Performance of public enterprise always occupies the front page in newspapers and the headlines of mass media. Hardly there is any session of the Parliament and the state assemblies where stormy debates do not take place on performance of public enterprise. The success of the Indian economy in terms of growth and distributive justice largely hinges on the performance of public enterprises. Both the central and the state governments depend on the good performance of public enterprises a lot to achieve their socio-economic objectives. The post graduate students in the institutes of higher learning such as IIMs, IITs, RECs, university post graduate departments in management, economics, commerce, public administration and social sciences, are keenly interested in formulating a proper perspective of performance of PEs and so are the students of the newly set up management institutes in the country. The public enterprise personnel are deeply interested about continuous sensitization of performance of public enterprises to take stock of their work and contribution. Private enterprises and trade associations such as FICCI, CII, and State Chambers of Commerce and Industry, are attracted to study the performance of public enterprises for a comparative view and benchmarking. The present book makes an attempt to provide a backdrop of performance of public enterprises during the decade of liberalization, offer a detailed formulation in the theory of public enterprise performance evaluation and present a survey of research in this area. The book contains a wide range of annotations of topical studies on performance evaluation published in the form of books, articles, papers and official and non-official reports. The book also provides a peep into the research areas in the field of performance evaluation for future. The book will be useful to a cross section of readers drawn from industry, government, consulting organizations, management institutes, universities, and researchers.

The constellation of global economic forces acting upon the various economic and business entities in a transforming economy such as India necessitates a thorough inquiry into its major dimensions. This book is an attempt to capture the salient features of such major issues. Govt. policies with respect to disinvestment, problems in disinvestment processes, disinvestment experiments in late 90's role of various agencies in disinvestment process; development of MoU as a tool in public enterprise management, competitiveness in public sector, productivity scenario in public enterprises, MoU in India, financial autonomy, accountability and administration of public enterprises like topics are given competent treatment in this book. The book on the whole attempts to bring together, the manifold dimensions of critical issues at the policy and operational levels of the Indian public enterprise management process.

The State Level Public Enterprises (SLPEs) are important components of the economy of states. The restructuring of SLPEs is an integral part of the economic reforms initiated by the STATE Government. This study presents the State of select SLPEs in MP, their institutional structure, governance relational and scope and time table for future reforms. As a prelude, the study provides a backdrop of the economy of MP. The information contained in this study has been obtained from both primary and secondary sources. Having some critical limitations, the analysis and conclusion of study will prove of utmost use for academics as well as policy planners and administrators.

This book contains the first flush of thoughts on privatization in India which is making rapid strides and changing the fundamentals of the Indian economy. The book contains papers on wide ranging topics starting from economic liberalization, conceptual and contextual framework on privatization, financial implications of privatization to equating privatisation with public shareholdings, privatization on capital markets and privatization in the UK. The book provides gist of the initial debate on privatization examining the important perspectives such as the need for privatization, in the phase of economic liberalization, extent and scope of privatization and financial savings that could arise to the economy consequent to privatization and the models that could be used to identify public enterprises that could be divested from public enterprise portfolio. The paper presents a dispassionate view with regard to the feasibility of privatization and its limitations. To present the impact of the privatization thought the book incorporates three papers dealing with role and relevance of state level public enterprises in 1990s, India's divestment experience consequent to the introduction of new economic policy and commercialization and corporatisation of public enterprises that could pave the way for adding further momentum to the process.