September 6, 1986 PUBLIC SECTOR Pathak Wins First Round MKS FROM his first national broadcast to the latest independence-day address, prime minister Rajiv Gandhi has, among other things, underlined his government's firm commitment to encouraging the growth of the public sector as also to prevent transnational corporations (TNCs) from influencing the country's policies on modernisation of industry. But a big gap yawns between his intention and his deeds; what his government has, till now, done is quite the reverse and exactly the opposite of his public pronouncements.