• Do you expect your total number of employees locally to decrease, increase or remain the same? • What about your company’s investments in India? What about the importance of India as an investment destination for your company’s international operations?
• Are you satisfied with the government’s efforts to reduce red-tape?
• What about the new policies including NK Singh’s proposals on FDI?
• What about the new policies including NK Singh’s proposals on FDI?

DuPont India boss Pankaj J Shah hates it when a shipment from his plant in Baroda takes ten days to reach Bangladesh, when DuPont South Korea reaches there in three. Shah thinks such daily occurrences hurt Indian manufacturing. But there are people who tell him that there’s nothing wrong with the business environment in India. Isn’t India the great elephant? Isn’t it true that when the elephant moves, the entire jungle feels it?
One of the initiatives Shah has therefore taken as chairman of Amcham—a group where 300 India-based US MNCs share their joys and sorrows—is “to give such people an answer that everything isn’t fine.” Accordingly, the chamber has got researcher Gallup Organisation into the act. Twenty questions like the one’s above have been sent. Replies have started coming in though Gallup won’t tell who is saying what. Respondents range from AT&T to Coke and GE and Xerox, a 100 of them being on the Fortune 500 list. The group—if one includes investments through the Mauritius route—represents India’s largest overseas investor base with $15 billion of invested buck. The Gallup results and an accompanying analysis—the government would be a key target of the findings—will be out next month.