It was the month of Aug 2014 when the result of PCS (State Civil Services) 2010 was announced and I was selected for the post of Deputy Education Officer. After a long wait the training was started in the month of Jan 15 and finally after two months of training we all were posted to different blocks in the state of Uttarakhand. I was posted to Chakrata. I heard this name before and in fact read it several times which being in Dehradun as there is a famous road known as Chakrata Road. It was on 01 April 2015 we started our journey for chakrata. We hired a taxi from Roorkee. I was confident that the driver must have been to this lesser known place but to my surprise it was his first visit too. We reached Kalsi and then the after the military gates of Kalsi which they named Kalsi Gate, the road to hill was started. Soon after crossing the gates the front tyre of the taxi burst. Thankfully driver had the spare tyre and he took hos own sweet time to change it. It was a new road for me...
