It takes you 4hrs to submit a passport renewal form...

I reached the Jaipur Passport Office 9:30am in the morning and joined the line. By the time I got my turn after spending all the time outside in the heat, it was 11:30pm. The guy named K.M.Meena checked my document. Now, he is one of the most rude and misbehaving government official I have met lately. He told me to get an affidavit made which was required to get my passport renewed. As I haven't really dealt with any sort of legal documentation, I curiously asked him how and where is it made. He was going thru other guy's documents now and he literally kept his docs back on the table and looked right at me and in his most rudest tone said, "What makes you think I'll tell you about the details?" and asked me to leave. I swear to god I almost spit in his face. I went running and got the affidavit made from about a kilometer away from the office. I got back 12.00noon. There was still a line of about a hundred people. There was no point of me standing in the end as I got all the documents checked and I just had to show him the new document. So I went upto him and showed him that. The rude bastard tells me, "Who asked you to cut thru the line and stand in front?" I almost pissed on him after he said this. But I controlled the emotions. I stood at the end of the line again and waited for another 30mins before I could get my documents checked. When I got my turn, I let one of the person you had his docs checked, he just got there for rechecking. When he got done, I told K.M.Meena that the other guy cut the line but you didn't do anything about it. He said I should have told him about it. To which I replied, "I didn't have anything against him sir and its fair to cut the line if you have already got your docs checked once or else its really rude of you to make the person stand in the end of the line." That shut him up and he easily approved my document. The moment he gave me my documents back, I asked him quite sarcastically and straight forward, "What's your full name?" He thought something is wrong and I might be from media or something or I must have some contacts that could put him in trouble. He didn't reply me the first time and tried to ignore me. So I said, "You didn't tell me your name." He very politely (unlike his normal rude tone) said K.M.Meena. And I very sarcastically replied, "Meena! Okay." FYI: Meena are scheduled caste people in India who have a lot of reservations for government job under SC (schedule caste)/ST (Scd tribe)/OBC (Other Backward Classes) Quota. That put him in his place and I left happily from there.

Contrary to this, the other official on the other counter who submitted my form was really polite and helpful. So in the end of the day, I finally submitted my form in one day. I have heard it sometimes takes a couple of few days to go thru these Indian Government Offices. I think it wasn't too bad in the end but the government employees in this country need to learn to be more polite.