There is an increasing demand for signages with the cropping up of new roads, highways and buildings in every nook and corner of the country.  Signage type and signage usage is going through a rapid transformation. The study aims to estimate the demand for road signages, with special reference to retro-reflective sheets and high security vehicle number plates at the national level in short (current), medium and long-term.

A detailed analysis involved the estimation of existing and potential types of usages and the estimation of key market segments - industrial, commercial, social and infrastructure for signages. The various demand drivers for various sectors were identified and the current demand and supply scenario was studied.

The client wanted to evaluate the potential for setting up fuel retail outlets at 18 locations. This evaluation process basically consisted of two phases: (a) evaluating the potential business volume (b) understanding the consumer behavior. The exercise also aimed at identifying and evaluating travel related value added services that could be offered at the outlets. Non-petroleum products offering at retail outlets are particularly important in today's scenario of stretched profits margins in the petroleum products sales. Non-fuel products have the potential to significantly contribute to the top line as well as bottom line of the retail outlets.

The objectives for the study could be broadly defined as following:

§         To access the potential for selling motor fuels at identified retail outlet locations.

§         To understand consumer behavior in terms of fuel buying behavior and retail outlet selection.

§         To assess consumer preferences for value added services to be provided at retail outlets and travel related facilities (TRF) including lodging facilities.

§         To identify suitable partners to handle the TRF part of the business.

The study was conducted in three stages:

§         Traffic survey

§         Sales volume estimation

§         Consumer behaviour understanding

This study gave invaluable guidance to the client in terms of deciding of the locations for opening fuel stations and providing specific travel related facilities unique to each of the locations.

Infrastructure survey was conducted among the users of sports infrastructure to assess their satisfaction level with the existing infrastructure created by Sports Authority of India and its utilization. User feedback was obtained from different heterogeneous groups during the survey. The survey was conducted at the all India level and included primary survey, focus group discussion and preparation of indicators for measurement of satisfaction of sports infrastructure.

Infrastructure survey was conducted to identify various issues involved in development of infrastructure and to find out present state of infrastructure in India. The study aimed at providing perspective to future infrastructure development needs through user satisfaction level with present infrastructure available with regards to road, telecom, power, water and energy. The study was conducted in ten urban centres across the country.

Government of India started Critical Infrastructure Scheme (CIBS) in 1996-97 to provide assistance to the Government agencies/ bodies with the sole objective of strengthening infrastructure for exports. In particular, the study assessed the extent to which the CIBS had fulfilled the desired objective. The key players with reference to the study were: Agencies implementing various Projects under study and the Exporters who availed of the infrastructure facility in question .The primary task was to organize the survey of the implementing Agencies and the Exporters. CIBS was evaluated on the basis of the stream of benefits and user satisfaction to the exporters. Also, on the basis of the documents maintained by the various implementing agencies, the extent to which the prescribed norms with regard to the time schedule and utilization of funds were followed was examined. The number of implementing agencies and exporting units included in the survey was 15 and 1365 respectively.