GAPS Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Financial Proposal
for a b2b web portal
Submitted by : Girish Soni, Director
[FINANCIAL PROPOSAL FOR A B2B WEB PORTAL] October 22, 2011
Table of Content
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Resource and Availability
2.0 Situation Analysis
2.1 Site Design Methodology
2.2 Fast Loading
2.3 Browser Compatibility
2.4 Look
2.5 Precise (right) Information
2.6 Information Structure
2.7 Interactivity
3.0 Our Company
3.1 Our Knowledge
3.2 Services
3.3 Web solutions
3.4 Software Solutions
3.5 Research and Promotional Services
4.0 Expertise
4.1 Community and Network Solutions
4.2 Open Source Customizations
4.3 Product Development
4.4 Web Maintenance services
4.5 Corporate Identity
4.6 B2B & B2C Web Portals
5.0 Our Clients
6.0 Awards & Certifications
7.0 Terms and Conditions
8.0 Financial Details
8.1 Feature wise Details
9.0 Contact Details
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1.0 INTRODUCTION
Hello Sir/Ma’am!
We are from GAPS Technologies. We are a Website Designing & Software Development
Company in Jodhpur. We are professionals with our services and we have advance knowledge of
what we do. We would thank our every client to choose our services and also giving us an
opportunity to work for them. We are on a rapid growth with a great customer satisfaction
report. We handle projects across the world. We believe in delivering projects on time with
quality, we provide the best of technology to your business, we at GAPS act as a bridge between
you and technology.
1.1 RESOURCE AND AVAILIBILITY
Other resources of GAPS include a professionally configured office
Environment. Multimedia compatible computer hardware, with the latest in software, helps to
Ensure that the highest quality sites are designed
2.0 SITUATION ANALYSIS
E-Commerce Website
From our discussions, we have identified the following objectives:
⇒ Aid marketing to a world-wide audience
⇒ Aid positioning of E-Commerce as a quality business
⇒ Demonstrate the expertise of the team
⇒ Increase ease of contact for prospects and clients
⇒ Provide clients and prospects with easily accessible (and useful) information and tools
⇒ Position the company as technologically advanced
⇒ Aid image development of the company
2.1 Site Design Methodology
GAPS recommend that [CLIENT NAME] set up a system that caters for expansion and flexibility
in allowing the content of the site to grow. As a part of our dynamic development methodology,
we identify the following ingredient that makes a successful Website. These characteristics can
be incorporated into [CLIENT NAME] site, to fulfil and enhance the objectives above.
2.2 Fast loading
The biggest single reason visitors do not stay at a Website is that it takes too long to load - that
Is the time it takes for the page to appear on the computer screen. The site needs to be
designed around the premise of 'loading' as quickly as possible.
To achieve this GAPS will ensure a strong text base for the pages (Text loads very, very quickly).
When photographs are used, we will tailor them to be the
Appropriate size and structure to ensure that they load within an appropriate timeframe.
2.3 Browser compatibility
The site needs to be compatible for viewing across a wide range of user platforms and browser
Software. We will test the site with many different browsers to ensure that the vast majority of
Visitors can see the site quickly and easily.
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2.4 Look
An Internet site today represents the first contact point for many prospective clients. It is, in a
nutshell, showing how professional a company is, and what kind of attitude they have in selling
themselves. In full consultation with [CLIENT NAME], we will discuss the interface and layout of
the site with you, to ensure the site is attractive, appealing and reflects the appropriate image.
We utilize extensive usability survey to ensure the site is simple to navigate to encourage usage.
2.5 Precise (right) Information
Along with having an appealing and attractive look and feel to the site, the content of the site
must be precisely what the user needs to see. Additionally, search engine positioning must be
considered and the site will be developed with key words and placement of same as a
consideration.
2.6 Information Structure
A clear, crisp view of the information on the site is paramount in relation to finding specific
information on a site. At this early stage, we would anticipate the use of databases to store
articles and information of interest. To provide major benefit to the business, the site should
have significant amounts of information available to the user. This information must be easily
found and presented in sucha way as to encourage use. Information on the site must be able to
be quickly and easily update, by [CLIENT NAME] staff.
2.7 Interactivity
Without interactivity, a Website is purely a book online. Interactive sites capture user details
online and monitor what users do inside the system. The more visitors can interact and 'do
things' on the site, the more likely they are to revisit. The importance of having visitors return is
found in the statistic that people will buy from you after an average of seven previous visits.
