Salary of Govt employees cannot be more than president, but that rule does not apply to companies as they can offer higher pay, so companies are offering higher pay and getting meritorious students from campus job but Govt sec is unable to attract those students as a result top PSU/Govt officials are lagging in leadership and innovation.
This is what Dr Raghuram Rajan said in one of his interview :
Only way to attract those students is to offer better packages for Govt post and that cannot be possible without increasing salary. Here Dr Raghuram Rajan(previous RBI Governor) brought the huge pay difference between SBI/RBI officials to their Private counterpart like HDFC/ICICI.
SBI Chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya took home Rs 28.96 lakh last fiscal, In comparison, ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar received in FY17 Rs 6.09 crore.
HDFC Bank's Managing Director Aditya Puri saw his remuneration rise marginally to Rs 10 crore and exercised stock options worth over Rs 57 crore during the last fiscal.