Richi Rich American bureaucrats

LIKE to know the average salary of bureaucrats working at various public authorities in New York? About 5,000 bureaucrats in New York’s public authorities earn an average of USD 128,000 per annum (about Rs 57 lakh), according to a Reuters report. That means the average salary of a bureaucrat working in New York earns nearly Rs 5 lakh, if the amount is converted into Indian rupee.

In fact, the media report has quoted the first report by an agency created to safeguard the public interest, adding that high salary of American bureaucrats may give more ammunition to fiscal monitors who often criticize about over-paid and under-performing bureaucrats. The highest paid bureaucrat, according to the report, works for Roswell Park Cancer Institute Corporation with a cool pay package of $580,000 (or Rs 2.6 crore) per annum.

Performing Pak bureaucrats may get apartments

Pakistan government is now working on an incentives package for bureaucrats so to attract bright youths to join the civil services, President Asif Ali Zardari said, according to media reports. Pakistan president hinted at a move of constructing high-rise apartment buildings in the major cities for allotting apartments to the bureaucrats and young recruiters on a mortgage basis. He further said that young bureaucrats’ deserting the civil service to grab private jobs has become a major concern.

Australian bureaucrats now want a settled life under Julia Gillard

AUSTRALIAN bureaucracy could be one of the best in the world, but bureaucrats in Down Under are not necessarily a happy lot. Many senior bureaucrats now want a more “settled and orderly” existence under new Prime Minister Julia Gillard as life was quite difficult under Kevin Rudd as PM, according to a report by The Canberra Times.

They do agree that they must meet policy demands of an ambitious prime minister, but many of their initiatives under Mr Rudd did not elicit desired results, according to the same report. The only ray of hope has emanated from Ms Gillard’s style of execution, and her attitude of “take decisions and get things done”.

Ex-PM Rudd’s infamous May 2008 diktat that civil servants would all have to put up with working longer hours, was hated by most bureaucrats. “I understand there has been some criticism around the edges that some public servants are finding the hours a bit much,” Mr Rudd said at the time, according to the same report published in The Canberra Times.

Zardari asks Pak bureaucrats not to indulge in Netagiri

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari last week asked the bureaucracy to stay away from politics and use its skills acquired during various training courses to address the problems of the people expeditiously, Daily Times reported. He was addressing the graduation ceremony of the 92nd National Management Course at the Presidency. Mr Zardari asked the officers to stay away from politics, though he felt they should make attempts to understand the dynamics of the country’s politics. The bottom-line is: No Netagiri please!