The NOC Story.

Sometimes, this country's government employees can be such a letdown, that you conclude this country is going to the ditches with these people pushing it as hard as possible by them.

A simple NOC for my two wheeler vehicle...I have done so much so far and yet not got even the basic certificates to go to the RTO. Where I am sure hell is waiting for me.

Hyderabad heat is already in the 38 and 39. And I have roaming around in my twowheeler between 9 am to 1 pm for most part of this week. And as I type this, I am having a splitting headache.

Saturday: Roamed around for GE letter , of which I have already posted. Took me 4 hours to get them agree to send my NOC for loan, which I have not received yet, because of another silly story of which I will post separately.

Wednesday Apr 5: 10 am -> From my place to Police Control Room, 16 km. Offices have holiday, for no apparent reason. A homeguard fellow comes to me and asks me the reason for my visit. I tell him that I need Traffic Police certificate, to get NOC. He takes down my details. Asks for Rs 100. 50 that day, 50 next day when I am supposed to get the cert. Gave him 50. Went to Commissioner's office to pay Rs 100 for a chalan that was required. Office on leave anyways. So sent back. Came back to office - 21 km.

Thursday Apr 6: 10 am -> From my place to Police Control Room again, 16 km. Got the certificate from the homeguard, but now he wants 100 more instead of 50. Says people inside got his share of yday and he demands 100. Fought with him for sometime, but eventually, gave him the 100. Came back to Commissioner's office. Paid 100 at e-seva.
Got both the certificate and chalan, to my local police station. Procedure was that I hand over these things to get a certificate from crime department that I dont have any cases on my vehicle/myself. Had to fill an application form and was asked to come next day to collect the certificate.

Friday Apr 7: 10 am -> Local police station. My certificate has yet not been done, in a whole day! Was asked to come back at 12. Went at 12 from office. Its YET not been taken for perusal. When I went there and asked, they took it out from a file, and started the procedure. Had to wait for 40 minutes before they went in to get the final sign from the sub inspector. The constables got it, and came out. But, to hand it over to me, the needed 500 bucks! I said I cannot give any money, atleast that much money(I had to play a bit safe since I dont have much time left to fight with these guys here). I have driven safely enough and I have seen to it that I havent had any cases on me and to get that certified from these people, I had to pay??? So what difference does it make, I could have had a couple of cases on myself, and given them 1000 bucks to come out clean!!!! So I refused. And they held the cert back. The Inspector was not there, and they said the sub inspector also had a share, so I couldnt go complain to her. Finally after bargaining (!!!), we settled for 200 bucks. And the certificate was handed over to me. Now here comes the final irritating twist. This is not the certificate I was looking for!!! It seems, that I have to take this to the commissioner's office, and after seeing the local police's sign, they will give me a separate cert with the ACP's sign. And being the commissioner's office, I am sure the "cost" of the ceritificate is going to be only higher!

And with this and GE's cert, I would have to go to the RTO, and pay around 400 bucks which is the average (as some of my friends here tell me), and get the NOC, which would take half a day. Eventually I have to shell out almost a 1000 bucks to get my NOC. And as a supplement, I have to go through the heat and hell. Would have been much better off selling the vehicle here and taking a new one at Blore. But cannot do it, coz I have silly sentimental values attached to my bike.

Coming to think of it, if I were a bigshot, I could have got everything done at the comfort of my cushion at home. Being the common middleclass professional, I am bound to be played around with, like this.

My beautiful country, eaten up by our own beautiful men/women. As some people say, there is corruption everywhere. But in most other places, people are bribed to do work that is abnormal or aboveboard. But here, in our country, people have to be bribed to do their own job. SHIT.