In India, the Department of Agriculture (DoA) in the state is the prime public extension service provider which undertakes regulatory function and also management of supplies and inputs. A study was conducted to assess the level of farmers’ (clientele) satisfaction on agricultural extension services of DoA. The study was conducted in Tripura state of North- East India during 2012. The required information was collected from 80 farmers (clientele) of the DoA using structured interview schedule. The findings of the investigation indicated that a majority of the clientele had expressed medium level of relevancy, quality, usefulness and customer (clientele) service satisfaction of the extension services provided by the Department of Agriculture. Based on the findings of the study, it was suggested that the department should provide relevant market information, inputs should be provided timely, extension personnel should be equipped with appropriate teaching materials and methods, the extension personnel should encourage farmers for developing farmers groups or Self-help Group for helping themselves. The research study was conducted by the first author as a thesis work to fulfill the partial requirements for M. Sc. (Agriculture) in Agricultural Extension degree programme.

Pesticides have many private and social costs to agriculture. To address this problem the World Bank has promoted Farmer Field School. The objective of the study was to estimate the Average treatment on Treated due to exposure of the farmer at Farmer Field School. The outcome variables were yield per acre and expenditures on pesticides. The decision to select Farmer Field School villages or farmers was not random from the point of view of policy makers. It was very important to overcome the problem of selection bias in finding a comparison group. The pre-treatment comparison of socio-economic indicators suggested that exposed farmers were systematically different from non-exposed farmers. I used propensity score matching as the possible solutions for overcoming the problem of selection bias. Indonesia had the most extensive experience with the Farmer Field School approach. The data from a panel survey of Javanese household organised by the Indonesian Center for Agro-Socioeconomic Research, available on public domain of data catalogue of World Bank. The Propensity Score Matching matched the exposed and non-exposed farmer in terms of observed socio-economic variable. The empirical findings suggested that the FFS did not result in any significant improvement in yield or reduction in the expenditure on pesticide.

Renewable resources are capable of solving the twin problems of energy supply in a decentralized manner and helping sustaining the clearer environment but it is difficult predict the role of unconventional sources of energy. Renewable energy is becoming an increasingly important part of India’s energy mix. India now has an economy with a dynamic private sector and a burgeoning middle class, however, faces growing challenges to maintain its economic growth. Many of India’s energy players suffer from financial weakness, with limited financial resources and restricted investment ability. India needs considerable investment to build a reliable and adequate energy supply chain. Technical and managerial expertise of Indian energy companies needs to improve. This is particularly relevant in the renewable sector, which is fast expanding and in need of skilled personnel. Although installed capacity remains quite small, it has promising potential for growth. Private investment has been the key driver behind the growth of renewable in India. Renewable energy would play a critical role to solve some of India’s energy problems and to improve the quality of people’s lives. Ambitious policy targets would help build investors’ confidence in the future of India’s renewable sector.

Prevention of diseases, diagnosis, treatment of illness, injury in human beings, etc., forms the subject matter of health care. Diseases like diabetes, stroke, cancer, cardiac diseases, renal diseases and so on needs specialised health care services owing to their specific treatment modalities. The Government of India has been trying its best to deliver health care services at the primary, secondary and tertiary level. Tertiary health care services provide specialised and super-speciality health care services which includes cancer management, neurology and neurosurgery, cardiology and cardio-thoracic surgery, nephrology and urology, and a host of other complex medical and surgical interventions. But these specialised and super specialised health care services are often very costly and are beyond the affordability of general population. Moreover, the Government with its limited resources are not able to provide such services to all the needy people. So, the Government took initiative in including various NGOs in providing such type of specialised and super-speciality health care services so as to benefit the needy and the poor. The present paper discusses about such activities by NGOs in the field of specialised health care, citing the example of The Cachar Cancer Hospital Society (CCHS), a NGO which provides specialised health care services in the field of cancer, to the needy and the poor population.

The territorial dispute between Japan and Russia has been ongoing since century and did not come up with satisfying solution yet. The disputed Islands were Shikotan, Habomai, Etorofu, Kunashiri and Kurile chain. In San Francisco Treaty there were divisions of the two Islands among the country but like all the time, Japan claims all the four Islands as it was their historically integrated part. However, it has soured the bilateral relations for more than centuries and many treaties were signed for peaceful co-existence but unsuccessful. Both the side gave their valid arguments for the territories they claim and it is difficult to find out a solutions.

Civilization depends upon the strength of ideal values and sentiments in marriage for maintaining marital relations which play an important role in offering an easy and effective guidance in their marital behavior. The personality traits of two individuals, their backgrounds, the attitude affect the future of any marriage. Working women’s problem depends on the type of employment and domestic commitment. Tension is felt because she feels torn between loyalty towards job and towards husband and child. Role conflict arises when there is a clash between equally important roles. Due to shortage of time and energy on the one hand and a large number of demands of family members working women enable to meet her demands and needs and make her life unhappy. The present study was planned to investigate the marital conflict of working women from different organized sectors. A sample of three hundred working women was selected purposively. The marital conflict of working women was quantified as per the scoring of scale developed by Krebs and Laird, 1998. It was observed that the highest range of marital conflict was found in case of nurse followed by officer, college teacher, clerk, doctor and school teacher. There was no significant difference among them as far as marital conflict was concern.

The present research conducted in Jahangirnagar University and Dhaka University of Bangladesh. There were total 174 respondents for the study. 118 respondents were from Dhaka University and 56 respondents were from Jahangirnagar University. General objective of this study was to identify influence of higher education in women empowerment. Research findings showed that there is significant relation between higher education and empowerment level. Actually science faculty students of both universities are empowered then other faculty. In terms of involvement with organization number is high in Jahangirnagar University. In contrary number of respondents are high in Dhaka University in terms of involvement with profession. In terms of decision making the number of Jahangirnagar University respondents are higher than Dhaka University students.