Originally Posted by
Richard1148
It could also be a result of the total incompetence of their newly appointed visa processor, BLS, which may be discouraging people from applying for a visa. There are scores of frustrated and angry people posting about BLS on Fodors.com.
Around two weeks ago I was supposed to be in India and was going to personally complain to the External and Home Affairs ministers at a personal event. If it weren't for BLS, I probably wouldn't have cared to even think about complaining about this.
[I am glad to see that the paranoid types couldn't run over Montek Singh Ahluwalia and that Rahul Gandhi was on our side.

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That said, this is about the money. It takes a lot for the politicians and bureaucrats to decide that the RAW and IB ("security") types and their apologists don't get in the way of sensible economic policy that serves India's national interests too.