It was a beautiful morning, had plenty of tasks to be completed. One of them was to obtain my marriage certificate from government authorities. I reside at Avadi and I recently got married. To obtain the marriage certificate I had to visit near by Avadi Sub Registrar office. With great hope I started my day.
As planned I reached the Avadi Sub Registrar office on that morning. Entered the office, As usual like other government offices no body cared and all the working officials were busy with their so called work . I looked around a minute and identified the person in-charge, went near him and asked about the process to obtain the marriage certificate. Instead of explaining the process, he started asking some weird and unrelated questions like " Was it love marriage or arranged marriage? Does the marriage happened in the presence of parents? etc..etc.." . From his questions I clearly understood that he had no intentions to help me or explain me about the process. So I interrupted him by asking "Is there any form to be filled, if there is a form please do provide so I can fill them and submit" . With odd looks he asked to download the form from website. I asked him the URL address of the website from where the form can be downloaded, as I expected he doesn't know the URL nor he had any clue of it.
It was not over, he finally asked me to visit the near by shops so called agencies which are located opposite to the Sub Registrar office. I had no clue why he is asking me to visit those agencies. When I asked him about why I had to go there, he replied saying "Form can be obtained from those agencies" . So as suggested by the officer I went over to one of those agency and asked for the form that should be filled to obtain marriage certificate.
The person in that agency asked me "whether you need the certificate immediately or after few months ?". I was puzzled on hearing his question.So replied him "what does your question has to do with the application forms to be filled" . I was shocked on hearing his reply. He replied "To get certificate with in weeks it costs Rs.3000, if you need after few months then it costs only Rs.2000" . When I asked him about why I need to pay such huge sum for obtaining the marriage certificate which is supposed to be issued for just Rs.200 (max) ( refer: Marriage registration ) , he replied rudely saying "this how it works here if you want you can get it else move on" .
I understood that these agencies has links with the corrupted sub registrar officials. That was the reason the official at the Sub Registrar office denied to issue the registration form and asked me to get it form these agencies. I didn't have enough money to pay those agencies and I didn't like to pay bribe to these corrupted government officials.With heavy heart I returned home.
These government officials are getting paid for the work they do. These people are getting paid through our tax money and they deny to serve the people. This is how most of the government offices are functioning in this country. The higher officials don't care about these lower level officials because they are busy with even more bigger bribes. Heil Tamil Nadu government..Heil India...
As planned I reached the Avadi Sub Registrar office on that morning. Entered the office, As usual like other government offices no body cared and all the working officials were busy with their so called work . I looked around a minute and identified the person in-charge, went near him and asked about the process to obtain the marriage certificate. Instead of explaining the process, he started asking some weird and unrelated questions like " Was it love marriage or arranged marriage? Does the marriage happened in the presence of parents? etc..etc.." . From his questions I clearly understood that he had no intentions to help me or explain me about the process. So I interrupted him by asking "Is there any form to be filled, if there is a form please do provide so I can fill them and submit" . With odd looks he asked to download the form from website. I asked him the URL address of the website from where the form can be downloaded, as I expected he doesn't know the URL nor he had any clue of it.
It was not over, he finally asked me to visit the near by shops so called agencies which are located opposite to the Sub Registrar office. I had no clue why he is asking me to visit those agencies. When I asked him about why I had to go there, he replied saying "Form can be obtained from those agencies" . So as suggested by the officer I went over to one of those agency and asked for the form that should be filled to obtain marriage certificate.
The person in that agency asked me "whether you need the certificate immediately or after few months ?". I was puzzled on hearing his question.So replied him "what does your question has to do with the application forms to be filled" . I was shocked on hearing his reply. He replied "To get certificate with in weeks it costs Rs.3000, if you need after few months then it costs only Rs.2000" . When I asked him about why I need to pay such huge sum for obtaining the marriage certificate which is supposed to be issued for just Rs.200 (max) ( refer: Marriage registration ) , he replied rudely saying "this how it works here if you want you can get it else move on" .
I understood that these agencies has links with the corrupted sub registrar officials. That was the reason the official at the Sub Registrar office denied to issue the registration form and asked me to get it form these agencies. I didn't have enough money to pay those agencies and I didn't like to pay bribe to these corrupted government officials.With heavy heart I returned home.
These government officials are getting paid for the work they do. These people are getting paid through our tax money and they deny to serve the people. This is how most of the government offices are functioning in this country. The higher officials don't care about these lower level officials because they are busy with even more bigger bribes. Heil Tamil Nadu government..Heil India...
