There was an article in yesterday's Herald Sun newspaper (a major daily in the state of Victoria, Australia), relating to India's bureaucratic mess. (India's red tape survives reform - Herald Sun, 30-05-2005: SHOULD Indian civil servants use red ink or green? That question is enough to hold up government decisions for a year in Asia's fourth-largest economy. Former disinvestment minister Arun Shourie recounts the story in his book �).
IMHO, India's bureaucracy will perpetuate as long as there is a need to make a quick buck on the side, and as long as there are people who will love to be a small part of a large chain. And as long as there is bureaucracy, as long as there is a need for five people to do one person's job, India will never make it to the two-digit growth. At this moment in time, India is lucky with getting most out-sourcing jobs from the western world because of its Engkish-speaking population, which has figured mightily in raising India's profile; but China will soon catch up in spite of its non-English-speaking population, and beat India to it. The main reason is the bureaucracy inherited from the British Raj, which India has expanded to the huge juggernaut it has become. P.S. The article in the paper was about rules because annotations in a file were in red and green ink, never mind what the annotations were about. The colour of the ink appears to have been more of a problem that took over a year to resolve than what the annotations were trying to convey! Cheers, Gabriel de Figueiredo. Melbourne - Australia. > <Can India achieve double-digit growth? Yes, we most > certainly can. [Goanet/Carlos, May 20] Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com
