Sunday, August 26, 2007

GLoBaLisaTIon - My FOOT !!

6 days in maccha land (Chennai) and have already thrown 400 bucks in the traffic cops cap (yea yea, I have come to realize that Chennai traffic cops - like most of the other cops in India, stand with their arms wide open with their caps in their palms, forcing you to throw money into it everytime you get a non-TN vehicle in their city). We are bloody making tall claims of developing towards globalization and talking about a FLAT new world whereas our own gory country is divided into 28 sub continents (fraudulently called as states) which are further subdivided into 23795673920297449 million countries and sub countries which are ruled by their own respective Taliban-ishtyle mullas in their own bloody way !! We have to pay a luggage toll and excise duty to take one truck of good from one state border to another, we need to have separate number plates for every state and that particular vehicle can be freely driven only in that particular state and if you wish to take it out and cross the border of the state even for a day, u need a NON Objection Certificate from your respective state government. What kind of an anarchical pathetically stupid politically incompetent country are we living in? We talk about making India inclined at par with the global leading counter, while inside our own country we don’t have a standardized free flow system to avoid problems to the AAM AADMI. Making an NOC in itself is a tiresome process (in Maharashtra we have to make 4 rounds on 4 different days with one day allotted each week bribing 28336454546 khaki clad RTO idiots at every Point of Contact), apart from RTO they make you go to the CBI for a NOC from them (which means bribing another 2347474937 civil dressed idiotic government servants) before you get the final NOC from the RTO. This means if you are staying in sangli or miraj and jus feel like going on a drive towards the Karnataka border or if you are staying in nagpur and feel like going to indore for a vacation you need to go through this gruesome process of getting an NOC. That is a very lame attempt towards GLOBALISATION Mr Prime Minister when you cant even bridge your own damned states !!

I can understand having state specific number plates for better governing and convenience in terms of identifying a vehicle to its registration point, I can also understand transfer of registration from one state to another when a vehicle is sold off to another owner. But when I am carrying my RC book as well as my Insurance and my license along with me, why in gods name should I need another document just if I feel like going for a vacation in some other state using my car. This is utter dictatorship in the worlds largest democracy !!

Wake up you laggards, before you destroy this democracy using rules which should have been banned with the end of Aurangzebs regime.. Its time you re-write the constitution and every other SOP in terms of excise/RTO/vehicle movement/Health and Infrastructure policy to transform INDIA into its truly shining Status !!