The fear for Passport

start of another new week....had a lazy weekend, in fact so much so that did not even move out of home even once on sunday :) vaise going by the weekend there is not much to work for over the week either:) Tomorrow, i m supposed to apply for the reissue of the passport....just another reminder that i have been out of college for 10 years....!! and this is the time when you really start thinking about the indian beaurocracy.....i m trying to check and recheck if there are any additional documents that I should carry just so that i am able to present them, in case the clerk at the desk asks for it out of his whims and fancies....the next on the agenda is police verifcation, and i m wondering if someone will be home when this person comes calling (though i feel that since my address has nt changed over the last 10 years, and my passport still has a validity of 6 months in there- there should not be a police verification, but who knows...) and lastly who is going to collect the speed post when the passport finally comes in....there should be an option to collect the passport from the office itself(wishful thinking!!) So here we are, the way beaurocracy could hamper a smooth issue of passport....a new thing that i learnt was that ration card is not the only residence proof you could rely on....they have actually asked for a PSU bank statement(thankfully 1 of them has the residence address, every other accoutn has office address there), some bills( which are all on my mother's name), election i-card...which has the address partially incorrect....and now beat that, i am just wondering that after staying at the same place for 30 years, i have issues getting the documents right, what happens to a person who is not even staying in the same city for these many years.....quite a frightening sceanrio.... I agree that the passport is a sensitive document, and that there should a proper scrutiny for each one that is issued(keeping in mind the terrorism menace that we have), but the process hsould be a little simple...and thankfully i feel that is happening, for once rite now, i have fille dup the form and can take an appointment, a far cry from the last time when i actually was standing at passport office rite from 8 in the morning, soon people are going to get their passport within 3 days, thanks to an initiative in which PwC, my alma mater also had a role to play... anyways for now, i m dreading how would my encounter with the great indian democracy go tomorrow, will post the experience tomorrow