Bureaucratic mess of Aircraft airworthy approvals
This approval process is in a mess. Different heads of the bureaucracy have accorded themselves a higher authority and follow antiquated processes. Whether these are useful or worthless, we do not know. But I can guarantee that these are repetitive and designed to accord themselves a higher God like authority.
I do not want to mince words to say that a few of the delays are due to these stupidities. A highly bureaucratic person like AK Anthony build those process in collaboration with Defence Ministry bureaucrats. The latter wished to keep their power intact and the former wished to follow the political dictates of Congress Party to delay as much as possible by virtue of worthless processes and procedures.
Now these processes have become a law and bureaucrats around them will fight tooth and nail to retain these complications.
I do not wish again to mince words to say that last one month delay in handing over LCA to the Airforce is result of that…..
Shame on them.