All the govt's people

How bloated is the Union government? A quick look at the employee strength of the Union government indicates a figure of 3.35 million employees in various central ministries at the end of the current financial year. It certainly looks less bloated when you exclude the 1.33 million people working in the Indian Railways. And for a government with an annual expenditure of close to Rs 15 lakh crore, the employee strength of 2.02 million on the rolls certainly looks less problematic.

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