Environment, Economics and Commerce Education
Contents: Preface. I. Environment: 1. Measures for ecological improvement defective/G.S. Bhalla and Balkrishan Bali. 2. Give mother earth: a chance for survival/G.S. Bhalla and Abhay Jain. 3. Bad policy behind owning individual cars: survey shows 80 per cent of cars carry only one person/G.S. Bhalla. 4. Environment reporting: an evaluation/G.S. Bhalla and Niti Singh. 5. Bhagat Puran Singh on tree felling/G.S. Bhalla. 6. Unjustified felling of trees/G.S. Bhalla. 7. Penny wise, pound foolish: policy about forest wealth/G.S. Bhalla. 8. Helifax declaration and the universities/Jatinder Kaur Tur. II. Economics: 9. Need of economic structural changes in India/G.S. Bhalla and Rupinder Bhalla. 10. Development banking in 21 century: challenges ahead/G.S. Bhalla and S.S. Nartta. 11. Economic programme for rural poor/G.S. Bhalla and H.S. Bhalla. 12. An open letter to he Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on eco-economic policy of India/G.S. Bhalla. 13. A development model/G.S. Bhalla and Vandana Dem. 14. Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) not alive to leasing potential/G.S. Bhalla. 15. Leasing--a lever of exploit business acts/G.S. Bhalla and Balakrishan Bali. 16. Prevention and detection of tax evasion to cut black economy/G.S. Bhalla and Monica Duggal. 17. Kelkar Task force on direct taxes: a new dimension in tax reform/G.S. Bhalla and Rajani. 18. Business and tax raids/G.S. Bhalla. 19. Tax payer and inflation in economy/G.S. Bhalla. 20. Indian industrial development: post-reform scene/Vikram Chadha, G.S. Bhalla and Randeep Wadhera. 21. Pitfalls of HUF assessment and economic consequences/G.S. Bhalla. III. Commerce education: 22. Making commerce education more relevant/G.S. Bhalla and Vandana Dem. 23. Women's role in managing the changing commerce scenario/G.S. Bhalla and Ruchi Trehan. 24. The economic health of universities/G.S. Bhalla and Sumninder Bawa. 25. Better funding of universities/G.S. Bhalla and S.P. Dhawan. 26. Not for fourth estate alone/G.S. Bhalla. 27. Woes of doctoral research fellow/G.S. Bhalla and Rupinder Bhalla. 28. Business seminars of what use?/G.S. Bhalla and Abhay Jain. IV. Socio-economic development in Punjab: 29. Socio-economic development in Punjab: an overview/G.S. Bhalla and Sumninder Bawa.
"The philosophy of exploitation which promulgates that any destruction of nature is justified for the sake of development--that we 'develop' at any cost-need not only be condemned but completely discarded in the interest of giving mother earth a chance of survival. The world of excessive exploitation of nature definitely leads to ecological catastrophe of magnitude which result into the extinction of human civilization. Development must be environmentally harmonious, economically efficient and targeted towards equity with social justice.
At present, the education system has degraded a lot. The education has lost its real meaning and has become more of an isolated knowledge in the field of technology, seismology, economy, sociology, pure-sciences and so on; instead of having a meaningful inter-disciplinary approach. The book in hand deals with the above mentioned theme and is divided into different sections dealing with ecological environment, economics and commerce education besides an overview of the different aspects of the economy." (jacket)
