Who are in rest of army?
YESTERDAY DDT reported that CBEC will have a staff strength of about 85,000 personnel and we gave details of the number of officers from Inspectors to Principal Chief Commissioners who constituted about 50,000 employees. Advocate Gururaj is curious to know as to who the 35000 plus other employees are!
Sir, this huge army also consists of:
• About 2300 stenographers who are called by various names like Steno-I, Steno-II, PS and Sr. PS;
• About 2000 Administrative officers;
• About 100 translators;
• About 14,000 clerks designated as LDC, TA, EA;
• About 1400 drivers*;
• About 15,200 Havaldars
That makes it about 35,000 who are all paid from the taxpayers' money.They also include some Assistant Programmers, sepoys, ASI (weapons), Lady Searchers, ASI (Dog Handlers) and maybe Gestetner operators etc
Don't be surprised that there are only 1500 drivers. Drivers and vehicles were considered the biggest liability for the department. So, they are perhaps trying to dispose of both. A CESTAT President once caught his driver transferring petrol from the Government car into the driver's motorcycle through a pipeline! Now all the senior officers are allowed to hire cabs and so you can see even junior level officers flaunting fancy cars - at Government expenses - about forty thousand rupees each a month.
Good Luck to more governance.