Role of HR

Only role I have seen HR playing in GE India is create resistance in growth of people,be it in grade or compensation. For internal movements,if a hiring manager wants to give a hike based on candidates skills ,that too well within mid range of the respective band,HR tries to block the same citing irrelevant arguments. If hiring manager pushes and all waste time doing few meetings,ego of the HR is satisfied and it goes through.In other cases where hiring manager does not have bandwidth to keep discussing with HR,they give up and either external has to be hired at much higher salary or the internal with no hike. Is this a common experience across regions or India specific as HR themselves in India get less paid , so probably envy the kind of big money they see others getting .