Still, more important than this re-organisation of the administrative set-up, wherever necessary and desirable, is the question of the efficient, loyal and willing service of the employees. And in that connection, I am sorry to state that some of the aftermath of the central government employees strike still continues even in this department which creates a certain amount of heart-burning among the employees and as has been shown through many examples cited by my hon. Friend who spoke before me, there is a general impression that the administration of both the post and the telegraph service is deteriorating. I do not know how far it is because of teh top leavy nature of the administration or how far it is because of the dissatisfaction among the employees over some of the policies that might be followed by government. I do not know what exactly is the reason but the fact remains that the public is inconvenienced and the services are not as efficient as they should have been. I would therefore request the hon. Minister to examien this question of recoganisation as well as the question of satisfying the legitimate demands of the employees more sympathetically not only because it is just and desirable that the administration should be properly recoganised but it also desirable that the employees should be fully satisfied and their legitimate demands should be adequately met and also because of the fact that this particular department has a direct contact, almost day-today contact, with the public and therefore, if this particular department does not function properly, efficiently and to the satisfaction of the public at large, it would mean that the public would be inconvenienced also. Sir, the bill, as it has emerged from the joint select committee, has certainly.
