India has taken Britain’s colonial legacy of smooth administration and turned it into an utterly ridiculous and unnecessary system of meaningless paperwork.
One would understand if the paperwork increased clarity and prevented fraud. On the contrary fraud has increased and people inconvenienced exponentially. John Eric Gomes’ experience of wasted time and costly effort could have been easily prevented if Indian banks allowed you to do business at any branch within the country if you have an account in a single branch of that bank, without the need to transfer it every time you relocate or need to transact. In an IT advanced environment such as India, this is easily implemented. Everything in India - the Police, the Army, the Railways, Governments Offices, the Law and Courts and every sphere of life you can think of except private enterprise, is an example of a smooth System that was inherited in 1947 and slowly but hideously turned into a comic Spaghetti Monster. > On Jul 11, 2018, at 5:14 AM, John Eric Gomes <joe...@dataone.in> wrote: > > > EASE OF DOING BUSINESS WITH THE ADMINISTRATION ! > The government is going hammer and tongs about the ease of doing business, > but what about easing the bureautratic hurdles in the common man's lives? The > goverment aught to make the citizen's lives easier with efficient use of > computers and digitization by enacting administrative reforms urgently. The > infrastructure also is not upto the mark. The government it appears has not > learnt anything from the chaos caused during devasting implementatiof > demonitization and GST! At the post office are huge queues and such a waste > of time due computers slow or sometimes printer out of order for days on end. > Same problems I've witnessed at the banks and most government offices! My > plight at this main nationalised bank is illustrative. I wanted to transfer > my live account from the main nationalized branch in Panaji to same bank > branch in Porvorim, filling up the form for this transfer at the Porvorim > branch. After a week it has not been done. I ring up the Panaji manager. He > is new and does not know where Porvorim is. Fair enough. He wants a whole lot > of information, bank code etc which I give. Another week, no action. So I as > a senior citizen, have to undertake, in this monsoon and flooding weather, a > trip to the bank in Panaji, fill up the same form there, again necessary to > give xerox of Aadhar, Pan proof and so on. Same bank and I am not closing > the account, or openning a new one. The bank already has my full KYC details, > phone number etc. This is harassment. Unprepardness of the system, lack of > clarity is causing havoc in the common man's lives. My life is unnecessarily > being made miserable under the guise of security, black money, ease of doing > business, government convenience etc which appears on the way to make Goa > with impunity, another Mumbai as a flooded concrete lawless jungle. > Incidentally note that self attestation of Aadhar/Pan etc asked for > everywhere these days (or you don't get the service) can be misused and > dangerous. A supreme court lawyer has advised if you have to, under your > signature, every time as a precaution mention the date, purpose and "not to > be used for other purpose".
