Nitish is the Politician of the year. He also won the Business award from a leading news channel. what else, he is on top of the world but he forgot what is happening just at the backyard of his high profile meetings with businessmen from various industries & across the globe to attract the investors. He is quick to come on a forum & request for investments but has he or his finance minister, Mr Modi ever bothered to ask the entrepreneurs how they are coping with the local administration. It's not that people don't know about it but let me just put that in a perspective. The intent of this blog is not to really take the , whatever, success away of Nitish's achievement, in the last few years, as the CM of Bihar but just an insight of how the young entrepreneurs feel & why is it necessary for him to first listen to them, then, to blow his trumpet all over the world to get more investments into his state.
Gyaneshwar Pandey’s Views (CEO, Husk Power System)
Journalist: So what was the problem?
GP: The cops! I am yet to pay a penny of protection money to goons and nobody has dared to ask me for a bribe, but the police in Bihar are apathetic. So, when someone is trying to steal the electricity we generate, the cops will just look on. My staff, who try and stop the theft, suffer verbal abuse and manhandling. And that is a serious impediment.
Journalist: What is your biggest learning from your years in Bihar?
GP: Differentiate between perception and reality. It isn’t as if the law and order situation is completely normal. Yes, roads have been built, but the government now needs to think ahead and get investments that will be a catalyst for industry and entrepreneurship.
Source: http://business.in.com/interview/close-range/in-bihar-cops-are-the-problem-not-goons/25672/1#ixzz1OdTCbZIi
Kaushalendra’s Views (Kaushalya Foundation)
He gave another example of the Madhya Bihar Gramin Bank's (MBGB) Kankarbagh branch in Patna not disbursing a loan amount.
"It sanctioned a loan for nine AC carts to our nine vendors under the government scheme but they are not disbursing the amount...what I have been able to understand is that the bank is looking for some under-the-table dealing that we never do or promote," the bespectacled youth said.
"The bank always procrastinates on this issue. The manufacturer of the cart is sitting on my head and we are finding ourselves helpless," Kaushlendra added.
"A cheque of Rs.20,000 was deposited in my company account three months back and it has not been credited till date. When we inquired Jan 27 and sent a person to the State Bank of India branch in Hilsa in Nalanda district, we were astonished to find they have debited it to another's account Dec 15, 2010. And till date they have not sent the amount to my bank in Patna," he rued.
"There are many small things that impede the growth of an entrepreneur in Bihar. We cannot compete with entrepreneurs of other states because other support services come at huge indirect and direct costs," Kaushlendra, a topper of the IIM-A's 2007 batch, told IANS in an interview.
Source: http://www.bihartimes.in/Newsbihar/2011/Feb/Newsbihar01Feb2.html
Irfan’s Story (SammaN Foundation)
The young chairman-cum-managing director of Samman Foundation, Irfan Alam, who was last year invited by none else but the United States President Barack Husain Obama had to spent his night in police lock up after he was arrested following a dispute with a software engineer.
What came as a big shock is that Irfan, and three of his associates had to spend night in lock up on the charge of kidnapping when the truth is that the engineer, who alleged that he was assaulted, was recovered from the very office of the Samman Foundation.
Source: http://www.bihartimes.in/Newsbihar/2011/May/Newsbihar15May1.html
Shajendra Bihari Singh’s Story (Russian NRI Businessman)
A non- resident Indian ( NRI) entrepreneur from Bihar got a taste of brute police power in his home state when he and his aged father were beaten up by a probationer IPS officer.
Sajendra Bihari Singh, who runs a restaurant in Russia, accused Jehanabad's assistant superintendent of police ( ASP) Vivek Kumar of assaulting him and his father Brij Bihari Singh while they were driving to their village on Sunday.
Singh, a native of Dharhara in Patna district, alleged he was assaulted and kept in detention for several hours just because he " dared to overtake the officer's vehicle". This gentleman had flown all over from Russia to do something for his home state given that a new state administration had taken over calling people to come forward & do something for their state.
