In an emerging integrated world economy, the banking sector is playing a crucial role for the free flow of money and capital in areas of opportunities. Development of the global economy is possible only when such free flow is ensured by organizations like banks. The current effort is to provide universal banking with services like "Allfinanz" and "Banc assurance" with a host of financial activities under on e roof. To enable this, the banks have to be managerially efficient and effective. There are various issues that influence the managerial efficiency and effectiveness. However, there are very few books on bank management that discuss these issues. This book focuses on the efficiency and effectiveness issues of modern bank management. It is an edited volume of articles published and papers contributed to workshops along with some special articles for this book. The authors are renowned experts in the field as also bank administrators like the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore and Chairman of the Monetary authority of Singapore whose works are included in this book. The contributions include issues like World Class Banking, Banking in the New Millennium, Banking Developments in India, Automation Issues, Leadership Issues, Motivation of Bank employees, Behavioural orientations, Customer Relations, Technology Based banking etc. The book is unique in the sense that these issues relating to banking are not available in one place elsewhere and will be of immense use to students of Bank Management as also Bank Management professionals.

Water Resource Management (WRM) is growing fast as an important area covering a wide spectrum of water resource availability and its use. The present book consolidates the discussion on almost all-important aspects of the above field such as which availability, water management, water conservation, development and policy formulation, demand and supply of water etc. at one place. The present work combines the conceptual thrust and the WRM practices with new challenges, which will be of interest to the policy makers and to the practicing managers and administrators. The contributors include academicians, practicing water resource managers, government officials and policy makers. The main features of the book are: 1. It is based on the long practical experience of practicing water resource managers. 2. Its coverage is wide and includes various important aspects of water resource management. 3. It includes a number of original and empirical research work undertaken by the researchers. 4. It contains a detailed discussion on surface and groundwater management. 5. The material contained in the book is collected on the basis of statistical data, information and techniques.

The present textbook on banking in India is addressed to the undergraduate students of Indian universities. There have been significant changes in the area of institutional credit since 1947. New public sector financial institutions such as development banks have come up in big way and old types of financial institutions such as commercial banks have been nationalized, strengthened and expanded. The cooperative banks, which serve the agricultural sector, have been streamlined. The Reserve Bank of India, the central bank of the country, was nationalized with effect from 1 January, 1949, and in March the Banking Companies Act was passed, conferring on it a wide range of regulatory and supervisory powers over the banking system. The book is divided in eight chapters. The first chapter deals with the role and importance of banks as financial intermediaries and their types. Chapter two discusses the Reserve Bank of India. As an apex institution of a country's financial system, it plays a leading role in organizing, running, supervising and regulating the banking system. Therefore any book on banking will be incomplete without a reference to the functions and performance of the Reserve Bank of India. Chapter three is devoted to the history, definition, and functions of commercial banks, while chapter four deals with the analysis of branch expansion and deposit mobilization and chapter five look into their patterns of credit deployment and investment, chapter six analyses the financing of priority sector. The discussion on cooperative banks is taken up in chapter seven and that of development banks is in chapter eight.

An attempt has been made to highlight the labour management relations in Indian Industry with reference to Sugar Industry. In this book problem and major issues concerning the two parties, namely, Labour and Management, which have always been centering round the subject, have been discussed. Necessary measures to unsolved problems, have also been given. This book is divided into eight chapters; the first chapter deals with the employer-employee relations; the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 and the importance of Sugar Industry in Indian economy; the second chapter examines the system of promotions, its various schemes, types, purposes policies and procedures practiced in the mills; the third chapter is devoted to the demotions: Its causes and impact upon the efficiency of the workmen; the fourth chapter explains the purposed transfer of the employees, and its impact on the workers' efficiency. It also underlines transfer policies and procedures for efficient running of an organization; the fifth chapter includes separation of the employees; i.e., resignation, discharge and dismissal, suspension and retrenchment and lay-offs, the sixth and seventh chapters deal with the problems of absenteeism and labour turnover of the employees, finally the last chapter gives conclusions and suggestions.