Inconvenience as facility?
WE received this mail from Mr. Rajiv Gupta, Import Export Advisor:
Why the DGFT should make a fool out of everybody & then claim the same as facilitation challenging the intelligence of every Indian.
Several years ago, DGFT introduced Digital signatures @ Rs. 7500 per digital signature. Thereafter, you have to pay for renewal. About 2 years back, they changed the specifications & charged afresh. This is surreptitious corruption being legitimized because the new digital signature facility should not cost more than Rs. 500. Therefore why the exporters should be fleeced by the private entities in connivance with the DGFT& who is benefitting out of it.
The Internet banking facility is an essential & the bankers do not charge anything for it because they want to reduce their costs of operations & automation is part of that objective. However, once again a private entity has been introduced to introduce surreptitious corruption & legitimize it. The DGFT is already collected a heavy amount of fees & if they have appointed a collection agent why the DGFT should not pay the collection agent. Your article in DDT says that the banks are collecting the fees but that is not the case because till the introduction of the new facility there was no charge collected in case of DGFT online application payment by HDFC Bank Ltd. but in case of debit now raised through the intervention of the billdesk, there is a charge besides the fees debited. There are thousands of debits & even small charge has scope of big corruption. The exporters may not mind the payment but then does that mean legitimization of corruption is acceptable. Further, with the introduction of Billdesk as the service provider, there is another problem created i.e. Third Party payment permission has to be sought first thus you become more prone to internet frauds & for the third party payments, you need to have credit/debit/ATM card, which again is an unnecessary liability, if you do not use it. Therefore, there is no convenience but only inconvenience created out of the change. No banker will pay the DGFT authorities therefore introduction of private party solves that problem. Ingenious are the ways of making illegal money in this country & you can't underestimate the bureaucracy of finding ways to perpetuate corruption.