[rohan_shah]

If I paid the amounts they wanted ~ 10,00,000 (10 lakh or 1 million) Rupees each, it would be done in 7-8 months.

[yding]

And I assume the agent's cut is on top of that?

Thanks for laying all of this out. Hopefully some politicians will take notice.

It sounds like it's basically impossible to run a business without paying bribes. I imagine even if you got through the NA certificate process, they would come around later for "inspections."

[flerchin]

I'm confused by why you wouldn't just pay. If I'm not misunderstanding google, we're talking $60 USD. Which is a pittance.

[marcinzm]

1,000,000 rupees comes out to $13k according to google. Since you need to bribe multiple entities (I'm guessing all the ones listed in the article) that probably comes out to $150+k total.

[rohan_shah]

Sorry I misquoted.

It would require a total of ~15,000$ USD

[praveen9920]

1. Its not a small amount in India. Lot of families live on $ 100 per month 2. SOme people worry about how their goal is achieved than achieving in anyway possible