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Every other thing is expanding, every other thing around us is advancing, all the roads are getting widened, buildings are built and flyovers are done, but why not staff. This is not only at BBMP, the same is the story with BMTC or Traffic police. Why can't they use the funds (JNNURM or any other) in hiring a few people and make the work done which have been pending because of the reason of lack of staff.

Every other time when we complain to BMTC, they say lack of staff, when we go to Mr, Sood, he also says that with the limited staff, thye have to manage the whole city, now listening all that, BMTC is only interested in building TTMC but why can't they hire a few more drivers and conductors and make the current driver-conductor's shoulder a little light. Same is the case with BBMP, they can generate some revenue by taking parking fee per year, but how will they get in working without the enough staff and without the abled staff. Traffic police dept can't keep cops on busy signals to enforce the rules and penalize the offenders on regular basis, you always see on major signals (I have seen on ORR couple of times), a constable is generally standing in middle of the intersection and trying to manage the traffic and 2-3 other higher level cops in white dress (very physically abled) are sitting on their bike and waiting to give reciept to a few offenders brought by another middle-abled policeman. That's how it happens at all the major junctions. If they hire good staff, they can really very well manage traffic.

The best part of this efficient use of funds is that govt will be able to increase some employment, and which is what very much necessary, and that will automatically lessen a few crimes if not much.

Deepak

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13,000 becomes a much smaller number real quick when you consider only 5% show up to work.... How about adding 1,00,000 more so we can get 5,000 to come to work?

Per this recent Bangalore Mirror Article:

Reddy (chairman of BBMP’s Establishment and Administrative Reforms Committee)

said, “I visited BBMP’s Bangalore east and Dasarahalli zone offices and found just 5 and 4 per cent attendance, respectively

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from City of Houston Public Works Department.

Staff:

The Public Works and Engineering Department is staffed with a trained work force of approximately 3,900 employees..... The annual operating budget of the department is approximately $1.2 billion. 

What they do:

The City of Houston Public Works and Engineering Department provides many of the basic services that affect the daily lives of everyone who lives and works in Houston. Primarily, the department is responsible for all the things we take for granted on a daily basis: the administration, planning, maintenance, construction management and technical engineering of the City's infrastructure. This includes the production and distribution of over 146 billion gallons of water per year and the treatment of over 90 billion gallons per year of wastewater..... It also includes the maintenance of the City's over 16,000 lane miles of streets, over 60,000 stormwater manholes, over 100,000 stormwater inlets, over 900,000 street name and traffic control signs, over 17,000 freeway and under bridge light fixtures, over 50,000 fire hydrants and traffic signals at over 2,000 intersections

So, that includes a part of what our BWSSB does. But a typical Houstonian thinks the City is very inefficient though.

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The comparison is inevitable. In Houston, 3900 people manage what our BBMP's 13,000 people do, and a lot more, and in a far more efficient way, for a comparable size. So, it's not a question of how many people are deployed, but how efficiently they are deployed.

@dvsquare  -  The BBMP's functions are set to increase a lot more going by the recommendations of the 74th amendment. If they start employing people directly to manage all these, you'll need a work force the size of Indian Railways currently has. And, they will all land up as the 'labour aristocracy' (that I have talked about here), and the attendance percentage will drop even below the levels reported by BM. So, that's clearly not the answer. The answer is outsourcing, which is what every sensible administration does, including that of Houston.

The same applies to policing, as also every other government function.
 

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Really, what a pitiful statement, only 13000 people. Overstaffed and undermanaged are two words that come to mind.

And the local elections have only added 100 more people to the mix, with little tangible improvements in the service levels.

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