State Bank of India is the largest bank in India. The service provided through the vast network in rural, semi-urban and urban areas is often proved as a people's bank. However, functioning of the bank unlike all other institutions in India is subject to and influenced by the changes brought in over time. In an era of globalization, innovation is frequent and obvious. In fact, the innovated change is managed by human-beings than machine(s), which therefore leads to the need of up-grading the technical as well as managerial skills of human-beings to adopt the change and get involved with the...

The globalization of Indian agriculture in recent years resulted in the need for the production of export-oriented quality products having comparative advantage. In the context of internal developments i.e dismantling of system of quantitative restrictions by WTO, contract farming could be one of the best solutions which may decrease the polarization of rich and poor and thus encourage Indian farmers to compete with the very large, rich and highly indirect subsidized western farmers. Contract farming can indeed be a vehicle for the modernization of agriculture in India. It can be a means to...