Arrived in Dehli India

In Lahore on 27th July-2010, the departure time to Dehli India was planed 4:00am morning to reach at PTDC, Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation Gulbarg, objecting to get our passport and visa verification formalities checked in by the corporation assigned staff. We the 20 people across four provinces of Pakistan gathered at PTDC on time and got all the formalities processed properly, that took more than 2 hrs. Oftenly baggage checking process is quite annoying and tiresome job. The bus left after a little orientation by one of the senior managers Ms. Musarat (PAIMAN Trust) over the next possible security clearance issues, which can birth to a cumbersome process at Waghah boarder.
The bus headed towards Waghah boarder around 7:50am and we reached safely at some where near to Waghah vicinity but little after the boarder of India. There we were invited to have a quick break fast and then to get some custom related formalities finished with our Pakistani officials. That sort of security clearance and custom formalities took more than one and half hr. Later we headed towards Waghah where a quite rigorous security clearance process was noticed, our teams’ baggage was checked by our Indian brothers in a way where a needle type of things were happened to be the point of more exhaustion and explanation up till to a final clearance.
Finally, around 11:00am, the bus headed towards Dehli under the strict security protocol till Dehli’s posh area. The bus had usual stop over at Amratsar, Gordwana and some where in the peripheries of Dehli. Each stop over was full of fun, light refreshment and mix learning from the things around us adding to a flavor of team building, the team managed to interact with locals of these areas who shared some interesting experiences.
• The small and large villages are now just in the priority of a present Indian government, as new roads are being linked with main highways of the country, so that a common farmer could have access to a main mark, the temples are equally respected, no one has great concern over rituals and customs of any community.
• Responding to a question on strikes and processions, no one took it seriously all of them aired their views quite positively that, now India is aware of doing things in well disciplined manners, neither any shutter down strike is observed at great length nor any damage to public or private propriety is carried out by the public because all these things result to a great loss to a nation as a whole. People of any party or having no any relevance with political party can come on roads to raise their issues and voice before the people in governance.

It was really amazed to see the various activities of a present government, like free tool tax roads, CNG auto engines are only allowed to come on roads, stable irrigation systems, proper water treatment plants, huge saline water disposal mechanisms, no or less load shading, new net work of overhead bridges and refinement of metal roads is done with great planning.
It is believed that some primary hurdles will be removed tomorrow, like currency change in Indian rupee; as most of the team members have currency in dollars and in India it is very difficult to get real Indian currency by the money changer. Our past colleagues had not a good experience of having real notes. So the learning says, always get your currency changed from the authorized money changer, who is notified by the government.
At the moment, an entire team is accommodated in one of the good private global business school’s hostel existing in the heart of Dehli, in which all the facilities are simply available which we usually miss within these types of schools in our country.
Skies touching temples are every where, so one can get into the deep ocean of thinking that how these mega structures are/were built with a great zeal and vigor.