Monday, July 27, 2009

My first experience of bringing Bike to other state in India

I was thinking and decided to bring my Bike Bajaj XCD 135 to Hyderabad, AP, India, from Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Few suggestions were to take NOC (no objection certificate) from Karnataka RTO and bring it to HYD and pay tax here, but i thought about it, once the NOC is taken from Karnataka, the tax paid before 2 months will not be valid as they issued NOC, then i need to pay AP tax once again, Hence i decided to bring without NOC, and pay fine when ever the HYD police catches me (Catch me if you can ;)).

Now the true story :(
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Me and my father decided that we will bring from Train instead of Bus,
I booked friday night bus ticket to Bangalore and return train ticket to HYD which was in waitinglist :(.
We went to Yeshwanthpur Railway station Train was on 4:15 PM , here no much info is provided the procedure to bring the bike, hence i asked few locals, they informed that i need a photocopy of my RC book, Pack my bike with Gunny bags and other stuff.
There was a fellow who packs and loots money, hence my father suggested that we pack on my own and went to bring some gunny bags now the time was around 3:00 PM, we packed very good and the time now was 3:45 PM, now we took to take a bill and send it, when we went there, the guy who was billing told us that it cannot be loaded as its already late, now me and father was almost quarreling that it was whose mistake, seeing that person billed and gave the bill, we took to the loading section, they told me that i cannot be loaded and we will load it tomorrow same train.
Both of us were disappointed, now real jeopardy.
As i had a ticket with waiting list and not aware (my mistake not read the ticket properly), that i cannot board train, i went and boarded and said bye to my father, its almost half the journey, in the way i was talking to my friends using cell phone, one of my friend suggested to confirm the ticket with TT, i searched for TT and wanted to confirm, i asked the TT office in one of the station, to my luck he was not my trains TT, he said me that you cannot board the train as its in waiting list and showed me the phrase on the ticket, now i thought to myself that i am an *s* *o*e and boarded the general, General section was so much crowded that there was no place for even standing too (someone who have experienced will come to know), okay now i thought this is also a experience in life, somehow i got into the train, there was no place in the train, somehow i managed to stand near toilet of the train (stingy place), after 1-2 hrs my legs were paining and wanted to sit, and there was a gentle men who gave me place to sit on the floor, i thought to myself this is how people travel in the general bogi, but how much they suffer i came to know now, these people are extremely helpful and supportive.

I don't know how many people had patient to read fully,
Moral: Always read the documents which belongs to you (eg. Ticket, Agreement), try to experience the lower class luxury, then really you feel that i am very lucky and god has provided lot many things which some people lack, its all your dharma and karma matters.

-Mahi