Please donot get yourself confused over the terms Public Ltd Co & Public Sector Co.
If in any company, not less than 51% of the paid up shares are held by the Central/State government, or partly by the Central and one or more of the state governments, then such a company is deemd as a government company.
In our country we have quite a lot of such limited companies which are not under the private sector, but functioning under the public sector.
During this Jan.2007 alone, the
CIC has decided appeals against more than a score of such companies, whose replies to
RTI applications were found unsatisfactory by the applicants.
Just to name a few : BSNL, MTNL, BHEL, GAIL, Container Corporation of India Ltd., Mazagon Dock Ltd, RITES Ltd, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, Central Bank of India, State Bank of India, PNB, IOB, Oriental Bank of Commerce, NTPC Ltd, Heavy Engineering Corpn Ltd etc., were just some of the limited companies who were also respondents in various appeals before
CIC.
All these are public limited companies by the structure of their constitution and because of the government's share-holding in these companies, they are also considered as public sector companies and they very well come under the ambit of
RTI.