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Facts For You May 2013 Issue Vol. 33 No. 8 Market Survey Indian Tea: Fluctuating Fortunes Over the years, even as India has lost its dominant place in tea export, the domestic tea industry has remained buoyant because of surging local demand. Click for more details
Market Survey Tourism in Andhra Pradesh: Potential Untapped Andhra Pradesh, with its diverse attractions ranging from beautiful beaches and wildlife sanctuaries, as well as heritage sites in and around Hyderabad that hark back to the opulent lifestyles of the Nizams, has the scope to attract more than just the pilgrims who visit Tirupathi. Click for more details	Market Survey Coal: Pitfalls of A Public Monopoly Even as Indian industry’s appetite for coal shoots up, Coal India Limited lags behind its production targets. It is time India looked at more productive ways to mine coal and also encouraged some much-needed private competition. Click for more details

Market Survey Mentha: A Herbal Plant The mint family has traditionally been used for medicinal purposes all across the world, from Europe to India. It also plays a prominent role in many local cuisines. Click for more details	Market Survey Wood Apple: No Longer Just A Poor Man’s Food The wood apple is today processed, preserved and used in a number of juices, jellies and in the treatment of many illnesses. Read on to know more about this native fruit. Click for more details

Market Survey Pomegranate: A Super Food The health benefits of the pomegranate fruit, and the tree that bears it, are innumerable. Click for more details	Banking Emerging Trends in the Banking Sector For all the progress that Indian banks have made across urban India, lack of banking facilities in rural India leaves much to be accomplished by the sector. Apart from drafting policies, the government should be much more aggressive about implementing financial inclusion plans.

Banking Social Banking as an Instrument for Financial Inclusion Sixty-five years after independence, freedom from debt and from unscrupulous moneylenders is still a distant dream for many poor Indians. The Indian banking sector must shift its focus from middle-class urban India, and address the financial problems faced by the rural population.	Economy Refashioning India’s Socio-Economic Growth Governments tend to overlook the fact that GDP figures often mask the true picture of a country’s development. Through the supposed ‘good years’ of India’s growth, the farming sector slipped, unnoticed, into decline, and is now in need of urgent attention.

Corporate The Challenges of Corporate Social Responsibility Is corporate social responsibility a philosophy that has fundamentally changed the way businesses operate, or is it more a public relations tool in the hands of powerful multinationals?	FDI The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in India This article focuses on the need for foreign capital, its role in the Indian economy, benefits of the various types of capital, foreign portfolios and the inflow of foreign direct investment.

Essay Acting As A Mentor Mentoring has lately become a trend in management science as its importance to the wellbeing of organisations here has finally been recognised. It should be taken very seriously. Which is not to say that it can’t be fun...
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April 2013

Issue Vol. 33 No. 7