LNMIIT - a visit to campus , PART (1) the going

As 16 july 2009 was the first date to do the admission at the allotted institute, I had decided that I would do it on then only as well as see the campus and find out what in reality the truth was about.
I live in Delhi so approx. 1.5 to 2 hours should have taken to get out of Delhi ( means Gurgoan and Maneaser also).
I had decided to take a private vehicle to Jaipur. We had decided to leave at about 6 am in morning so I can be back to Delhi the same day. But somehow we got late and started journey at 6:40-6:45 am. I had seated myself in front seat adjacent to the driver's seat. My parents were sitting at back. But as soon as we started, within an hour or so I realised why travel by road is not preferred. However I told myself that since I was going to go just once or twice via road, so just adjust.
After leaving the city part (means developed commercial part which lies to the "Gurgoan") , I actually became a bit more comfortable. On the national highway, I saw that India is truly a bog country but with very large population. I saw lush greenery and beauty all around the road with small sized farms. The biggest thing to my shock was that there were few fields that were smaller in size than a god sized home in Delhi. Another thing that was clearly visible was that though we are 7th largest nation in the world with 2nd largest population and 2nd highest GDP growth rate - our highways don't match these definitions. The highways are just two lanes with some bumps and even brakes in the road (similar to what is present on Delhi or Mumbai roads). But all over I won't say that they were too bad.
By 9 am I was almost broken since I had not done so long journey on raod since long and basically I was even not prepared for it mentally. The reason being, that, whenever I used to ask how far is Jaipur - the reply came its just nearby! But indeed India is far too big !
On my way I was seeing all that the road had to offer. Farms, dhabas, tractors and trucks - some even broken in between the highway, and, ofcourse with all this I realised that India is still more kind of rural population dominated nation. But, according to me its better. Some may be amazed by my thought but to all, its definitly better to be in rural area than in city. I will explain it. The rural area is beauty, one must atleast every year visit the rural area. It has less dense population with large patches of greenery and farms, that, unlike Delhi offer definitly better life (physically).
So, now back to journey part.
By the time 9:40 am, we were getting anxious about how to get to it. The institute is somewhat before Jaipur city if coming from Delhi (atleast map says this). So, my father, called his colleague who had someone livin in Jaipur so we could find the way. He told my father that when we reach Transport Nagar, we will see a breakout in highway. Two ways, one to Agra, should be taken.
However no site of the mention Nagar was available as no such boards were there on highway.
We got confused but somehow reached the desired Agra road. Sometime later we were lost again with no maps and links to the institute.
However we asked some good people who knew correctly where should we go and take the particular road to reach our desired location.
Now, truly speaking, during this I realised how truly great MCD is in comparison to Jaipur authority. Man, one should have seen the condition of road. Potholes with water in them and some even empty, and roller-coaster track were what the road was made of. Sometimes I thought that the car might sink into one of these. Somehow we managed those lakes on road. But since we were to go through a village, the lanes were small enough for just a car of ours to pass through, I saw that the entire region had less population. My parents told me, that, this site was common in Delhi also atleast when they were teenagers. I just thought what peace used to be there at that time. But as I went it dreaming that, suddenly we had arrived at a board which was showing some directions leading to institute. And finally almost 10-15 mins later we were at the institute.



to be continued....