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Re:I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India by cubancigar11 on Friday October 28, 2022 @08:21AM (#33370483)
This is a popular misconception. Paperwork is basically created as part of job being done by the government employee. This employee is hired due to connections and the paperwork created to justify the job. The pointlessness makes people exert the tiniest amount of power they have, like reddit mods. The monetary corruption is more related to salary which is related to well being of economy.

For example, during British Raj almost any British who could, got a job to move these papers in India. India inherited that machinery and hasn't moved to economical right yet. The current government is trying but you can read how it is a bad government in western media since it came to power. The corruption in government allows foreign interference so of course.

- unhappy Indian

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Re:I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India by selimthegrim on Friday October 28, 2022 @10:02AM (#33371500)
Raj era ICS was much smaller, Congress and Nehru created a lot of the bureaucracy
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Re:I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India by winter_blue on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:37AM (#33372802)
Do you have any stuff I could read up on this?
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Re:I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India by cubancigar11 on Friday October 28, 2022 @01:10PM (#33374250)
You are, I am sorry to say, mistaken. The Raj era was huge. There is very old article (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1908/10/the-new...).

<blockquote>But the government is as complete a bureaucracy as that of Russia.</blockquote>

The British Raj kept creating more and more bureaucracy paid for taxes exacted by causing famines, increasing in frequency and intensity. This system was inherited by Nehru and Congress. They were socialists so they increased bureaucracy but they didn't increase corruption - independent India has not seen a famine caused by taxes even in the direst of times.

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