Abstract :
India needs very high rate of investments to
make a bound forward in efforts of attaining high level of
growth. Since the beginning of planning, the prominence
was on investments the primary instruments of economic
growth and increase in national income. This study
attempts to premeditate the investment preference of
salaried group of people using convenient sampling
method. The outlook from the employees belongs to
salaried earners, and the population is fixed as 500.
Instead of studying the complete range of investors, it is
focusing only one segment called salaried
Government employees. A variety of statistical t o o l s
are e m p l o y e d to analyze the data like Friedman Rank
Test, Chi-square, etc to identify the right relationship
among the factors related with investment. Finally it is
concluded that salaried group nevertheless of age and
annual Income, besides their occupation and marital
status they used to prefer the investment option which
will provide the long term benefit and highly secured cum
profitable avenues.
Keyword :
Investment, Government Employees, Safety, Tax Benefits