Public Services – The Need for Right-Sized Government, Challenges with Contractual Employment
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According to the National Crime Records Bureau, an Indian citizen committed suicide every hour in 2019 as a result of joblessness, poverty, or bankruptcy. According to the Union government in the Rajya Sabha in February this year, approximately 25,000 Indians committed suicide between 2018 and 2020.
Several unemployed people in India resort to protests — thousands of people burned railway coaches in January 2022 over alleged flaws in the railways' recruitment process, and more recently, protests over the Agnipath scheme occurred in India.
The instability in government services
- The situation is not much better for those working in government. For example, Haryana terminated the services of over 2,000 contractual health workers hired during the pandemic in May 2022.
Problems related to
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