@Keyser
From outside India, it is difficult to have as accurate guage of pulse as you with you being there physically and and much better witness to the situation on the ground. From my own personal family situation, I can attest that this has been extremely badly handled and a lot of inncent people are facing serious challanges. (especially old, sick and poor)
Where we differ, respectfully,is in the placement of blame. Whether it is honest distribution of new notes or timely reconfiguration of ATM machines, - those things too details for "one man" to decide.
One could have certainly rolled out 200 RS notes instead of 2000 Rs notes. But again, while high level approvals might be done at "one man" level, all proposals and implementations are done by the same career babus who came up with
a) no re-entry for 2 months on 10 year multiple entry visa
or
b) one has to go through entire OCI process all over over again if you got one at age 49 (no security issue between age 21 and 49 or between 51 and 99)
Not surprised by urge to blame "one-man". We had FOX news here blame Obama for practically everything for large 8 years.
Lets face it, most, if not all, issues facing India tend to have ridiculously inefficient bureaucracy in the mix either as a cuase or as a hindrance to the solution.
Agree with you that it has been a pathetic implementation.
Last edited by desi; Dec 12, 2016 at 11:40 pm