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Compilation of Corporate stock footage from India. The Indian corporate sector has two main components, namely, the government owned and privately owned companies. The size of both the components, in terms of both numbers and capital, has grown fast, particularly since beginning of the 'seventies'. Government companies are mainly in the basic, heavy and capital intensive industries whereas the private sector is predominantly in industries which cater to the consumer markets directly. It is due to such a basic difference that while the government sector accounts for nearly two-thirds of the productive industrial capital, its share in the net value added is less than one-third.1 And the opposite is true of the private sector. The differing nature of the activities undertaken by the two secto