Go beyond salaries

....In the event, at a macro level it may be possible to say the government is compensating employees adequately, but the 7th Pay Commission needs to, like its predecessors, look at the head-to-tail ratio—the government has too few secretaries and too many peons, the former is still under-paid and the latter highly over-paid. Government data shows the government spends around 13% of its salary bill on gazetted officers and the rest on the non-gazetted ones. Apart from correcting this, perhaps with a VRS and certainly by freezing salaries at this level, there is little point in hiking salaries unless attention is paid to the work done by bureaucrats. ..........

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