This paper describes Rutgers Incident Management System (RIMS) software that is developed to evaluate the benefits of various incident management strategies and technologies. This tool can generate incidents and test various response strategies and technologies. South Jersey highway network is used as a test network due to the available historical incident data. The evaluated incident management strategies include the deployment of Variable Message Signs (VMS) to divert traffic during incidents and the use of Freeway Service Patrols (FSPs) for detecting and verifying incidents efficiently. The simulation-based evaluations also include the effect of cellular phone users in the network on the incident detection and verification times. The results show that the studied incident management strategies have positive impacts on reducing incident durations while being cost effective. More specifically, the deployment of VMS for diverting traffic in case of an incident results in a benefit cost ratio of 9.2:1; an additional service unit in freeway patrol results in reduced incident detection and verification time with a corresponding benefit-cost ratio of 3.9:1.

The aim of present study has been to investigate Emotional Intelligence and its impact on Indian IT professionals' emotional adjustment at workplace. The study was conducted in five major IT cities in India; NOIDA, DELHI, GURGAON, PUNE and BANGALURU. The study utilized a structured questionnaire developed by researcher based on emotional intelligence competencies as given by Daniel Goleman (1995, 1998). A sample of 414 software engineers from above mentioned major IT cities was used for statistical analysis. Data analysis included frequencies, percentages, mean scores, correlation and regression. The statistical data were computed by SPSS 16.0 for Windows. The analysis found statistically significant positive correlations between two variables of study; this means that increased emotional intelligence scores were associated with increased score of emotional adjustment at workplace amongst software engineers in Indian IT industry where the primary focus is on technical knowledge and expertise but soft skills.

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In an attempt to evaluate the various initiatives taken by Government towards Financial Inclusion with the help of secondary sources published by RBI (Reserve Bank of India), CRISIL (Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited), EPWRF (Economic & Political Weekly Research Foundation). The interpretation of the secondary data compiled from these reports revealed that the growth of Financial Inclusion is slow (2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015), a number of reasons are responsible for this failure that are the absence of bank branches, inability to maintain minimum balance requirement, lack of infrastructure, lack of documents are few to be mentioned. The increase in the Financial Inclusion over the years (2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) is very slow supporting the decision of the Government for the Payment Banks towards financial inclusion.

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