The study investigated organizational commitment and self-efficacy as predictors of altruism among bank workers. Two hundred and eleven (211) bankers participated in the study comprising one-hundred and five (105) males and hundred and six (106) female from nine banks in Umuahia, South East Nigeria. Three instruments were used in the study. Organizational committment scale, Self-efficacy and Employee altruism scale. Two hypotheses were tested, viz: Organizational Commitment will significantly predict altruism among bank workers. Self-efficacy will significantly predict altruism among bank workers. Both results showed no significant prediction of altruism (Organizational commitment, β=.08, p >.05, Self-efficacy, (β= -.01, p >.05). The findings and implications were discussed and suggestions made for further research.

The proclamation of fast development and rising economy has seen a multi faceted viewpoint in India. Defining development has itself become a question of pre and post living standards of people, where certain parameters seem to evolve with positive trends of rise in economy, per-capita income however resource utilization also calls for a serious shift of focus onto the human resources and nevertheless we still lack behind in nurturing the average potentiality of the total available human resource in our country. This paper analyzes development from a perspective of economy and living standards, thereby highlighting the question that how we perceive and claim a stake in the national development.

The concepts of interrelatedness, of a shared planet, of global citizenship, and of ‘spaceship earth’ cannot be restricted to environmental issues alone. They apply equally to the shared and interlinked responsibilities of environmental protection and human development as stressed by Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India in 1972 at UN Conference on Human Environment, Stockholm. People-centred development, or sustainable human development, has gained increasing acceptance over the last 10 years. It emphasizes that development should be broad-based and bottom-up, redistributive and just, empowering and environmentally sustainable; seeking to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (WCED 1987). The world is becoming increasingly urban. Historically, urbanization has coincided with, and has been accompanied by, increased consumption and ecological degradation across the globe. A balance between environmental justice and ecological structures will define the extent of sustainability in the fabric. The impact of the regulations depends largely on how they are enforced. In many of the local bodies all the regulations are not strictly enforced. Once such practices start, the tendency of flouting of regulations goes on increasing, and the basic objectives of the planning regulations get frustrated. It is more important to overview the enforcement standards rather than formulation of new regulations. The local bodies would have to be involved in a larger way for the formulation and implementation of the development plans and extending municipal services to the people.

KPO is the new buzzword in the IT industry. In reality KPO is an outcome of BPO. The global business has become so much competitive that the time for introduction of new products and services has become smaller. So the only solution left is Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO). One can define KPO as a firm which provides services based on specialized knowledge of a certain industry. The fields on which KPO industry is focusing includes intellectual property or patent research, data research, database creation and analytical services. On the other hand data warehouse is a relational database that is designed for query and analysis rather than for transaction processing. Data warehouse contains subject oriented, time variant, integrated and nonvolatile data sources which can be the prime requirement for the KPO industry. In India KPO is having a very bright future because India is a pool of educated professionals like doctors, lawyers, finance professionals and Ph.Ds. along with 220 universities, 10000 colleges, 330,000 teachers and 3,000,000 Graduates every year. Medium of instruction is English in 50% of universities. India is having world’s largest number of scientific and technological personnel after USA. This can be a key attraction for KPO industry. Moreover India has built confidence with its customers during the BPO revolution. These days to an increasing degree, companies have been moving key knowledge-related functions offsite.

The development of any economy depends upon the availability of various infrastructural facilities like factors of production education, capital formation, transformation, power, financial institutions and communications etc. These infrastructural facilities are found mostly useful and helpful in the development of all sectors of the Indian economy. These infrastructural facilities have been playing an immense role for development of industries, agriculture, generating income and employment opportunities, capital formation and also helping implemented by the Government. This is a fact that there has been an urban and rural area of the economy. For overall development of Indian Economy, infrastructure may be considered as the backbone of the economy. The rapid and sustained technology transformation may be more helpful and useful in changing the entire economy in a perspective manner. It affects the mind of the people in such a manner that their thinking and ideas are changed which results finally into social change. In the present era of Information Technology, the role of communication has influenced the entire society and in a broad perspective it is flow of Information on different community systems. The effective and developed system has become synonymous with modernity and economic growth.