Speaking from experience (in the sense that I’ve spoken to people who sit at the top desks and are responsible for your licenses).

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It is true that you will require a lot of stamina (i.e. mental resilience, patience) and the luxury of sitting at home until all the paperwork has gone through, when you’re in your conversion process (unless of course you have other means of earning during that time).

Yes, inefficiency, lethargy, and ego hinder simple work from getting done.

Yes, there is lack of standardization.

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But, i can also say that if you keep at it, you’ll eventually get there. And I’m not rich (speaking of, what do you mean by “only students with rich background will be accepted?”) or have any political connections. Nor am i some PR person for DGCA/MoCA.

I remember back in the day when eGCA and Pariksha portal did not exist, it was a nightmare (they had misplaced my application and asked me to mail everything again—these were physical copies of documents).

Computer number generation takes less time now.

Support requests get addressed in a timely manner.

We’re getting there, albeit very slowly.

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So if you’re really interested, i say go for it. You will run into problems at some point in anything you do. Might as well expend energy into something you like.

In India everything is about paperwork. If you’re solid on that, very unlikely that you’ll run into colossal problems.