http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1894 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:59:29 GMT 2026-01-07T03:59:29Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1898 Corporate-LIS for Effective Land Administration of Sri Lanka Wijenayake, Nelson A drastic improvement on the technical and the administrational sector follows some global trends. E-government with location based applications have been initiated and launched in most developed countries and conducted in different stages of implementation. These projects greatly influence the Land administration sector witnessing the general truth; about eighty percent of all information is spatially referenced. E-application at privilege of client interaction has opened new ways of co-operation between the public and the private sector in the area of electronic Land Administration too. Spatial data are produced on various levels with different contents and different standards. Especially land administration projects will only be successful when all the players in the game follow the same rules. Hence, Land Information System (LIS) in corporation with relevant stakeholders can play a dramatic role in e-land administration of the country. Creation of seamless set of parcel data, based on country’s administrative hierarchy; Divisional Secretary Divisions (DSD) was the greatest achievement for successive LIS, in which all the parcel related information could be easily mapped for user interaction. Land parcel, being the key object in LIS should be graphically created through a suitable survey method. As the responsible organization for land surveying in the country, the Survey Department is conducting the task with well accurate field surveys. Field surveying for parcel based cadastre has been conducted in years back with resulting many progressive areas while a complete survey has been done in Moratuwa and Ratmalana Divisional Secretariats. Hence, in this paper, while discussing the LIS for whole the country, Moratuwa Divisional Secretariat will be taken as the project area. Moratuwa is situated next to the capital city; Colombo, and it is one of the populated and built-up areas in the country. The area is almost flat and 3-10m average Mean Sea Level (MSL) height depicted in the vicinity. The state land administration is governed by the Divisional Secretary and infrastructure development is mainly handled by the Local Authority; Moratuwa Municipality Council (MMC). A design or creation will not be a product, until it is published for customer use. Hence, the proceedings need to be attended are numerous for making the LIS to be an effective and efficient product for its customers. The paper will further discuss on the follow up actions for developing the system architecture, middle ware interface, web Application etc. This article may be very useful for those who wish to develop location based applications related in effective land administration towards the sustainability of the country. Tue, 01 Sep 2015 06:00:15 GMT http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1898 2015-09-01T06:00:15Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1897 Impact of Green Reporting for Business Valuation Study of Rubber Manufacturing SME in Sri Lanka Dayaratne, S.P.; Wickremathillake, G.H.K.; Gunawardana, K.D. Key economic players of Small and Medium Scale Industries are eager to provide final products to meet the market demand. But they are not considering the environmental impact on the manufacturing process. This has resulted in climate change which led to global warming. Several researches have been carried out in this regard and mitigation measures have been introduced, but there is not a semblance of implementation of measures in minimization global disposition through green reporting of carbon dioxide emission level. Hence, this research has been carried out considering how green reposting can lead to derive fair business valuation, by doing a case study in the sphere of rubber manufacture. This case study is carried out by applying the net asset value method. Findings have revealed that, energy consumption is associated at the rubber mill itself and emissions connected to productivity of kW/H of energy consumption and emissions from the production of rubber band amounting 1.67 ton CO2-eq/ton product. There is a vital finding from this research — mainly there is no record of environmental impact due to manufacturing process to derive fair business valuation—. Any business valuer could directly benefit from these findings in order to derive fair business valuation methods of price to earnings ratio, net asset value and net present value through green reporting to minimize global warming potential. Also policy makers can develop processes to promote the green reporting as a mandatory requirement for business valuation. Tue, 01 Sep 2015 05:59:07 GMT http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1897 2015-09-01T05:59:07Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1896 Office Rental Dynamics in Minna, Nigeria Udoekanem, N.B.; Ighalo, J.I.; Nuhu, M.B. This study explored the dynamics of office rents in Minna, Nigeria. Data for the study were obtained from primary and secondary sources. Primary data for the study were obtained from estate surveying and valuation firms which are active in the commercial property market in the city through field survey and comprise rental values of thirty-six office properties in the city for the period, 2001-2012. The secondary data for the study include data on macroeconomic variables in Nigeria for the same period and were obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Results of data analysis revealed that the rental growth factor for office properties in Minna for the period, 2001-2012 is 1.056, representing an average rental growth rate of 5.6% for the study period. Also, 83% of the variation in office property rents in the commercial property market in the city is explained by the office rent model developed for the city. The study concludes that real GDP growth and vacancy rates are the major drivers of office rental change in the commercial property market in Minna. Tue, 01 Sep 2015 05:57:29 GMT http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1896 2015-09-01T05:57:29Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1895 The Invincible Waste Pickers An Occupational Analysis and Case for Integration in Municipal Solid Waste Management in Amritsar City, India Sandhu, Kiran One of the most critical areas of concern in fast urbanizing India relates to the issue of municipal solid waste management in Indian cities. As per estimates (GOI, 2010) urban India currently produces about 70 million tons of waste and this figure is expected to touch an astounding 370 million tons in 2030 given the current spate in the consumption patterns and materialistic lifestyles. Given the current state of affairs it is estimated that only between 30-60% (Rouse, 2006) of the municipal solid waste generated in Indian cities is actually collected and disposed off by the urban local bodies. Out of this collected waste only a fraction i.e., 7% is recycled through composting or WTE (waste to energy) measures and the rest 93% inclusive of the recyclable dry waste find their way into the dumping sites where they are then rummaged by the ragpickers. Thus though the informal sector operations comprising the ragpickers and other informal actors are crucial to the waste management scene in Urban India yet the services provided by this sector is poorly understood or acknowledged and it ends up being projected as illegal and illicit and being looked down upon. Given the context the research paper aims to highlight the other dimension of waste collection and management in urban India which is the informal waste collection focusing largely on the role of the waste pickers and small time informal scrap dealers. This is done by taking the case study of Amritsar city, which is an important historic centre and a metropolitan city in the state of Punjab, India. Tue, 01 Sep 2015 05:55:47 GMT http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1895 2015-09-01T05:55:47Z