top of page

By:

Quaid Najmi

4 January 2025 at 3:26:24 pm

Plea in HC for fresh polls, new body

Dr. Rumi F. Beramji Mumbai : A senior medical practitioner has knocked on the doors of the Bombay High Court, alleging serious irregularities in the functioning of the Maharashtra Council of Acupuncture (MCA) and challenging the continuation of its current Administrator.   In a petition filed through Advocate Sharad V. Natu, Dr. Laxman Bhimrao Sawant has termed the appointment and prolonged tenure of former MCA Chairman as “illegal and arbitrary,”  and detrimental to the cause of Acupuncture....

Plea in HC for fresh polls, new body

Dr. Rumi F. Beramji Mumbai : A senior medical practitioner has knocked on the doors of the Bombay High Court, alleging serious irregularities in the functioning of the Maharashtra Council of Acupuncture (MCA) and challenging the continuation of its current Administrator.   In a petition filed through Advocate Sharad V. Natu, Dr. Laxman Bhimrao Sawant has termed the appointment and prolonged tenure of former MCA Chairman as “illegal and arbitrary,”  and detrimental to the cause of Acupuncture.   Dr. Beramji, who headed the five-member statutory body 's inaugural term (from May 2018 to May 2023), was subsequently appointed as its Administrator after the council’s term expired.   According to Dr. Sawant’s plea, the Administrator’s appointment was initially meant to be a stop-gap arrangement for one year, and it was ‘extended’ later. However, nearly three years later, the position continues without fresh elections being conducted, raising questions over adherence to statutory norms and principles of governance.   Dr. Sawant has further contended that while Dr. Beramji was installed as Administrator, the remaining members of the council were effectively superseded, leaving the regulatory body without its mandated collective structure, and over 6500-members directionless.   The petition claims that the delay in conducting elections was justified on the grounds of an incomplete voter list, but this reason was flimsy considering the extended time lapse.   The petition, likely to come up for hearing on Tuesday (April 21), also levelled serious allegations regarding the manner in which the MCA has been run under the Administrator. It claims decisions have been taken unilaterally, whimsically and without transparency or institutional accountability.   Besides, Dr. Sawant has made allegations of selective targeting of certain members who have attempted to raise valid issues, including the globally-renowned noted acupuncture expert Dr. P. B. Lohiya of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.   Adding to the controversy, a former MCA office-bearer has claimed that over the past three years, approvals were granted to more than a dozen acupuncture colleges in undue haste, purportedly in violation of prescribed norms and alleged shady deals.   These institutions, it is claimed, either exist only on paper or lack essential infrastructure, faculty, and facilities. In addition, around two dozen Continuous Acupuncture Education (CAE) centres were also cleared during this period.   In his multiple prayers to the high court, Dr. Sawant has sought quashing Dr. Beramji’s appointment as MCA Administrator and setting aside all policy decisions taken during his tenure in that capacity in the last three years.   The petition also urged the court to direct the state government to conduct elections to elect and reconstitute a new five-member MCA within two months.   Pending this, the plea seeks an order restraining the Administrator from continuing in office or interfering in the functioning of the MCA or the CAEs in the interest of free and fair elections or the cause of Acupuncture.   Sources within the MCA have described the situation as “deeply concerning,” alleging that individuals of international standing, such as Dr. Lohiya - who has treated prominent personalities like Sachin Tendulkar, the late Manoj Kumar, state and central ministers and other public figures - are being unfairly hounded.   The petition has called for a comprehensive review of all decisions taken during the Administrator’s tenure, a financial audit of the MCA’s financial affairs, and an independent probe by the Medical Education & Drugs Department (MEDD) into the approvals granted to the institutions in recent years.   Despite repeated attempts by  ‘ The Perfect Voice’ , top MCA officials like the Administrator or the Registrar Narayan Nawale, were not available for their comments.

The Inbox That Never Closes

If work pauses until you reply, your memory is the company’s real operating system.

Every founder I’ve met carries an inbox that never closes.


I don’t mean Gmail. I mean the invisible backlog of approvals, half-decisions, and remembered SOPs they hold in their head.


On the surface, their company looks structured. Tools are in place. Dashboards glow green. Teams hold standups.


And yet … everything still circles back to the founder.


One client, a factory scaling past 200 people, had ERP systems humming. But when I traced execution delays, every decision still depended on the founder’s WhatsApp replies. His mental memory had quietly become the company’s operating system.


Why Systems Still Orbit the Founder

This isn’t failure of tools. It’s cognitive overload disguised as leadership.


Founders underestimate how much unstructured decision weight they carry.


They remember exceptions. They hold “what good looks like” in their heads. They personally track client preferences, vendor quirks, and which manager needs more handholding.


All of that lives in their invisible inbox.


And when the inbox gets too full, the system slows.


The irony? The more structured the company looks, the harder it is to admit that the real bottleneck is invisible: founder headspace.


The Cost of Mental Bottlenecks

At the factory, managers often paused before moving. Not because they didn’t know what to do, but because the founder had trained them to wait:

• “Let me just check with him.”

• “He usually wants to see it first.”

•“Better hold before we ship.”


The outcome was predictable:

• Approvals that should have taken hours stretched into days.

• A team that looked busy, but silently queued behind the founder’s mental decisions.

• A founder who worked late into the night … not to build strategy, but to clear an inbox no one else could see.


This is the hidden tax of cognitive overload. Everyone works harder, but velocity collapses because the operating system is memory, not design.


Why Founders Struggle to Let Go

It’s easy to say: “Just delegate.” But overload isn’t about workload … it’s about cognitive load.


Founders don’t cling because they love control. They cling because they fear:

• Inconsistency

• Rework

• Missed signals


Memory feels safer than structure because it’s instant and personal. Until it breaks.


The problem is that memory doesn’t scale. Teams don’t grow by learning what’s in your head. They grow by seeing how decisions are made without you.


The Shift: From Memory to System


The first step isn’t hiring more people or buying another tool.


It’s naming the problem: your invisible inbox is the system.


From there, small shifts start releasing load:

• Document one rule you keep in memory. Share it.

• Tag ownership on one recurring process, so teams stop asking “Who decides?”

• Run one week where every approval must route through the system, not your WhatsApp.


These aren’t efficiency hacks. They’re cognitive load transfers. Each one moves memory into visibility.


The Human Confession

When I ask founders what they’re most afraid of, the answers are rarely about markets or margins.


It’s the quiet admission: “If I stop replying, I’m scared everything will stop.”


And that’s the heart of the load trap.


Your team has matured, but your mental inbox never shrank. Instead of scaling out of your head, the company scaled deeper into it.


Final Reflection

If work pauses until you reply, you’re not just a founder … you’re the bottleneck.


The real test of scale isn’t whether dashboards look clean. It’s whether decisions move when you’re unavailable.


So before you clear your email inbox tonight, ask the harder question:


How full is the inbox in my head … and what will it take to finally empty it into the system?


Read more in-depth insights at: www.ppsconsulting.biz/blog


(The writer is co-founder at PPS Consulting. He helps growth-stage founders design leadership systems. Write to rahul@ppsconsulting.biz or connect on LinkedIn.)

Comments

bottom of page