Efficient supply chain models are crucial for ensuring swift medical intervention and the timely delivery of essential supplies in disaster management. This study focuses on optimizing disaster relief efforts in meteorological disasters, specifically flash floods triggered by cloudburst events....

Disasters can be caused by humans or natural hazards, and they impact the vulnerability of communities worldwide. This study considers disasters caused by humans, including the rescue operation taken post-accidents. The objective of the research is to minimise time and cost to save people's...

Organizations under public ownership have earned the dubious distinction that nonperformance is the hallmark of public ownership and even any improvement can at best be only ephemeral. Several agencies based and democracy based theories have explained why they cannot perform. But no study has...

With economic reforms in the country and globalisation phenomenon everywhere. Management Education is at the cross roads, with an imperative to change its role from being ornamental to imparting the competitive edge. The paper discusses the past and present of Management Education in India and...

The paper argues for a renewed emphasis on hydro generation, with a concerted effort to tackle the environmental issues. It also argues for dropping the concept of State Level planning for power sector so that the generators can be located near the mines' mouth or hydel locations and electricity...

The MOU or Cost plus form of inviting private power company individually to supply power is inferior to setting broad guidelines for competition and inviting number of suppliers to bid for a kwh of power. The experience of how the Power Purchase Agreement under the Cost plus form can be...

Wise countries have long since recognized the importance of hydro power. North America has exploited 83% of its potential of 184 GW, and West Europe has exploited 98% of its potential of 118 GW. This is in contrast to 14% exploitation of 663 GW by Eastern Europe, 36% exploitation of 513 GW by...