CHANDIARH SHOCK


Chandigarh Visit: 14 JULY - 19 JULY 2006
Purpose of visit : attending international confrence


It was really fun that I was going to chandigarh- the city beautiful. To add to this fun I was going to attend an international confrence as a faculty there. We were the only undergraduates preenting the paper and the others were mostly PHD students or professors from foreign countries.

There were three of us from DAIICT and we arrived on 15th morning and we just figuring out what to do, where to go. We had to go to some sector 31 for the confrence but first we had to find place for boarding. So we asked the auto rickshaw drivers there and they said that sector 31 was just 3 kilometers from the station and it is very easy to reach there, so better take a hotel near the station.

So in order to make a few bucks he took us to a hotel nearby and next day to our wonder the place was very far away from where the confrence was to take place and there was not a single bus to take us to that place. We really felt angusied by such behavior as nowhere in India I had faced so much of cheating.

The people in the hotel were also great people. Once they had booked the room, they never came to ask for anything, never came to change covers. We had to shout twice to make them change covers and after shouting enough for giving us drinking water, I started living on mineral waters that I bought. Those people were busy drinking and just passing their time. This was too much for a room for which we paid 300+30 bucks a day, 30 ruppes for service charge of service that was never provided. I never faced such behaviours anywhere in India. And also there were more incidents of local violences one can hear whle staying there comparing with other places that I have visited.

First I hoped most of them will be sardars in chandigarh but to my astonishment they were not. We aslo faced situations where the auto driver dropped us 3 km away from our hotel saying that the destination was a five minute walk, and bus drivers with there attitude always confusing us about the destination.

Though these are some bitter memories but chandigarh is really a beautiful city, so much beautifully planned and so beautiful places to visit and so beautiful people to see. Well to conclude it is a very beautiful city but beware when you are travelling.