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The Punjab education system has witnessed significant expansion in public higher education, both in terms of number of institutions as well as the students' enrolment with 10 state universities and 48 government colleges. But higher education sector in Punjab still confronts various problems. The extent of various factors of higher educational institutions effectiveness depends on individual features such as demographic variables. This article investigates the difference in the satisfaction of students towards college effectiveness on the basis of demographic variables. The sample of the study comprised of 369 students from the various government colleges of Punjab, and the data was analysed using mean value, t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Results showed that on the basis of gender significance, differences were found in the case of infrastructure facilities, extracurricular activities, financial administration and placement services of the colleges. In the case of level of education, bachelor's students were most satisfied for infrastructure facilities, placement services, student support services and financial management of the colleges. On the basis of course stream, arts group and commerce group were significantly different on responding towards the academic environment. In the case of college administration, significant differences were found between commerce and science groups, and for extracurricular activities differences were found among arts, commerce and science groups. According to the location of the colleges, significant differences were found in extracurricular activities and financial administration of the colleges.

The fact that government-owned firms are typically less proficient or at least less gainful than private owned firms is widely hypothesized. Therefore, the disinvestment policy aims at dropping the participation of the public sector in the economic actions of the country in order to support private sector. The research endeavour set out to empirically examine the financial and operating performance of 15 Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) disinvested in India through public share offering mode during 2003–2012. Sample firms represent four cognate groups, that is, manufacturing, mining, electricity and service sectors. Through ratio analysis, different ratios such as return on assets, return on equity, sales efficiency, net income efficiency, debt equity, dividend payout, real sales and employment levels have been computed. Using the traditional pre versus post privatization comparisons and panel data estimation techniques, researchers have found significant increase in sales efficiency and net income efficiency, that is, overall operating efficiency, whereas insignificant results have been witnessed in the case of profitability position. This study provides new empirical evidence about performance changes in CPSEs disinvested through involvement of retail investors, that is, public offering mode in Indian economy.

IFPRI4; Markets and Trade ; MSSD ; Non-PR ; 316 p.