3.0 OUR COMPANY
GAPS is a Global software development company in India providing Offshore Software Development,
Web Site Development ,Customized Software Development, PHP Development, Web Portal
Development, Online Shopping Solutions, Graphic, Logo, Multimedia and Design Solutions, ERP
Support Services, Customized ERP Development, CRM Development, Retail Management Solutions
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GAPS is a leading customized Lawyer Management & Retail Management Solution Provider in India,
Providing the best of technology to the industry to users across the globe, Online & Offline Solutions
are been driven to ease the access of any solution any where across the globe
GAPS is a Junction of Highly Experienced professionals from IT & Non-IT firms specialize in projects
that combines of strategy and cutting-edge technology into businesses, Our team represents one of
the leading resources for innovative and sophisticated web-based solutions, Custom Made ERP's,
CRM Solutions & Project Management, We believe in delivering the best of Knowledge and
experience to our Customers in Less time along with Less Cost, Experience & Customer Satisfaction is
the Base and the Biggest Asset of this Company
We provide IT Consultancy to the Industries like travel and tourism, Finance, E-commerce, Elearning, Banking, Retail Chains, NGOs, Educational Industries, Lawyers, Government organizations
etc.
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OUR KNOWLEDGE
The following are the skills our programmers and our designers have in them. It’s very difficult to
beat our team because we are fully trained and completely professional. We are comfortable
working with the following Applications & Technologies:PHP (Pre Hypertext Processor) & ASP (Active Server Pages)
MySQL® Databases (My Structure Query Language)
Microsoft® SQL™ (Structure Query Language), Microsoft Access
AJAX™ (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), XML
MSPX, ASPX (Active Server Pages Xtended)
Graphic Designing (JPG, TIFF, GIF Animations, PNG Interlacing)
Vectors & Cartooning Characters (Adobe® Illustrator CS3™, Adobe® Dreamweaver CS3™, Adobe®
Fireworks CS3™, Adobe® Photoshop CS3™ &Imageready CS3™, Corel® Draw 12™, Autodesk®
Applications)
Flash Animations & 3D Creatures (Adobe® Flash CS3™)
HTM, HTML, JavaScript™, Microsoft® Access™ & FrontPage™ Extensions
Operating Systems: Windows® XP™ & Vista Home™, Business™, Ultimate™, Windows® Server
2003™, Linux™, Unix™
PhpMyAdmin, PL-SQL®, CGI®
Microsoft® Silverlight™
Ruby on Rails, CakePHP
SERVICES
Web-Solutions
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Website Design & Development,
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B2B & B2C Portal Development
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SEO Services
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E-Commerce Solutions
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Domain & Web Host Resellers
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Portal Development &Administration
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MLM & Network Marketing Portal Development
Software Solutions
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Lawyer Management Solution
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Retail Management Solution
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Customized ERP Development
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Software Development
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CRM Development
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CMS Development
Research & Promotional Services
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SMS & Promotion Services
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Affiliate Marketing
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Market Research
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Data Entry
EXPERTISE
Communities & Networks Solutions
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Online Communities
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Blogs, Wikis and Internet Forums
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Networking portals
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Messaging and Mailing Systems
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Online Polling Sites
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Photo Galleries
Open Source Customization
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Joomla Customization
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Wordpress Customization
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Drupal Customization
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OsCommerce Customization
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Phpbb Customization
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Vbulletin Customization
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X cart Customization
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Zencart Customization
Product Development
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B2B Product Development
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B2C Product Development
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Mobile Application Development
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Content Management System Development
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Document Management System Development
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Community & Networking Portal Development
Website Maintenance Services
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Website Functionality Enhancement
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Website Customization
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Website Redesigning
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Code & Database Optimization
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Search Engine Optimization
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Search Engine Marketing
Corporate Identity
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Logo Designing
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Website Designing
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Brochure Designing
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Business Cards
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Newsletters
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e-Catalogs
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Letterhead Designing
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Identity Cards
B2B / B2C Web Portals
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Payment and Billing Systems
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eMarketplaces and Auctions
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Recruitment Portals
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Real Estate Portals
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eShops& Product Catalogs
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eDirectories
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CRM Systems
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Sales Management System
What is Ecommerce – overview
In its simplest form ecommerce is the buying and selling of products and services by
businesses and consumers over the Internet. People use the term "ecommerce" to describe
encrypted payments on the Internet.
Sometimes these transactions include the real-time transfer of funds from buyer to seller
and sometimes this is handled manually through an eft-pos terminal once a secure order is
received by the merchant.
