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The problems of efficiency in the economic enterprise organized by the State in the centrally planned economies have aroused new and widespread interest.1 The public sector in India operates in a mixed economy and a democratic society. The pressures for change in this very large sector are evident and becoming conspicuous. Nowhere are tne problems more acute than in the manner of organizing human resources for efficient operations.
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See Nabagopal Das, The Public Sector in India (New York: Asia Publishing House, 1961), pp. 65–66, for comparable figures.
The reasons for this are brought dramatically to the forefront when we consider that the capital expenditure for the Hindustan Steel Company alone amounted to $ 1 billion. This steel company is not the only one among “big” enterprises. “Bigness” per se tends to invite unfavorable public attention even in the United States. A detailed account of the nature and extent of the public sector can be found in V. V. Ramanadham, The Structure of Public Enterprise in India (New York: Asia Publishing House, 1961), pp. 1–52.
Ibid. p. 3.
Ibid. p. 21. A more general factual information on all of the major public enterprises is available in Om Prakash, The Theory and Working of the State Corporations (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1963).
Paul H. Appleby, Re-examination of India’s Administrative System with special reference to Administration of Government’s Industrial and Commercial Enterprises (New Delhi: Government of India. 1956), p. 19.
The situation has been somewhat similar in other countries with the same civil ervice tradition. For example, see Louis J. Walinsky, Economic Development of Burma, 1957–1960 (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1962), especially p. 451 and footnote.
For an excellent review of these facts see H. K. Paranjape, The Industrial Management Pool: An Administrative Experiment (New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Public Administration, 1962).
H. K. Paranjape, The Flight of Technical Personnel in Public Undertakings (New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Public Administration, 1964).
A similar point is made by Laxmi Narain, “Labour and Management in the Public Sector, in V. V. Ramanadham (ed.) Pricing Labour and Efficiency in the Public Sector (Hyderabad: Osmania University, 1962), p. 54.
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Prasad, S.B., Negandhi, A.R. (1968). Organization and Manpower Problems in the Public Sector. In: Managerialism for Economic Development. Studies in Social Life, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7499-2_6
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