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This book deals with issues on priority sector lending operations. It examines and analyzes different multidimensional factors ranging from policy issues to actual ground realities in the execution and implementation of the policy by practising bankers. The issues raised and analyzed are practical and the approach is methodological. Thus, the book will be suited for banking practitioners and academicians, especially teaching faculty and business researchers.

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The author was an Indian Council of Social Sciences Research sponsored research fellow having been associated with Alagappa University, Tamilnadu State, India for a period ranging from the year 2000 2006. During the course of his research programme, the author was assigned and engaged in teaching post-graduate degree courses.

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