Articles by Shirish B Patel

medicines for minor ailments. Curative services have little lasting effect on health status. Besides with the charges that CH Ws were allowed to take only limited resources can be mobilised through curative services. For preventive services where the entire community is mobilised to pay for a service, larger resources can be mobilised, CHWs may consider such returns worth the increased effort they have to put for extending such service.

of inputs times their respective production elasticities. In this case it works out as follows:
Thus the inputs by themselves would contribute a 10 per cent growth rate in the Soviet agriculture. But the agricultural plan itself envisages a growth rate of 5 per cent only. Therefore, should the plan be realised, it would mean that the rate of 'technical progress' in Soviet agriculture is actually negative; precisely it is

Shirish B Patel For efficient planning of goods transport in an urban area location of activities involving movement of goods needs to be carefully controlled. At present, however, industrial locations are specified or permitted in and around our cities and towns with almost every other consideration in mind except the volume and direction of the goods traffic that is likely to be generated as a result.