This book deals with the burning issue of public sector in India. It is based on the National Seminar on Rationale of Public Sector in India organised by the Department of Econo¬mics, Rani Durgawati University, Jabalpur. The book consists of valuable papers contributed by eminent scholars in the field. Majority of the contributors have strongly and categorically under¬lined the significance, rather indispensibility of public sector in planned development of Indian economy. Recently there has been a nation¬wide open discussion on the very ratio¬nale of the existing public sector. The present volume looks at the need and the working of public sector in our mixed economy. Hopefully, the book would prove to be of immense value to the economists and other social scientists, policy¬makers, public enterprise administra¬tors, researchers, students and all those interested in the developmental issues of India.
Dr. Radhika Dass, M.A., LL.B., D.Phil., presently Professor and Head of the Department of Post-Graduate Studies & Research in Economics, Rani Durgawati University, Jabalpur, obtained Doctorate from Allahabad University under the supervision of renowned economists Prof. J.K. Mehta and Dr. R.N. Bhargava. His outstanding book on ‘Finances of Indian Union Since 1947’ and ‘Planning in India’ were widely reviewed and appreciated. He has to his credit a number of research papers published in noted journals. He is holding positions on a number of academic bodies as member.
Dr. Manohar Pandit, M.A., LL.B., Ph.D., presently Professor and Chairman, Board of Studies in Economics, Rani Durgawati University, Jabalpur, has contributed a large number of papers on development economics and population studies in journals of repute. He has attended national level seminars either as resource person or participant. He has also contributed papers in edited volumes. He has to his credit four published survey reports on various developmental issues.
