SURVEY WORK

Survey of soft drink retailers for Pepsico Holdings India (P) Ltd.
For Pepsi Co Holdings India (P) Ltd., we did a data collection survey of 9000 retailers of soft drinks in Chennai. We conducted a deep primary survey and generated a detailed database on Owner/Decision maker name, name of the Shop, Address, Contact number, Landmark of the retailer, Nature of Retailing and its infrastructure facility, Soft drinks portfolio of the retailer and its respective performance, Portfolio details on PepsiCo’s other products this helped PepsiCo in scaling up the penetration/Share of various products.

Survey of Pharma Retailers (Chemist) for Pure IT
A nation wide survey of Pharma retailers was conducted to record the footfalls in a particular day and further evaluate retailers’ overall behavior by observing their interactions with the customers/suppliers and others involved in the process.

Survey on the Customer Satisfaction in Rural India for RBI-NCAER
Completed RBI-NCAER survey of 15000 respondents across India (219 districts within 20 states) in 2 months. Simultaneously two other NCAER projects {PDS-6000 households in 6 states and REDS-census of 15000 households in 16 villages in 6 districts} were also being undertaken.

Impact of EPZs on Employment, Poverty and Human Development: The Case of India 2005:
This study seeks to examine the impact of EPZ’s on employment (quantitatively and qualitatively), poverty, and human development in India. The study was commissioned to ICMR by one of the professors of Delhi University.

Assessment and Evaluation of India's trade prospects with China
The study was commissioned by Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) and it looked at Assessment and Evaluation of India's trade prospects with China and building competitiveness and complementarities for the Indian External Sector with respect to China's entry into WTO.

Import intensity of India’s Exports:
The study was sponsored by Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) – II: It included the study of import Intensity of India’s exports in the liberalized trade policy regime (implications for employment generation)

Study on functioning National Economic Processing Zone:
Understanding various operational problems being faced by Indian Export Oriented units (EOUs) in seven NEPZs (now Special Economic Zone) across the country. The study was sponsored by ICRIER. The Survey was conducted across the seven SEZs.