I am currently living life in two
metro cities in Chennai and Pune. Obviously it involves quite amount of
travel and hence it is hectic. My family is in Pune. In the mid May I am
planning to shift my family in Chennai. Now, only mode of contact is cell
phone. I currently have Maharashtra mobile service phone. Now I am paying cell
phone with roaming charges and it is costly.
I need to have TamilNadu mobile service
to avoid roaming charges. So I (tried) purchased the prepaid sim card from
Tamil Nadu. To get the sim card I went to sim vendor three times with the
documents. Since I do not have permanent address here in Chennai, I knew it's
not going to be easy to obtain the sim card. To obtain the sim card I need to produce
my identity proof and permanent address proof. As a permanent address proof
document, I gave vendor my passport but it was not accepted since its validity
was less than three months (Ok, maybe that's the rule). Next I gave driving
license, but it was also rejected for the reason that, stamp on it is faint.
(Obviously it was obtained 15 years back). Then I went home and got the
pan-card as my identity proof but even it was rejected because it doesn't have
address on it. So I was without sim card for almost next ten days.
In the mean time I was able to get my
Adhar card which has my permanent address, identity proof and birth date all in
one document. So again I went third time to vendor to get the prepaid sim
card. This time he looked little convinced. He asked me one local reference, I
produced it too. Now after so much investigation and documentation I finally
have my sim card with me. But the struggle is not over yet. Even after one
week, sim card is not activated. I contacted customer care which says we have
not received address proof and contact vendor. So I again (fourth time) went to
vendor. He mentioned that form is rejected. Reason is not clear to me, he
explained me in Tamil. I absolutely do not understand Tamil. All I understood
that he called me again next day with my Adhar card and photos and he will fill
the form again. I observed that he is too conscious about dispatching me sim
card since I am from outside. But, after producing all valid documents he
should have got completely convinced. Anyway I will try to take this positively
and appreciate his sincerity towards his work.
What pains me here more that, the amount
of disbelief I have to face on every front. I have seen this kind of
disbelief in my own state as well. Everybody is looking at each other with suspicion.
Sometime I feel all those anti-social elements who try to spread disbelief in
society are becoming successful. Recently I read one article; the theme of the
article was how Indian system is based on disbelief. In India if we go anywhere
we have to prove our self always, all the time. May it be school, college,
travelling, any government office, insurance and what not? Why cannot we make a
system based on belief? Sure there will be some accidents but it could be
checked by simple precautions. Why hold 80% prompt, obedient population on
stake for some possible fraudulent behavior of 20% people? I heard stories from
western world that even insurance companies granting money just based on a
phone call. I have seen many Indian students travelling to US just based on the
word given by their professor. Why cannot this happen in India? This question
remains....
And Yes! Still my sim card is not working.
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