Budget 2012 - CBEC Interactive Session - A Netizen's Comment
THE CBEC open house was a poorly organized function. Most of the seats were occupied by departmental officers while trade and industry members [like me] were standing for the entire 2 hours, as the hall was minuscule when compared to the number of invitees. Of course, I could see some TRU officers also standing. While the Chairman apologised and additional chairs were brought in; even those were occupied by departmental officers only. Request by the coordinator to the departmental officers to vacate the seats for trade fell on deaf ears. [Which officer will leave his seat by the way?] At the end of the programme, we came out drained with the only highlight being VK Garg's presentation skills and slides.
The quality of queries was sub standard and the tough queries were admitted to be tough by VKG, but no satisfactory answers.