“…Further, it is interesting to observe that best proximity theorems also emerge as a natural generalization of fixed point theorems, for a best proximity point reduces to a fixed point if the mapping under consideration is a self mapping. Investigation of several variants of contractions for the existence of a best proximity point can be found in [1,2,3,4,8,10,17,21,22]. Eldred et al [9] have established a best proximity point theorem for relatively non-expansive mappings.…”