Ownership and Management: Government's control of PSUs does no good, say PSU honchos

AT A time when the entire nation is being gripped with the election fever to elect a new government at Centre, bosses of top public sector undertakings have aired their strong opposition to government's control in the affairs of the public sector companies. The state-owned PSUs that have for long been at the receiving end, decided to bare it all at the CII annual meeting 2014, expressing strong reservation...

NTPC CMD Arup Roy Choudhury's new book Management by Idiots tells us a real story

ARUP Roy Choudhury has been at the helm of NTPC since August 31, 2010 and his rich and varied experience of 34 years in a number of PSUs has now constituted chapters in a book. The passionate corporate honcho has turned an author with his maiden book Management by idiots, which has hit the stands last week. The chairman of the country’s largest power generator NTPC, 57-year Choudhury...