I was on my way to Tirupathi to have darshan of Lord Balaji, it was about 730 am we were at TN-Andhra border. We had to stop to take state permit for our CAB. Not much crowd at check post, we thought we can leave early but the sriver came after 20 mins. During our stop at the check post, we could see trucks entering in to TN were having some rupee notes and as he passed through the post, his hands came out to hand it over to the police who was collecting money like a beggar only difference is this is unifromed forced begging. Dont know how much they need to run their families. We enquired our driver as to how much he paid for the transport officials there, he said starte permit is Rs. 200 and for the authorities to permit the vehicle he has to offer Rs. 250. This was indeed shocking. Going by what he said if 100 cabs take permit at that point they will easily make Rs.2,50,000 this is just a very rough figure, imagine trucks that pass by. People out there must be making Rs.5,00,000 a day. My God with minimum education they are able to earn so much in a day, funny thing is a traffic police office was at the post supervising collections. We can eat only till stomcahe is filled more we eat, we will puke or will result in indigestion but only for these people nothing happens, their crime never ends. Poor truck drivers/owners, to compensate what they pay at check post, they wither carry extra load or have to pass the pain to the consumer. Incidentally even the police officer is one in the society. But i always wonder "where will the money go" "what will they do with so much money" till date havent see any corrupt office to know more about this...their lifestyle. But i have seen RTO inspectors, their face does not have even little shine, they always live in fear-they dont know when they will be caught. Their face is equal to theat of a corpse.
When will this end..luckily private cars can pass through without encountering any pain.
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