Bol baby bol rock and roll
Posted on: November 6, 2024
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There are some dates/ months that give working people (at least some of them) nightmares. One such date/ month is the month of July, especially the end of July, when one has to file one’s income tax returns. In India everyone claims to be an income tax payer, but the reality is that only 2% people actually pay income tax in India. Another 4% people file income tax returns but they do not pay income tax (they show zero tax liability in their IT returns). But when Union budget is announced, it is the remaining 94 % people who do not pay any income tax and who rather enjoy government subsidies who make the most hue and cry that their income tax burden had increased. 🙂
So it is only about 6 % population (about 7 to 8 crore people out of 140 crore population) who worry about filing income tax returns every year. There are some people who give this work to “experts” but most people file their own Income tax returns.
I have been filing income tax returns throughout my working life. Worrying about filing the income tax and heaving a sigh of relief when the filing goes through gives a satisfaction that non tax payers will never know. 🙂 The satisfaction is even more when you yourself file your return and the IT department accepts your IT returns.
For the last two years, after I retired from service, I continue to worry about filing my income tax. Additionally, now I need to worry about another date/ month. The entire month of November every year is very important for those who retire from government service and get pension. They need to give a Life certificate (called Jeevan Praman) during the month of November. In this certificate, they certify that they are alive. If their certificate reaches the pension disbursing bank and the bank accepts the certificate, then his pension continues for the next one year. If a pensioner fails to submit his “jeevan Praman” during this month, then his monthly pension gets stopped.
So one can see the importance of this month of November in the life of a pensioner. Being able to submit life certificate is literally a matter of life and death for a pensioner.
When I retired in June 2022 and settled at Bhopal, I thought I would get my pension regularly like how I used to get my salary regularly during my working days. But I did not get my pension for two months. I thought that this could be the usual time taken for pension to start. After two months I began to worry a bit. On looking at the details and making enquiries, it turned out that one needed to go to the concerned pension disbursing bank and fill up some forms. Moreover, one bank in Bhopal was the co-ordinating bank for all pensioners settled in MP and Chattisgarh. My wife and daughter went to this co- ordinating bank and found out the details. Then I went to that bank with my wife and filled out the details. There it turned out that my signature was not matching with the signature in their data base. Get the aadhar authentification done, I suggested. No, we only go by signature for pensioners who can sign, I was told. Nevertheless, they relented when I signed again and tried to match my signature as close to the signature that they had in their data base. They suggested that I should go back to my home branch and get my signature sample updated. It was a good suggestion, seeing that my signature that I had given to the bank was 20 years old and my signature had changed during all these years.
With the forms filled up and accepted, I finally began to get my pension from September 2022 onwards, much to my relief. Of course I got the pension for the months of July and August too in that month. My wife and daughter took credit (rightly so) for ensuring that I began to get pension.
I was aware that life certificate was needed to be submitted in November 2022. I had started to do my research in advance. There was the usual old fashioned way of going to the home branch and prove to them that you are alive. There too one has to do the formalities of providing life certificate. But it was an inconvenient method for me as my home branch was in another city. To make life easy for the senior citizens, Government had made provisions such as taking life certificate from the residence of the pensioner itself. My wife who knew a postman asked him to come home and arrange to get my life certificate. He came and started the process. The process involved biometric authentication. He kept taking my finger print and my finger prints continued to fail to get authenticated. The same postman had opened my Indian Postal Bank account in the past by coming at the home and at that time my finger biometric had worked (after a few failed attempts). This time, my finger biometric failed to get authenticated and so my life certificate could not be made. My wife later accused me of not knowing how to give biometric. I retorted back that my finger biometric worked perfectly well in February when I had gone to the aadhaar centre in Gorakhpur to get some details updated. If my fingerprints have deteriorated so fast, then it has to be because of the dishes she is making me wash as part of helping her in domestic work. But my complaints were rejected by my wife.
Then I decided to find if there were other ways. I found that Government of India had made an online app called “Jeevan Praman”. This app could be downloaded on one’s mobile phone and one could give life certificate using the phone.
