of public sector undertakings under its administrative charge convened by the Industry Ministry this month received wide attention. At the close of it, how- ever, the chief executive must have been overwhelmed and baffled by the range and multiplicity of tasks set for them by the Industry Minister, T A Pai. Pai has acquired a reputation for outspoken exposition of the government's pragmatic industrial policies. If in the recent past Pai had been forcefully advocating higher production by the public sector undertakings