Dear Editor,
The Government has done well to implement the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations. In a way this will not strain the fisc but will boost growth and give employees a decent deal.
The argument that an increase in salaries is a drain on the exchequer is absolute piffle. There is popular perception that government employees get good salaries for the little work they do, and any increase in their remuneration is good money going down the drain. The interface between an ordinary citizen and a government servant only reinforces this negative image because the ordinary citizen is made to run from pillar-to-post to get the information or service that is due to him. Government officials, from the peon to the chief secretary have to recognise that they are literally, and not just in the rhetorical sense, servants of the people. They should work and behave as such.
U. B Singh
Rajouri
