Should the public sector be privatized?

According to me, public sectors excluding defense should be privatized with some obligations towards social responsibility imposed on it. Public sector employees having been secured about their job do not get pressure and do not give 100% of their efforts to maximize wealth in most cases. With the intention to earn more giving less effort paves the way of bribery as well as corruption. Now-a-days it took a awful shape in this sector. So this should be put to an end. So finally, public sectors are required to be privatized with some responsibility towards society to secure a better world.

Hello Friends,

As per the view of all my friends stated above, it is true that privatization of public sectors will lead in high prices for all things and ultimately middle class (common man) has to repay for it heavily.

As per my view, instead of making public sectors totally private, we should adopt the methodology of private sector that in public places. For eg: In Govt. hospitals there should be a keen watch on activities of the workers and doctors. Timelines and targets should be set for everyone. Regular feedbacks from patients should be taken. In this case it might be possible that sometimes public may also misuse the liberation. At that time the case should be verified and necessary actions must be taken.

The very basic thing of public sector that needs to be changed is the way they interact with the common man. If politeness is taught to every public sector employee most of the work will be simplified. Rudeness, irate, arrogance is the main symbol of public places, due to which most of the people prefer private hospitals etc. If this picture is changed, there are good hopes. Similarly, Govt. should start taking hold of private sector, as though they provide good facility, common man is deprived of all the facilities due to money.

India is a developing country. And if Govt. does not take necessary actions for solving basic needs of Indians, poor will remain poor and will have no chance for further development.

Afterall, Govt. of India levy's heavy taxes in all the sectors and thus is liable to provide good facilities as per the money paid by common man.

Equality, politeness, humble-service, co-operativeness are the things that needs to be nurtured for India to grow at faster rate.

Hello Friends,

From my points of view, we can't say directly that public sector should be privatized or not. The reason is if you compared it from private on the basis of money, public sector gives services on low prices and it is taken by all the citizen of India. But on the basis of facility, quality private sector comes upon public sector.

Hello everyone.

In favour of - public sector is good for all class of people. Just govt should take a note of d employers to how much extend they are working for people in less time and try to work efficiently for d customer. If there is no complain with the public sector than why to make it private.

In against of-there is more corruption in public sector. And they are not working in a efficient manner. If people will not work in a private company they will thrown out the company. So many of the public sector which are less efficient can be privatised.

Hello friends,

I think private sectors provide good services with high prices and public sectors provide low services with low prices, here we have two options either improve efficiency.

Of public sector by providing them more job responsibility and put strict control on their work activities in order to that transparency and work efficiency will improved or second option is reduce the prices of private sector by controlling over the prices by government.

Public sectors shouldn't be privatized because the sectors like education, health, transport, Oil & Gas, are serving the poor people a lot. If these sectors are privatized the poor people cannot afford the prices of private sector.

And some say, public sector should be privatized as government is not efficient, and also, is embroiled in corruption in nearly every department, whether it education coalfields, sports, telecommunication, railways etc. And also many of these departments are under heavy losses.

We are all aware that Private Companies work Only for One Purpose i.e. PROFIT, Nothing Else, Railways is Asset of the Nation this is true that there are many challenges before Railways Poor Sanitation and Frequent Accidents are few of them. Yet These issues need to be addressed within Government Domain, Apart from being Lifeline of Nation, Railways is quite Sensitive even from the perspective of national security, What can be done is lot of other works can be Outsourced to other Private Players, so that Railways may focus on its core issues.

Someone here posted about corruption in public sector. It doesn't mean that private sector is free from corruption scams like Satyam has costed a lot of people. So privatization is not panacea to all Problems, If That would be USA wouldn't have faced such a worst economical slowdown.

Other sectors I do not know of much but mostly railways needs privatisation right now in India. It's not feasible for such a big and full of prospects industry is being wasted in such a shameful manner. It's such a service which never has been unused for a day! And yet has been running in dreadful losses from we do not know when! Indian economy in my opinion (which may be wrong too! I'm not perfect) can gain a lot from this industry. Yes there should be a controlling boards just like there is in telecom (i.e. TRAI) which will keep a bar over the prices so it won't be unreasonably high!

It's good to see that many of us think about the our country India. I read the discussion which was left open, and I respect every point discussed over here, but I personally feel that if the Government of India goes for Partial Privatization in the sectors like Indian Railways, our railways system can grow much better then is is right now; full privatization will lead to monopoly of the private players in the market which will lead to hike in prices for the customers, we say 80% of India's GDP comes from the 20% customer then by privatizing we are neglecting those 20% customers or the citizens of India.

Let's go for the partial privatization or for the outsourcing of the product(s). As we all know the IRCTC is already been passed to Google to handle, Jindal steel is providing the best of the railways tracks.

If not Privatization, then we do have another option to increase the rail(s) for the cargo industry rather than increasing in the passenger. I'm not saying no to increase in train for passenger but after some period of time when the Railways get in to some good profits.