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Saturday, January 2, 2010

Deadlines are really dead-lines ???

It has been seen that deadlines set for various new progressive launches in India are just declared for declaring sake. Here are few major examples for the same:

1. GST (Goods and Service Tax)
This system first declared that GST will be launched by Apr 2010, but as we can see this deadline does not seem to be fulfilled.

2. 3G spectrum allocation
Every three months a new deadline is set, and this time it was a shock to see that a decision might be made for a mock spectrum allocation. There is no clarity about the obstacles with respect to spectrum conflict with the defence ministry.

3. NSE/BSE to extend the timings
A hurried decision on extending the timings and showing the desperation to show some changes will be the right words. No clear path/execution motive/consent of various stakeholders was taken and timings of 09:45 AM/ 09:00 AM / (09:00 AM- 05:00 PM) kept floating and keeping the investors/employees of the exchanges guessing their fate.

4. Number portability
Another one, government passes a deadline that all the operators have to be prepared to go live with number portability by Dec 31,2009. This deadline was declared neither having any consent of the major operators nor about the time-frame for technological adjustments. Result: MTNL the PSU in the telecom industry declares that it will not be ready for number portability. Hence the deadline is now extended by three months.

Seeing all this are any deadlines declared to be trusted ??? I leave this decision to you.

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