Organized labour mobs………

The Financial Express

It was not surprising to me when I saw a group of mob was selling the “unreserved” seats in a train while I was boarding from Delhi. Apparently all the security men were simply watching the mobs. The mobs sold upper seat for Rs 100 and the lower seats (where at least four people can only sit) were sold for Rs 50 each. 

Only one railway police came inside the train and was begging the mob to move out but they could not. I was told that these mobs were having a deal with railway police. 

This bring me what Manish Sabharwal writes in the FE “…our train trips from our boarding school in Ajmer to Delhi when we travelled in the unreserved train compartment and the only fight bigger than the fight to get inside was the fight to keep other people outside once we were inside. Today’s labour markets are not very different from that unreserved train compartment where only a few aspirants get in and those in do everything they can to keep others out.” 

If any one read Mr Nandan Nilekani’s book Imagining India would know that Mr Manish has been facing more than 1000 lawsuits!