A Political Lobby for SME Businesses...Why India needs a dedicated forum
By : Amit Bhushan Date:15th Apr 2014
The evolution of business rules to support large players to the detriment of smaller players as well as consumers is probably the most rampant in India. Its major parties maintain ambivalence regarding the set of policies that they intend to follow thus not allowing public scrutiny of the same even in some of the most bitterly fought election with so called ‘regime change’ in progress by some elements of commercial media.
The ordinary public has least idea about policies regarding energy chains that will be followed even when at least one party raised the decibels level high for the same; or for that matter the food supply chain for the relatively better off (assuming the poor will be covered without leakages under Food Security Act). Similarly, only goal or dreams are showcased regarding potable water and sanitation by the major parties and not policy set that will be brought to support these novel goals. This gives tremendous amount of leeway to work as per discretion to the parties and little negotiation room to industry especially SMEs who usually have little access to the decision makers.
Again, we have little knowledge regarding how the parties intend to recharge the important education sector along with other government services barring usage of IT, a notoriously confusing term.
What we see again that the telecom lobby supported by regulator is trying to come up with rules to make the App cos. Pay for connectivity even as they charge consumers through the nose for internet access. The manner it is being kicked during elections seems to be a recipe to rush into rule making to kill a nascent industry in the bud by loading it with Fees when the revenue models themselves are at experimental stages and even the biggest international App players are not known to be making profits while the telcos keep earning through data charges from consumers.
By all indications, the energy and telco large industry seems entrenched even when we seem to be heading towards a so called regime change.
By : Amit Bhushan Date:15th Apr 2014
The evolution of business rules to support large players to the detriment of smaller players as well as consumers is probably the most rampant in India. Its major parties maintain ambivalence regarding the set of policies that they intend to follow thus not allowing public scrutiny of the same even in some of the most bitterly fought election with so called ‘regime change’ in progress by some elements of commercial media.
The ordinary public has least idea about policies regarding energy chains that will be followed even when at least one party raised the decibels level high for the same; or for that matter the food supply chain for the relatively better off (assuming the poor will be covered without leakages under Food Security Act). Similarly, only goal or dreams are showcased regarding potable water and sanitation by the major parties and not policy set that will be brought to support these novel goals. This gives tremendous amount of leeway to work as per discretion to the parties and little negotiation room to industry especially SMEs who usually have little access to the decision makers.
Again, we have little knowledge regarding how the parties intend to recharge the important education sector along with other government services barring usage of IT, a notoriously confusing term.
What we see again that the telecom lobby supported by regulator is trying to come up with rules to make the App cos. Pay for connectivity even as they charge consumers through the nose for internet access. The manner it is being kicked during elections seems to be a recipe to rush into rule making to kill a nascent industry in the bud by loading it with Fees when the revenue models themselves are at experimental stages and even the biggest international App players are not known to be making profits while the telcos keep earning through data charges from consumers.
By all indications, the energy and telco large industry seems entrenched even when we seem to be heading towards a so called regime change.