The recent Air India accident in Mangalore and subsequent strike of Air India Unions asks one question. Do any employee unions can call for a strike when a company is going through bad phase of recovering from the worst accident after two decades? I am not asking the legality of this strike, but asking this question from morality point of view.
All public sectors companies run or take help from tax payer’s money. And over the decades this tax money has been spent in most irresponsible way. When the concept of public sector was conceptualized; it was meant for providing better service to the consumers.
Slowly; after realizing the service level of India Airlines and the uncertainty of its operations; we have started giving up on it and have started joking around. And once Air India used to be national pride and I guess we started looking at more service providing public sector airlines rather than sticking to national pride and it makes sense.
More fundamentally, pubic sector is unable to cope with private sector competition. Air India is now irrelevance as it’s share in passenger traffic keeps dropping over the years. India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) runs second rate gift shop and hotel booking services. Doordarshan is massive embarrassment, which is not even taken seriously by rest of the broadcasting sector. Nobody thinks Doordarshan will ever beat Zee, Colours, or Star Plus, that’s not even an option. We never think of Air India being in the top league of airlines.
In every case, it is massive waste of tax payer’s money which is justified in the name of national pride and social obligations. But is that worth of it?
It appears that there are more politicians involved in this, who have no professional experience in running such businesses. And more ever, such public sector companies appear to run for politicians; who gets benefited in all deals these public sector companies make.
This is shear example of lack of accountability for tax payer’s money.
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