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We owe a debt of gratitude to many people who helped us for the publication of the book “Sustainable Business Practices for Rural Development”. This book is an outcome of the international conference organized by Udhampur Campus, University of Jammu on the theme sustainable business practices in collaboration with Indian Council for Business Education, Bangalore on February 27-March 1, 2018. To begin with, we would like to express our sincere and deepest acknowledgement to our worthy Vice- Chancellor, Professor RD Sharma for his unflinching support and valuable advice in promoting and motivating research culture for the development of knowledge competencies among the scholars and faculty. We are highly grateful to all the contributors whose timely support and help made this task possible. Special thanks are due to the team of reviewers- Deepti Abrol, Kamani Dutta and Ritika Sambyal for their painstaking efforts in reviewing the papers with sincerity and with full commitment to improve the quality of the papers. We are also highly grateful to all the faculty members in Department of Commerce and Department of Economics, Udhampur Campus, University of Jammu for their consistent help and support in supporting activities. We are grateful to each one of them for their contribution. Last but not the least we would like to thank our publication partner Cambridge International Academics, UK for making our dream true.