Introduction

With the liberalization policy of the Government of India in the early nineties, the business in India received impetus and opening to the entire world. But the communications being as it were in 1992, the receipt of information that too the proper one was difficult.

With the passage of time, our Nation witnessed the great leap in all kinds of communications viz tele-com, roads, trains and air. The most important was the tele-com development AND alongwith it came the internet, e-mail, etc.

The development in the information technology interested us the most and at the same time encouraged us to adopt and utilize it.

Based at Mandi Gobindgarh, the steel hub of India, we knew the importance of having the information about comparison of rates of the various inputs to the steel industry at Mandi Gobindgarh viz z viz rest of India. So, the idea of informing the rates of steel market to the interested persons/ industry/ business houses by way of SMS and e-mails was conceived