism in the country. The paper proposes that the observed clustering of medical facilities in particular cities in India can lend itself to the development of health cities, which could have smart infrastructure geared towards the provision of world-standard medical care. The health cities could allow all stakeholders of the industry to come together and serve as generators of revenues that can be ploughed back into public healthcare provision.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-24DOI: 10.1177/00195561231221809
Anupam De
This study analyses the social impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) spending undertaken by the major Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) in India. An attempt has been made to measure the social impact of CSR spending on selected PSUs by taking suitable proxies. A comparative study of the social impact of the selected PSUs with respect to CSR spending has been made by four-quadrant approach, taking high and low CSR spending and high and low social impact after normalising the data. Multiple regression analysis is used to measure the social impacts of different CSR activities. CSR activities have been ranked in terms of their social impact.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-24DOI: 10.1177/00195561231221822
Subhasmita Khuntia, Ravuru Narasaiah
Article 356 of the Indian Constitution has often been subjected to the partisan use by the successive Central governments since 1950. However, the shift from a single-party majority government to a multi-party coalition governments in national politics since early 1990s has largely influenced the scope and intent of invoking this Article. The coalition government’s survival with the backing of regional parties has indeed been a major factor in diminishing the incentives for the arbitrary and frequent invocation of Article 356. In this backdrop, the present article explains how the political change brought about by the coalition governments since 1990s has created the conditions for restraining Central transgressions on state governance, and also discusses the prospects of rationally employing this Article in the changing political conditions of the country. The argument of this paper is that—although the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party to national political dominance since the 2014 general elections has raised apprehension about the move towards centralised federalism, it is not likely to upset the current pattern of restrained use of this Article.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-18DOI: 10.1177/00195561231221827
T. Kodagoda, Janani Ramanayake
This article attempts to understand how and why deviant behaviour emerges among executive-grade officers in Sri Lanka. This qualitative research includes open-ended interviews with eight executive-grade officers in the government sector. The thematic data analysis of the interviews revealed several factors that influence deviant behaviour among them. These include individual characteristics, attitudes, social norms, organisational culture, unawareness of rules, lack of procedural improvements, misuse of power and authority. The article explores practical implications, how procedural improvements should be implemented and ethical education should promote self-discipline, proper monitoring mechanisms and transparency through the Right to Information Act (2016).
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Pub Date : 2024-02-18DOI: 10.1177/00195561231221805
Ajay Kumar Singh, A. Tripathi, Priti Jagwani, Noopur Agrawal
Amidst a global pandemic, the key challenge before governments, health institutions and administrative authorities is to communicate and inform the general public about the never-heard of morbidity, virology and immunity in their simplest form and language. However, this can only be possible when they can appropriately predict the perceptions and reactions of public to a given set of communications regarding the disease, preventive measures and the adoption of established principles of users’ perceptions. This article is a study of the users’ perceptions about Covid-19 vaccination. It conducts sentiment analysis in Python on a dataset of global users of the social media channel Twitter. The dataset available at kaggle.com, comprising 51,393 tweets from December 2020 to February 2021 with more than fifteen features, was put to test. The majority of the people (60.8%) expressed their neutral sentiments towards vaccination, while 23.9% had a positive opinion. Further, in order to evaluate the aforementioned analysis, the machine learning pipeline process of model evaluation is also performed. This process includes a split of dataset into training and testing, followed by determining various evaluation parameters including confusion matrix, precision, recall and F1-score. The accuracy of 97.1% depicts the outperformance of the model.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-11DOI: 10.1177/00195561231221814
Jannatul Ferdous, Md. Imran Hossain Bhuiyan, Niaz Ahmed Khan
Considering the dearth of research on the performance of and the citizen’s trust in local government institutions (LGIs) in Bangladesh, this study focuses on Union Parishad (UP)—the lowest tier of LGIs at grassroots. By combining both quantitative and qualitative methods of investigation, primary data through questionnaire survey among service recipients and through key informants’ interviews with service providers have been collected, triangulated and analysed. The study, by evaluating institutional performance of the UPs against several variables, unveils a low level of citizen’s trust in UPs resulting from a low level of satisfaction regarding its performance. While the citizens identify the lack of timeliness, unfair practices and disrespectful behaviour during service delivery among key reasons behind the lack of trust, the institutional actors criticise the lack of institutional autonomy and resources for the poor performance and failures in satisfying local demands at the grassroots.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-11DOI: 10.1177/00195561231221814
Jannatul Ferdous, Md. Imran Hossain Bhuiyan, Niaz Ahmed Khan
Considering the dearth of research on the performance of and the citizen’s trust in local government institutions (LGIs) in Bangladesh, this study focuses on Union Parishad (UP)—the lowest tier of LGIs at grassroots. By combining both quantitative and qualitative methods of investigation, primary data through questionnaire survey among service recipients and through key informants’ interviews with service providers have been collected, triangulated and analysed. The study, by evaluating institutional performance of the UPs against several variables, unveils a low level of citizen’s trust in UPs resulting from a low level of satisfaction regarding its performance. While the citizens identify the lack of timeliness, unfair practices and disrespectful behaviour during service delivery among key reasons behind the lack of trust, the institutional actors criticise the lack of institutional autonomy and resources for the poor performance and failures in satisfying local demands at the grassroots.
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