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Judicial salary

The article, Frozen judicial salaries: a crisis (May 29), has highlighted the dangers vis-À-vis low remuneration in the higher judiciary. Already, the system is burdened with mounting arrears of cases. The flight of talent from the bench will compound the crisis andd the nation cannot afford any dilution of judicial standards. Such ludicrous salary structures exist in other spheres also. For instance, what professors in the IIMs get as salary are ridiculously lower than what their students are offered by corporates.

The colonial mindset of the bureaucracy is partly responsible for denying a fair remuneration in critical sectors.

V.N. Mukundarajan,

Thiruvananthapuram

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A munsiff/magistrate selection test was conducted by the High Court recently in Kerala. About 3,500 candidates attended the preliminary test of which 2,000 candidates were selected for a written examination. Five hundred of them were selected for the interview. Then, a rank list of 200 candidates was published and 65 would be appointed, it was said.

Some multi-national corporationss have now offered jobs with a much higher salary to 50 of these candidates. If the judiciary does not raise the salary, young talent will naturally migrate to the MNCs.

Devishri,

Thiruvananthapuram

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After every Pay Commission, we see more and more organisations making more — some logically sequenced, others on emotional grounds — demands. The justifications given include “losing out on talent,” “making service unattractive,” and so on. None of them thinks about the millions who are out of these protective layer, and for whose uplift these organisations are supposed to work.

How long do these organisations expect themselves to be heard like this?

C.K. Raju,

Thrissur

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