Research & Publications Department


NICMAR-Journal of Construction Management
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Research Articles
HOUSING INTERVENTIONS USED BY GOVERNMENTS DURING RECESSIONARY PERIODS
MONA N. SHAH

At the macro policy level housing receives special attention by governments looking to pull their economics out of recession or recession like conditions. The paper touches using extensive global case data how governments use housing interventions through active policies closer home, the Indian case illustrates the continued interest in housing and infrastructure of government since 1999. Even, in the present scenario of a high inflation (over 6.8%) RBI has termed housing as a Priority Sector lending and directed housing finance companies to reign in interest burden.

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SPREADSHEET-BASED SOLUTION FOR CRITICAL PATH METHOD
PRAVEEN AGGARWAL V. K. BANSAL

With the increase in the use of personal computers spreadsheet environment is easily available at the user end. This paper presents a practical approach for implementation of the traditional Critical Path Method (CPM) algorithm in a spreadsheet environment, which is easy to use for the practitioners. Methodology is discussed in detail and illustrated with the help of an example.

implementation of the traditional Critical Path Method (CPM) algorithm in a spreadsheet environment
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