Auction the 2200 seats

Just so that you know I am not a total lefty. I was thinking why doesn't the government auction off the 2,200 seats for class D employees. This is assuming ofcourse, that a gangman's job is not exactly rocket science (or it wouldn't be class D). A cursory google search seems to support the view that most sane, responsible men/women would be able to carry it off (being a gangman).

An auction would get rid of the queue. Only people who value the job--and the job security--and willing to pay for it will apply. The Indian Railways could use the money for its own modernization.

Ok I haven't thought this through totally. I wonder what Prashant thinks about it? We need liberatarians.

Just BTW there is an excellent post on queue's at Brad's site. Read it if you haven't. And lets think through this. Perhaps one of us can write an "India-Economy-Watch-solves-the-Indian Railways-recruitment-problems-and-other-social-tensions-in-India" column in the Business Standard. I volunteer.