The President post is a waste in India. Except for few like Rajendra Prasad and Dr.Radhakrishnan, others have been mere rubber stamp - wasting country's money on foreign trips, needless meeting, living in that big Rashtrapathi bhavan.
If Dr.Abdul Kalam had flown the Sukhoi, there is some relevance - India's rocket man deserves. What has this lady done to deserve a front page news?
They don't contribute anything to common man (for that matter - no politician does). Pratiba Patil is the worst of the lot. It is time we abolish this post. Defense decisions can be taken by those who are in the defense - Major General, Navy Admiral and Air-force Chief and not a politician.
Unless our country stops these kind of news from becoming headlines, we will continue to be "we are like this only".
Friday, November 27, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
I've got Ration Card !
This is a delayed post. I wanted to write on this and drafted, but I can say that I was so elated that I forgot until I picked the draft again today.
After a long wait, I've finally achieved what many Indians could dream of - getting a ration card (oh yeah - certainly tough task than owning a house). The problem is that you got only one govt. office to run to; whereas for buying a house, you got choice of builder, price, location, loan.
The submission of application form was not an issue. Once your application is checked and everything is right, they give you a piece of paper with a seal which is mostly illegible (and they call it as acknowledgement slip, but that's the only piece of paper that is accepted by Gas cylinder agencies to book and refill).
But while collecting (requests in the morning and all receivables in the evening), I found everything printed right except that they changed my area to Parangimalai instead of Nanganallur. When asked, the lady just smiled and said "saar - that's small printing mistake sir. What you do is to write a letter and submit to change the same". Bloody - I have to submit a letter for the mistake they committed. I just gnashed my teeth and started writing one there itself. Immediately she told that I have to come in the morning and submit as all requests have to be given in the morning. I did that the next day and waited one more week to get the updated card.
The cost - I almost spent one full day. But I am proud of what I managed to achieve - owning a ration card with my picture at the front and mentioning me as 'Family Head'(ache)
One good experience was that I wrote a request letter in Tamiz language after a very long gap. I then used Google's Indic to put in a word document and print the same
After a long wait, I've finally achieved what many Indians could dream of - getting a ration card (oh yeah - certainly tough task than owning a house). The problem is that you got only one govt. office to run to; whereas for buying a house, you got choice of builder, price, location, loan.
The submission of application form was not an issue. Once your application is checked and everything is right, they give you a piece of paper with a seal which is mostly illegible (and they call it as acknowledgement slip, but that's the only piece of paper that is accepted by Gas cylinder agencies to book and refill).
But while collecting (requests in the morning and all receivables in the evening), I found everything printed right except that they changed my area to Parangimalai instead of Nanganallur. When asked, the lady just smiled and said "saar - that's small printing mistake sir. What you do is to write a letter and submit to change the same". Bloody - I have to submit a letter for the mistake they committed. I just gnashed my teeth and started writing one there itself. Immediately she told that I have to come in the morning and submit as all requests have to be given in the morning. I did that the next day and waited one more week to get the updated card.
The cost - I almost spent one full day. But I am proud of what I managed to achieve - owning a ration card with my picture at the front and mentioning me as 'Family Head'(ache)
One good experience was that I wrote a request letter in Tamiz language after a very long gap. I then used Google's Indic to put in a word document and print the same
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