I checked up youtube videos to familiarise myself with Jeevan Praman app. I found that one needed to download an app called “aadhar face RD” from google play store and then “Jeevan Praman” app. On Jeevan Praman, one needed to give the details. This app used facial recognition and iris for biometric authentication. I hoped this biometric authentication would work for me. If even this failed then I was doomed. I found that after a few failed attempts, this facial and iris recognition succeeded. I got the message that my Life certificate was successfully submitted online to the pension disbursing bank. Wow. So it was this easy ? And it did not even need me to be at the mercy of a postman or bank personnel. I could do it at home itself without needing anyone’s help. What a great app for pensioners. Just as useful as other government apps and technologies such as Aadhar, NTES, Digilocker, UPI etc.
This was on 7 November 2022, 5 days after the failed attempt to get it done through postman on 2 november 2022.
Realising that my finger biometrics were not working, I tried to “improve” my fingerprints and then went to Post office to get my Aadhar biometric details updated. There once again my fingers refused to co operate. Prints of only a couple of fingers got recorded. Face and Iris thankfully got recorded without any problem.
I looked at the brighter side. We know criminals get caught because they leave their fingerprints behind. If I commit a crime, I would be unable to leave my fingerprints even if I tried hard. So I would be a perfect criminal, in case I needed to enter into this line. 🙂
A few months later, I decided to buy a new SIM card. The vendor needed to take my fingerprint for Biometric authentication. Recalling my past experience, I feared that I would fail again. I suggested that he should take my facial and IRIS authentication instead. But he only had fingerprint authentication equipment with him. Thankfully I was able to give my biometric authentication using a finger that had succeeded in getting recorded during my biometric authentication at the post office.
Came 1 November 2023. The first thing that I did in the morning was to give my pet dog Izza a morning walk. After that, I set out to work on my Life certificate. Initially the app would not work. On checking at the youtube, I came to know that the latest version of Jeevan Praman app was buggy. The older version needed to be installed and that was working. I uninstalled the latest version, and installed the older version of the app. It then worked like a charm. I was able to submit my life certificate at 5:41 AM in the morning of 1 November 2023.
This time, on 1 November 2024, I followed the same routine. I took the dog to her morning walk. I was back before 5 AM and then I got to work on life certificate. The Jeevan Praman app would not work. I thought that the server of the app, being a sarakari server may not have been running, seeing that it was still Deepawali holidays in sarkari offices. I kept trying. I thought that the older app could be the problem. I decided to download the latest version from playstore. I downloaded that. After downloading, I got the option of uninstalling rather than installing. I guessed that it was for uninstalling the old app. After that I got the instal button. On pressing that I found the latest version of Jeevan Praman app getting installed. On opening, it opened like clockwork. On giving authentication details, viz Aadhar number, the app automatically fetched my pension details from the previous year. It was time for face authentication. Initially it would not recognise the face. I thought that I needed to take my glasses off. On doing that, the face got recognised. Then the message came on screen to blink the eyelids. If the app catches the eyelids blinking then it concludes that the person is alive. I was pronounced alive and the message flashed on screen “Certified that the pensioner… is alive as on 01-11-2024 at 5:40:20 …” 🙂
The certificate fetched photograph and other details from Aadhar server and included in the life certificate.
This life certificate was then automatically forwarded to my pension disbursing branch.
My wife too had taken voluntary retirement and she too had become a pensioner by now. So she too had to submit her life certificate. I thought that I should help her get her life certificate as well seeing how easy it was. When I asked her to download the Adhar face RD and Jeevan Praman, she was only able to download the face RD app and failed to download Jeevan Praman app. Then I decided to get her Life Certificate made on my mobile phone by acting as operator as one can serve as an operator and let others get their life certificate made on their already registered device. I found that my wife was unable to get her face recognised by the app despite several attempts. I did not realise that someone can have this kind of a problem. But that is how it was. If I struggled with fingerprint authentication then she struggled with face authentication. She was unable to get herself biometrically verified and so her life certificate could not be made.
I thought that it may perhaps be possible to get it done on computer as well. So I opened my laptop and installed the Jeevan Praman app there. The laptop searched for biometric device and reported that no biometric device was connected. It turned out that the laptop needs to be connected with a physical biometric device like IRIS reader or finger print reader. Mobile phones have the advantage that they are not required to be connected with any external biometric device as the inbuilt mobile camera performs that task. Though laptop too has an inbuilt camera but that is not recognised as a biometric device for this purpose. So I thought that I need to have an external biometric device that could be connected to the laptop. I ordered an Iris reader device on Amazon but that was likely to be delivered in nine days. Then I ordered one fingerprint reader. I found that it was likely to be delivered on the same date. The fingerprint reader got delivered at 8:50 PM on the same day. I got down to work. I found that it was not working (always happens with me). After some research, I realised that first I had to install the fingerprint device driver and they install the Jeevan Praman app. So I uninstalled the app that I had installed in the morning. I got the fingerprint device installed. They I downloaded the Jeevan Praman app again.
