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लोकसभा चुनाव से पहले भाजपा नेतृत्व पूरे देश में अन्य पार्टियों के साथ सभी संभावनाओं को तलाश रहा है। इसी सिलसिले में मंगलवार को तमिल अभिनेता आर शरत कुमार ने अपनी पार्टी अकिला इंडिया समथुवा मक्कल कच्ची (एआईएसएमके) का भाजपा में विलय कर दिया। पार्टी कार्यकर्ताओ
लोकसभा चुनाव से पहले भाजपा नेतृत्व पूरे देश में अन्य पार्टियों के साथ सभी संभावनाओं को तलाश रहा है। इसी सिलसिले में मंगलवार को तमिल अभिनेता आर शरत कुमार ने अपनी पार्टी अकिला इंडिया समथुवा मक्कल कच्ची (एआईएसएमके) का भाजपा में विलय कर दिया। पार्टी कार्यकर्ताओ
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00:00 Regarding this, I have read an article of yours where you compared the Telangana police
00:08 force with the Tamil Nadu police force and you mentioned you would double the salary
00:13 of the Tamil Nadu police force.
00:15 I would like to ask you the question, what made you to notice the difference between
00:19 the Tamil Nadu police force and the Telangana police force?
00:23 This is a study done by the BPRD, the Bureau of Police Research and Development.
00:26 We have a central government organization sitting in Delhi which studies, which is supposed
00:31 to do only research on police department.
00:32 Anybody who is doing a research, BPRD is the research body where you get all the data.
00:38 I was very astonished seeing the salary component of each police force, entry level, sub-inspector
00:43 level, inspector level, deputy superintendent of police level because SP level we are the
00:47 IPS rank.
00:48 So, our salary is uniform across the country because the central government fixes our pay.
00:54 So SP, IG, DGP, same salary, chief secretary level 14, level 15, same salary.
01:00 But below that, police is a state subject.
01:03 The central government cannot say a constable should be paid same thing in India, a sub-inspector
01:07 should be paid because it is a state subject.
01:10 But IPS comes in the concurrent list because you are the all India service.
01:13 When I found, I saw this dark difference between policing of different states.
01:19 I am going back to Singapore madam, when Lee Kuan Yew was the Prime Minister of Singapore,
01:25 he said I am going to have a basket to decide a public servant salary.
01:32 He put some people in the basket.
01:34 He said your school principal, neighborhood school principal will be in that basket and
01:39 other jobs will be in that basket.
01:41 I will take the average of that salary.
01:44 That salary I will give it to a public servant, a judge or a police or something.
01:48 Because his theory was, when you allow people who are at the front line, like a fire service
01:53 officer or a cop or a cop who is in the beat, if you keep their salary down, if a guy who
02:01 comes out of IIT, what is the top pay madam?
02:04 10 crore, 12 crore?
02:08 Trade secret sir.
02:09 Multiple crore.
02:10 Multiple crore.
02:11 Correct?
02:12 Multiple crore.
02:13 Multiple crore.
02:14 Now you tell me, the guy who is going out of IIT Chennai, getting that multiple crore
02:21 package, is he more important than my village school principal?
02:29 Honest question.
02:31 And you might say, yes sir, he is going to solve the world's problem and naturally
02:35 companies have to pay multiple crore.
02:37 Now my argument would be, no, the village school principal is also solving the world's
02:41 problem by creating 250 students every year who are ready as good citizens for the country,
02:46 he is also important.
02:48 So when society prospers, when you have this artificial way of salary and wealth creation,
02:56 what happens?
02:57 Corruption will prosper.
02:58 And suddenly as an IIT guy you go to a police station.
03:01 Any of you have gone to a police station?
03:05 In Bangalore I used to have this problem every day.
03:07 Big guy, speaks only English, comes to a police station.
03:09 Sir, please check my passport very fast.
03:12 And the guy will say, no problem, here.
03:15 Get me one bundle of paper, tomorrow it will be done.
03:17 One bundle of paper, how dare you ask me a bundle of paper?
03:19 When I was a student in engineering, he asked me four greening pens to process my passport.
03:27 So paper keeps varying.
03:30 Now this guy believes, oh, I am doing all the hard work, I am here working for 17 hours,
03:36 I don't see my family, you come in a fancy car, you say you are an IIT guy, I am supposed
03:41 to protect you in the middle of the night where my children don't see me, I do patrolling
03:45 around IIT Chennai campus and you are a crore rupee.
03:49 So vicarious pleasure of saying, can you at least get me one crore of paper?
03:55 So as a society, for a politician like me, this is the challenge for me now.
04:01 Break it and make sure the public service is accountable.
04:06 You can make the public service accountable only if the salary is commensurate with the
04:11 work they do.
04:12 Else, when the twin towers got collapsed, who died more?
04:19 Is it the Morgan Stanley or the Citibank guys died more?
04:22 Or the Newark firefighters who died more?
04:25 Newark firefighters who died more?
04:28 Where they said the building is collapsing, it is gallons of fuel poured on a steel,
04:33 steel is melting.
04:35 But the first set of firefighters when they came, they said, I am going in no matter what.
04:40 I am going to get killed no matter what.
04:43 At least can I pull 10 people out?
04:45 So if you read the 9/11 commission report by the US Congress, it's a fascinating study.
04:50 How people in the front end of public service, knowing fully well they are going to die,
04:56 they enter.
04:58 Can you give them peanuts to survive?
05:01 So that is my theory, madam.
05:04 Increase salary for a start.
05:05 When they die in the line of duty, take care of their children's education for the future.
05:12 Make sure even when they die in a profession which is in the cutting edge of public service,
05:17 a firefighter, a cop, a principal, a traffic warden, maybe small people, we might not even
05:22 realize.
05:23 As a society, if we don't take care of them, then we don't have any right to call us as
05:28 worthy citizens of a state.
05:29 This is my thinking on that, madam.
05:31 Thank you.
05:32 Hi sir, I am Raghuram, who has been following you from the past.
05:43 I have a question for you.
05:46 How are you planning to collaborate with other stakeholders like opposition parties for betterment
05:51 of Tamil Nadu and the nation, sir.