FW: ATTN : SHRI NARENDRABHAI MODIJI

 Dear Dilipbhai,

 

 

I was thrilled with your phone call and to know that, both you and Bhabhi are keeping well

 

Email Id of Shri Amitabh Kant > 'amitabh.kant@nic.in'

 

For your friend Mr Rao , here is link the relevant page of the Railway Board > https://innovate.mygov.in/innovateindia/  .  He may consider submitting his suggestion here

 

Following are links to my own past suggestion in respect of Railways :

 

https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2018/03/where-prabhu-failed-will-piyush-succeed.html

 

https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2018/03/killer-tracks-of-mumbai-locals.html

 

https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/09/not-so-futuristic.html

 

 

Pl send me your postal address to courier my book of Gujarati poems

 

Regards,

 

hcp

 

 

 

From: Hemen Parekh [mailto:hcp@recruitguru.com]

 

Sent: Saturday, July 4, 2020 12:40 PM

 

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Subject: RE: ATTN : SHRI NARENDRABHAI MODIJI

 

I am not a prophet of DOOM . Nor am I an ostrich which hides its head under the sands , hoping for dust-storm to pass

 

Tomorrow's bitter reality is :

 

Because of lock-down around the World, economies of all countries are going down . Having exhausted funds to fight Covid, countries have run out of funds to kick-start their economies

 

 

Slackened demand is forcing companies to retrench employees / resort to temporary - contract workers . Millions have lost their jobs - with slim chance of getting back

 

 

Only way ( for a given Company or a given Country ) is to turn itself into, a :

 

LOW COST ECONOMY

 

 

Here is how we must act ( - others are already doing ! ) :

 

 

35 years later : Overstaffing continues to haunt

 

 

 

Context :

 

No job cuts but profiles may change: Railways  /  03 July 2020

 

 

Extract :

Ø  The Railways on Friday said certain job profiles of its employees might change in the coming days but asserted that there will be no job losses

 

Ø   In an online briefing, Director General (HR) Railway Board, Anand S Khati said the Railways will be " rightsizing and not downsizing ".

Ø  He said the order (sent on Thursday) was to surrender non-functional, non-safety vacant posts………..

 

Ø  The Railways currently has 12,18,335 employees and spends 65 per cent of its income on payment of salaries and pension.

 

 

Ø  Since 2018, the Railways has notified 72,274 vacancies in safety category and 68,366 in non safety category, taking the total number of vacancies notified to 1,40,640.

 

Ø  The letter to the general managers, approved by the Financial Commissioner, Railways said the freezing of new posts, review of posts created in last two years and surrendering of 50 per cent of existing vacancies was part of "an action plan for economic measure and rationalisation of expenditure."

 

Ø  The financial commissioner had also proposed a slew of austerity measures

 

    #   freeze in the creation of new posts,

 

    #   rationalisation of manpower at workshops,

 

    #   shifting outsourced work to CSR,

 

   #   moving ceremonial functions to digital platforms and

 

  #   cutting down on use of stationary by 50 per cent.

 

Ø  In the letter, the financial commissioner had also advised the zones to control expenditure by reducing staff cost, rationalising staff and also by making them perform multiple tasks.

 

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The problem of overstaffing in Public Sector Units, is nothing new. It has been there all along.

 

 

What is new ( for Public Sector and Private Sector as well ) is :

 

As a result of Covid lockdown, demands ( for goods as well as services ) have plummeted

 

Profits have disappeared . Losses and “ Bank Loan Defaults “, are mounting. Banks are unwilling to lend further. Fixed costs of operations, remain the same

 

 

 

So , what is the “ Quick Fix ? “

 

Ø  Bring down “ Variable Costs of Manpower “ by ,

#   Early retirement / Voluntary retirement

 

#   Recruitment Freeze / Not filling approved vacancies

 

#   More outsourcing

 

#   More mechanization / automation / digitization ( of office processes )

 

#   More use of “ Temps “ and “ Contract Workers “

 

#   From Union Agreements, getting rid of rigid “ Job Descriptions “

 

#   General Economy Drive

 

 

 

Will not all these steps increase UNEMPLOYMENT ?

 

Ø  In short term YES, but in long term, by being more productive / competitive, these companies will corner a larger share of the market and hire more people

 

Have these steps helped Companies in the past to revive ?

 

Most certainly . Very emphatically .

 

For specific / real life examples ( of the success of these steps ), read my following letters ( yes, cyclostyled / individual paper letters to each of 7,500 + employees of L&T Powai Works, sent out 35 years ago ) :

 

RESURRECTION AT GENERAL MOTORS  …………………..[19 Nov 1986 ]

 

PRODUCE PRODUCTIVITY OR PERISH …………………………………….[ 06  Dec  1985 ]

NOT ALONE ……………………………………………………………………[ 20 Aug 1986 ]

ECONOMY (CO-OPERATION) DRIVE  ………………………….[ 21 July 1986 ]

These days, TV / News papers carry daily reports of big companies retrenching employees in order to survive . From my following letter, you will notice that it was no different  35 years ago

[  PRODUCTIVITY AND UNEMPLOYMENT / 12 Feb 1986 ]

Extract :

To  give you an  example, please  see the  chart below  showing   number  of  employees  shed   by  8  reputed companies.

 

Name of Company		Employees shed or proposed to be shed (Nos.)
1.	AT&T’s Information System Division	24,000
2.	Ford Motor Co.	10,000
3.	Union Carbide Corpn.	4,000
4.	C B S	2,000
5.	Motorola Semi-Convertor Group	9,200
6.	Du Pont	11,200
7.	Kodak	9% of its workforce
8.	Warner-Lambert Co.	21,000
( Source :  Fortune (International) Magazine / October 28, 1985 )

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It will take a lot of courage for  Governments ( Central + States ) / Political Parties and Industry Associations , to tell this bitter truth to the public - that there will be less jobs and the only answer is Self Employment

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  04 July 2020