ABSTRACT
Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) are very important for the economic development of a country through their contribution in business innovations and generating employment. They play a crucial role in the economic development of any country. Onslaught of COVID 19 has brought misery to many sectors more so in the case of small and medium enterprises. MSME sector had to face lot of problems like difficulty in procurement of raw materials, reduction in production, difficulty in delivery of finished products and absence of employees on account of movement restrictions. All this resulted in reduction of revenue. The Ministry of MSME has a number of schemes and programmes to assist small businesses. However, many companies were not able to avail the benefits during this period. At the same time, mainboard IPOs was able to perform very well during the COV1D lockdown period. Number of SME IPOs showed a decline during this period and the return generated by these IPOs was also low. The present study aims to study the IPOs in SME platform issued after the lockdown was announced that is in 2020-21 and compare it with the previous year, that is 2019-20.
ABSTRACT
The COVID 19 pandemic forced all the educational institutions to close their campuses and move to online mode of teaching. This sudden shift from traditional method of teaching to online teaching, has posed many challenges to students as well as educators. This is more in developing country like India. This study explores the perception of students and their satisfaction level with regard to online mode of teaching. Though many studies were conducted on the readiness and perception of students with regard to online education, very few studies concentrated developing country like India, where majority of the population live in rural areas. This study focuses on the perception of students and their satisfaction level with regard to online education. © 2022, International Journal of Special Education. All rights reserved.