First I needed to register the laptop as the registered device. For that I had to give my details as the operator. I faced the same fingerprint problem that I had faced in the past. Luckily I managed to get myself recognised as registered by using a finger that Adhar server recognised.
Then I filled up the details of my wife and called my wife. I asked her to give her finger print. As soon as she pressed her finger, the computer immediately recognised her and flashed the success message. So my wife’s Jeevan Praman too got made on 1 November 2024 at 9:41 PM. So I saved her considerable time and inconvenience.
Earlier, during the day she had gone to post office to get her Life certificate made. But there was a long queue of people like her there. Moreover my wife had forgotten to take her mobile with her in which she was to get OTP while getting her certificate made. She came back home to take her mobile. She went out again but postponed her plans of getting the life certificate made to next monday. I saved her time by getting her Life certificate made on the same night of 1 November. So the time that she was likely to waste on Monday in the post office could now be wasted at home itself. 🙂
Next day was saturday. At 8:05 PM, both of us got messages on our phones that our respective Life Certificate were accepted by our respective pension disbursing banks. So that was a big load off our shoulders.
Now that we have been found alive by the Jeevan Praman app, we are free to stay alive or dead for the next 12 months and the pension disbursing bank would not know. We just need to make sure that we are again found alive during November 2025. 🙂
Seeing how important this document is for pensioners, and seeing how clueless lots of these pensioners are when submitting their life certificate, I think it offers good business opportunities for enterprising people. They can charge say Rs 100/- for making one life certificate which most pensioners would happily pay if it spares them the inconvenience of standing in long queue in Post office and banks. One can easily make one lakh rupees (if one gets say 1000 clients in one month) seeing how many willing clients are there all over for this service.
With our life certificate done and dusted with, we should as well celebrate by listening to some rocking songs created in Hindi movies. Take for instance this song from “Meri Jung”(1985). This song was literally a revolutionary song for HFM. Sadly, Bollywood as well as the Bollywood movie audience failed to appreciate this stunning dance performance. This outstanding dance performance was well out of league for rest of Bollywood to try and follow suit.
One can see that the people associated in this song have given their best. Javed Jaffrey and Khushboo lip sync in the voices of Kishore Kumar and S Janki. Khushboo and S Janki keep up admirably with the energetic performances of Javed Jafrey and Kishore Kumar respectively. Anand Bakshi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal.
Song-Bol baby bol rock n roll (Meri Jung)(1985) Singers-Kishore Kumar, S Janki, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Laxmikant Pyarelal
Chorus
Female chorus
Javed Jaffrey
Unknown male voice (Subhash Ghai ?)
Lyrics
welcome friends!
to the show that never ends
yoo hoo
i’m taking the chance to make you dance
wo o
you’ll move your feet and groove to the beat
hoo oo
so then
which beat would you like
doston
kaun sa dance pasand karenge aap
ramba
no no
samba
no no
ramba
no
samba
no
tequila
no
tango
no
charleston
no
polka
no
no
no
toh phir kya ho
one!
rock
two
rock
one rock two rock three rock four rock
one two three four five six seven eight(rock rock roxck rock rock rock rock rock)
rock and roll
hey! bol baby bol
rock and roll
bol bol bol
rock and roll
arey bol baby bol
rock and roll
bol bol bol
rock and roll
mere sang dol
rock and roll
arey duniya hein gol
rock and roll
arey bol baby bol bol bol baby bol
zara mere sang dol
dekh duniya hein gol
dil mein bas jaane se mujhko
dil ke sab darwaaze khol
bol baaba bol
rock and roll
bol bol bol
rock and roll
bol bol bol
rock and roll
bol bol bol
rock and roll
aah mere sang dol
rock and roll
dekh duniya hai gol
rock and roll
bol baaba bol bol bol baaba bol
zara mere sang dol
dekh duniya hai gol
aankhon se kar baaten
bol nazar ki bolee bol
arey bol baby bol
rock and roll
bol baaba bol
rock and roll
rock and roll
heyyy
ru ru ru ru ru
ru ru ru ru ru
deewaana
mastaana
deewaana
maastaana
paarvaana
nazraana
tera ye dil ho gaya
tera ye dil ho gaya
hey hey hey hey
chori se
chupke se
chori se
chupke se
chup chup ke
duniya se
milna mushqil ho gaya
mushqil ho gaya
hum do premi
hum do panchhi
chal hum udd jaayen par khol
bol baby bol
rock and roll
o bol bol bol
rock and roll
mere sang dol
rock and roll
arey duniya hai gol
rock and roll
??
