my publications

Mt publications on woman's literacy, breast feeding and consumer education     

experience based article on consumer education

article on literacy 

feeding the baby

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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Research on Drudgery in Home click to enlargeActivites

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan  is a national campaign by the Government of India, covering 4,041 statutory cities and towns, to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country.........Wikipedia

To popularize the Latterens in villages i wrote this article in ANUDESH in May 1990 the magasine for adult education campaign beneficiaries

A research paper on Drudgery in Home Activities.

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My publications

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My radio talks delivered from All Indio Radio Rohatak and Hisar

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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan,My articles on cleanliness

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Hindi: स्वच्छ भारत अभियान, English: Clean India Mission and abbreviated as SBA or SBM for "Swachh Bharat Mission") is a national campaign by the Government of India, covering 4,041 statutory cities and towns, to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country.

The campaign was officially launched on 2 October 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself cleaned the road. It was performed in remembrance of Mahatma Gandhi's words. It is India's biggest ever cleanliness drive and 3 million government employees and school and college students of India participated in this event.

I am contributing for this abhiyaan since 1989 or earlier

 

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Weeding ...a sternous farm activity

WEEDING

the research results of ergonomic evaluation of weeding activity......

Ø Mean age of rural woman collecting weeds was 29.5 years, measuring body weight and height as 50 kg and 155.5 cm., respectively having mesomorph body (60.0%). Aerobic capacity was found to be 1.79 l/min having high average physical fitness. A significant positive correlation existed between VO2 max and body weight.

Ø Traditional kasola was used to remove weeds by majority of respondents (80.0%) and spent nearly 4 hours covering a distance of 4 kms per day on weeding.

Ø Heart rate increased in woman while collecting weeds (104.4bpm). Increase was more in older age group varying from 97.8 bpm to 122bpm. A woman showed energy expenditure as 6.79 Kj/min for weeding. Direct relationship existed between heart rate and energy expenditure.

Ø Physiological cost of work of a woman doing weeding was 66.0 bpm. Physiological workload of the woman while collecting weeds was graded as heavy and moderately heavy.

Ø Grip strength increased upto 6.8% after the start of the activity whereas it decreased up to 14.4% at the end of the activity. Increase in grip strength was more in lower age group (7.0%) whereas the decrease was more in upper age group. Bending and squatting posture was adopted for about 35 to 38 times while collecting weeds. More deviation was observed in lumbar region (14.4^o) than the cervical region (2.1^o) during collection of weeds .A woman reported severe to moderate pain in upper, mid and lower back, fingers and shoulders. Mild pain was reported in lower extremities.

Ø Mean temperature, relative humidity and noise was recorded as 42.2^oC, 37.1% and 47.3db, respectively.

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Farm women bringing fodder

Farm-women perform various animal rearing activities..

and fodder collection is one of them;

women bringing fodder from her field, usually farmhouses with land in their possession grow green fodder for their animals, and mostly women bring the head load of fodder from their fields, and after bringing the fodder they cut it with chaff cutter


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