Government of India

About: Government of India is a government organization based out in New Delhi, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Government. The organization has 2945 authors who have published 2999 publications receiving 44942 citations. The organization is also known as: Union Government & Central Government.

Bio-Waste Management in Subtropical Soils of India: Future Challenges and Opportunities in Agriculture

Abstract: The rapid growth in population, food production, urbanization, and industrialization has accelerated the generation of bio-waste material such as crop residues, animal waste, and municipal solid waste. They wield tremendous impacts on soil health, climate change, and overall environment with pronounced ramifications for developing countries like India. In addition to the previously mentioned challenges, overexploitation of soil is causing the second-generation problems of nutritional disorders, decline in productivity, global warming–driven climate change, pollution, and so on. Therefore scientific and logical recycling of organics is of prime importance to eradicate the huge piles of bio-waste material in agriculture. It will, firstly, be of benefit to minimizing environmental pollution and, secondly, improve crop productivity, soil carbon status, and soil health in general. Contrary to this, unscientific management of organic waste hold disadvantages such as losses of essential plant nutrients, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), heavy metal contamination and development of sporadic pathogens harmful to animals and plants. The prime focus of this review is to signify the current prospects of organic waste management in India and their potential in agriculture. The article has comprehensively elaborated on GHG, fertilizer consumption, food grain production, nutrient removal by crops, and constraints of waste recycling. This review further emphasizes through future research needs the need to advance our knowledge regarding bio-waste management, so that we better understand and implement efficient waste management. It is also pertinent to develop a sustainable and eco-friendly agricultural practices so that organic resources mainly in the form of crop residues, animal waste, and municipal solid waste are utilized.

Determinants of IPO Underpricing in the National Stock Exchange of India

Abstract: The National Stock Exchange (NSE) is India's first fully demutualized stock exchange. It is also the largest exchange in India in terms of volumes in both equity and derivatives segments. The previous studies on Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in India have been largely confined to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). This study looks at the pricing of IPOs in the NSE. In particular, it seeks to empirically explain the first day under pricing in terms of the demand generated during the book building of the issue, the listing delay between the closure of the book building and the first day listing of the issue and the money spent on the marketing of the IPO by the firms. It also seeks to understand any emerging patterns in Indian IPO market with reference to the previous studies. Moreover it seeks to find the post IPO returns for one month in the NSE. The results suggest that the demand generated for an issue during book building and the listing delay positively impact the first day under pricing whereas the effect of money spent on the marketing of the IPO is insignificant. We also find that in consonance with extant literature, the post IPO performance in one month after the listing for the firms under study is negative.