Meeting consumer needs and desires, while promoting cleaner production and sustainable consumption, is one of the greatest challenges facing industry today. Addressing poverty and environmental degradation requires changing how global organizations produce and distribute goods and how people and organizations consume and dispose of them. It requires a more efficient use of resources, together with action-oriented thinking but raises a range of highly specific challenges for organizations operating in emerging economies. Best Practices in Green Supply Chain Management offers new insights on the challenges of integrating environmental awareness into supply chain management operations in developing countries. The authors present in-depth case studies from the Indian and Mexican manufacturing industries, which are used to illustrate broader lessons in the implementation of sustainable practices for developing economies. This book presents detailed findings and practical guidance to both researchers and practitioners working in the fields of business management, sustainability and green practices, as well as all those who wish to understand why organizations should integrate sustainable strategies and how to implement them.

Meeting consumer needs and desires, while promoting cleaner production and sustainable consumption, is one of the greatest challenges facing industry today. Addressing poverty and environmental degradation requires changing how global organizations produce and distribute goods and how people and organizations consume and dispose of them. It requires a more efficient use of resources, together with action-oriented thinking but raises a range of highly specific challenges for organizations operating in emerging economies. Best Practices in Green Supply Chain Management offers new insights on the challenges of integrating environmental awareness into supply chain management operations in developing countries. The authors present in-depth case studies from the Indian and Mexican manufacturing industries, which are used to illustrate broader lessons in the implementation of sustainable practices for developing economies. This book presents detailed findings and practical guidance to both researchers and practitioners working in the fields of business management, sustainability and green practices, as well as all those who wish to understand why organizations should integrate sustainable strategies and how to implement them.

The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) is a targeted health insurance scheme for below the poverty line households employed in the unorganized sector with the aim to improve access of BPL families to quality medical care for treatment of diseases involving hospitalization and surgery through an identified network of public and private health care providers through a Biometric Smart Card with all India validity.The scheme was launched on 1st April 2008 by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India in the three states of Haryana, Rajasthan and New Delhi on pilot basis. Coverage under the scheme was provided for BPL workers and their families, comprising the household head, spouse, and up to three dependents.It was therefore decided to explore the benefits in terms of exclusion and accessibility. So a study was done with the following objective.The evaluation of the impact of the scheme through gender, age and social profiling of the enrollees and beneficiaries in the two districts of Yamunanagar and Faridabad in the state of Haryana has been done .