Public transport system must be profitable to the private operators without government subsidy or intolerable rise in bus fare to ensure efficient mobility in a third world city. However, a populist but not so affluent government is unwilling either to subsidize or raise the bus fare, thereby forcing private players to withdraw or compromise with the level of service and the commuters are badly...

1 Centre for Mathematical Biology and Ecology, Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India 2Department of Mathematics, Barasat College, Kolkata 700126, India 3 Department of Chemistry, Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata 700109, India 4Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B. T. Road, Kolkata 700108, India 5 Depar...

1Surender Kumar, 2Saurav Banerjee, 2Hemlata Dwivedi, 3Tapas Gupta, 4Ardhendu Banerjee 1Postgraduate Trainee, Department of Prosthodontics, Dr R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India 2Postgraduate Student, Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Dr R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India 3Professor, Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Dr R Ahmed Dent...

a four year long research programme divided into four phases has been designed for the first time to assess the combined noise-air quality and combined exposure to noise-air pollution at the curbside open-air microenvironment of kolkata city, india. the results and the findings of the different phases of study had already been published. the objective of the review work is to fuse the findings ...

Journal of Labor and SocietyEditor-in-ChiefImmanuel Ness, Brooklyn College, The City University New York, NY, USA Johannesburg, South AfricaBook Review EditorRobert Ovetz, San José State University, José, CA, USAAssociate EditorsMax Ajl, Wageningen & Research, Wageningen, NetherlandsAmiya Kumar Bagchi, Institute Development Studies Kolkata, IndiaToby Carroll, Hong Kong, KongAnita Chan, Australi...

This research addresses the problem of restaurant locations ranking with applications for a cosmopolitan big city like Kolkata, India. A selection is based on occasions, spending capability, environment, location, comfort, quality food etc. In this paper an exhaustive set factors and sub-factors taken into consideration to select rank restaurants situated at different in Kolkata population arou...

The characteristics and sources of carbonaceous aerosol (CA) was studied during winter in the lower atmosphere Kolkata, a megacity situated Indo-Gangetic plain region. city air laden with typically high EC (15.4 ± 9.4 μg/m3) OC (32.2 17.8 winter. NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis products underestimated PM2.5, EC, mean bias 41.0 56.8 μg/m3, 10.1 9.3 10.8 18.2 respectively. EC/BC ratio for Kolkata estim...

1 Protozoology Unit, Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, 108, C. R. Avenue, Kolkata 700 073, India 2 Department of Microbiology, NRS Medical College, 138 AJC Bose Road, Kolkata 700 014, India 3 Department of Zoology, A. P. C. Roy Govt. College, Himachal Bihar, Matigara, Siliguri734 010, West Bengal, India 4 Director, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, 108, C. R....