Originally Posted by pichalite

My experience:

1. Online Registration

Registered online for Background Verification for GEP

2. PSK Appointment

Visited Vijayawada PSK for an afternoon appointment. Mostly everyone is knowledgable of GEP. PSK is run by employees of TCS + Central Government. The place is not crowded. Took around 45 mins for everything.

a. Entrance - Gatekeeper checks for the date
b. Lobby - Checks for documents and issues a token. The person at this counter asked for Education certificates and I told him they are not required for this (I don't carry any edu certs. All of them were in US). He also asked for new xerox copy of Aadhar and Passport as the one I got will not scan in their machine. Luckily they have one in the lobby which charged Re. 1 per copy and oh, they don't have change (!!). So make sure you carry dark and clear xerox copies. I was given a token.
c. counter A - scanned the copies
d. counter B - verified
e. counter C - granted the request for PCC
f. Gave a receipt kind of document.

3. Police Clearance

Visited my unfriendly local PS in Guntur to find information, who are so full of themselves and busy with their work. Nothing useful happened. So don't do this.

Next day morning Special Branch police not associated with local PS who does this verifications visited home by 9 am. I do not have habit of entering house number since its an apartment and popular in the area. My passport and Aadhar have house number in them. He made a fuss of it. Asked for a xerox copy of passport - not sure why needs it. Finally when leaving my father offered Rs. 300 gift to him and apparently he usually takes only Rs. 1000 gift. He was unhappy and did not want any. I tried to give him total Rs. 500 for which he mentioned he would let the application go through even if I did not give but eventually accepted and mentioned since my address is inconsistent, he is not sure of what will happen.

I'm not against giving small money to these inspection people because my mother also works in a different state government department for which she has to go for inspections. The government does not give them any incentive to travel to different villages and areas. They travel in buses and car with their own money (which sounds ridiculous). I guess they will re-coupe it this way. Also, I don't want to ruin all the time and money spent on this so far. If not for my father, I would have readily gifted Rs. 1000 to let this go through, especially because I was in hometown for 3 days and spent half day on visiting PSK in this short time. Also Rs. 500 for PSK application + Rs. 1300 for cab to visit PSK + $100 for GEP application (paid by Amex Platinum).

Just hoping the application will slide through this step or I may give up after that.