A general weakness of agricultural extension is the low adoption of new agricultural technologies by poor and small farmers. As the present public extension systems in many countries have not been able to address the issues and concerns of small and poor farmers, a search for new extension models that are more effective, efficient, and responsive to different categories of farmers is essential. This essential model might be the public-private partnership. Govt. of NWFP has initiated a new public private partnership extension program in the province during the year 2000. This emerging system is locally called as Farm Services Centers (FSCs) where inputs delivery, market facilitation, exchange of experiences and knowledge are the main activities of the system. However, there is still information gap about whether this public-private partnership will be beneficial in developing and extending agricultural technologies. This study intends to fill up that information gap by analyzing this public-private partnership by measuring its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. For this purpose, out of 24 districts, two districts Swabi and Lakki Marwat were selected randomly as study area from where 217 and 274 farmer respondents were selected at random with the help of table given by Fitzggibbon et al. (1987), making a total of 491 respondents. All the Agricultural officers and district officers of the selected districts were also selected as respondents of the study. Quantitative data were colleted by survey method, while qualitative data by focus group discussion with the help of open-ended interview schedule. The results showed that the most important strength of FSC in the eyes of farmer respondents was ―managed by farmers‘ bodies‖ as ranked 1st with mean 4.05 and SD 1.29. The weaknesses of both extension systems as diagnosed by the farmer respondents were ―no sale arrangements for surplus produce‖. In case of opportunities, FSC was bottom up approach and ―based on partnership between farmers and the government‖ ranked 1st with mean 4.12 and SD 1.29. The threats for FSC as reported by farmers respondents were ―no trend to develop farmers‘ organizations among farming community‖, ―pressure exerted by political influential authorities‖ and ―low preference of agriculture by youth as full time occupation‖. According to EFS respondents the most important strength for FSC was ―managed by farmers‘ bodies‖ which ranked 1st with means 4.82 and SD 0.40. The major weaknesses of FSC as diagnosed by EFS respondents were ―no female staff‖, ―no sale arrangements for surplus produce‖, and ―lack of marketing facilities‖ ranked 1st, 2nd, and 3rd .The statements ―offers low cost of learning‖, ―based on partnership between farmers and the government‖, ―provides forum for farmers to get together‖, ―proved extension workers to be good change agents‖, and ―encourages farmers participation‖ were the top five opportunities of the system. Out of all threats, EFS ranked the statement ―no trend to develop farmers‘ organizations among farming community‖ as 1st threat with mean 3.82 and SD 1.40. On the basis of conclusions it was recommended that Government should provide the opportunities of availing projects of different funding agencies to increase the share of private sector on FSC basis. Government should formulate law to increase the participation of women in the present programs, as they are main component of agriculture. Department should provide more facilities like pay and other allowances to the staff indulged in FSC to increase their working efficiency. As recommended by respondents separate meeting places should be provided for female farmers, so as they effectively get trainings and efficiently utilized the acquired knowledge in relevant fields.
فرنگی محل کی آخری شمع بجھ گئی! آہ! مولانا عبدالباری! وَمَا کَان قَیْس’‘ ھَلْکُہٗ ھَلْکُ وَاحِدٍ قیس کا مرنا صرف ایک آدمی کا مرنا نہیں ہے وَلٰکِنَّہُ بُنْیَانُ قَوْمٍ تَھَدَّمَا بلکہ پوری قوم کی بنیاد کا گر جانا ہے۔ دریغا! کہ آج قلم کو اس مجسمۂ علم و اخلاص کا ماتم کرنا ہے جس کے وصف و مدح کا فرض اس کو بارہا ادا کرنا پڑا ہے، دارالعلم و العمل فرنگی محل کی کہنہ عمارتوں میں فضل و کمال، ایمان و معرفت اور زہد و ورع کی جو آخری شمع جل رہی تھی وہ ۱۹، ۲۰ کی درمیانی شب میں ہمیشہ کے لئے بجھ گئی۔ فرنگی محل کے متاخرین میں حضرت استاذ استاذی مولانا عبدالحئی کے بعد مولانا عبدالباری کی ذات نمایاں ہوئی تھی، جو بزرگ اجداد کی بہت سی روایایت کی حامل تھی، ارشاد و ہدایت، وعظ و نصیحت، درس و تدریس، درس و تدریس، تلاش و مطالعہ، تحریر و تالیف ان کے روزانہ مشاغل تھے، ان دینی و علمی مناقب کے ساتھ دین و ملت کی راہ میں ان کا جان فروشانہ جذبہ اور مجاہدانہ اغلاص ہمرنگ شہدا تھا۔ ذاتی اخلاق، جو دوسخا، تواضع و انکسار، علم کی عزت، صداقت، حق گوئی ان کے اوصاف گراں مایہ تھے، وہ بے کسوں کے ملجا، مسافروں کے ماویٰ اور تنگدستوں کے دستگیر تھے، عبادت گزار، شب زندہ دار اور حق کے طلبگار تھے۔ ہندوستان میں ان کی ذات ذی اقتدار علماء کی حیثیت سے اس وقت فرد تھی، جدید تعلیم یافتوں کی سیاسی جدوجہد کو مذہبی تحریک بنادینا یقینا انہیں کا کارنامہ شمار کیا جائے گا۔ اس لئے ان کی یہ غیر متوقع موت صرف فرنگی محل کا نہیں بلکہ اسلام کا سانحہ ہے اور بنابریں ان کی جواں مرگی ہمیشہ کے لئے تاریخ اسلام کا ایک اندوہناک واقعہ شمار...
In most of service organizations particularly in Pakistan financial sector, employees have reduced their job performance and shortened quality of work due to many factors influencing them at workplace. This research study aims to explore such antecedents in view of Islam that can improve the quality of work in banking sector wherein mediating effect of perceived job performance has been tested. Model variables of this study have also been described in the Islamic perspective. Islam is complete religion in all respect and provides foundation for quality of work. Accuracy & beatification in work, discipline, sequence of tasks, impartiality, and Islamic job satisfaction, knowing ourselves and its link with knowing to our God are parts of quality of work and employees’ performance in the Islamic point of view. The target population of this study covers 20,514 employees of banking sector working in capital cities of Pakistan. Data were collected via cross sectional approach from 380 desk and frontline officials of Public and private banks. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling techniques were used for data analysis. Findings of this research are demonstrated that job satisfaction and emotional intelligence are found the valuable antecedents of job performance and quality of work where employee’s job performance has been proved as a partial mediator between antecedents and quality of work. The two antecedents i.e. Job satisfaction, emotional intelligence of perceived job performance and quality of work have been supposed in this study to take as interpreters for the improvement of employees’ contentment and abilities in the working environment of banking sector. These are positively persuaded to job performance and quality of work. A practical exposure is offered by this research that organizational education about importance to employee’s satisfaction and emotional intelligence would be vital for achieving optimum results in this industry.
In this thesis we solve and compare two tri and penta furcated waveguide problems having rigid and soft lining by using mode matching technique. We also study the phenomenon of extraordinary acoustic transmission (EAT) in Helmholtz resonator. It is shown that combination of a single propagating mode and symmetry orthogonal to direction of propagation leads to EAT. This is accomplished by decomposing the problem using symmetry, the Blaschke product and the properties of functions of a single complex variable which have modulus one on the real axis. A detailed numerical study has been presented to analyze reflection and transmission behaviour to probe the acoustic radiated energy. These results can be used in noise reduction devices and theory of acoustics.