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A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR IN INDIA OVER THE LAST TWO DECADES On 24 October 1998, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced the Golden Quadrilateral project, auguring a period of high growth and development in Indian infrastructure. However, in the two decades since, India has seen scams and failures in the sector, along with long slumps when most economic activity ceased. Nothing is so fundamental to the health of a nation as its infrastructure—the foundation of all economic activity. Yet, all is not bleak. Over the last decade, there has been much progress. Our national highways have grown from 91,287 km to 146,145 km; we now have 148 airports instead of 74...
This integrated collection covers a range of parallelization platforms, concurrent programming frameworks and machine learning settings, with case studies.
Future of the Forest is the story of legal transformations of forests across India through collective action. Since the nineteenth century, Indian forest dwellers have been unable to enforce their claims to the land on which they live or the products of it that they use. But at the turn of the twenty-first century, a new national movement led to the passage of the Forest Rights Act, a landmark law that recognizes the tenure and use rights of India's millions of landless forest dwellers. Anand P. Vaidya tracks the Forest Rights Act from the movements that pushed for its passage to its drafting—and the many revisions it underwent to satisfy coalitions of local peoples, conservationists, and a wide spectrum of political parties and movements—and finally to its impact on two neighboring villages in central India's forest belt. The forests have seen a long history of political authority enacted to the benefit of the powerful; Future of the Forest follows the work of activists and forest dwellers who turned to the law to shift this balance of power.
This book highlights the various strategies adopted by different companies to successfully maintain an edge over their competitors by achieving high profit and growth rate or a wider market share. A few examples of competitive strategies that are commonly
This text constitutes the proceedings of the Second SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. Topics covered within include mining large data sets; casualty rules and data learning; support vector machines and neural networks; and mining sequential and structured patterns.