Middle Men/Agents Menace - Inputs on Solutions
Below is a summary of Key Root Causes and Issues related to Middle Men/Agenta as identified by your posts/comments.
Kindly review them and help identify specific solutions to these issues by responding to this post.
We will then put together a whitepaper which will be shared with senior most levels of the Government for action.
I look forward to your participation!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
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Middle Men Menace - Root Causes
1. Most people do have not proper knowledge of processes at Government Departments
2. Most corporates and citizens don't have much time to spend on long and hectic processes
3. Government Departments do not have any Key Performance Indicators (KPI/KRAs). They don't take any responsibility to improve Turn Around Times (TATs)
4. E Governance is not popular yet
5. Lack of transparency in law
6. No commitment for completion of jobs by Government officers
7. There is a strong nexus between Government officers and these middle men
8. A lot of middle men also have political contacts
9. Through the middle men channel, the Government officers don’t take bribe directly from citizens but get the bribe indirectly
10. Middle men manipulate the law of supply and demand to their favour
11. There is a lack of awareness among common people
12. The only motive of the middle men is to earn more and more money out of a transaction
13. Middle men know how to get things moving and what is absolutely required for things to happen fast
14. Middle men are not afraid of law as they are used to bribing and getting let off
15. No stringent measures/law against the presence of middlemen
Middle Men Menace - Key Issues
1. In India middle men are involved in almost all the sectors
2. Middle men lead to an increase in the prices of goods
3. Middle men charge a commission
4. Government officers themselves point customers towards the middle men so that they could make money without taking bribes themselves
5. Middle men are involved in hoarding
6. Middle men lead to increase in the time taken for the goods to reach the end consumer
7. Middle men increase the turn-around time of the service delivery
8. In some Government departments, you just cannot get work done until you go through a middle man
9. Middle men exploit the knowledge gap of the consumer
10. Some middle men mislead and take advantage of the situation more