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Adoption of Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) is increasing owing to its potential facilitation towards accessibility of data services in wireless network. It is considered as an integral part of IoT system which demands faster connectivity with better admission control. However, IoT system has massive number of connected users with both home access point and core base station and it is quite resource consuming in order to relay the data communication even using 5G over IoT. Therefore, this paper introduces a very simple and novel mechanism for resource management in CRN particularly targeting to large scale IoT environment. This analytical model is implemented in MATLAB considering a standard simulation parameter, where the outcome shows that proposed system offers better throughput in less time in contrast to existing channel assignment approaches towards resource management in CRN.

This paper examines nature and extent of farmers’ indebtedness in India using unit record data from NSSO 59th round, and provided a comparative picture of major Indian states. It shows using data from rice cultivating farmers that productivity of small farmers is not only higher than the medium farmers, it increases with access to credit. In terms of access to credit, seen through extent of indebtedness, Karnataka is better placed than many Indian states. But Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Kerala lie ahead of Karnataka. Ironically however, almost half of the credit is still provided by the informal sector in the state of Karnataka (on an average). Region wise picture shows that Southern region is more dependent on informal sources of credit. Poor farmers with lower land holdings are much more deprived of the formal sources of credit than the comparatively richer ones. Thus they also pay a much higher rate of interest with modal value of 36%. But it is heartening to note that loans are taken mostly for income generating purposes. It also indirectly implies that even for the income generating purposes poor are not getting access to formal sources of credit.

Though Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry is of recent origin in India it has attracted the attentions of entrepreneurs, policy makers and media persons equally due to its phenomenal growth. The growth of this sector has not only helped to improve our current account balance, but also generated income and employment. This paper looks at this IT-enabled service (ITES) based industry particularly focusing on three major service lines, viz., customer care, financial and health care. It analyses India’s strengths and weaknesses vis-à-vis the competing countries. While the major strength of Indian BPO industry is the availability of cost-effective manpower, ironically, it has been observed that the major challenges faced by the industry in India today are mainly human resource related. The paper comes up with the possible measures necessary for keeping India’s competitive edge intact in this segment.

Based on 1987 and 1988 data from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) and the Census of Small Scale Industries (CSSI).