CII comes out with bi-annual survey on Pondy

Puducherry, Nov 7 (UNI) The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Southern Region has come out with a bi-annual economic survey covering Puducherry to assess its performance in tourism, IT, automotive and auto compnent industries during the first half of the current fiscal.

According to the survey, there was an increase by 35 per cent in the flow of tourists into the union territory during the six months period compared to 2005-06. Tourism revenues also rose a healthy 25 per cent in the period.

The survey said the government here should develop tourism infrastructure and give adequate training to service providers in improving the overall efficency in the tourism sector, a CII release here said.

Referring to the performance of IT sector here, the survey claimed there was a growth of 20 to 30 per cent in the mobilisation of revenue besides an increase by 30 per cent in overseas billing.

The survey also highlighted the performance in automotive and auto components, food processing and chemical industries in the union territory.

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