Originally Posted by
L_D_M
Classic India. It boils down to having to use some form of "influence" when things that should work on their own do not - on account of incompetence, venality or whatever else.
Yup, actually i should have mentioned i wrote in to multiple people on linkedin
(all of them not known or connected to me in any way) and looks like only one of them bothered to forward it to the concerned department. Tiring & time consuming effort none the less.