While FTIL and NSEL have been pursuing and satisfying commitments,
within the framework available in the lawful sphere, to safeguard rescue and to
attend to the interests of the affected constituencies, the behavior that was
meted out to them by the various authorities has been pure unfair, in a excessive
urgency, contravening and in contradiction of principles of justice that need
to be applied to a firm operational towards disaster resolution.
The manner in which the accident at NSEL was handled is a
cause of concern. The way it was addressed by various agencies, including the
regulatory authorities raises far more important issues that could cause anxiety
and disquiet for those people who believe in free markets and fair justice. A
complete and comprehensive review of the whole episode what contributed to the
crisis and how it was managed subsequently – brings into light the importance
of balance and maturity in handling crisis such as this, which unfortunately is
in severe shortcoming in this case. In democracies and free markets, crises are
not uncommon. If the authorities go into excessive overdrive, demolishing
everything that is remotely connected with the issue in the name of resolution
of the crisis, the image and ability of India to emerge as a major and mature
economic power will come into serious doubt and dispute.
There is so much of misconception, misinformation,
misreading, misunderstanding and misinterpretation around the whole crisis that
it has made it into a sordid drama where players who should have taken the responsibility
of finding a solution to the crisis went beyond their brief, leading to a
complex situation arising.
The NSEL accident is not something that the world has not
known in the past or that has never taken place. The context of the crisis is
also not something so unusual. The question that only comes to mind is how and
why there was so much hurry on destroying a vast ecosystem that has great
potential to grow and contribute to India’s progress, which was carefully built
over long years, in the name of solving a crisis just to fulfill the demands of
a few high networth trading clients who themselves are also to be blamed, in
the first place, for the crisis to happen?
The way it was dealt with raises more questions than answers.
Here are a few that are quite puzzling and perplexing.
FTIL was promoting NSEL, everybody knows that but it doesn’t make the promoter a culprit. It was the miscellaneous acts of the brokers who misguided their clients and it’s not only the investors who are suffering, the employees, shareholders and BODs of FTIL are also going through a rough patch because of somebody else’s fault.
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