Source: http://www.thebihar.com/bihar-news/asp-who-beat-up-nri-made-sp/
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This may be as a result of the capitalistic overturns being seen in Bihar as against a complete social state for the last 3 decades. But what would you say when a person like Anand Kumar, founder of Super 30, faces death threats from the local education mafia. He had to apply to the govt of Bihar to get security from himself. If he, being a Social educationist, who works for poor students, can face such challenges, then entrepreneurs, be cautious & enter at your own risk.
Jai Bihar
Gyaneshwar Pandey’s Views (CEO, Husk Power System)
Journalist: So what was the problem?
GP: The cops! I am yet to pay a penny of protection money to goons and nobody has dared to ask me for a bribe, but the police in Bihar are apathetic. So, when someone is trying to steal the electricity we generate, the cops will just look on. My staff, who try and stop the theft, suffer verbal abuse and manhandling. And that is a serious impediment.
Journalist: What is your biggest learning from your years in Bihar?
GP: Differentiate between perception and reality. It isn’t as if the law and order situation is completely normal. Yes, roads have been built, but the government now needs to think ahead and get investments that will be a catalyst for industry and entrepreneurship.
Source: http://business.in.com/interview/close-range/in-bihar-cops-are-the-problem-not-goons/25672/1#ixzz1OdTCbZIi
Kaushalendra’s Views (Kaushalya Foundation)
He gave another example of the Madhya Bihar Gramin Bank's (MBGB) Kankarbagh branch in Patna not disbursing a loan amount.
"It sanctioned a loan for nine AC carts to our nine vendors under the government scheme but they are not disbursing the amount...what I have been able to understand is that the bank is looking for some under-the-table dealing that we never do or promote," the bespectacled youth said.
"The bank always procrastinates on this issue. The manufacturer of the cart is sitting on my head and we are finding ourselves helpless," Kaushlendra added.
"A cheque of Rs.20,000 was deposited in my company account three months back and it has not been credited till date. When we inquired Jan 27 and sent a person to the State Bank of India branch in Hilsa in Nalanda district, we were astonished to find they have debited it to another's account Dec 15, 2010. And till date they have not sent the amount to my bank in Patna," he rued.
"There are many small things that impede the growth of an entrepreneur in Bihar. We cannot compete with entrepreneurs of other states because other support services come at huge indirect and direct costs," Kaushlendra, a topper of the IIM-A's 2007 batch, told IANS in an interview.
Source: http://www.bihartimes.in/Newsbihar/2011/Feb/Newsbihar01Feb2.html
Irfan’s Story (SammaN Foundation)
The young chairman-cum-managing director of Samman Foundation, Irfan Alam, who was last year invited by none else but the United States President Barack Husain Obama had to spent his night in police lock up after he was arrested following a dispute with a software engineer.
What came as a big shock is that Irfan, and three of his associates had to spend night in lock up on the charge of kidnapping when the truth is that the engineer, who alleged that he was assaulted, was recovered from the very office of the Samman Foundation.
Source: http://www.bihartimes.in/Newsbihar/2011/May/Newsbihar15May1.html
Shajendra Bihari Singh’s Story (Russian NRI Businessman)
A non- resident Indian ( NRI) entrepreneur from Bihar got a taste of brute police power in his home state when he and his aged father were beaten up by a probationer IPS officer.
Sajendra Bihari Singh, who runs a restaurant in Russia, accused Jehanabad's assistant superintendent of police ( ASP) Vivek Kumar of assaulting him and his father Brij Bihari Singh while they were driving to their village on Sunday.
Singh, a native of Dharhara in Patna district, alleged he was assaulted and kept in detention for several hours just because he " dared to overtake the officer's vehicle". This gentleman had flown all over from Russia to do something for his home state given that a new state administration had taken over calling people to come forward & do something for their state.
Source: http://www.thebihar.com/bihar-news/asp-who-beat-up-nri-made-sp/
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This may be as a result of the capitalistic overturns being seen in Bihar as against a complete social state for the last 3 decades. But what would you say when a person like Anand Kumar, founder of Super 30, faces death threats from the local education mafia. He had to apply to the govt of Bihar to get security from himself. If he, being a Social educationist, who works for poor students, can face such challenges, then entrepreneurs, be cautious & enter at your own risk.
Jai Bihar
