- Bribe Fighter
- 14 years ago
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Driving licence @ Rs. 1800/-
Happened to visit yesterday the ********** Puri Transport Authority for getting Learner's license for my wife. The moment we reached there, almost every third person offered to complete everything in flat Rs. 1800/- Of course, I had no intension of going the easy way, so tried the official channel to do it.
Result: No form is available at the form counter/reception (there are several other forms available) and i was guided to the hawker's outside. The form cost me Rs. 10. There too, we were offered the Rs. 1800/- bait, but we didn't succumb to it. We filled the form the way it was meant to be. Then, we were supposed to get the Medical Certificate signed by a "doc" sitting just outside stating that everything was okay regarding my wife's vision and grip. Cost Rs. 50/-. This wasn't optional, so we had to pay him. Then, we went in to the fee counter, all alone. Not surprisingly, we were asked to verify our documents by the Traffic Inspector sitting in another room. This gentleman too, not surprisingly, told us tha Marriage Certificate cannot be recognized as a valid document because, as per him, it is not given their online in the list of documents (it is very well mentioned as a document on the transport department website). We asked him to write out the reason for not accepting it and he showed us the door rather disdainfully. But we had no option as no tout was accompanying us. We would be going again in a day or two with every possible document they could ask for. Till then, it's a *******