"OVER Rs 150,000 crore of the people's money has been invested in the public sector, while the annual return is less than Rs 3,000 crore. This is grossly inadequate," admits the Congress manifesto. But, says Mukherjee: "This quarrel between the so-called public and private sector is substantially artificial." The public sector plays its own role in the areas that are earmarked for it, like in the social sector. While disinvestment is under way to see that the people at large have a stake in the PSUs, Mukherjee promises a multidimensional approach to improve the working of PSUs, including autonomy for chief executives.