Journal of Social Welfare and Management

Investment means positioning our hard earned money into useful avenues in order to reap rewards. The pandemic has engendered many changes in people's daily lives in almost every domain, including HR, marketing, and finance.9 The study aim is to find the impact of Covid 19 on investors' investment patterns when the entire world is involved in all of their activities. The study centred on investors' perceptions of their investment patterns during the pandemic and how pandemics influenced their investment decisions. A structured questionnaire was used to collect 71 responses. The study discovered that age and education have an impact on investment decisions.

Despite significant attempts to broaden the tax base, our nation has only roughly 82.7 million taxpayers, or 6.25 percent of its more than 132 crore population, which is a trivial number for our nation. Budgeting, performance goal setting, and system building are all parts of the financial planning process. The annual income is depleted by taxes. Tax planning is a useful strategy for controlling this by lowering tax liabilities. It helps in maximizing the use of available tax exemptions, deductions, and benefits while lowering obligations. For the salaried class, income tax deductions provide a variety of opportunities to reduce their taxable income, including life insurance premiums, contributions to pension plans, employee provident funds, and principal payments on home loans, and tuition for dependent children. These exclusions and deductions would enable tax to be significantly decreased. To determine the extent of employee awareness of tax planning strategies and their saving and investing habits, a research of 107 salaried employees was conducted.

The market place has become very dynamic with consumers today being more informed and sophisticated than before. Therefore, knowledge about consumers’ needs, factors influencing purchase decision will enable companies to develop effective strategies to promote products and services through taking advantage of the underpinning drivers explored in this study thereby increasing consumer satisfaction. The study aims to analyse the factors influencing purchase decision for the people to choose radiator core in the market. This study is undertaken to understand the choice, effect, trend and impact created by various factors influencing purchase decision. While it is known that the consumer behaviour changed after the onset of advancement in technology, yet it remains unclear as to the factors that directly influence or act as motivators or stimuli to the purchase decision in the decision making process for procurement of radiator core. The experience has shown that people purchase due to various factors like pricing, performance, delivery of the product and quality. This study is a conscious attempt to examine the intrinsic factors of purchase decision and identify such factors that drive one group to go for purchase and vice versa. The purchase decision factors will be explored during the course of the research.

Ecommerce return policy plays an important role in dictating people satisfaction worldwide. Studies show solid return policy increases sales without increasing returns. The Ecommerce platforms in India are growing exponentially. Almost 65% of population seems to go online, while it might reach 80% by 2023. A vast majority of customers cancel before due deliver or return goods due to varied reasons which increases costs on reverse logistics and a growing concern. Data for research study was gathered from published academic publications, statistical databases, historical records, and articles found on the internet. Secondary data was gathered from a variety of resources for the study in order to increase the report's credibility. The main aim is to examine the factors influencing customer cancellation and returns policies in ecommerce platforms with reference to Chennai city. The study involved a group of 120 subjects, demographic and perceptual data for open ended questions was collected through a survey questionnaire of customer experience amongst four major ecommerce platforms. The hypothesis developed on variables are tested using reliability analysis, t-tests and ANOVA, by SPSS version 23.

The first electric vehicle, or EV for short, appeared in 1828. Electric vehicles, on the other hand, have just recently experienced a surge in popularity. A variety of factors, including heightened awareness of climate change, technological breakthroughs, and the ascent of wellknown figures in the electric car business; have contributed to the recent expansion of the electric vehicle. It is of great importance for whole world to switch from non-renewable energy vehicles to clean energy for transportation. Electric vehicle is the major fillip on that, and the research divisions of various automobiles are experimenting with the viability of hydrogen vehicles and it yet to be found feasible.In this study, we are attempting to comprehend the most crucial elements in customer adoption of electric vehicle technology, and how those factors of performance, cost and charging infrastructure, negatively affect consumers to buy electric vehicles. A quantitative study is been exercised using structured and standard questionnaire, using Statistical software package (SPSS).The study identified a number of variables that affect the adoption of electric vehicles, including financial limits, vehicle performance constraints, a lack of equipment for supplying electric vehicles, environmental concerns, societal influence, and social awareness of electric vehicles. The study's findings assist policymakers in changing the present approach to electric vehicles in developing countries.

Definition of a research study provides better clarity, focus, deeper understanding of the concepts. Definition of the terms should be based on factors such as context, history, relevance, frame of reference, and the culture of the people for whom investigation is done. Too broad or too narrow definitions are to be avoided which will hinder the designing of the study. Conceptualisation presupposes definition of terms operationally; that is, how the terms are used and interpreted in the study. This will promote replicability, generalisability and dissemination of findings. A term may be defined normatively and descriptively. The search for meanings of the terms will have to be done both empirically and through a thorough review of related literature. This provides a comprehensive idea or cognitive map of the work to the researcher. The definitions gathered are to be validated by experts to promote objectivity of the study.

