State Level Public Sector Enterprises in India: Performance and Prospects

Dr. Gopal Ganesh is one of the few bureau-crats in India who have entered academics after a long and brilliant stint in Government. He has served the Governments of Uttar Pradesh and the Government of India in several Government of India, one of his important assignments was that of Member Secretary to the eartwhile Disinvestment Commission for nearly five years. He has had a ring side view of disinvestment Process in India. He was also a Visiting fellow at Queens Elizabeth House, Oxford, where he worked on privatisation of public enterprises. After his retirement from the Indian Administrative service in 2003, he was adviser to the Twelfth Finance Commission and also a Member of the Adhoc Task Force on Mous in the department of Public Enterprises. Currently. He is the Executive Director of the center for Management and research in mautriius. A prolific writer he has earlier authored three books viz., Privatisation experience Around the World: Privatisation, Competition and regulation in the united Kigdom and Privatisation in India, and has authored several articles in financial newspapers and journals in India.