The Hindu Business Line : Routine pay revision, no solution

The civil services is an extremely important arm of public administration on which rests the efficiency of administration. While considering steps to improve it, a vital issue to be taken into account is the level of satisfaction in terms of the emoluments being offered to Civil Services personnel.

Granted, there is a vast difference between private sector employees and their counterparts in government, when it comes to work responsibility, commitment and output. Nevertheless, the difference in salary levels between the two sectors is striking. After all, everybody works in anticipation of good salary and absence of satisfaction in this regard will impact performance. So any scientific examination of the issue of reform should start from the level of satisfaction of the worker with regard to the work put in by him and the compensation received.

There is no harm in linking pay to the productivity of the worker on an objective assessment. For this, the emoluments need to be split into two portions; one basic and the other to be related to employee productivity. Opting, instead, for routine exercises of pay revision is not the solution for improving Civil Services efficiency.

T. R. Anandan Coimbatore

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Routine pay revision, no solution