Curriculum for Renewable Energy

About the Book

A book containing the proceedings of the International Workshop on Renewable Energy Curriculum held in April 1995 was brought out with , financial support from the Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Source Govt. of India. Several copies were distributed to the delegates from the participating countries. As per the arrangements with the Ministry, over 6000 copies have been distributed to various organisations such as: Engineering Colleges, State Electricity Boards, leading in-house R&D units, selected universities and IITs, and several State and Central Government Departments.
 
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Newer Forms of Intellectual Property Protection

About the Book

The first book of the Institute 'Newer Forms of Intellectual Property Protection' was published in May 1995. This was in fact the outcome of the workshop the Institute had organised, sponsored by the Centre for Technology Development, Bangalore and co-sponsored by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry and held at the Asian & Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology. This book contains all the papers presented at the workshop, the statements made at the inaugural Session as well as the questions and comments that arose during the discussion. The book also contains the full text of the TRIPS agreement. Complementary copies of the book were sent to members of the Institute and the authors of the various papers presented therein. In bringing out the book the Department of Electronics, Government of lndia, provided partial financial support. Several copies of the book have been sold and some copies are .still available.
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Indian Systems Of Medicines in the Treatment of Cancer

About the Book

The Institute had organised a Workshop on 'Role of Indian Systems Medicine in the Treatment of Cancer' on 13th February 1996 at New Delhi. The Workshop had 21 papers including backgrounders, and 4 communications. WITT compiled these papers together with the discussion thereon.

The Proceedings have been structured session and system-wise in order 1 afford easy location and access to a particular system of medicine and the target paper .
 
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Eco-Mark - A Report on Current Status

About the Book

The Institute had arranged an appreciation programme on Eco-Mark. . backgrounder prepared needed to be updated while bringing out the proceedings. Several papers presented at the programme were transcribe from tapes and suitably edited to include clarifications provided to certain questions raised. The entire documentation was reviewed and re-formatted into appropriate (This book was released in an impressive function held, on 24 July 2000)
 
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Technology Profiles

About the Book

The institute had prepared technology profiles for four countries namely kazakhstan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam for the Asian & Pacific centre for transfer of Technology , New Delhi in 1995-96.

A Brochure containing the typical content of a report and full executive summaries of the four countries were published to define information about the studies. For report may made with APCTT.(www.apctt.org)
An Introduction to the Guiding Principles in the Decision Patent

About the Book

The need for guidance has increased enormously… ... in the near future this will come about from the cases that will be decided by the High Courts and the Supreme Court of India.

- Justice K T Thomas, Judge Supreme Court of India. The book is well timed and is bound to enlighten the legal fraternity as well as the general public

- Justice B P Jeevan Reddy, Chairman Law Commission of India

The grouping of the cases into convenient subject areas makes the presentation not only reference friendly but also provides an interesting continuity from chapter to chapter.
- Prof P M Bakshi, Former Member Law Commission of India.

Provides a wide range of situations from which the guiding principles have been culled out. In a typical case …. one may …. decide on a strategy as to how to pursue patent dispute problems/resolution.
- Dr R A Mashelkar, Secretary DSIR & DG CSIR.
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Guiding Principles In The Decisions Of Service Law

About the Book

The central Administrative Tribunal was constituted under the Administrative Tribunal Act, 1985nwhich came in to force from 1.11.1985. Since then more and more employees and employersmake use of this judicial Forum for redressal of grievances and to get speedy inexpensive and complete justice as this is the Court of first instance for Services matters.
In many topics of service law, as there are no statutes to govern the situation, one has necessarily to rely on case law. This is why it is absolutely necessary to get familiarized with the important cases decided by the Apex court and other Court to be able to arrive at just solution in a given case. The decisions of the tribunal being increasingly upheld by the Higher courts only strengthens the Justice delivery system,

Towards the above goal, the present book presents the decisions of about one thousand important cases in service law and general principles, skillfully analysed and annotated under seven chapters with over one hundred distinct sub-headings for facility of search. The seven chapters deal with the Genral principles of service jusrisprudense, Law Applicable to Recruitments and Appointments, incidence of service, Disciplinary Proceedings and punishments, including in the police force, final retrial benefits, and connect subjects like contempt jurisdictioions .
Apart from the Central Government, there are now 45 other organizations which have been notifieid under Section 14 (2) of the A.T act which come within the jurisdiction of the tribunal. A new chapter II has been added on the interpretation of the provisions of the Act, which govern the setting up, functnioning and powers of tribunal... Memebres are appointed to the tribunal have to learn and develop the specialized branch of law so that disputes are settled. The litigant himself being often an aggrieved officer can also delve in to pages of this book , apart from the others users. The law on the subject has been so arranged that it may serve as a refrence book to bridge the gap between government, other employers and employees and to enable them better understand the subject to serve the ends of the juctice.

 
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Science And Technology Initiatives In India- A Profile

About the Book

This compilation attempts to bring together the policy initiatives and programs for implementation by the different Departments of the Government of India as decerned from public documents, some of which have had very limited circulation.

The major efforts of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Departments of Atomic Energy, Space, Defense, Medical and Agricultural Research have been briefly covered; so also those of many other research and development organizations in other Ministries and Departments of the Government of India.

While most of the information pertains to the last five years, emphasis has been on the activities during the last two years. Any scholar of Science and Technology must know the system through which the benefits of advances in this field will become available to the society and this compilation will provide an easy introduction to the same.

 
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