Sheer Injustice
Last week, I went to a restaurant to have a small meal. The waiter there, a young boy, spoke fluent English and seemed well informed. I made him sit beside me and asked about his qualifications and family. I was shocked and felt pity when he told me that he was a first class graduate from a college in Baijnath(Himachal Pradesh). He worked in the restaurant from 8am to10pm, seven days a week, for Rs 10,000 per month so that he could feed his handicapped parents and two siblings.
The central as well as the state governments are looking after the interests of only public sector employees. They conveniently ignore the well being of workers in the private sector, especially in small shops and firms, as if they are aliens. These workers are not entitled to any sort of financial assistance or pension when they become unfit to work.
It is sheer injustice to provide very handsome salaries, life long pension, free medical treatment and innumerable holidays to highly inefficient and generally duffer civil administration employees while highly educated and knowledgeable persons are working in private sector at a pittance.
Even then the government employees, very shamelessly, resort to strikes if their pay scales are not increased regularly and abundantly. These thick skinned, insensitive can't perceive the sufferings of majority of their fellow countrymen who live in penury, without any roof over their heads.
The government is also pampering only a fraction of the population(government employees comprise only 5% of total work force). It is burdening the majority populace with more and more taxes so that the recommendations of Pay Commissions can be easily implemented, regular doses of dearness allowances and other benefits can be gifted to these "work shirkers".
To make matters worse, the government is adamant on curbing black money with such measures as demonetisation, GST without any deliberation, without understanding the ground realities. As an Economist, I firmly believe that over populated India direly needs black money. A businessman or an industrialist would provide jobs to increasing numbers only if he has huge unaccounted money. Control the menace of rising population before taking such stringent steps. Just look around, the extent of unemployment has increased manifold. This will evidently increase crime, restlessness in the society.
~ Sanjay Gargish ~
The central as well as the state governments are looking after the interests of only public sector employees. They conveniently ignore the well being of workers in the private sector, especially in small shops and firms, as if they are aliens. These workers are not entitled to any sort of financial assistance or pension when they become unfit to work.
It is sheer injustice to provide very handsome salaries, life long pension, free medical treatment and innumerable holidays to highly inefficient and generally duffer civil administration employees while highly educated and knowledgeable persons are working in private sector at a pittance.
Even then the government employees, very shamelessly, resort to strikes if their pay scales are not increased regularly and abundantly. These thick skinned, insensitive can't perceive the sufferings of majority of their fellow countrymen who live in penury, without any roof over their heads.
The government is also pampering only a fraction of the population(government employees comprise only 5% of total work force). It is burdening the majority populace with more and more taxes so that the recommendations of Pay Commissions can be easily implemented, regular doses of dearness allowances and other benefits can be gifted to these "work shirkers".
To make matters worse, the government is adamant on curbing black money with such measures as demonetisation, GST without any deliberation, without understanding the ground realities. As an Economist, I firmly believe that over populated India direly needs black money. A businessman or an industrialist would provide jobs to increasing numbers only if he has huge unaccounted money. Control the menace of rising population before taking such stringent steps. Just look around, the extent of unemployment has increased manifold. This will evidently increase crime, restlessness in the society.
~ Sanjay Gargish ~
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