to get a new gas connection in chennai, one has to now attach a ration card. if you don't have a ration card, you can apply for it and then you may have to wait from three to eight months. once you attach the ration card, you may have to again wait for a month to get a cylinder!
i got my gas connection in 30 minutes flat! no address, photo ID, ration card, letter from employer docs were required. i just had to pay around a thousand rupees extra. i know it's wrong, but i don't have the patience to wait for ages to get a connection. getting a legal connection would mean traveling to delhi, getting my name struck from some civil supplies office, carrying that document, reapplying in chennai - and imagine the effort all this requires.
i wonder why the state government has such funny and people-unfriendly guideline for issuing something which is a basic necessity! and something which may not be of absolute use to many people is being distributed free - color televisions to the poor :-) Perhaps if they distribute ration cards, their vote bank may swell :-)
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