when even a call centre guy earns much higher and leads a better std of life. Please stop cribbing abt pay for gov employees. Its nothing, if u come in and see closely, its a pittance. What one has to insist is accountability. In research establishments you will see that the supporting staff is about four times higher in number than the scientists. Well, may be govt wanted to give more jobs, fine. But it has to make sure that they do the work they are supposed to. If you are paying to somebody make sure that you get back a solid contribution in terms of work from the employee. Instead, if one concentrates on reducing pay, you will be left only with monkeys in gov sector, becasue thats what u get when you pay peanuts. Already I am finding people raising eyebrows when we say we work for the government despipte our high qualifications, and I can already see this trend in the students coming out now, they find it stupidness to join a government service for this salary. By the way, I forgot to tell you..do you know how much our Padmasree awarded and internationally acclaimed scientists get paid, who are in their end of service??..not more than 25000 dear!