Commerce (Finance & Accounts)

Goods and services tax (GST) is a tax which is imposed on goods and services sold to consumers for their consumption. Government enacted and act on goods and services tax on 29th March 2017.

Self service technology assumes significance as people start rapidly using this all over the country. Many transactions in real time or carried out by means of several self service technologies.

This article explores how information technology can be springboard to attain gender equality and empowerment in India. India is stepping into 21st century with a bold mission to join the group of economic super powers.

Unemployment means person willing to work but unable find qualified job. Our country is facing many problems but one of the serious problem is unemployment. Many graduates, doctors, engineers, scientist are unemployed or working underemployed. Due to unemployment we are wasting our country's human resource.

Cotton is one of the commerciald crops cultivated in differents parts of the India on varying propotion and intensity. Tamil Nadu is one among the Indian states where cotton is cultivated in extensive manner. Tamil Nadu ranks first in item of yield rate where the area and production remain far below when compare to other states. it is worthwhile to know about the area, production and productivity of cotton in Tamil Nadu.

Cotton is one of the important cash crops produced by the farmers mainly for cash return. The area under cotton in the world 4.6 million ha and production is 12.75 million L. in the year 2013-14 ., (ICAR 2014) in India area under cotton is 11.98 million ha and production is 34.00 million bales 2013-14. Cotton ranks third in the world, but its yields are the lowest with 432 kg lint per acre.

SHG is a movement which came to being in the early 1969. Prof. Muhammed Younus, a great economist of Bangladesh took initiative in setting up Self Help Groups and this SHGs were gradually spread all over the world. This social movement unites the people hailing from poor background. Those who are joining this group feel socially and economically responsible to one another. In India, there are some likeminded bodies and stakeholders of some government organizations play pivotal role towards the formation of SHG In this research article, role of SHGs in Vellore district is studies under the three dimensions of Cognitive role, leadership role and role towards entrepreneurship.

Cotton is important crop that makes a significant contribution to the economy of India. In Asia India is the largest Producer. The production of a cotton reached the level 347 lakh bales during the year 2013-14 the actual productivity level of cotton is 510 kgs per hectare. It plays a key role in the Indian Economy since it provide livelyhood to more than 60 million perople by way of support in agriculture processig and use of cotton textile.

Computer education has become relevant today and its need is stressed by various committees in India. Computer has revolutiionaized the whole society overwhelming in all human activiteis especially those of education. Computer is changing the total educational system namely, content, methodlogy, learner participation, learnning process, teachers role etc. It is powerful Instructional media that enhance the quality of higher education.

The buzzword today in the Marketing Industry is “Rural Marketing”; reportedly three times that of the European Market, the Indian rural market is a huge untapped resources Almost half of the national income is generated here. Rural market offers new and greatest opportunities to manufacturer. MNC’s and Indian companies alike are now plugging into these huge markets. India is a country where the majority population, almost 70% lives in villages, there are 627000 villages in the country spread across its length and breadth. There are 25 official languages and some four hundred dialects spoken in the country; most world religion have their adherence here. Gone are the days when village were using neem or babul tree to twig for cleaning their teeth, today they are using ultra bright shine of Colgate or some other international brand of tooth paste instead of groundnut the children are asking for chocolate candies that will meet in their mouths, face cream or lotions have replaced besan (chickpea flour) as a face cleanser. Rural Marketing Is the process of developing, pricing, promotion distributing rural specific goods and services to exchange between urban and rural markets which satisfy consumer demand and also achieve organasational objectives.Marketing Mix:1. ProductThe various product levels as outlined by Philips Kotler, namely core Benefit, Expected Product, augmented products and potential product should be adequately taken into consideration in rural product also. Most of the times in the urban product the product is offered at the augmented product , But in the rural markets in India is operated in the Expected Product section where his expectation are met, due to the low level of income and literacy level.

Women Entrepreneurs may be defined as the women or a group of women who initiate, organize and operate a business enterprise. Government of India has defined women entrepreneurs as an enterprise owned and controlled by a women having a minimum financial interest of 51% of the capital and giving at least 51% of employment generated in the enterprise to women.. Women in business are the surprising phenomena India.. Women entrepreneurs are emerged in business due to push and pull factors such as Saddled with household chores, death of bread winner and domestic responsibilities of women, want to get independence Such situation is described as pull factors. While in push factors women engaged in business desire to show their talent, to gain recognition, importance, social status etc.

This object of the study is to know the challenges of HRM in global scenario

In the fastest growing IT industry the employees’ attitude and commitment requires regular monitoring and fine-tuning in order to build positive work environment that will result in the development of both organization and its employees. The primary objective of the research study is to determine the relationship between employees’ attitude and organizational commitment of Chennai based IT employees. The researcher has selected ten (10) major firms in the IT sector located in Chennai (Tamilnadu) and 30 employees from each organization by adopting Quota cum convenient sampling method. The research study found that correlation between employees’ attitude and organizational commitment is concerned there exists a correlation (0.707) at 0.01 significance level (2 tailed tests) and as the significance level is less than 0.01, Ho is rejected. Therefore, it can be concluded that there exists a significance relationship between employees’ attitude and organizational commitment.

In era of globalization, most of the organization faces the problem of efficiency, productivity or performance due to employees' commitment and to investigate the level of organizational commitment among BPO employees in Bengaluru. A total of 30 questionnaires were administered and quota sampling was adopted. For the purpose of analysis, the researcher used the frequency distribution, cumulative percentage, and Independent sample T-test, ANOVA and Factor analysis. Found that, there is a positive relationship between Affective, Continuous, and Normative Commitment. One way ANOVA analysis revealed that clusters are significant and heterogeneous. Further, the researcher found that there is no significant difference in Affective, Continuous, and Normative Commitment of male and female employees of IT industry.

Introduction:In era of globalization, most of the organization face the problem of efficiency, productivity or performance due to employees' commitment.
Objective: To investigate the level of organizational commitment among Chennai based IT employees.
Methodology: As per the convenience of the researcher the convenient sampling was adopted. A total of 35 questionnaire were administered Chennai based IT employees and they were requested to complete the questionnaire in their weekend holidays. Out of 35 respondents, 30 respondents have promptly responded and which is taken for analysis. For the purpose of analysis, the researcher used the frequency distribution , cumulative percentage, Independent sample T-test, ANOVA and Factor analysis.
Result:Found that, there is a positive relationship between Affective, Continuous, Normative Commitment. One way ANOVA analysis revealed that clusters are significant and heterogeneous. Further, the researcher found that there is no significant difference in Affective, Continuous, Normative Commitment of male and female employees of IT industry.

The importance of employees’ attitude and organizational commitment has become the main concern for much organization, especially in IT sector. Presently most of the organizations have started to consider, it is an essential part of their business success. Unfortunately, there is limited research on how the practice of employees’ attitude would lead to organizational commitment. Further, there is limited research in IT sectors. This study intends to find the relationship between employees’ attitude and organizational commitment. 30 questionnaires were distributed to employees in IT companies located in Chennai. Based on the data, result revealed that there is a significant association between employees’ attitude and organizational commitment.

The District Industrial Centers (DICs) programme was started by the central government in 1978 with the objective of providing a focal point for promoting small, tiny, cottage and village industries in a particular area and to make available to them all necessary services and facilities to the entrepreneur for setting up Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME). This paper is an attempt to depict the overview of DICs and its role in promotion of small scale industries.