Keep it Simple Silly!

These days, Traffic Police seems like the most over-staffed organization in Pune. At each signal I see 4-5 policemen basking in the sun, waiting for someone to break signal, or to spot bikes not from Maharashtra. I play chor-police with them every day, trying to protect my AP bike from their ruthless eyes and I am fed up. I wish we had simple, standard and sensible rules and procedure for allowing vehicles bought in one State to be driven in another. The current process is too complicated, lengthy and unnecessary. I don't want to get into the details of it as I am too sleepy to describe it here right now.

My point is only this - make rules simple, so that people can comply. Not so complicated, illogical, ridiculous and impractical that the police – who have to ensure that rules are followed, and people – who have to follow the rules, both find workarounds and together work out arrangements that are totally outside rule-books, yet perfectly convenient and mutually agreeable, and basically harmless. It’s like both police and public wag their tongues at the rule-makers, who still don’t get it, or probably don’t care, coz they themselves have many such convenient arrangements, at much bigger scales.