ONILNE PASSPORT SEVA, BUT POLICE STILL EATING "MEVA"

Dear Readers,
                 
                    We all know that government upgraded the passport services. It gives online applications and online payment facility. This step was taken to minimise corruption and unfair practices. Alas! It is not as effective as it was thought. You don't have to give any bribe for the applying but you can't escape from the policemen. After your documents are verified at the Passport Seva Kendra, it is required that Police verifies about you and send a report to the Passport Authority of India. The policemen from your nearest police station enquires about you and send the report. The police verification plays a crucial role in getting a passport. Police department take advantage of that. They ask for bribe. Otherwise they would manipulate your report. Thus, you are not granted your passport. Common people are forced to give the bribe.

                                    Someone too applied for passport recently. Due to online payment and easy verification process at Passport Seva Kendra, he thought its not so difficult to get a passport. But after 12 days a policeman came to his home for verification. He asked for Rs 700 as a bribe. After 7-8 days a LIU (Local Investigation Unit) officer came to his home for further enquiry and he also took Rs 1000 as a bribe. I am very much ashamed that police in our state are not only inefficient but also cause trouble to common people. 

IF YOU TOOK A APPOINTMENT ONLINE FOR RTO VARANASI, YOU ARE DOING A MISTAKE

Dear Reader,
                Most of us has either applied or will apply for Learner Licence or Driving Licence. We know that the RTO offices' official are so rude and inefficient that no one wishes to apply for a DL directly. We look out for a broker. The broker charge extra from us in order to get our work done and bribe the officials.To prevent this inconvenience faced by citizens, UP government launched a on-line portal for taking appointments at RTO offices for LL/DL. The portal URL is:
 http://upscdl.up.nic.in/Time_Slot/TimeSlotBooking.aspx
This facility is available in  ARTO Noida, RTO : Aligarh, Lucknow, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Agra, Ghaziabad.
                                              Someone also applied for on-line appointment in RTO Varanasi for LL in previous month. He went along with my elder cousin brother. The things that happened at RTO office is listed beloow in points:

1. A group of brokers surrounded him each promising to get his work done in just a minute.

2. He went to take form from the counter. But they said you will have to purchase it from outside.

3. He then enquired from one of my cousin what to do next. He said lets talk to the broker.

4. He discussed the charge of getting the work done with the broker.

5. He said that he will charge Rs 200 extra. He also added the appointment that he had taken is useless because the officials don't find it as a source of income.

6. He brought all the forms and directed him to fill it.

7. He then filled the form and gave the money he demanded.

8. The broker then called him for Biometric Scan in the prescribed room.

9. He went there. His photo and finger print  was taken. He also gave my signature there.

10. Then the broker handed him a receipt saying that his registration is complete and his LL wil be delivered at  my home via post.

11. His LL arrived at my home after 15 days.

So, you see that despite having an appointment, He had to give the bribe. So the next time he went for  DL, he didn't took any appointment just gave 500 rs extra to the broker.
Now he has DL for even four-wheeler.This is UP!

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FRINDLE - BOOK REVIEW

Dear Readers,
                        First of all I would like to thank Thoughtworks (a software MNC) for providing me the story book at their expense. I received the book at my door on the eve of 3 June. Now, I am writing the review of the story book as I have finished reading it (18:45, 05-06-2015). I was so much occupied by the book that my mother had to call me twice as I didn't listen to anyone at once. Now lets focus on the book.

just mesmerized
:)

                       The title of the book is Frindle. The very first thing that strikes to anyone's mind is "what is the meaning of 'frindle' ?" If you are going to search it in dictionary, you will end up nowhere. The whole story is about how a new word came into existence by the effort of a fifth-grade boy. This is an American Novel written by Andrew Clements. It was first published in 1996.

A boy named Nick is very intelligent and witty. He likes to experiment everything he studies/learn. Every  topic/lecture has to be proved by experiments otherwise it is useless for Nick. When he entered in grade 5th in his school, he got an assignment from the language teacher named Mrs. Granger. The assignment was to present a report on how a word is included in the dictionary. The boy did his assignment and his report was very good. At the end of the class, Nick asked his teacher " Who decides that dog or anything is to be called by that specific name only?". The teacher also answered the question very genuinely "Nick, You decide it because you say so".

From there on the idea/statement stuck into the young boy's mind. He decided that if he controls what is the name given to the object, maybe then he can use a totally new word for an object. He went overboard to prove this. Students liked his idea and they started calling pen as "Frindle"!!! School authority did not like it. It laid down punishment/detention for the students who used the word 'Frindle'. But, Nick did not give up neither his friends. So the battle continued between students and school authority. Who won the battle?  Maybe now you should go and read this book. I am sure you will like the idea of how new things come up if someone has enough will power which cannot be broken down.

How to get it ?
Its available on many on-line shopping sites. But , I will recommend that you buy it from Amazon because they are giving Rs. 20 off. The MRP of the book is Rs. 150 and Amazon is giving it for Rs. 130. Here is the link of Amazon for buying the book :
http://www.amazon.in/Frindle-Andrew-Clements/dp/0689818769/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433553886&sr=1-1&keywords=FRINDLE+BOOK

Thanks for Reading.

