Scams !! Scams !! Everywhere

Hi all !!
This post is based on real life incidents and all incidents and characters portrayed are NOT FICTIOUS and they do live in the same couintry as ours and the resemblance meant is DELIBRATELY made and NOT COINCIDENTAL .

Consider the scenario below ,

A guy gets married to a girl (this is not the news , of course !! its common ,  guys getting married to many girls and girl getting married to many guys is not a news nowadays folks ,the former can never be a news !!)

They go to Govt. office for registration of their marriage ,
the registrar charges  hundred bucks for doing that registaration  in addition to the amount which is to be paid legally . ( Legally , does registration have a cost involved  ?? I have no idea .)

Then after say some years , they have a child , assume the child as a boy . ( No gender bias meant !!  )

So they have a boy now , they have to do the formalities for getting the birth certificate for him.. Consider the case that he was born in Govt . hospital , in additon the medical charges , they do charge some amount for getting that certificate done. Cos , the hospital has to approve that the child was born there in that hospital . So they charge 500 Rs for that extra than the legal amount.

And the boy grows up , in India of course Education comes first ( a good idea , infact ,thank god !!) , for admission in a school , even in Govt. schools they charge admission fee , donation fee etc. In private schools , there is no doubt in that !! , say Rs 10000 is given as donation fee .

And then comes Ration card issue , say another 500 Rs for it .

So time passes , he learns driving vehicles , and a  taffic police catches him for driving without a licence , no offence if the boy gives the cop 100 Rs , if the bike doesn have RC Book , Insurance etc. its still more, and most important nowadays is helmet . If boy gets caught without any of the above , minimum of 500 Rs will be taken .

So the guy , gave the bribe and decided to take license as soon as he becomes eligible , so he does. For taking licence again , pay more , get it done . I don know how people know the original cost in taking a license. Its 250 Rs for a 4 wheeler . And we all pay minimum thrice the amount and most of case more than 5 times the amount. Say he has given 1000 Rs for it .

And then passport , much worse than ration card and license . Police verification everything will take 1000 Rs extra minimum than the prescribed amount .

And then , he marries , the cycle continues !!
He buys a home , again registration for it , electricity board , Water supply everybody has to approve , and nowadays the cost is not per house and nor consumption too ,it depends on your value of the house. The higher , the more you pay !!
Everywhere he goes the same question follows ,
 " Whats the value of your house ? "
Minimum of 1 Lakh he will be paying on the whole for it .

And then he retires , for getting the pention amount or the final dues, nobody gives it immediately, again minimum of 10K has to be spent for it !!

All these incidents, did anybody find anything like a news , its just part and parcel of Indian Life . Add up the amount involved in the process , and all the amounts mentioned above , are approximate and it comes with a very big * saying CONDITIONS DEFINITELY APPLY , and it will definitely not put in a corner as it comes in ad's , this will be the center screen .

Considering the population in India , all the scams which are the headlines in news nowadays , doesn even come near to the amount involved here..
Its like the Anniyan way , " 5 crore people steal 5 crore times 5 paise "  .

In short , ivangala'm ethana Shankar padam vandalum tirunda matanga .. !!

Its time to think about all these things happening in everyday life than to wonder about the scams which is involved in games which occurs once in say many years , like CWG in India .. Stopping from the easiest level is easy than to "TRY" stopping at the highest level .. ( DID ANYBODY TRY ?? ) .
Bottom up approach works here also , not only in programming  :)  :)

Comments gladly accepted !!
Sivaram.S

Diwali Delights !!

Diwali , festival of lights , is always a gud festival to celebrate..
Its a festival , which all age groups of people love to celebrate.. Thinking back in time,
durin school days, craze for crackers was alwas ther for evrybdy.. Though evrybdy know its a waste of money, still the enjoyment involved in crackers espcl. the fancy items, has no bounds..
Gradually , when we grow up , craze for fancy crackers move away but the vaccum which it leaves will be filled by all sort of bombs , hydrogen , atom , etc. etc.. and the most famous of all is the so called 'naatu vedi', the local one , which gives a real feel of bursting a bomb...
Then slowly the craze for bursting crackers moved away , and the vaccum is nevr let empty, its filled with all diwali release movies !! All big hero'es movies, usually will be lined up for the big screen for release on date of diwali..
A quite nice thinking of the past !!!

So y am I thinking of the past diwali's and not celebrating the current one.. ????

Now , even movies doesn fit into the bill for diwali celebration , its now frens and family.. Movies didn rise me up this time (( both new release movies are bad acc to reviews  )) , it was jus quality time wit all my frens..

We didn go for a night show movie, we didn eat out in a hotel , or didn go for a local trip to some nearby places, but jus kept on riding our vehicles chatting , stopping werever we wanted , in the dark streets ..In fact all of us returnd back to home late in the night , than it would have taken for a night show movie !! Phew.. Now diwali is a time for meeting with all ur close people , jus to spend some time wit them..Thanks to all my frens , it looks like many years have passed since our last jus-for-the-sake-of-it-trip,while its been only a mattr of months..

Thats about the current  diwali , still it doesn answer why am not celebrating it , it doesn't rite..
Cos the most important thing I learnt this time is to always plan ur trips, the art of "advanced booking" or "reservation of tickets" is the most important one ,which has eluded me so far, continues to do so..
 I had to start back to Bangalore , one day before itself as I didn have tickets ..

Huh !! Wat a reason for a entry !! :-)