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Of course we thought that an investment of 9 k was a bit high to get VAT number. It is like you spending 9 k to get your driving license. My sister googled to find the exact cost involved and it said Rs 500! So what about the rest Rs 8500 – it is corruption charges! Of course no asshole in the Indian government office will ask you openly but then you will never get a VAT number until and unless you shell out 9 k.

So the rule is - before you start something on your own, you have to corrupt the bloody system. And the government expects the businessmen to pay their taxes properly after they start minting money. For this very reason – no businessman shows his salary more than Rs 1.5 lakhs! Who are we fooling in the long process? Ourselves?!.

My mom – now a widow pensioner - built a house out of the PF money my dad had left behind. She needs a 3-phase electric connection. The government charges are Rs 9000 and the corruption charge is Rs 6000. So unless she shells out 15 k – she will never get a 3-phase connection. Thankfully she has a single-phase connection already, or I am sure the government would have never minded she spending her life in darkness.

My mom then got a water connection – Rs 5000 government charges and Rs 5000 corruption charges. And her pension is Rs 4 k per month!

I am not against people making money. Money is good. Money can buy you luxury and money can buy you happiness too. But making money in this way, where you drag people to a stage where they become utterly helpless and are forced to pay - I think is a sin. I think these corrupt bastards should run a brothel in their houses instead – at least they can get some content customers.

I spoke to many people, and all said me the same thing that you cannot get things done in government offices without corruption. You have to pay Rs 50 to the electrician or he won’t climb the pole, you have to pay the cylinder delivery boy Rs 20 – or he will delay delivering the cylinder next time, you cannot get a ration card if you don’t pay Rs 2000, and the khakhi clad joker will never accept you exist if you don’t give him Rs 500 to get your passport.

I agree that in the present Mahaan Bharat, where like choots we are expecting it to be a developed country in 2020 – nothing moves without corruption. But I strongly feel that it should stop somewhere, sometime. Of course I am responsible too - I have corrupted the system once. I have thrown Rs 100 to get my dad’s death certificate or else he would have been a living entity till date, I have thrown Rs 100 to the Village Administrative Officer of Tiruppur to prove my parenthood, I have thrown few 100s in Taluka office of Tiruppur to get my mom her pension - all these corruption even after having all the documents in place.

And now I have decided - I won’t. I won’t give out a single ‘Rupee’ to any of the government employee to get my things done. I might die homeless or even penniless – but I won’t let them win!

I have decided another thing too. I know this small decision doesn’t make much difference to people alive and also to the world - but still. My charges for consultation for all are the same at it is shown here -

http://www.askenni.com/archives/vedic_astrology/index.html

But for corrupt government officials of India, and all the corrupt politicians it is 45 per cent higher (33 per cent tax and 12 per cent VAT). (The extra 45 per cent money collected will be donated in the form of Anna Dhanam to poor children of India)

God Bless All