TCS ID-cards should have mobile numbers

I was travelling through an NMMT bus(Andheri -> Seepz) and unusually that day i took my Id-card out of my bag and kept in my shirt’s pocket. I then took the Rs9 ticket by giving a Rs20 note. The conductor gave me the ticket but he didn’t have the change and asked me to wait for the change. While i was 2 stops away from reaching my destination(Seepz) i reminded him of the change. He gave me only Rs1. I reminded him that he needs to return Rs11 and not just Rs1. The Conductor did not agree and then i argued with him and while i took the ticket out of my shirt pocket in frustration and in that moment of anger, my office ID-card fell in the bus and i didn’t realize as i was shouting out loud on that conductor. Conductor was then convinced and he returned the remaining Rs10. Meanwhile my stop arrived. I got down and while passing through my office gate, i checked my pocket and my bag and there was no ID-card. More frustrations in the day. I looked back and the bus was gone. It was an NMMT bus which has lesser network than BEST in Mumbai so there were no Bus depots for NMMT i could find.

I tried to reach out to NMMT via their Facebook page and their website. I also emailed them for my lost Id-card but there was no response from them. I tried giving phone calls which were never received. I also took this case of mine to Twitter using the trending hashtags including #NMMT which were retweeted by 3 unknown people. Next day, i visited the Airoli Depot with hopes of getting my Id-card back. There were slim hopes as i was in the thought process that i had a huge fight with the bus conductor and thus he might have thrown my ID-card in some garbage as a chance of revenge. In NMMT section of Airoli Depot, I entered and met the same bus conductor. I asked but he said he did not find any ID-card. I asked some other members over there. They didn’t find any such Id-card. I was furious and i left from there.

Next day morning i received a mail from an unknown TCSer stating that he has my Id-card and he gave his contact no. I was happy that some one(non-TCSer) found my lost Id-card and as a responsible citizen tried to find a TCSer friend of his and then he handed over my ID-card to him. I then met that guy and collected my Id-card and was very happy. I got my Id-card after 5 days.

Now you would think what is the big deal in losing an Id-card? Just to let you know the Id-card jacket also had my Seepz Gate pass which if lost costed a penalty of Rs1000/- and a Police complaint to be filed if lost and also an affidavit stating it which would cost around not less than Rs500/- and i had already suffered a loss of Rs400 due to lost TCS Id-card. So just saved Rs1500/- thanks to some responsible humane citizens in the world.

If my TCS id-card had a mobile number printed on it then i would not have had to face the Rs400 penalty as well because the person who found it would have called on to my number and i might have got my Id-card back maybe within an hour or on that same day itself.

So Id-cards should have mobile numbers.

#TCS #IDcards