Own your ride

Another adventure on the Saturdays. Off late, Saturdays are becoming one of the most happening weekend days for me. This saturday I decided to get the hypothecation off from my RC book. Yippee!! I finished paying up the loan and my babe is all mine now. So to reiterate and confirm the ownership, I decided to get the hypothecation removed. To begin with, I was all apprehensive about the process of how to get it done. I read up few forums and blogs which did help me get a fair idea. But then you never know how the system gives you surprises.

I managed to get my butt off early on Saturday morning while the climate was inviting enough to keep you in bed for hours longer, thanks to the drizzle. After doing the bare minimal morning activities, which excludes bathing and having breakfast :-D, I rushed myself to the Indira Nagar RTO.I was all happy to see the place all deserted. It was around 9. After doing some search for which counter to be going to for my purpose, I finally landed into a queue. Man, tat was quick, from a deserted place to a queue. Time 9:30. I was amused to learn that these babu's work from 10-12 on Saturdays. :-S. Man, that's some hours of work they getting paid for. After patiently waiting for the doors to open by 10, I entered the counter. I was all happy since I was the first person in the queue. I asked the person sitting at one counter about whom to contact regarding my purpose, he pointed me to the desk right beside him.On seeing it unoccupied, I unassumingly asked him if the person would be coming in today. At this, the guy just got pissed and asked me to repeat the question .Seeing red, I smiled and asked the questoin again.Aat this he said, he ll be coming. He also added tat I should not be asking such questions. Man some attitude he had. Anyways, I had all the time in the world , but I was more worried about the babu's, since they had only 2 hours to work. Seeing the desk still unoccupied after half an hour, and the queue just becoming serpentine, this guy finally pointed at a occupied desk where I could head for getting my work done. It seems the guy besides this person was actually not coming in. I thought to myself, I asked him the right question and I got a verbal shot back. Not heeding too much thought into it, I headed towards the counter although I was no longer the first person in the queue. After waiting patient for my turn, I realized I had not paid the fee at the cash counter which was open all the while.

At this, I hurried to the cash counter, paid the fee, got it verified from another counter before heading back to counter where I had to submit my documents. Wow, so much of running around for the sake of process. In the end , I got an acknowledgment from them and walked out pretty happy spending about 2 hours of a Saturday, considering the fact, I didn't have to give a single extra penny which all these govt office's are notorious for. It isn't tat bad after all, I think all you need is a bit of time and patience.

Few pointer:

1. Get all the necessary docs for the process listed below.

a) NOC letter from your bank requesting the RTO to remove the hypothecation from the RC book. Make sure you don't expire the period mentioned in this letter.Otherwise, you'll 've to shell some money to get another one from the bank.
b) Copy of your Insurance certificate.
c) Copy of you PUC certificate.
d) Original RC book

2. First things, first. Pay up your challan fee first at the cash counter to avoid running around as I did. I paid Rs. 100/- at indiranagar RTO.

3. Handy to carry a stapler to staple up your stuff. Though these babu's were kind enough to give their board pins for the purpose.

4. Try not to ask irrelevant question from the officials there, chances are it might leave a sour taste in your mouth, even though you meant no harm with those queries.:-P

5. Try to reach as early as possible to avoid the rush that is likely to be on a day like Saturdays.Though you wont 've to sweat as much as the people who are coming in for DL/LL test.

I have seen many forums quoting higher fee's for this process. I ll confirm this fee once I collect the RC book the coming weekend. Hope this info saves some poor souls of all the confusions like I found myself in. Happy owning your rides. :). Cheers.


Update[27/July/2009]: Yippie!! Got my RC book with the cancellation, and the fee is indeed Rs.100 , I confirm. :-)

Compilation of Errors Succeeded

This was just another cloudy Saturday morning. My friend Sami had asked me to join in for a gallivanting session. Agenda was simple, from her place to a boutique,then buy some Saree's for her mom while I help her choose some shirt material for her dad. Then disperse. And so it happened as planned. It wasn't even half a day, and all this was done. Thinking about the boring other half of the day, I just rode back my home where I saw my room mates rush out to have lunch and come back before they vanished again, leaving my thoughts as blank as they've not been in recent past.What with rides and visits home, it was quite packed weekends I had for quite a while. Meanwhile I got messages from Sami, blaming me for not picking both the shirt pieces. Apparently the one I chose was liked by her dad.


Hours past, till about 7, when I get a frantic call from Sami asking me if I could book train tickets for her parents to Kerala for the evening train. On hearing her tone, I was kinda worried. I immediately stopped all the activities I was trying to accomplish over the internet and got stuck on irctc. My mind was in a state of emergency and could only think of getting tickets for the next day. Logged on to the ever (un)reliable irctc site. Saw last 2 tickets for next day at 615hrs. Booked it right away while Sami was still listening to all the blabber I was telling her about the tickets and train details which only included the train number. Happy to have accomplished the task, the next was to get the tickets printed. So I went to the cafe , got the tickets printed and sent the confirmation message to Sami. Till about 9, things seem perfectly alright when I get a call again from Sami. This time enquiring about the time of the train. Amused at her query, I went in to check the time. Wait, didn't I mention 615hrs. Its in the morning and I was thinking its in the evening. Shocked at my carelessness,I started cursing myself. I guess Murphy's law was trying to make its perfect day on me. To make amends to my mistake, I decided to go and check for ticket availability, this time for a train that's in the evening. With my eye's wide open for the departure time, I was glad to find more than sufficient tickets available for the next day. I call up Sami to inform this, got a confirmation from her end to book those tickets if available. I did that promptly and I was happy again. But only momentarily. Sami, requested me to cancel the other two tickets.That's when I realized that its a tatkal. Perfect, I said to myself. Trying not to think of the blunder already made, I decided to go hand over both the tickets to her. All the while, cursing and talking to myself I rode all the way to her place only to realize that I hadn't taken the evening train tickets printout which her parents planned to take finally!!!


It has to be the best comedy of errors that has happened to me in my very long memory. I looked up to Gods, as if to ask, is there something more in store? By this, the time was already around 1100 oops 2300hrs. Knowing we wont find any internet cafe's nearby to take the other ticket printed, I decided to just come back home before being shot by someone.