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The outbreak of global health pandemic COVID-19 brought a lot of changes in the lives of mankind and because of this, the country was put under complete lockdown in March 2020. The management of all human and non human resources was a great challenge during this period. A study on assessing management practices during COVID-19 was conducted online from friends and families located in villages, towns, cities and abroad constituting a sample of 107 respondents coping with this situation. The questionnaire regarding the management practices was formulated keeping in view the practices followed indoors, free time utilization and the advisories followed. It was observed that human energy consumption was increased during the lockdown period during fulfillment of family needs, the government advisories were properly followed by the people and people downloaded the AROGYA SETU app, purchased locally available goods and mostly followed the online transactions. The major recommendation is that people should be motivated /encouraged to follow the safety practices about the COVID-19.

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In almost all rice growing areas of Himachal Pradesh, women are responsible for sowing, transplanting, weeding etc. Majority of farm women are involved in household, agricultural and allied activities. Therefore, the main problems of rural farm women are long working hours of heavy work, low productivity and limited access to new technology. The transplanting activity performed by women has a strong bearing on their health. Hence, the present study was formulated with the objective to determine the ergonomic cost of paddy transplanting in existing working situations and to identify suitable technology to reduce the drudgery of work. Ergonomics evaluation of respondents were carried out in relation to physiological stresses viz., Heart rate, Energy expenditure, Grip strength and physical fatigue. Thirty (30) volunteer respondents selected for experimental work under present investigation. The readings were recorded while the selected respondents performed the paddy transplanting activity on existing working conditions for 30 minutes each. Results revealed that there was significant per cent increase in physiological stresses mainly in heart rate and energy expenditure before and during transplanting activity while working with traditional methods/tools. Campaigns were conducted to generate awareness on the use of manual transplanter, as it reduces time and energy of the respondents. Thus, after imparting training on improved technology that is manual transplanter majority of the selected respondents were willing to purchase the same. It can be concluded that the finding of the study can be useful to farm ladies to reduce their drudgery by using improved technologies.Key Words : Transplanting, Drudgery, Physiological stresses, Energy expenditure View point paper : Vyas, Neena, Devi, Laxmi and Kishtwaria, Jatinder (2014). Ergonomic evaluation of hill farm women in paddy transplanting activity.Asian Sci., 9 (1&2): 7-11.