                    

BEST WAY TO GET AADHAAR IF YOU LOST YOUR ENROLMENT NO.

Dear Readers,
                   You went for aadhaar registration and NPR way back and now you don't have any proof /details/anything about it. You are in need of AADHAAR and you don't know what to do?

Solution: You go again for enrolment of  AADHAAR at the nearest enrolment centre. Please do not let them know that you have been already enrolled. Go along with the procedure and come back home quietly with the enrolment receipt. Now after 15-20 days go to official website of UIDAI site and click on " Check AADHAAR status". Fill the details in the webpage and check status. A message will appear saying "Duplicate/ matching enrolment found". It will give you your earlier enrolment no. and date. Now use this enrolment and date given on the web page for getting e-AADHAAR. It will ask you for a mobile no. on which the OTP will be sent. Give the mobile no. you have with you.
The OTP will be sent to your mobile via SMS. Enter the OTP and a PDF file will be downloaded. Open that PDF file, it will ask for password. Enter your postal pin code. Now you can take out the printout of your e-AADHAAR and get it laminated. The URLs are given below that will send you directly your desired page.

Check AADHAAR status:  https://resident.uidai.net.in/check-aadhaar-status
(enter the enrolment details you got it from the new enrolment centre)


Get e-AADHAAR :             https://eaadhaar.uidai.gov.in/
Enter the details of matching enrollment no.  on the web page when you checked aadhaar status.





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SPEED POST ARTICLE TRACKING

Dear Readers,

                  If you are required or want to send some letter or item by mail, you definitely need to know how to track your item through internet. I sent some documents from Lucknow to Bangalore.

It was delivered in 4 days. Most of the time we are not sure where our item is at the present, and what its status. In Indian postal service we generally don't opt for POD(proof of delivery). We just get a message on our cell when our item is delivered. But then also we can be sure and track the current location of our item. We can get detailed track events for our item from the following URL :      http://www.indiapost.gov.in/speednettracking.aspx

                                                                                                           

This page will be opened and you will have to fill the item no. and captcha

Now, the question arises where is that item no. on my receipt?????

Ans: look in the picture below

 

the underlined no. is your item no.

What I saw after I pressed enter or clicked on TRACK button.

Detailed track events of my mailed item and its location and time

 What is NSH Lucknow and NSH Bangalore????

Ans:          NSH= National Sorting Hub

                  These are the places where items are sorted and then passed forward as required.

So, this is all for now if you want to know more about speed post service( eg. availability of speed post service between two cities, estimated time for delivery and rate applicable, insurance etc. ) you have to visit following URL: http://www.indiapost.gov.in/speedpost.aspx

Thanks for reading.

WENT TO GURGAON FOR INTERVIEW

Dear Readers,
              Recently, I went to Gurgaon, DLF Cyber city for interview of an MNC software company. I really felt good. The interview was scheduled at 8:30 am on 19 March. My train was late by 4 hours and I reached there at 10 am. However, everything went really smooth.
                      I had Metro Card which made my travel very easy and indeed very fast. Thanks to my cousin who offered his Metro Card when I was in Varanasi.
             The work environment was very casual there. There was no dress code. Everyone worked on large table(as dinning table). There was no office for anyone. All the employees had to work altogether  and cooperating each other. It was really nice to see such a working environment. You can go to work even dressed in lower and anything which makes you feel comfortable. The employees were young and energetic. The security was very tight in the building. You have to cross three checkpoints in order to reach in their office. Oh so sorry! I forgot to mention the company's name, it is THOUGHTWORKS.
              My GD PI session was over at 1:45pm. Then I left and reached nearest metro station. I was at New Delhi railway station at 2:30 pm. I had to wait for my train which was to arrive at 7:00 pm. Finally I reached Lucknow on 20 in morning.
    I missed my college fest for two days but I think I got better experience and knowledge while I was in Gurgaon. I wish that we soon have metro running in Lucknow also.

Thanks for reading.

MY FRIEND RECEIVED E-AADHAAR

 

Dear Reader,
                   Today the wait of my friend for Aadhaar has come to an end . Today at 2 p.m. he received a message on his cell phone saying " Dear Pushpendra Kumar, your Aadhaar number has been generated &will be sent by post. You can download your e-Aadhaar from eaadhaar.uidai.gov.in".
He then asked him to download the eAadhaar. I followed the link and a form opened up.(shown below)

I filled up the form as my friend gave me the details. Thn i clicked on 'Get one time password' button.
The OTP was sent to the cellphone of my friend. As I entered the OTP and clicked on 'Download' button a file in PDF format was downloaded. When we opened the PDF file, it asked for password. The password was simple as it was same as postal code (pin code). Now we are going to take the printout of the PDF file and get it laminated.
                  
There are still many people who have not enrolled themselves for Aadhaar. I would request all the readers to get enrolled for Aadhaar. There are many benefit of Aadhaar and Govt. has proposed to make Aadhaar card mandatory to get scholarship for educational courses in India. You can get full details about Aadhaar and the Enrollment centre in my previous posts.


Thank you for reading.