TIME STANDS STILL, IN RESERVE BANK OF INDIA: M G WARRIER
November
12, 2015
Time
stands still, in RBI!
This refers to the
November 12, 1995 clipping captioned “RBI officers plan mass CL” published
under Business Line, TWENTY YEARS AGO(November 12). The entire staff of India’s
central bank are planning to go on mass CL next Thursday(nOVEMBER 19, 2015), focusing exactly on
the same issues(Revision of wages and pension) on which RBI officers had decided to go on mass CL twenty years
back.
The RBI Annual Report
for20014-15 carries the following observations made by Governor Dr Raghuram
Rajan:
“A
key factor in RBI’s success has been a satisfied staff. In the past, RBI used
to have no problem attracting junior officers, losing only an occasional
officer who was successful in the IAS exam. Today, we lose more than we should
be comfortable with. This is why a revamp of the professional challenges we
offer our staff is very much needed, and we hope the changes outlined earlier
will help us become a more attractive employer. In this regard, our review of
compensation, as well as the long-pending improvement in pensions for our
retirees also assume importance.”
It is intriguing that issues relating to HR management
are kept in the back burner and allowed to simmer and later flare up resulting
in sagging morale of staff and worse still, sending out a wrong message to the
world outside which still respects India and its central bank for professional
management of financial sector.
M
G Warrier, Mumbai
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