I m unable to understand why there is such a lot of hue n cry on government's decision to hike the pay packets . The highly qualified community which gets passed out from premier institutes like IITs,NITs,IIMs etc.every year are now actually afraid of joining a govt. job due to difference in pay packages offered by govt and private domain . Although the govt. would have already spent a heavy amount on education of these people and inspite of that due to huge salary differences, these people tend to join the private sector. Same is the case with technocrats who are working in state of the art technologies in govt. departments gets lured to pay packages which are on offer from MNCs as the compensation to the same person by private companies are HUGE.
So, the bottom line is that if the govt departments really want the competitive talent to work for them than in return they will also have to make themselves competitive in terms of compensation which are on offer.