#nitin pai

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India has one of the lowest ratios of government employees to population in the world. A World Bank study in the late 1990s found that less than 1.5 per cent of India’s population was employed in government, which was behind countries such as Malaysia and Sri Lanka (4.5 per cent) and China (around 3 per cent). In fact, government employment ratios in the rich and better governed West are much higher: around 15 per cent in Scandinavian countries and 6-8 per cent in the U.S. and western Europe.

Nitin Pai, 'On implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission’s recommendations', The Hindu

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If we are concerned about improving governance, we should be really concerned about how to add strength to the machinery of the government. When you have only around 130 police personnel and 1.2 judges per 1,00,000 population, and you need at least 200 of the former and 10 of the latter, asking whether they are being overpaid misses the point.

Nitin Pai, 'On implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission’s recommendations', The Hindu

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Clearly, not all politicians and civil servants will be completely honest, but at the margin, having a higher pay can help reduce corruption. In any system, bad people do bad things and good people do good things. The system works when the balance is in favour of the good. Better pay and social prestige can, at the very least, prevent those who are good from leaving for greener, cleaner pastures. Since there is no way of isolating the good people and paying them better, it becomes necessary to pay everyone better.

Nitin Pai, 'On implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission’s recommendations', The Hindu

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Our attitudes towards remuneration, of public officials, is self-contradictory. We expect that civil servants must be competent, yet instinctively recoil from paying them well. Similarly, there are many people who scrutinise the accounts of non-government organisations and express shock that their staff are paid “that much”. A direct consequence of this logically inconsistent attitude is that politicians who are honest have trouble maintaining themselves and their offices, civil servants yield easily to temptation and non-profits find it hard to recruit good talent.

Nitin Pai, 'On implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission’s recommendations', The Hindu

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Tata Elxsi and Algotochip announce Strategic Partnership

  Tata Elxsi and Algotochip have announced their partnership to provide rapid SoC solutions and services targeted at OEMs and custom chip makers. The companies' first collaboration is to develop digital chips and IP blocks that can support next-generation video services embedded with the latest 4K HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) technology. This leverages Tata Elxsi’s HEVC Ultra HD (4K) software that has been licensed to multiple customers. The IP blocks and services are targeted for an array of proliferating smart CE devices such as smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes, gaming consoles and media players, amongst others.

“Semiconductor companies will benefit from early access to emerging technologies such as HEVC as IP blocks using Algotochip BlueboxTM tools that enable rapid design of optimal solutions, including hardware and software,” said Satish Padmanabhan, CTO, Algotochip.

Nitin Pai, Vice- President - Marketing, Tata Elxsi, said, “We see an emerging trend for custom SoCs tailored for specific applications. Tata Elxsi offers market leading algorithmic solutions including multimedia solutions (encoding/decoding/video analytics), wireless (LTE, WiMAX) and communication (transcoding, protocol stacks for unified communication). This partnership allows customers to incorporate advanced technology into their SoCs and get to market faster by reducing development time and risks.”

Algotochip will be participating in ARM TechCon at Techmart, Santa Clara from October 29 to 31. Satish Padmanabhan, CTO, will introduce Algotchip’s innovative..........See More

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Manu Bhagavan's book, The Peacemakers, deals with Nehru's high idealism in the early years of India's independence. In this episode, Nitin Pai asks Bhagavan whether this came at the cost of India's national interest.