PPP (Public Private Partnership) Model in
Agriculture 
1.
Agriculture minister
Sharad Pawar ,while addressing the National Development Councils meeting , said
“ The PPP (Public Private Partnership) Model should be explored on a larger and
wider scale in order to sustain the higher food grain production.
What
is PPP model ?
The private sector
will play a great role in agricultural sector & farmers will be assured remunerative
prices.
Merits
of PPP Model:
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Productivity of farming will increase
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There will be more crop diversification
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Competitive environment in the agriculture sectore will be created
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Irrigation facilities will be improved
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Development of rainfed , dryland areas
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There will be improvement in the water use efficiency ,micro irrigation
etc.
Therefore Sharad Pawar
is insisting on bringing amendment in the APMC act and include PPP model for
agriculture in the next five year plan 2012-17.
2. Date – 28/12/12
Tourism: Kerala beats Taj in Google Search
Trends for
2012
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Kerala edges past Taj as the topmost travel destination search in
Google’s search this year.
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Munnar – tourist hill station in kerala too featuring in the “Top 10”
tourist destination as per Google's Zeitgeist site.
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Popular tourist destination in India that are part of this list are Taj
Mahal,Wagah Border,Vaishno Devi and Amarnath Temple.
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This is termed as a testimony of being leaders in online promotion by the
state Tourism Minister A.P Anil Kumar
.
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Online promotion of Kerala state tourism carried out aggressively through
Facebook & Twitter.
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Kerala Tourism website (www.keralatourism.org) attracts over 250,000
unique visitors every month. It also receives around 6 million views in You
Tube.
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The trending for the year means search queries with the highest amount of
traffic over a sustained period compared to the previous year.
3. Tata group to invest over Rs 45,000 cr, expand
globally: Cyrus Mistry
02/01/2013
1.
Tata group will invest more than Rs 45,000 crore on various businesses
over next two years and would look to expand its presence in global markets
besides in India, the group's new chief Cyrus P Mistry today said.
2.
In his first message as Chairman of Tata Sons Ltd, the holding company of
over USD 100-billion salt-to-software conglomerate, Mistry also said the 'core
of the Tata group' will remain unchanged despite change in its leadership and
asked the group companies to play leadership roles in their respective
businesses.
3.
The group's headcount was nearly 4.56 lakh at the end of fiscal year
2011-12.
4. TATA PERCEIVED TO BE INDIA’S BEST KNOWN GLOBAL
BRAND.
•
An assocham survey stated, about 77% of participants(about 78 top CEOs
and heads of companies in Delhi,Mumbai, Kolkata, Hydrabad, New York, London,
Singapore) of the survey showed confidence on Cyrus Mistry.
•
Challenge for Mistry would be to manage companies in almost 80 countries
with different conditions in each economy.
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Started by Jamsetji Tata in 1868, Ratan Tata took the group from largely
an Indian family-owned business house into a professionally managed global
conglomerate. He retired on 28th Dec after 21 years of service.
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The group has interests in steel, automobile, chemicals,
telecommunication, information technology, beverages and hospitality, among
other areas.
•
To name a few milestones: launch of Nano in 2009, take over of Corus,
acquisition of jaguar land rover in 2008. Turnaround of jaguar made a
difference in the brand perception.
•
The best perception for the Tata was seen in western Europe, followed by
the US and the South-East Asia. Tata is the only group who has been taking bold
decisions and has always been ethical in practices.
•
Infosys Technologies, Wipro, Mahindra and Mahindra and Aditya Birla Group
were the other majors were rated high and know for their bold global moves.
5. Reinventing the Bookshop.
December
23rd 2012 Financial
Express
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Landmark and Crossword are the biggest
and the two most successful bookstore brands in the country.
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Landmark is a large format, mixed store
and Crossword is a small store books only store.
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This is not the case everywhere with
bookstores across the country struggling with business models and technologies
threatening traditional book retail business
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Landmark reinvented itself from a small
book and music retail store to having a
product line from toys stationary sports goods etc. with plans to start a food
corner in its Pune outlet to attract customers.
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Lending libraries are also become part
of the newer trend in traditional books only retail stores in a bid to attract
customers who can’t afford to buy books all the time.
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Typical problems include dealing with
SKU’s in the chain while also vying for profitability
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Declining sales resulted in revamping
the supply chain and inventory resulting in 90% increase in sales, for which
Landmark collaborated with Vector Consulting Group.
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Landmark and other stores too have had
to diversify business into e-books and online shopping to meet customer demand
resulting into joint ventures with companies such as indiplaza.com
·
Vaitheeswaran K, founder and CEO of
Indiaplaza.com is of the opinion that traditional brick and mortar business
will not be able to sustain or they will be struggling in coming days
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