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Item The status of sanitation and water supply under Jnnurm in Uttar Pradesh: a case study of Allahabad, Lucknow and Varanasi(Department of Political Science, 2018) Jha, Rajani Ranjan; Sharma, Abhinav; Kamthan, SaritaCities are the hubs of much of national production (they contribute 56 per cent of India's GDP) and consumption, economic and social processes that generate wealth and opportunity. But they also create disease, crime, pollution, poverty and social unrest. Never before in history has the world witnessed such a rapid growth of urbanization. No doubt migration is largely responsible. This applies equally to India. We have already added 65 million persons to our urban population in the decade of the '90s alone. We are having nearly fifty per cent of India living in our cities by the beginning of this century. The lack of substantial new investments mean that existing infrastructure is outdated, inefficient and highly stressed, leading to high degrees of unaccounted supply for water and poor sanitation. Limited metering and efficiency incentives, unviable pricing (does not even cover O&M costs), poor revenue recovery rates, high unfulfilled investment needs lead to inadequate service coverage; unreliable and poor quality service provision. Commercially unviable urban local bodies mean that fresh investments by external agencies and the private sector will not be forthcoming. Keeping this in view the United Progressive Alliance (U.P.A.) Government launched Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in 2005. The programme is based on the premise that for cities to work, it is essential to create incentives and support urban reforms at the city level, develop appropriate enabling frameworks, enhances the creditworthiness of municipal governments and integrates service delivery system.Item Impact of financial literacy and financial stress on well being: a case study of handicraft workers of Varanasi region(Institute of Management Studies, 2018-07) Chakraborty, AninditaThe field of personal finance is better reflected in recent years in specialised research, i.e. financial education. The principle idea is that without passable knowledge and skills one cannot effectively manage his or her finances, particularly in this dynamic and complex economic environment. However, besides education, there are other aspects that came out from the literature, which appears to have particular importance in the process of individual financial decision. Therefore, personal finance and financial education plays a vital role in an individual’s life and thus are essential topics. The financial education movement proliferated in the mid- to late-1990s in response to financial sector reforms in many countries, and thus attention needs to be placed in the context of the state-of-the-art research, from which future research can come into sight. The financial decision-making process is complicated in the case of individuals and households and may get influenced by various factors. With financial products becoming more and more complex; growing role of technology in the financial sector; shifting of employers attention from traditional pension plans to market linked plans have created apprehension in the mind of policymakers regarding the precautionary measures taken by the financial institutions and lack of financially educated people. Thus the need for improved education in the field of personal finance is felt and large number of nationally representative organisations in India and worldwide to promote financial education were established to promote financial education. Financial decisions are a part of everyday life – whether looking for ways to save, deciding which credit card represents the best value, choosing a home loan, comparing insurance policies or planning for retirement. Whatever the decision, being confident and informed can make a difference to the financial wellbeing and peace of mind of an individual and a household. For taking better financial decisions, one needs to have some financial knowledge, or he/she should be financially literate. Therefore, financial literacy is the capability to of an individual to understand how to use money in the real world. It deals with how people manage to earn or make it, how they manage it, how they invest it and how they help others by donating it. In absence of financial literacy one can end-up by making poor financial decisions, and that can affect their financial wellbeing. Therefore, with raising interest in personal finance in countries like Australia, Japan, the United States, UK and India it is now necessary to focus on state-run programs to protect the people from any type of financial mis happenings and this can only be done by properly educating them.Item Transition metal complexes with Heterocyclic Schiff bases: synthesis, characterization and applications(Department of Chemistry, 2017-01-31) Singh, Vinod PrasadThe aim of this work is to explore the ligational behavior of some heterocyclic Schiff bases derived from acylhydrazine system towards some transition metal ions and to arrive at the probable structures of the coordination complexes on the basis of spectroscopic studies. By carefully selecting the organic ligand one also aims to tune the physical properties and thus realizes various applications such as catalysis, electrical conductivity, luminescence, chemo sensing and anticorrosion behavior. Schiff bases are one of the most important and widely explored organic species. Their low-cost, synthetic ease and tremendous applications, inspired us to work on Schiff bases as chemical probes for selective detection of toxic metal ions.Item Design and study of surface plasmon resonance based planar waveguide(Department of Physics, 2018-07-30) Singh, VivekTheoretical optimization of sensitivity of planar waveguide having chalcogenide material. The basic aim is to design a suitable planar waveguide for higher sensitivity. Fabrication and study of optimized planar waveguide sensor by coating the sensor surface with different bio-selective materials (polymers, antibodies, enzymes etc.) for sensing of microbes. Validation of the developed sensor system through selected non-pathogens bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa) trials and documentation. The aim will be to identify a suitable bio-film for specific binding of selected non-pathogens bacteria.Item To study expression profile and epigenetic modification of DNA repair genes in testicular biopsies of infertile patients with impaired spermatogenesis(Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, 2017-03-31) Singh, KiranThe complex networking of signalling pathways like DNA damage, DNA repair, apoptosis, differentiation and proliferation, coordinates the fate of the cell at different developmental stages of spermatogenesis. An integrated DNA repair pathways exits in the human genome to repair a variety of DNA damage in somatic and germ cells.Item Expression pattern and physiological and metabolic actions of oxytocin in the testis of mice(Major Research Project, 2018-07-30) Krishna, AmitabhOxytocin (OT) is normally a neurohormone stored and secreted from posterior pituitary. It has been postulated to facilitate reproduction at several levels and is traditionally considered as a female hormone. Within male reproductive tract, the presence of OT was demonstrated in the testes, epididymis and prostrate. Thus the aim of this study was to elucidate the role of OT in spermatogenic and steroidogenic activities in the testes of mice.Item Genetic diversity and phylogenetic analyses of cyanobacteria based on nif K, psb A and ntcA conserved sequences(Department of Botany, 2015-08-31) Mishra, A.KCyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes, which possess mainly chlorophyll-a. Cyanobacteria are approximated to have occurred as a long ago as 2,600 to 3,500 millions years based on fossil records, organic biomarkers and genomic sequence analysis. They are known to inhabit a range of habitats, including plant surfaces but this has not been adequately explored for improving their biofertilizing potenctial in agriculture and the rhizosphere is a relatively unexplored frontier.Item Theory of two diensional Molecular Fluids(Department of Physics, 2018-07-30) Ram, JokhanGay-Berne (GR) potential has been proved to be a valuable model with which to investigate the liquid crystals using computer simulation in ll-dimension. In this work we consider the GB model containing the most commonly used values of the four parameters with,various values of length-to-breadth ratios which has not been considered before in 2-dimension.Correlation functions are expanded in complete set ol orthogonal functions.We have considered 16 Body-fixed harmonic coeficients in the expansion of correlation functions and using this we have solved Percus Yevick ( PY ) integral equation combined with Ornstein Zernike equation. The accuracy of the par correlation functions givcn by integral cquation theory has been tested by those obtaincd by NV'I'Montc carlo simulation . Results so obtained have been used in Density Functional Theory (DFT) to study freezing transions.Item Antiproliferative and Antitumor Activity of Extracts of Certain Orchid Plants(Department of Zoology, 2015-12-31) Koch, Biplob1. To investigate the in vitro anticancer activity of the three Dendrobium species ethanolic extracts. 2. To determine the cytotoxic effect of the extracts against both normal and cancer cell lines. 3. To study the effect of plant extracts on induction of apoptosis in cancer cells. 4. To elucidate the effect of the plant extracts on the expression of apoptotic proteins and genes in cancer cell lines. 5. To investigate the anticancer activity of the Dendrobium species ethanolic extracts in in vivo condition
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