My read is that the OP understands this but is ideologically opposed to paying bribes. Ex: "Obviously, they are playing 'hard to get' to get me to pay some bribe and initiate the process" and "So the Gram Panchayat NOC is stuck because of non payment of bribe".
You have a choice. Try to do business in India and pay bribes or move your business elsewhere.
There are countries of which India is one of them where you can't do any serious business without paying bribes. Serious business is anything where a government official even suspects you may have money to pay the bribe. So maybe not a hairdresser, but if you have money to buy a piece of land you are expected to have money to pay bribes.
There is a lot of examples of large companies that came to the same conclusion. For example, Ikea tried to do business in Russia without paying bribes and gave up. They also decided they will not be supporting corruption but they failed, faced the choice to pay bribes or get out and decided to get out.
India is corrupt to the bone. Corruption is way of life. It is a reason for people to get government jobs which otherwise do not pay enough.
If government jobs do not pay enough and people self select themselves to get these jobs anyway only because they plan on getting bribes to supplement their salary, how prevalent corruption would be?
This actually is the reason why fighting corruption is so hard. Because people self select themselves and displace those who do not accept corruption from those jobs. Then these officials advance and take up high level jobs and pretty soon you have entire structure corrupt to the bone at every level.
IMO it is just wasted effort. I applaud the person for trying to do right but unfortunately it will not achieve anything. For corruption to decrease you need government that is actively working to this end. Except Indian government is corrupt, too.
It isn't even going to prove any point or make the problem any more public. Because Indians are extremely well aware of the problem and they all know a lot of these stories from their own life.
Regular people will never get rid of corruption exactly because of the effect I mentioned -- because people self select themselves into government jobs. A government position is way more lucrative to a person that plans on being corrupt than to a person that plans to only live from the official salary.
It is like trying to explain to extremists (say Republican extremists, or nazi, or communist, etc.) why what they are doing is bad. You can reach individuals and even convince them to your point but then those individuals leave their extremist circles leaving those circles exactly as extremist as they were before.
Maybe, but many people in India's government do want it to be a place people come to do business, and publicly embarrassing them with how hard it is to make progress without bribes seems plausibly helpful.
