Civil Offices

The constitution of India is famed world wide. With its detail and heavy literary content, it proudly is the longest ever. Our proud and rich legacy.

Oh hey!! That stops there. What implied is, umm, somewhere below the ideal model mark. Civil Offices, the interface between the public and the government, are meant to bridge the gap between these two. But lo! Reality differs, and here its way off line. Civil servants, on a general basis, regard these offices as heavily guarded forts.

People at the Collector’s Office, Hospitals, Ration Shops, Regional Transport Office, Police station etc, and from all hierarchy have this airheaded-ness that hovers so strongly above them, you can literally sense it around them. Toying you like small stuff.  

You step into an office and find that you are always one document short, or at the wrong time or sometimes even at the wrong office. And yes, the service is not to be discussed about. You are always sent to room B from room A, who directs you to room C who turns you back to room A, where you finally learn the officer is not available or something you dint want to hear.

It’s the demand and supply issue, people need civil offices and they need it badly cause they have nowhere else to turn to for stuff that concerns the government. And so, the bossiness gets etched very deeply that they fail to function without it.

But sorry, did I mention, that factors only for the lower or the middle class, when you have money or when you have a little influence, things do change. Time comparatively lessens and lesser documents are required. Marvellous wonders money and power can do. Doesn’t matter how old you are, doesn’t matter how long you had waited, all that matters is what can you do for them.   

And also, the article is just about highlighting the black sheep one finds. Pretty common at civil offices. Straight ones live too, and hats off to them.