Yes exactly. The change is needed for sure. Even the market place is filled with discussions or people promoting their referral links to earn pennies. Discussions are filled with lame questions which are not even worth answering. Benson is one of the pioneers of the Indian Bitcoin community and there is no denying it. But he has not been that active here lately (looking at his posts) maybe because of his personal life and busy schedule (as he runs one of the major Indian exchanges).

I am pretty confident there are a lot of active legendary members here form India who would volunteer to be a mod along side Benson to clean up the mess.

100% agreed. Benson was a pretty active mod a few years back. But, now, most probably due to his involvement with CoinSecure, he barely works on the India forum. User newIndia himself/herself is far more active in the India forum and hence, I believe, he/she should take up the responsibility now.

I visited the India forum once but never posted there because:

1) It is full of scams. There are a number  of promotional posts there from different members. Some are promoting their shady exchanges and some want to teach tricks through their blogs full of copied content.

2) I also observed that very less posts are merited there. There are few good posts there and they get no attention. This might be the reason for genuine users not being much active there and posting in other sections like "Bitcoin Discussion".

This site, Stake.com, is spamming in all local sections. They create a post and daily post spam on that post or create a new one. When there are no active moderators, nobody can do anything.

It is necessary to pay more attention to these local sections if we want the forum to grow in an organized way. Have more trusted moderators, have more sources of merit, have more subsections.

Personally I think Bitcointalk is not what it used to be anymore. There are some active members but almost everyone is into signature campaigns which leads to spam posts etc.
However I agree that mod should be active enough to remove spam/trash from this subforum.

This^ + Pinned threads on the main board are pretty old and outdated. Most of the services referred in those threads do not exist anymore. But, as we do not have an admin, there is no one to unpin those threads.

Benson Samuel is no more the moderator of the Indian Board. (after Coinsecure scam/(or hack) not very sure). So right now Indian Board is without moderator. Few days back I look statistics of merits in Indian local board, look like they do not have merit source also.
I think both factors should be demotivating for anybody posting there.

I don't think we don't have any trusted community member from that local board to have him as moderator and I don't know how much active members in that local board which needs an speparate merit source for now but it is important to add merit source too all the local boards in the upcoming future to keep the balance among the local speech with the main discussion boards.

Sorry to wake up this Zombie. India subforum now needs a dedicated mod more than ever. Not only the sub is getting full of unrelated topics, legitimate topics are being removed!

Here is an instance, where I have been a victim. Following is from BitcoinTalk Modlog (http://archive.vn/QKmpX)...

Remove topic: Where did you buy your first bitcoin from? in topic #5092398 by member #237466

May I know why the above said topic of mine was removed?