This has become the current trend. We often find people complaining about their salary, people changing companies for better pay package etc. Some of them may be really deserving better salaries than their current employer pays, but, I think, most of these crying souls desire more just because some of their pals are getting more. A recent NASSCOM survey says that the number of jobs outsourced to India has started reducing because of the explosive increase in salaries and attrition rates. Do these people really perform extraordinarily in their new companies to justify the hike? Well, Dinkarji answers logically in the following lines.
छुद्र पात्र हो मग्न कूप में जितना जल लेता है,
उससे अधिक वारि सागर भी उसे नहीं देता है॥
-------दिनकर (रश्मिरथी)
(The water taken by a small vessel from the sea is no more than the water it takes from the well.)
The steep increase of salaries is the root cause of many problems in the socity. An average employee in IT/BT sector gets 20% annual hike whereas an average government servant gets 2-4% annual hike. So year after year the difference in their assets widens. Is the Hi Tech cities like Bangalore, Gurgaon, Noida, Hyderabad are occupied only by these priveleged IT/BT sector employees? Certainly not. Then where from a govt. servant will get Rs 60 lakhs to buy a house or Rs 1 lakh for deposit + Rs 10,000 per month for house rent? How will he be able to pay Rs 40,000 donantion for admission of his kid in a good school in LKG?
What happens to the education and career of his children? No wonder, the crime rate in Bangalore (and other Hi Tech cities) is on ramp. The increacing financial imbalance makes it difficult for the lower middle class to survive. The easier option to their kids is to loot an IT employee on the street in mid-night or so. There has to be a way to reduce this financial imbalance. Otherwise the 21st centuary will have new set of naxals, mostly in Hi Tech cities.
2 comments:
Well said. But if we look closely, it is not increasing purchasing power of techies that is the matter of concern, it is their indiscipline in exercising this purchasing power! when this unstoppable cash flow from outside should be used to build future of india, we techies are squandering it to buy comfort, security and things alike... and there is no control. if everyone is capable of buying a vehicle and everyone buys a vehicle there won't be any road to drive! public transport is horrible because of uncontrolled buying of vehicles.... you see, it is about making choices! instead of choosing to boost public transport we choose to have individual vehicles... and this choice depends on social and moral values... now we can see where we are headed... chills my spine just to think about it...
The example of boosting public transport is very appropriate. It is evident from two examples, US and UK. In US everybody has his/her own vehicls, hence their public transport is horrible. One cannot survive there without a car. Whereas if you see UK, they have one of the best tube trains and city buses. And all wealthy people use them for their daily commute.
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