I recently
had the misfortune of interacting with our central government again. This time,
I went to apply for registering my son at the Bureau of Immigration. It was a
hilarious experience to observe the morons that go for government servants,
their arrogance in treating those that come to them and finally how there is
nothing even remotely close to “Service” in what they do.
The
registration rule says that children below 16 need not register, also if you
intend to stay more than 180 days then somehow you should predict that need and
register for stay above 180 days within the first 14 days. That is it, this
rule has tremendous confusion potential and any confusion always comes with “greasing
opportunity”. You get the picture. We stood our ground that our son falls in
the first category and demanded to know why it should be otherwise. It took
them an hour to reason the logic and when the issued the permit it had an
expiry date which was three days earlier due to someone making the mistake of
entering 2021 as 2012, that is it, this took another 3 hours. With no food and
water available my family went through a horrible experience.
They had
slides being shown on the tv screens which called out employee of the month,
faster throughput in processing, issues resolved etc. I observed those that
have gotten the awards and how they treated the public.
Moron #1:
He had gotten he award for “Employee of the Month”. He was below a giant “May I
help You ?” sign. Ironically though to almost all the 10 or so cases all he was
doing was shouting “Nobody can help you?” It would have been totally comic, if
it weren’t so pathetic. He is employee of the month, god help our citizens from
this government.
Moron #2:
Every application that was given to him was literally thrown back at folks with
various excuses:
1. Why did you write the letter,
instead of typing it ?
2. Why are all the forms not attached in
order (never mind that there is no guideline requiring either one of the above)
3. Where is bonafide ? (with the Korean
wondering what is Bonafide?)
No wonder
this bastard takes only few seconds, increasing throughput, all he does is to
throw it back.
Moron #3: “High
Officer”. He looked at me asked “Are you educated ?, why didn’t you register so
far ?” When I yelled back asking is he educated about the rules as children
under 16 are not required to register. He immediately mellows down. But ordinary
folks are busy dancing “Yes Sir, No Sir” tunes in front of these leeches, who
live off the taxes we pay and treat us like shit.
The real
comedy was when they said “We have to forward the application to Delhi, we will
give a temporary registration for three months as Delhi requires three months
to process this…”. Such powerless bastards, who are incapable or not even
empowered to take decisions which should be logical to begin with are this rude
the public. Imagine how the bastards in Delhi would be ?
Compare
this with the USA visa renewal experience for my in-laws. I applied online,
uploaded online photo entered all the prior visa/passport details and applied for
the interview waiver program. Two days later, we got an email asking us to
appear in person, as fingerprinting needed to be done. It was given for 3rd
of July on which date they would be out of station. I just replied to the
email, asking whether the date can b adjusted, within in 30 mins get a reply
back, with the new date and timing with a precise list of docs/proofs that we
need… Even if the VISA is denied, it would be with respect and dignity.
Ironically,
in one of the TV debates on fertilizer subsidies -- a moron (== leftist
intellectual) came on Puthiya Thalaimurai TV waxing eloquent how adopting
American government’s culture is totally ruining us. Hmmm… I am not
so sure….