Internet sales are increasing rapidly as consumers take advantage of lower prices offer by
wholesalers retailing their products. This trend is set to strengthen as web sites address
consumer security and privacy concerns.
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Benefits of Ecommerce
E-commerce can provide the following benefits over non-electronic commerce:
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Reduced costs by reducing labour, reduced paper work, reduced errors in keying in
data, reduce post costs
Reduced time. Shorter lead times for payment and return on investment in
advertising, faster delivery of product
Flexibility with efficiency. The ability to handle complex situations, product ranges
and customer profiles without the situation becoming unmanageable.
Improve relationships with trading partners. Improved communication between
trading partners leads to enhanced long-term relationships.
Lock in Customers. The closer you are to your customer and the more you work with
them to change from normal business practices to best practice e-commerce the
harder it is for a competitor to upset your customer relationship.
New Markets. The Internet has the potential to expand your business into wider
geographical locations.
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B2B – Business to business
On the Internet, B2B (business to business) is the exchange of products or services between
businesses rather than between businesses and consumers.
Although early interest centered on the growth of retailing on the Internet, forecasts are that B2B
revenue will far exceed B2C revenue in the near future.
According to studies published in early 2000, the money volume of B2B exceeds that of B2C by 10 to
1. Over the next five years, B2B is expected to have a compound annual growth of 41%.
Payment Gateways
Both PayPal and Paymate offer credit card to bank account payments. Using one of these services
you can invoice a customer, they can pay on Paymate and the funds will be deposited in your bank
account ... less a transaction fee.
Unlike a credit card merchant facility you will not have ongoing, minimum monthly fees... and the
transaction fee is better than what most card companies offer small merchants. Additional these
service are being backed into other ecommerce sites and shopping carts. Ebay for example uses
Paypal to process some payments.
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Security
On the Internet, security is handled by passing "keys" between Internet server and client browser.
When entering a secure site your browser is passed a public key by which transactions between you
and the web server are encrypted. The server key is always kept private.
On your web site security can be handled two ways - depending on your budget. You can
"piggyback" on someone else's "key" or you can register and pay for your own key or SSL certificate
at Thwate or Verisign.
Generally today businesses who host web sites offer access to a secure server and you can use their
server and secure certificate for less than if you registered and paid for your own key.
However the person browsing your site will notice the URL change to one they do not recognise - or
trust. This may put your customers off (although there is no evidence of this). Therefore one of the
advantages of buying your own key would be to have a URL for your secure pages that is consistent
with the rest of your site.
Credit Card Security
The credit card companies are constantly evolving more secure credit card purchasing on the
Internet.
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Often you will be asked to give a three digit verification code on the reverse of your card.
This is to prove you have the card in your hand at the time you made the purchase.
Card companies also monitor your card activity to check for suspicious or out of ordinary
purchases. They will contact you to verify it is you creating the usually break in the
purchasing pattern.
A range of biometric security measure have been proposed for credit cards. None are in
widespread use at this time.
Smartcards house a chip that has extra data in it about the card holder or carry an public
key.
To give customer’s confidence in purchasing on the Internet however card companies generally
stand by customers who have had their card or card number stolen. This is not exactly the case for
merchants though. The card company will alert the merchant to stolen cards and fraudulent
transaction but do not indemnify the merchant from losses.
Banks
Banks were slow at first to embrace Internet technologies citing security fears. More recently though
in the drive for higher profits and greater shareholder return they have been moving more and more
of their business online.
Mostly this transition has gone smoothly. The only real difficulty is phishing scams where people are
tricked into logging into a web site designed to look like their bank, but instead traps their login
details. Banks have warned people not to click links in their email to login into the bank's web site,
but to type the URL into their browser window every time.
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Integration
Imagine a web site that would allow your customers to place an order for your goods and when they
sent their order to you, your stock or inventory database was updated immediately, outwards goods
were notified and the customer was sent an advice from packing staff when the goods were shipped.
Many businesses do each of these things but few join them together or "integrate" them. As
businesses become familiar with the Internet, it won't take long for business people to see that their
order-taking, stock control and delivery systems should be merged into one seamless function.
B2B Catalog & Products Features
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Unlimited number of categories, sub-categories, products and options.
Optimized brand landing pages
Item discounts based on quantity ordered.
Order discounts and promotional codes with single or multi use discount codes.
Products can be linked to multiple categories and have multiple options.
Set the order in which products display.
Options can be individually set to Optional or Required.
Options can be given a weight which will be factored into the shipping cost calculations along with the
Product weight.
