Railways and Corruption

Indian Railways is the 2nd largest employer in the World.  Sadly, it is a huge loss incurring services.  The losses suffered by india on this account are avoidable.  One single step is to check the free passes availed by the railway staff.  If some sort of arrangement is made to curb the illegal use of free passes, railways will earn more income.  If a person is employed in Railway all his family (and in-laws and friends, too!) enjoy free rides! Anyone with an Union Plastic cover on his shirt pocket (must be visible to all!) can travel freely across the country.  It implies that four times the total employee strength is misusing the facilities.  Instead of free-passes, Govt may introduce a system to reimburse the actual amount spent by an railway employee on his entitled free travel. 

Appreciable action of administration against Union

In a low-profile news (such type of news never get vast coverage, so as to keep the public in dark), NLC (Neyveli Lignite Corporation) served notices to the Unions which do not have recognition of the labor to pay the electricity bill dues of the building occupied by those unions as well as asked them to vacate the unauthorised occupation of premises.

To earn easy bucks, everyone starts their own union and accumulate funds and also enjoy the freedom (of not to attend their duties for which they are employed).  These were the part of unions which disobeyed the Madras High Court's orders to discontinue their illegal strike.  For the irrational benefit of few, revenue earning industries are ruined by the unionism!  Railways is another example, where every railway station in the country is littered with their union propaganda materials (even for retirement of a low-level employee, they paste posters with all the persons' names all over the country's railway stations every nook and corner, as if the person retiring is some national freedom fighter!).  Out of curiosity, when enquired an employee engaged in Poster-affixing duty (!), he said that like him there are several others whose duty is to look after the union activity and nothing else!  Besides duty-off, they enjoy the added privilege of liquor and food!

If the administration follows strict rules with regard to union activities, exploitation/loss of valuable man-hours can be reduced to a remarkable extent.  But, who cares?