Water truly flows from all aspects of life on earth. Everyone, humans, animals and plants are dependent on water. It helps us to manage our livelihoods by supporting agriculture, industry, energy, health, etc. Water is critical component of our social and economic life. All the sectors: Primary sector (agriculture, fisheries, mining), secondary sector (pharmaceuticals, heavy goods, energy, fuel, processing of goods) and service sector (Hospitality, Tourism) require huge quantity of water. The present paper analyses the relationship between Water Resources and Economic Development. This relationship has to be considered while forming water budgets and policies.

KEYWORDS: Water Resources, Economic Development, Climate Change, Sustainable Development.

An attempt has been made by the Government of India to bring the entire country into Digital Era. Hon’able Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi has launched the digital India initiative in 2015, “Faceless, Paperless, Cashless” is one of the proposed function of Digital India. Digitalization is contributing to almost all sectors of the society. Digital India in the banking sector has grown rapidly. We are living in the era of ebanking. Banking sector plays a vital role to build a strong pillar for overall development and have witnessed a radical change from conventional banking to convenience banking. Digitalization has contributing significantly in banking sector and has improved banking services immensely which helps to maintain transparency in transactions. The deployment of technology for digital payments have improved the performance of banking sector which able to achieve the motive of cash less economy in the country. The drive of Cashless India was started on 15th August, 2014 when Prime Minister announced the opening of JanDhan accounts with free of charge and zero balance at affordable cost for poor and unbanked areas taking them under the bigger financial umbrella. Today the banks aim to provide fast, accurate and quality banking service to its customers through digital banking services.

Under the “Digital India initiative”, rural people have some cashless transaction techniques and services. The use of cashless transactions by the rural folk in the villages helps them to create a safer space and financial freedom to their economic status and to reduce cash based crimes. In a cashless economy all transactions are carried out by using different types of digital payment methods but not with the use of cash. The present study was conducted with the objectives of identifying the provisions and services of digital banking and hurdles faced by rural folk in accessing those services in rural areas.

The study was based on both primary and secondary data. Primary Information was obtained from the Bank customer Syndicate banak of Torvi Branch of Vijayapura District and also from reports published by banking sector, articles in reputed journals and websites.

KEYWORDS: Digital India, Cashless Economy, EBanking

This paper presents nutritional and health status of women and children with an objectives to assess the effect of this on nutritional condition of children and causal correlation with them. The research study is based on a sample of 240 tribal women with their 316, 05 years old children to analyses the nutritional level. The malnutrition proportion of children has indicated a strong correlation with the mothers having low BMI and marriage age and positive association with mother education level. The study also found relationship between breastfeeding practices & nutrition level of tribal children.

KEYWORDS: Tribal Women, Children Malnutrition, Tribal Malnutrition.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a health and human crisis threatening the global food security and nutrition of millions of people around the world. Hundreds of millions of people were already suffering from hunger and malnutrition before the virus hit and, unless immediate action is taken, we could see a global food emergency. In the longer term, the combined effects of COVID-19 itself, as well as corresponding mitigation measures and the emerging global recession could, without largescale coordinated action, disrupt the functioning of food systems. Such disruption can result in consequences for health and nutrition of a severity and scale unseen for more than half a century.

Corruption adversely affects economic growth through political institutions and governance. The nexus between corruption, political institutions, governance and economic growth is quantitatively less understood. This paper analyses the effects of corruption and governance on economic growth focusing on the effects of voice and accountability, government effectiveness, rule of law, political stability and absence of violence and regulatory quality. This paper uses panel data from 110 emerging countries of the world for 15 years from 1999 to 2014 applying the panel fixed effects and random effects estimation. The empirical results show that corruption impacts economic growth negatively while good governance is associated positively with economic growth. The effect of regulations and rule of law on economic growth is positive while space for voice and accountability and political stability and absence of violence have insignificant effects on growth rate. Democratisation and decentralisation would improve economic growth in emerging economies.

KEYWORDS: Corruption, governance, economic growth, emerging economies, panel fixed effects and random effects estimation.

JEL CODE: C23, D72, D73, H11, O47