Comparative analysis of various means of rural electrification in India
Economic development of rural India is the key for India to become Global Economic Super Power. But rural India would not flourish economically to its full strength until it gets electrified. The rural electrification in India gathers its first big momentum with the launch of Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) in April 2005. In recent years schemes like Deendayal Upadhyaya, Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) in 2014 and Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) in 2017 accelerates the process further. It’s not about government schemes only, but rather the various methods of rural electrification that has been in major focus since the late nineties. Once it was only traditional grid extension to electrify rural India. But with the advancement of renewable energy options, mini-grid system and solar home lighting systems has been emerging as potential alternatives also. At present, these three methods i.e. traditional grid extension, mini-grid system, and solar home lighting system are in major focus for rural electrification. Each of them has their own merits and demerits. The present article is basically a relative pro cons analysis of these methods and an initiative to identify at the preliminary level the best suitable option to electrify rural India.
Published by: Jayanta Laha
Author: Jayanta Laha
Paper ID: V4I3-1527
Paper Status: published
Published: May 22, 2018
Corporate social responsibility or collective social responsibility– In Indian context
Who is Corporate? Is it the Board of Directors or the employees? Corporate Social Responsibility to be a success has to be a Collective Social Responsibility as well. If CSR is perceived as something confined to the Board Rooms, its effectiveness may be seriously hampered. Because CSR is not just about spending money or showing on records that money has been spent. It is a great opportunity for each and every person of an organization to reach to the society and give it back a bit of what we always take from it. With the change in The Companies Act, 2013 vide section 135, a paradigm shift has been brought by the Government in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Companies meeting certain criteria are now compulsorily required to allocate and spend 2% of the Net Profits on CSR. This article tries to explore the CSR domain and its relationship with the HR department. What is the role of HR department in making CSR a real success is the research question studied in this research? Isn’t some kind of fundamental attitudinal change on the part of the employees a must for ensuring genuine CSR is an area that has been probed.
Published by: Ghansyam Mhatre, Vijay Kumar Dhole
Author: Ghansyam Mhatre
Paper ID: V4I3-1509
Paper Status: published
Published: May 22, 2018
Performance of glass fiber reinforced concrete
In this paper, the results are concluded for the experiment carried on concrete using glass fiber and also different properties of concrete are found out using glass fiber. The effect on properties such as the strength of concrete, dry density, wet density, slump, split tension etc is found out by taking laboratory experiment. The concrete is prepared by using M20 grade and adding the different proportion of glass fiber from 0.5 % to 5 % weight of cement. The laboratory test is taken on concrete cubes of 15 cm size, the cylinder of 15 cm diameter and length of 30 cm and the beam of the size of 15cmXproperties are for an experimental investigation on the cm and 70 cm length. These blocks are cured in the water tank for 7 days and 28 days. It is found out that workability of concrete is reduced by enhancing the quantity of glass fiber. By taking load-deflection behavior it is found out that ductility is increased by increasing the content of glass fiber. It is found out that various parameter of concrete regarding the strengthening of concrete is enhanced by increasing the glass fiber in the concrete. There is an enhancement in the strength in the concrete. Hence it is suggested to use glass fiber in the concrete according to use of concrete.
Published by: Santosh P Bobde, G. R. Gandhe, D. H. Tupe
Author: Santosh P Bobde
Paper ID: V4I3-1525
Paper Status: published
Published: May 22, 2018
A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding obesity and its ill- effect on health among adolescent girls, in selected college of Indore, M.P
Obesity is a serious health problem and its prevalence has increased dramatically over the past 20 years. The proportion of children and adolescents who are overweight and obese have also been increasing. The magnitude of overweight ranges from 9% to 27.5% and obesity ranges from 1% to 12.9% among Indian children. A descriptive study was conducted, to assess the knowledge regarding obesity and its ill- effect among adolescent girls. 30 adolescent girls those who were studying in the b.sc fourth year of Bombay Hospital College of Nursing Indore were selected by non-probability purposive sampling technique. The demographic data revealed that 83.33%(25) of adolescents were in 21 years,73.33%(22) of adolescents were above 51Kg in weight, 90% (27) adolescents were more than151cm in height. The data was collected through structured knowledge questionnaires. The findings showed that 63.33% (19) adolescent girls had an average knowledge and 26.66% (8) adolescent girls had good knowledge regarding obesity and its ill- effect on health. This study concluded that adolescent girls should be provided with adequate knowledge and awareness regarding obesity and its ill- effect on health. Based on the findings health education programmes can be conducted to bring more awareness among adolescent girls to decrease the risk of obesity-associated ill- effects on health.
Published by: Pheba Johnson, Dorwin Das
Author: Pheba Johnson
Paper ID: V4I3-1514
Paper Status: published
Published: May 22, 2018
Food recognition and analysis using image processing
Some portion of what makes getting in shape so troublesome is that checking calories is a vague science at best. Eating food without knowledge of its composition and nutritional contents prompts poor processing leading to poor health. The Smork is an electronic fork that helps you to screen and track your dietary patterns. Each time you convey nourishment from the device it Indeed, even with nutritious data, one needs to screen serving sizes, people are continually searching for approaches to enhance their health and wellbeing. The typical procedure of getting nutritional data is by utilizing google or utilize some application, for example, Coach, Noom, Calorie Counter, Lose It. In this paper, we proposed to make this procedure more brilliant, speedier, and more proficient by building an electronic device that can demonstrate the nourishment data by just taking a photo of the meal. Using Raspberry Pi board as the core processing unit of the whole system a Weight sensor, HX711 Load Cell Module and a 5MP Raspberry Pi camera attached to the smart fork collects data and transmits it to a food database where it is compared with predefined food values and tallies the image using an image processing technique on Matlab platform. The smart-fork connects to the Android application using Bluetooth. We build up an android reality application to help clients to get nourishing data in a simple way. The data is shown as calorie, fat, starch, and protein per serving. Utilizing this application, clients can get the healthful data just by taking a photo of the food and not with standing cooking techniques to know exactly how much calories are being expended. SmartFork needs to do all the tallying, compiling, analysis and leave the users of the fork to just do the eating.
Published by: Dheeraj Belliappa K S, Karan Vikram Singh Bhatia, Fathima Seher, Chinmita Shetty, Asha K S
Author: Dheeraj Belliappa K S
Paper ID: V4I3-1487
Paper Status: published
Published: May 22, 2018
Assess the knowledge regarding telemedicine among staff nurses in selected hospital of Indore, M.P
Telemedicine has a variety of applications in patient care, education, research, administration and public health. worldwide, people living in rural and remote areas struggle to access timely, good-quality specialty medical care. Residents of these areas often have substandard access to specialty health care, primarily because specialist physicians are more likely to be located in areas of concentrated urban population. Telemedicine has the potential to bridge this distance and facilitate healthcare in these remote areas. So there is great need to assess the knowledge of staff nurses regarding telemedicine.
Published by: Bhawana David
Author: Bhawana David
Paper ID: V4I3-1520
Paper Status: published
Published: May 22, 2018
