* Only the number of workers is not that important, the quality of workmanship is much more important. Workers should be well educated, skilled and trained for the job they are supposed to do.
* 13 lac employees on roll of IR is not a small number and addition of 2 lac more workers shall only add to financial woes of IR. The employee cost which is at an all time high of 70% will further increase leaving even lesser funds for maintenance, upgradation & expansion of IR network & trains.
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IR should retain the core and high end jobs requiring skills, and delegate the remaining jobs to private sector which can be better implemented at lesser cost.
* Organisational restructuring is required to reduce the number of levels of delegation, so as to make IR, a lean, efficient and modern system. Just increasing the number of workers in old and inefficient working system shall only weaken the finances of IR.
* IR is a great paymaster and graduates/post graduates/ PHDs get selected to the lowest category group-D jobs, who are least interested and committed to the low level jobs offered in this category.