What can we do to take up on what Modi Appealed for from each of us ? Opinion makers like us have a huge role to play. Only, can we marshal the guts to face targetting, to face ridicule, to occasionally discover ,pleasantly, that your post worked? This morning, I was speaking to a dear friend who says AT CHENNAI customs, Modi or Jaitley have made no difference. Money is demanded with impunity and no complaints are made because no one knows where the rot begins. I heard a senior commissioner speak at a conclave the other day. He had only platitudes, no assurances. In the state govt, demands ( percentage!) has risen to keep pace with the price of New Zealand apples! No one protests. One only negotiates! Who does one go to? It can be a snake pit. Modiji can exhort us to do original work, to manufacture for import replacement. millions of itech entrepreneurs struggling to get their payments from their large publicly quoted buyer companies , would be happy to be part of defence manufacturing. Do they have a chance? It is a Bhul Bhulaiya out there? Who is to be held accountable for non delivery on Govts promises? Years back, when I spoke with a very respected( he cd get any one on the phone) gentleman who knew how the defense establishment works, he simply closed the subject saying: you are better off not going anywhere there. So if these augean stables are not cleaned and entrenched people sent out in droves from every perch that they occupy, nothing will ever change. Only the ministers toilets will be clean!!! So, sir, if we cannot feel this new mood in our day to day interactions with government at the ground level, this mood of confidence will evaporate in another four months. And Modi ji, we are not able to communicate with you on your new web site. We get only your messages!!! On our mails. So Sir, even in the States, at least make your central departments do an honest days service, every day! And Sir, with Income tax refunds being outsourced, we again have to deal with a faceless SBI office somewhere in the cloud. I have written off a large refund because they hv made a wrong set off and even my respected CA does not have the patience to pursue this . Kya Karen? chhote Log l How are you going to ensure a level playing field ? That is your first test if you want manufcturing to take off. You have allocated some 10,000 cr as a special fund in the budget. I think GOI must issue advertisements detailing the provisions of this scheme. Your Babus will never b transparent, nor the bankers. Nor Lawyers! As you rightly observed in your speech yesterday, this is how low we have sunk. Adani cos hv gained 50000 crores in the market just on the strength of perception. Their shenanigans do not affect them!! Let not this perception continue to flourish ! There will be no ten years then !
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:45:58 +0000
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