In this area, the work done by various authors like Ritchie (1984), Deb and Chaudhari (1986), Goel and Aggarwal (1981). Inventory models for deteriorating items with linearly trended demand and no shortage were considered by Dave and Patel (1989), Bahari-Kashani (1989), Chung and Ting (1993), Ouyang et al. (2009) etc.