The power of democracy rests in the hands of citizens who have access to accurate information. The common man now has access to global information thanks to advancements in information technology (IT). Oral communication, voice in telephony, text in faxes and newspapers, images in video and television broadcasting, and data in computers all fall under the umbrella of "information" in a broader sense. Everything can be digitally transcribed, stored, retrieved, altered, then distributed. There are several new technological trends in the development of electronic communication systems. These include the use of emerging digital techniques, new types of networks, including intelligent networks, high bandwidth communication, and cutting-edge software for network functions and services. Global "information society" is rapidly altering the way people live, learn, work, and interact with one another. The free flow of information and ideas has brought knowledge and its myriad applications to many millions of people, creating new choices and opportunities in some of the most important realms of human endeavours. A strong society is built on the foundation of education. All aspects of the nation are enriched by a well educated populace. Educational institutions cannot function without the use of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs). It has affected a number of aspects of their lives. Educational institutions, administrators and teachers were forced to re-evaluate their roles, teaching methods and long term vision as a result of these changes. Corona's pandemic has been aided by the use of ICT. This study focuses on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in education to improve teaching and learning. To empower Indian rural communities to gain access to information, knowledge, and poverty alleviation through the use of ICTs, the paper examines the factors that prevent rural communities from reaping the benefits of these technologies.

Mining sector is the second largest employer in India. Mineral sites are unevenly distributed in India. Most of India’s minerals sites are located in forest areas inhabited by tribal, backward and deprived population. It constitutes 2.5% to the gross domestic product (GDP); with infusion of reforms, there is ample scope for growth for this sector. Minerals are driving force for Industrial development. Coal, Iron, graphite, limestone etc. are some major needs of industries. The extraction of minerals has increased by 9% in 2016 from previous year and is estimated to increase by 3% more in coming year. The increasing rate of extraction has resulted in various ecological changes as well as also disturbed human life surrounding the areas. The acute health disease’s, nitrate and lead particulate matter in drinking water and dropouts have been raising concerns. Pradhan Mantri Khanij Khestrya Kalyan Yojana enabled DMFs to easily recognise sectors for fund allocation. Major Mining districts are reviewed to list out the effectiveness of schemes and establishment of PHCs, CHCs, Anganwadi etc. and in attaining sustainability in mining affected regions.

The International Home Improvement Market was estimated to be worth USD 1,415.98 billion in 2021, and it is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of 5.23 percent from 2022 to 2026. The market demand is influenced by the rise in demand for goods that offer greater comfort and convenience as a result of a change in customer preference for improved home amenities. Growing investments in R & D operations to uncover novel solutions and an increase in the number of market participants introducing advanced home technology and safety goods are predicted to produce profitable chances for market expansion. This study employs a quantitative approach using a survey of 125 customers to examine the influence of service quality attributes and intention to purchase hardware accessories in Thiruvallur. The result of Multiple Regression indicate that the coefficient of assurance is 0.394 and the estimated positive sign implies that such effect is positive that Behavioral Intention would increase by 0.394 for every unit increase in Assurance. Furthermore, it was determined that the assurance were the most influential factor pushing the client intention to purchase the household hardware items.

In the past few centuries, social media usage increased among the public due to advancements in information technology. Social media advertisements provoked the interest, leading to “impulsive temptations” to buy the product. So, the present research attempts to find the influence of social media in impulsive consumer buying behaviour. The researcher carried out the descriptive study using convenience sampling with a sample size of 136. The sample unit for the study are the general public using social media. Sample area for the study is Chennai city. The research instrument used for the study is structured questionnaire, the required primary data for the study collected through this structured questionnaire and secondary data for the study are collected from the books, journals and from websites. The researcher has conducted a pilot study by collecting 20 samples based on the results of the questionnaire for final data collection. The data collected for the study are analysed with percentage analysis and statistical tools like anova, chi-square test and t-test are also used to test the hypothesis. The study finds reveals that majority of respondents 57% using the social media are male, between the age group of twenty to twenty eight years of age and 68% of the respondents spends daily 2 to 3 hrs in social media, more than 91% of the respondents using Instagram and WhatsApp as a preferred social media. offer is the most important attribute which stimulates impulsive buying behaviour among the consumersAccording to the findings, social marketing has an important influence in customer purchasing behaviour, and digital marketing will soon become the backbone of any organisation.