"A need was felt to motivate our ground level staff. The final authority should lie with the person who has the responsibility to deliver," he said.This is sound in principle. Equally important is to have a credible and rigorous mechanism to evaluate performance of railway employees. The competent young should rise fast, and deadwood removed, given that the railways need to drastically cut down staff and pension costs. Beyond linking pay to performance, the railways should corporatize by reorganising itself from a government to a commercial enterprise

Source: Economic Times September 25, 2016 22:41 UTC