Support for "text" options which allows a customer to enter text when they order a product.
Digital Downloads are fully supported. All downloads are done through a script that checks the order
status before allowing the download.
Store can be run in "Catalog Only" mode. This way, the store acts just like an online catalog, without any
links to a shopping cart.
Ability to choose the "Featured Products" on your homepage.
Cross-Selling is supported via a related keys mechanism. This method is much less work than
physically linking dozens of Products manually.
Tax-free products and options.
Support for product Ratings & Reviews per product.
Support for product suppliers
Support for product manufacturers
Support for product brands
Maintain inventory levels by product and product options.
Multiple product images
Zoom product images (multiple zoom options)
Integration with social media website
Search Engine Optimization Features
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Validated W3C XHTML / CSS code
Complete search engine friendly development
Ability to create unique title tags and meta information for categories and products
Dynamically created title tags and meta information for categories and products (ability to overwrite
manually)
Proper placement of H1 tags on categories and products
Dynamically generated ALT tags
Breadcrumb navigation
Internal linking structure
Site map creation
XML site map creation and submission
Google Base integration
& much more
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Administration Features
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On-Screen help is available for most functions.
Easily manage Products, Categories, Options, Customers, Shipping, Locations, Orders and much more.
Upload Product Images and Software Items from your browser to your web server.
Store shipping rates are calculated by order weight and/or price. The amount charged for shipping can
be calculated via fixed price or percentage. Ability to assign Free Shipping to an individual product.
Support for UPS, USPS and Canada Post online shipping rates.
Configure sales tax per postal / zip code, municipality, state or country (billing or shipping address).
Activate/Deactivate individual customers.
Manage your orders from an intuitive screen. Order stock levels can be adjusted when the order ships.
Add private comments to each order, or comments that the customer can also see.
Statistical Charting tool.
Restrict digital downloads to a specified number of downloads, or a pre-determined number of hours.
Integrated Authorize.Net gateway allows you to authorize and collect Credit Card payments from your
order management screen.
Ability to override any customer selected payment method with a Authorize.Net Credit Card payment.
This is useful if the customer changes their mind about how they want to pay for an order after the order
has already been placed.
Emails sent to customer via the store can be customized to suit your requirements. Dynamic
replacement of text can also be done.
Send HTML Newsletters to your customers directly from your store.
Create and maintain discount codes.
Customer Convenience
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Customer can view and modify their personal info by logging on to their account. Account can be
created before or during CheckOut process.
Full order history and detail is available to the customer.
Customer receives confirmation eMails when they place the order, and when their order's status
changes.
All software downloads are available via their online account. No more hassles with eMailed software
links gone missing.
Customer can re-attempt payment at a later date. Sometimes the Payment Gateway's servers are
down. With this software, the Customer can come back and pay later.
Password Reminder feature for Customers.
"Email A Friend" functionality allows customer to send a link to a Product via email.
Support for tax-free customers.
Convenient Order Print function from the customer's account area.
Advanced search function.
"Contact Us" script to send queries via email from your store.
"Save Cart" functionality.
See shipping estimates before checkout.
Customer can keep a list of their favorite products.
Selectable currency and language.
Product selection by brand
Security & Encryption
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SSL support utilizing the highest standard in online security.
Encryption of Passwords and Credit Card numbers in the database.
Robust user input validations throughout the store
Critical information is kept separate from the database.
Assign additional login to the admin for staff that can't modify the store's configuration settings.
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OUR CLIENTS
www.kalaagram.com
www.valona.com
www.k9keystone.com
www.stannes.edu.in
www.tigerleap.in
Pricing
S.No.
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Description
B2B Portal Development
Admin Section Development
Price
27,000 INR
12,550 INR
Total
39,550 INR
Web hosting will charged according to the space required by the user.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. The Update period of a website is limited to the number of times or limited period.
2. We have no hidden costs, but the amount paid for a service is limited only up to the
particular service for a particular period.
3. All disputes are subjected to Jodhpur Jurisdiction only.
4. The total cost of the project will be paid in 2 instalments, 50% as a signing amount
and 50% as a final payment.
5. The Cheque should be drawn in the favour of GAPS TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE
LIMITED
6. AMC will be 12% of the project cost.
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Contact Us
GAPS Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
6, Marudhar Nagar, Pal Link Road, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
info@gapstechno.com | www.gapstechno.com
0291 – 2 758 788 | 096600 71571
Submitted by Girish Soni
Director
22nd October 2011
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