The roadblocks  − 7 July, 2008

We have been trying since March  to get a non-profit trust registered  in MP and to provide a formal platform for our efforts. Unfortunately, nothing is going as we had planned, I never realized that this can be so much pain. I wonder if registering a non-profit, which requires very little paperwork and no clearances, takes so much of time, I dare not to think of registering profit organizations which require a number of checks and clarifications. We are following the prescribed procedure for registration and still waiting.

While working on economic governance as part of my professional assignment, I realized how difficult it is to have objective measures of governance but these things do tell story about the quality of governance. Lack of grievance redressal systems and proper control /check points provide no fear of punitive measures or lure of incentives (official and legal incentives, the whole delay seems to for receiving under the table incentives)  to these government officials.

(In the meanwhile, I got some time to get older. And this year, my colleagues, friends and junior made it special. Thanks to you all dear. It really feels nice to have a dozen waiting calls in midnight, people singing happy birthday miles away, a mail box full of e-cards and cards and……)