"world's largest public sector employer"

That dubious honour appears to belong to the US Dept. of Defense:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers

Indian railways : more than 5 million employees, I wonder why wikipedia dosen't list it?

Actually BBC did an article about this recently because there are a few misconceptions regarding this title and how many employees do these companies actually have:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17429786

Please include 'http' in your links to make it click-able.

didn't notice it was missing the http

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17429786

It's there, but has only 1.4 million employees.

Indian Railways above Indian Armed forces. #peace