- I Paid A Bribe
- 12 years ago
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Aadhar Card enrollment in Bangalore- MARS Telecom
- Municipal Services
- Aadhaar Card Process
- Paid INR 250
MARS Telecom franchisee which is authorised to enroll people for Aadhar cards in Hulimavu region on Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore South. I am not aware of the system but these people seem to be running a racket here. They issue tokens (60 being max) early in morning for which people are qeueing up since 4 AM. They seem to issue only 60 tokens or up till the time they say they would be issuing. On the day when I went, they seem to have issued only 35..I suppose only 35 takers were there till they closed issuing tokens that day. Then the person authorised there charged us 250 per enrollment since we could not get a token in the morning. The official timings they mentioned there on board was till 5:30 PM however, they enroll people till late evening like 8 or 9 PM and charge that bribe. When government is making it mandatory to have Aadhar to have a gas connection and extending the same discomfort at extreme pace to avail other services, they should make sure more systems are in place to enroll everyone. By leaving one end congested they should not be expecting people to get enrolled as early as possible. Since we are working class and could not go at anytime we want to enroll, we need to pay that bribe unwillingly though to avail the service and finish it off. On weekends the racket seems more active by issuing tokens a day before or to people they know so that they can make brisk business from working class.