I went to the Hyderabad regional passport office today as my passport booklet was finished and i wanted to apply for new / extra booklet. I filled in the form and everything very nicely and went to the office exactly at 8 am only to see a biiig line for tokens. Anyways i tried to go to that line, basically joining that line. All of a sudden i got a call from a police guy over there (yes a police guy). So obv i went to him and he asked me why i am here. I told him the things and he asked me to show the form which i did. i have no idea what he saw in 2 seconds but he asked me to go to the left side and ask those people to fill online form for u. I was a little confused and i asked him that online form is only an option and i dont wanna do that. He forced me to go to those people.
Well being forced by a police guy i went there. There were 3-4 uneducated guys waiting for me, they took the form from my hand and asked me to follow them which i did. They did not fill any online form but wrote some comment on the same form and asked 200 RS. from me. I asked why so, they said if you want token today , you pay this much. I got the idea by now and was trying to negotiate. On that he said "kya sir , 50% to police wale ko jayega na". I got the whole idea by now and paid him the money. He took me to the line and asked me to join the line. I was amazed and asked him why have u taken 200 RS. He said "sab ap age to jaoon, dikhata hoon 200 RS. kyon liya". I went ahead towards the same Police guy, he gazed at me and then that guy. That guy (agent) said something with signs and the police guy let me in.
We talk about corruption in India. This was being done in open govt. place by Police itself!
Just something about the Hyderabad City...
2 comments:
Nice post.
You should report the incident here:
http://pgportal.gov.in/
You will find corruption everywhere in India and if you want to dive deeper in it - the only places are :Government Offices! Nice post.
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