Re: Vamsi:knowing what we say

[manish gupta <ml_gupta@hotmail.com>]

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>From last couple of days Vamsi has been stressing on evil things done
by GOI
as far as telecom sector is concerned, I totally agree with him, it is
not
only telecom sector, rather whole business model (let it be
manufacturing,
retail etc.) GOI/ state Govt. has created such an environment which
promotes
corrupt business practice heavily.

Even today its a big pain to operate a business (probably not with lala
style of retail business)in our country, you probably have to deal with
more
than 20 governmental agencies, which is ridiculous, worst part is
inspectors/governmental agents who come to visits your business are most
of
the time come only for bribe, and they really don't know there business.

You do have to deal with governmental agencies in US, but it is very
streamlined (People who are doing business in US would know that).

Even today to open a simple retail shop, to get approval from the local
govt. for that it takes on an average 3 months in India (It might vary
with
different cities), in US you can open a Corporation in half an hour
without
even visiting any Govt. office, you can get every thing done over the
phone.

I am not putting all these comparisons for people who would always
shrugg
off and say that people have tendency to compare Indian system with US
system, rather I am pointing out some good things about business model
which
is followed over here in US, and we really need not reinvent the wheel,
this
is the system which works (now I've heard enough that just because a
system
works in US does not mean it will work in India).

Credit rating is one classic example, we don't have any official concept
for
this (it is there only in its very traditional form where people use old

reputation as credit). Due to which a particular set of people exploit
public money (by issuing stocks /bonds) and still comes out clean, as we

don't have any credit history for them.

We should rather go ahead and have public service history for each
lawmaker
(central/state/local), which can be made public as and when demanded by
people, any entrepreneur around who'd like to give thought over this
????

Reagards

Manish

>From: vamsi@siliconcorp.com
>Reply-To: debate@indiapolicy.org
>To: debate@indiapolicy.org
>Subject: Re: Vamsi:knowing what we say
>Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:56:25 -0700 (PDT)
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>Rajeev Manikoth wrote:
>
> > I would like to hear from you in detail of what your efforts to
Indian
> > Telecom are. Maybe I could do something here.
> >
>
>     Very good, I would be delighted if we can work together on this.
You
>and
>can begin communicating directly.
>
>Oh regarding me saying anything positive about the Indian Technology
>environment, I am afraid that I cannot - no matter how hard I try.  For

>example, the US E-Commerce grew to $300 billion recently and India's is
yet
>to
>cross $1 billion.
>
>     What we have to understand is this, the procedure required to get
>clearances for Gateways is so unnecessary.  Indian companies are
loosing
>valuable time while their US counterparts are clearly establishing
their
>dominance.  This is a classical example of how India kills its own.
First,
>the mental models of the law-makers have to change so that they give
the
>Economy a higher status (wealthier Indians = well we know what that
is).
>You
>may think we are moving forward but I ask the important question: who
are
>we
>comparing ourselves to?  Antarctica?
>
>     Finally, you have totally ignored my point that unless India has a

>strong
>footing in 1st-tier technologies the growth in 2nd-tier technologies is

>unsustainable!!  This is a very, very important issue.
>
>     The fault is also with Indians like ourselves.  Even to this day,
I
>have
>not seen you admit to the fact that GoI is the biggest evil that there
is
>and
>it no more different than the British Raj in oppressing the Indian
people!!
>You have conveniently explained that once Gateway clearances are given
then
>everything would change without realizing that Indian companies will be

>stomped because there are many dominant forces in the area, already!
It is
>as
>if we don't hold the GoI responsible for anything and the same attitude
is
>reflected in the polls, as well.  Maybe, even before the law-makers
change
>their mental models, we should change ours.  Praising a faulty and
highly
>oppressive system is no good.  Constructive criticism would put us all
in a
>better situation and might even help in creating the most powerful and
>prosperous nation on the planet!!
>
>Sincerely,
>Vamsi M.



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