December 16, 1978 indigenous expertise and capability, with proven merit in setting up a line of large-sized public sector plants in the past and with capability admitted by even the World Bank in the setting up of some Bank-aided plants, which is being ousted and whose role is being gravely downgraded. Since it is not a case of a tussle between foreign rivals, it seems to have failed to receive attention from quarters which are otherwise so exercised over such matters.