I'm sure u/eklavya is aware that this is the problem in India. This is why entrepreneurs with low political influence participate in low capital businesses (ie import export). They move into more capital intensive businesses (ie oil refineries) only when they have bought political influence.

It makes sense right? Why invest capital when you risk losing the value of your investment due to arbitrary bureaucratic hurdles like the ones faced by OP? This is the strategy Relience used in the past.

Ummm, how did you arrive at the conclusion that I am offering influence political or monetary or whatever? I am embarrassed now since I can't offer any of that :P

Haha. Probably I misunderstood

My point was that an individual should be able to conduct his business without someone handholding ( who is not stakeholder or partner or employee )