I want to know --- when a person holds a passport, a pan card, an election card

from one state. When he shifts to another state and needs a simple sim card for his

mobile ---why do all the service providers insist upon a local police verified document.

Is the passport not a heavily police verified document.

It takes months to acquire one after innumerable checks and cross checks.

Getting a local sim has become such a frustrating ordeal. It is better to stay on roaming

i guess and pay roaming charges than go and talk to these people.

Simple law abiding citizens can not get the basics.