Contents: Series editor's introduction/Rakesh Hooja. Volume editor's introduction/Sandeep Verma and Satish Kumar Batra. I. High noon of Indian state enterprises: 1960s-1970s: 1. Performance of public enterprises in the early 1970s/S.S. Khera. 2. Some problems of management in the state sector: a view from mid-1970s/Bhupendra Hooja. 3. Industrial relations in state enterprises in Rajasthan/N.K. Joshi. 4. Marketing management in state enterprises/V.B.L. Mathur. 5. An appraisal of the financial performance of Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation through profitability analysis in late 1960s/N.K. Kulshrestha. 6. Rajasthan State Enterprises in practice in 1970s/Ram Prakash. 7. The Committee on public undertakings and recommendations regarding the better management of state enterprises/Bhupendra Hooja. II. Questioning the public enterprises: the 1980s: 8. What ails the Indian public undertakings: a 1980 overview/D.B. Gupta. 9. Joint sector: an approach to Industrial Development (A case study of RIICO)/Ajit Kumar Jain. 10. My years with the Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Company Limited/N. Vittal. 11. Performance Appraisal of public enterprises in India: A 1984 case study of Indian airlines/M.D. Agarwal and N.S. Pillai. 12. The Rajasthan State Ganganagar Sugar Mills: a study of terminally sick public sector industry/B. Sekhar. III. New approaches to state enterprises: 1990s and the start of the 21 century: 13. Issues in public sector reforms/R.S. Srivastava. 14. State level public enterprises in India: ills and cures/Kailash Bhandari. 15. Public sector and privatisation in the new millennium/Tej K. Jain. IV. Changing trends in administering industrial development: 16. Poverty and the need for industrial reorganization: a 1975 note/Rakesh Hooja, Som Shankar Das and G. Balagopal. 17. RFC and industrial development of backward areas in late 1970s/Vinod Batra. 18. Institutional finance for industrial development/Kanta Ahuja. 19. Industrial development of Jaipur District: a late 1970s note/D.R. Mehta. 20. Small-scale industries in Rajasthan: a study of regional and area-oriented economic problems in 1980/K.R. Sharma. 21. Administration of village and small-scale industry in Andhra: a 1982 study of problems and prospects/M.A. Aleem. 22. Problems of small-scale industries: a study of district Gurdaspur/C.M. Mahajan. 23. A dynamic small enterprise economy: India's hope for the next millennium/P.M. Mathew. 24. Strategic management for the investment promotion agencies in twenty-first century/Gitika Kapoor. 25. Foreign direct investment in India: policy analysis/Arvind Mayaram.
"Public sector has long been an integral part of the state and government. Immediately after India attained Independence in 1947, our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru laid great emphasis on the public sector which he felt, apart from triggering industrial growth, would also provide employment opportunities. This was perhaps a correct approach at that time for an emerging nation like India, which was bracing itself up for industrialization without a developed private sector. At a later stage, particularly since the early 1990s, we have come to introduce pro-market reforms, marking a paradigm shift in our attitude toward state enterprises, their need, efficacy and management.
While Sections I to III of the present volume contain selected readings on public enterprises (also called state enterprises) covering three phases: of emphasis on state enterprises after independence; of the period when the role of state enterprises started getting questioned; and the post-liberalization era with its totally different focus, and how efficiency can be ensured amongst PSUs, Section IV contains selected papers on various aspects of administration of industrial development over the years.
Hopefully, the book will inform and illuminate the reader on a number of issues related to PSU Management and to the administration of industrial development, such as the nature of the debate regarding state enterprises, the changing contours of public policy and the ideas that have shaped and influenced political and economic approaches in these spheres from independence to the present day." (jacket)
