- I Paid A Bribe
- 14 years ago
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Institutionalized corruption - in the guise of outsourcing
MCA gets its share of government taxes we pay to run the department.
For each transaction you need to pay a fees, called the processing fees. So on top of the share of taxes, they take money to work.
Now they open a web portal, where you can download the files, after filling up numerous, numerous data fiels. However, they do not waive the processing fees, after all once you do all the data feeding, what is it they are doing, you wonder?
So you pay them not to work.
Now they are no more satisfied.
So they introduce something known as a 'DIGITAL SIGNATURE'. Untill and unless you have this digital signature, you cannot enter the data. This digital signature is outsourced to some institutions for issue. These institutions are even more greedy. There is a recurring annual fees for this digital signature at Rs.1000 or more. Further you need to buy a pendrive costing another Rs.600 (market cost Rs.200) from them, which is unusable for any other purpose, even after the expiry of the same.
Compare this with other portals like banks where more security is needed than just uploading some data and documents. they donot ask for digital signature. they just give an user ID and password and you can do the financial transactions.
However, the MCA has no time to issue the user id passwords, with which data can be fed. they want a digital signature, processing fees, and further their share of taxes.
Now you can get a annual report of any company registered with MCA. You think like SEBI or BSE or Company websites these can be downloaded for free; think again. they need more money to give you reports that are their property. who are they serving. they have institutionalized corruption. Only it is called by different names - processing fees, digital signature fees and so on.