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India's railway employs more people than some countries

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It takes a village to raise a child, but it takes 1.4 million people to make sure a train gets from Mumbai to Delhi. Indian Railways is the world’s eighth-largest employer, with a workforce larger than the entire population of countries like Estonia or Mauritius. Managing the payroll alone probably requires a logistics system more complex than the actual train schedules.

India's railway employs more people than some countries
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