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Wind
Energy in India : The Future and the Challenge
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A
Lakshminarasimha and S Rath
The
world urgently needs energy from non-fossil fuel sources
and the best alternative has been wind energy which is totally
environment friendly. Denmark is the first country to adopt
wind energy as its prime source of energy. As a matter of
fact, Denmark is the leading wind power nation in the world.
Wind energy is green and clean, but it employs 20,000 people
in the manufacturing of the equipment required. India too
needs the help of wind energy and in an increasing quantum.
The paper looks at the energy scene in India. It elaborates
on the Indian wind energy industry and projects the future
of wind energy in India. It also looks at the challenges
to be faced when investment is planned in this source.
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2007 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Telecommunication
Infrastructure in India: An Uphill Journey
-- Sumanjeet
The
telecom services have been recognized the worldover as an
important tool for the socioeconomic development of a nation.
Telecommunication is one of the prime support services needed
for rapid growth and modernization of various sectors of
the economy. It has become especially important in the recent
years because of enormous growth of information technology
and its significant potential for the impact on the rest
of the economy. Therefore, making the development of an
adequatetelecommunication infrastructure has become one
of the major goals of policymakers. The `adequate' level
of telecommunication infrastructure in a country is necessary
from both a policy and business point of view. The Government
of India has already taken a number of initiatives in this
direction. As a result, telecommunication infrastructure
has registered a remarkable growth in India. This paper
mainly aims at studying the present status of telecommunication
infrastructure in India. The paper also provides an overview
of the uphill journey of Indian Telecom sector.
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2007 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Jurisdictional
Limits of Electricity Regulatory Commissions
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Vipul
Shah
Electricity
Regulatory Commissions, at the State and Central level,
are the principal pillars of electricity reforms. The Electricity
Act, 2003, which has laid a strong foundation for electricity
sector reforms in India, also places a significant emphasis
on Electricity Regulatory Commissions. A Central Commission
and State level commissions have been constituted. The commissions
derive their power and mandate from the statute, viz., the
Electricity Act, 2003. Among others, the commissions are
quasi-judicial authorities, have powers to frame and enforce
rules and regulations, and have the powers of a civil court.
There has been a lot of debate on the jurisdictional boundaries
of the regulatory commissions. Several such cases have come
before the Appellate Tribunal of Electricity formed under
Section 110 of the Electricity Act, 2003. An analysis of
these case laws provides very interesting and valuable insight
into the jurisdictional issues. This article presents such
an analysis based on 36 case laws covering several appeals
tried before the Appellate Tribunal.
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Social
Infrastructure: A Key Factor in Harnessing Demographic Dividend
-- Vijay
Kumar Mishra
The
Indian economy is a growing and developing economy. After
the economic reforms it has started growing faster and is
now amongst the fastest growing economies. The growth of
the economy is around 9.4% in terms of GDP during the year
2006-07 and most importantly the growth is with democracy.
The growth rate is really remarkable. The growth momentum
has been created due to a number of factors. To continue
this dream run and sustain the momentum, there is a need
to check the bottlenecks. The biggest bottleneck at this
juncture is the infrastructure. The growth momentum which
has been created in the economy can come to a halt in the
times to come if infrastructure does not grow at a faster
rate. Infrastructure both social and economic, can seriously
affect the growth of the economy. Infrastructure is the
base on which the economy grows. India is a populous country.
Its population is growing at a faster rate. It can be said
that India is the hub of human capital. The quality of its
human capital is low and hence the economy is not able to
realize the benefits of its growing population. There is
need to develop the social infrastructure to garner the
demographic dividend. This paper is briefly trying to understand
the bottlenecks in the areas of social infrastructure and
the ways to overcome it.
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Health
Infrastructure in Orissa: An
Inter-District Analysis
-- Himanshu
Sekhar Rout
The
linkage between infrastructure and economic growth is multiple
and complex, because it not only affects production and
consumption directly, but also creates many direct and indirect
externalities. Health infrastructure in terms of hospitals,
hospital beds, doctors, nurses and pharmacists, has a significant
direct and positive contribution to health outcomes of any
country. In this context, the present paper is a modest
attempt to analyze the inter-district availability of health
infrastructure in Orissa through the construction of Composite
Index of Health Infrastructure (CIHI) and suggest some policy
measures for better health outcomes in the State. Availability
of health infrastructure is the necessary condition for
a good health outcome but not the sufficient condition.
The sufficient condition is the efficient utilization of
the available infrastructure which is not in the purview
of this paper.
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2007 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Modeling
the Public Transport System for
Privatization: An Empirical Study
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Kartikeya P Bolar and Soumya Gaddam
The
privatization of the public transport system has been consistently
working well in certain areas. However, it has not worked
well in big cities where there is a lot of traffic and congestion
on roads. The basic idea behind privatization of public
transport is to bring convenience to the public in terms
of efficient transport service at any time of the day. However,
for the owners of these public transports it only means
revenue. If the revenue does not meet their expectation
they will never be interested in continuing with this venture.
Many a time it becomes difficult for them to even meet their
operating costs, let alone the initial investment. Distance
becomes the prime constraint for the private vehicles. The
turn-around time will be directly proportional to the distance.
Another concern is the waiting time due to various physical
constraints on the route. This paper gives an overview of
the rationale behind the privitazation of the public transport
system, using an empirical study method through simulation,
modeling and observation survey methods to the possible
relation that can be built between the variables, which
have an impact on the revenue generation and the constraints
in the process. It also highlights the application of operations
research to resolve the issue of the optimal distance, which
the private vehicle owners could adopt for the successful
running of public transport considering the various constraints
possible. A simulation model is proposed based on the problem
and the solution to which can suggest strategies that could
be adopted for successful privatization of public transport
system.
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