Of all the aspects of the Indian public sector nothing is more time consuming and ill-planed than data generation, both for internal record and external justification, let alone managerial control. If one were to judge the degree of managerial professionalism by the amount and degree of data it generates, then the public sector managements should win hands down. Data that are relevant and not so relevant, about every conceivable aspect of the organizational functioning, is scrupulously generated and reported to a number of monitoring agencies within and outside the organization, at periodic intervals. It is another matter how far this