"A simulator? Wow!"
I look at my friend wide eyed as she spells forth her experience of applying for a driving license.
She tells me how she was instructed to drive a perfect 'eight' on the road and was tested for her knowledge of road signs and that she was even made to drive on a simulator.
That is how things work in Bangalore, and in Hyderabad as another friend tells me.
Guess how it works in Ludhiana?
On a chilly winter morning, I accompany my dad to the Mini Secretariat. There is a new Suvidha Centre at the furnished place with a line of window counters. The system is efficient - you get allotted to a window number from outside, you seat yourself on the elegant bench and watch the Plasma TV screen while waiting for your token number to appear on the little red neon board above the window.
Your number appears, you get up and submit your documents, the DTO - probably experienced in the art of physiognomy looks at you and signs on your papers which say ''This person is found fit for driving and has cleared the driving test."
You pose in front of the webcam, you sign on the swanky electronic signature device and there...its done!
And there I got a call from my dad last week, ''We just received your driving license by post!" Just on time - you receive the laminated card.
No tests, no simulators, no screening - probably you'd call it a hassle-free system, but yeah at the end of the day - I miss the simulator.
"Ludhiana roads must be really unsafe then -- with such people driving?", my friend asks me after hearing that little tale.
"Hmmm...not really, I guess - Its the Darwinian survival of the fittest that makes all of us move on the Ludhiana roads..."
I look at my friend wide eyed as she spells forth her experience of applying for a driving license.
She tells me how she was instructed to drive a perfect 'eight' on the road and was tested for her knowledge of road signs and that she was even made to drive on a simulator.
That is how things work in Bangalore, and in Hyderabad as another friend tells me.
Guess how it works in Ludhiana?
On a chilly winter morning, I accompany my dad to the Mini Secretariat. There is a new Suvidha Centre at the furnished place with a line of window counters. The system is efficient - you get allotted to a window number from outside, you seat yourself on the elegant bench and watch the Plasma TV screen while waiting for your token number to appear on the little red neon board above the window.
Your number appears, you get up and submit your documents, the DTO - probably experienced in the art of physiognomy looks at you and signs on your papers which say ''This person is found fit for driving and has cleared the driving test."
You pose in front of the webcam, you sign on the swanky electronic signature device and there...its done!
And there I got a call from my dad last week, ''We just received your driving license by post!" Just on time - you receive the laminated card.
No tests, no simulators, no screening - probably you'd call it a hassle-free system, but yeah at the end of the day - I miss the simulator.
"Ludhiana roads must be really unsafe then -- with such people driving?", my friend asks me after hearing that little tale.
"Hmmm...not really, I guess - Its the Darwinian survival of the fittest that makes all of us move on the Ludhiana roads..."
RABB e rakha e g.....system without system ch e muharat hai
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