Although ‘National Mission for Financial Inclusion’ launched in August 2014 has achieved remarkable success in India, ‘Financial Illiteracy’ remains a major bottleneck in financial inclusion. This paper measures the financial literacy level of Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, a...

The bidirectional flow of electrical power has mandated the monitoring of the distribution system (DS) in real-time to overcome problems linked to grid stability, that can cause cascade failure. In wide-area monitoring DS, micro-phasor measurement units (µPMUs) play a vivacious role in...

The colorimetric detection of metal ions is significantly applied for industrial, ecological, and medical applications. Here we synthesise 4-((Z)-1-(((Z)-(2-hydroxynaphthalen-1-yl)methylene)-hydrazineylidene)ethyl)benzene-1,3-diol a new chemosensor that acts as a sensitive and selective...

A five-year study (2001 to 2006) was undertaken in semiarid regions to identify the cropping systems which may be more remunerative, ecofriendly and sustainable over existing cropping systems and are farmer-friendly, so that they may be convinced to shift to the new cropping systems to maintain...