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IJSS - Volume 5 - Issue 3-4

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Title: Contents Vol. 5, No. 3-4, Page: 137-177, September-December 2016
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Title: Groundwater Management of Katihar District Problem and Awarness
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Groundwater is an essential source of drinking water in many countries. Groundwater is best described as the world’s real hidden treasure. Almost everywhere it has made a difference in providing safe drinking water and livelihood security in times of drought. Management of ground water resources in Indian context is an extremely complex proposition. The highly uneven distribution and its utilization make it impossible to have single management strategy for the country as a whole. The study mainly describe region of katihar district of Bihar. Groundwater of Katihar region is based on component of the hydrological cycle, mode of occurrence, water level fluctuations, chemical quality, and status of development for vital resource of human sustenance. The following retrospective study provides a broad context for unifying technical contributions that make up this focus on groundwater resources, management strategies, development, problems and issues, mass awareness and training activities of the Katihar region, Bihar.

Title: Women and Health: Issues Behind
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Women health is very crucial as they are considered to be the central and key person in the families. However, women are not very conscious about their health related issues, and always take these issues very lightly. These mindsets have to be changed by different communication interventions. Women have many elements which prevent them to consider their own personal health issues, like –shyness and hesitations, lack of health literacy, lack of awareness, lack of interest for interpersonal communications by the healthcare professionals, lack of proper health communication, to name a few. These complications can be mitigated with the help of properly drawn target based health communication strategies which can not only inform, but also influence the health behaviors of the women. Mainly the initiatives are to be taken by the programme or policy implementing agencies with the help of target audience, which will help bringing better health outcomes and significant social changes.

Title: Self Size and Placement of Self Depicted in the Family Drawings of Orphan and Normal Children
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Differences in depicting the size of self and placement of self by orphan and normal children in relation to different family members was studied using family drawing method. 105 orphan and 100 normal children constituted the sample of the study. The results revealed that orphan and normal children differed significantly from each other with respect drawing the ‘size of self’ and ‘placement of self’ in relation to different family members. More orphan than normal children omitted ‘self’ figure in their drawings. More normal than orphan children have depicted the ‘size of self’ figure equal to that of all family members, size according to age and placed self figure close to mother, father and siblings.

Title: Social Networking Experiences on Facebook: A Study on the Students’ of Comilla University
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This study is to identify the students’ experiences on the uses of their favourite social networking site like Facebook and its effect on their daily life. In this paper, a survey was conducted by ninety five (95) students’ from the six faculties of the Comilla University are taken as samples. Data were collected by using a questionnaire during July to August 2016. Most of the respondents reported that a constructive effects of using social networking sites is evident in their daily life. This study significantly found that they used Facebook for communication with their friends and others, getting information, educational purpose, sending birthday greetings, job purpose and entertainment etc. This study also suggested that there is a need for higher education policy makers in Bangladesh to properly connect the students’ involvement in social networking to their academic purposes.