Job at hand: India far behind other nations in public sector employment

India is still far behind the US, China and others in public sector employment

The 1-million big-bang recruitment drive initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will mean that the central government departments and ministries would add a third of their workforce in just one and a half years.

According to a reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, the government had said 3.13 million people were employed in regular jobs in various government departments in 2019-20. Yet another 861,000 were employed in central public sector enterprises in regular jobs in 2020-21.

Further analysis indicates that the size of the government had shrunk. According to Seventh Pay Commission data, there were 3.30 million regular