come across the street
beat street
?? is a lesson too
??
ho o o
rock and roll
are mauj mein hum
mere kadam
ae mauj mein hum
mere kadam
dole sanam
teri kasam
meri baahen thhaam le
meri baahen thhaam le
hey hey hey hey
ho phool koyi
khaakh koyi
phool koyi
khaakh koyi
cheez koyi
tohfa koyi
donon tujhe na mile
donon tujhe na mile
saaree cheezon ka hai mol
pyaar mohabbat hai anmol
bol baby bol
rock and roll
arey bol bol bol
rock and roll
mere sang dol
rock and roll
arey duniya hein gol
rock and roll
arey bol baby bol bol bol baby bol
zara mere sang dol
dekh duniya hai gol
dil mein bas jaane de mujhko
dil ke sab darwaaze khol
bol baaba bol
rock and roll
ah bol bol bol
rock and roll
o mere sang dol
rock and roll
dekh duniya hai gol
rock and roll
bol baaba bol
bol bol baaba bol
zara mere sang dol
dekh duniya hai gol
aankh khol ke kar baaten bol nazar kee bolee bol
rock and roll bol baby bol
rock and roll
bol baaba bol
rock and roll
rock baby rock baby rock baby
rock baby rock baby rock baby
pa pa pa tu ru ru
tu ru ru ru
zu zu zu zu
zu zu zu zu
pa ra ra
tu ru ru ru
hey ae ae
6 Responses to "Bol baby bol rock and roll"
November 6, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Atul ji,
Thanks for a very entertaining post on Life Certificate making- an yearly ritual !
I retired from a private company, so there was no question of getting any Pension like a Govt. servant. But luckily I was a member of the EPFO Pension scheme. It had started in 1995 and I had retired in 1998. So not a very big amount was credited by me+ my employer in those 3 years.
However, I started getting my pension within 2 months and after some time the Government increased it 5 times at the minimum level. So the amount became somewhat’ tellable’ to inquisitive people, though I keep it a secret with the skills of 007 !
I face the same problem of my fingers not cooperating for proving me being alive till the 8th or 9th finger prints. This time I will pretend that my first attempt will be with the 8th finger, and see what happens.
Thanks again for the very enjoyable post.
-AD
November 7, 2024 at 6:42 am
Thanks for your comments. The fact that finger biometrics begin to fail with age is a problem that has not been appreciated and understood. Fortunately there is the alternative of face biometrics. But most operators only have fingerprint device with them.
As someone who tries to be in control of things as much as I can, I already have fingerprint device at home. In a few days l will have face recognition device as well. Then hopefully I will be fully self suffucient in giving future biometrics on my laptop for me and my wife.
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November 7, 2024 at 11:02 am
this was a favorite song of my sister and she used to try those steps
i became a huge admirer of Jaaved Jaffery and his dance skills. I loved it when he started judging Boogie Woogie on SonyTV, I felt he was apt for that
November 7, 2024 at 4:44 pm
His failure in Bollywood shows that Bollywood and its followers prefer mediocre artists rather than top class talents.
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November 6, 2024 at 3:19 pm
Atul Sir,
What a detailed and relatable journey! It’s true that filing taxes and managing pension certificates feel like a mini-adventure each year. The twists with signatures, fingerprints, and tech hurdles create stories that every retiree can relate to. The struggle with fingerprints versus face recognition had me smiling—your ‘perfect criminal’ moment was priceless!
Life certificates are not just about proving we’re alive, but that we’re alive and lively! 😊
As for me, having retired from a private company, I miss out on this annual “Rock n roll” dance, sacrificing a little pain each November. 😊
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November 6, 2024 at 3:27 pm
Thanks a lot for your appreciation of the travails of a retired person. Struggling with biometric authentication was something I did not think was possible but it turns out to be a reality.
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