Major problem in India is mindset. Only in the name of patriotism, one can’t survive. Since childhood we are taught to become earners (high salaries in private or govt jobs). We see corruption all around. For everything we have to pay extra. So when bright students graduate, they don’t look to contribute to country’s economy or status. They look to earn the most and Dollar conversion is huge attraction.
Some bright people who join Govt agencies are pushed aside, left to rot in the Red Tape of bureaucracy (every govt is same as the bureaucrats dont change). They eventually are fed up and leave for better prospects or become like their oppressors in the long run. Plus India do not have huge budget. Just compare ours to any developed nation. We can cry loud that we are better than China or Japan, but the ground reality is that our per capita income is not much better than most African countries. To top that more than 90% of our population do not pay taxes. No government would dare to tax the farmers. I am not saying the poor farmers, but tax those filthy rich farmers who own multiple sports cars and portray themselves as victims in our country. Most MPs/MLA has lakhs of rupees income source as so called farm income which is completely tax free. Obviously they wont introduce tax to pay money from their own pockets and since our grandfathers time, there has been nothing but politics using the farmers. These are people whose multiple generations have not paid a single paisa tax and they wont be easily willing to start now.
If you see reports, more and more rich Indians are leaving India. There are many reasons, one of the major is though paying heavy taxes, still get treated like trash in public offices and get no service properly. No rational way of getting things done and no good way of life. Blaming 1 person or govt is easy, but the fact remains that the rot in the cultural mindset which is not easy to clean.
There are hardly any entrepreneurs in India (few names are there like Tatas, Mahindras, Birlas ) and the govt does not have money to invest. Everyone is business man and they try to suck out all the money they can at the first instance their business becomes profitable. No startup have grown to big business in India (as far as I know). They just sell themselves to the foreigners. earn fast money and retire.
High end variant of even a car would be almost twice of basic variant for eg check Kia Sonet
What to talk of Fighter jets and their maintenance
Like any other party I am sure kickbacks were there but may not be that much as REMOVED barks