Corruption in India, from where it Starts.

 

Since last few days we are hearing a lot about corruption from CAG, media and from IAC, which are making news for exposing many scams and politicians for their roles in these scams like Coal Gate, 2G scam, mining scams and Commonwealth Games scam. Media and IAC also exposed the nexus between the government and business houses  for illegal business practises and for bending the government policies to grant them some undue benefits.  Any type of corruption is not only a moral  failure for the government but corruption indicates government's failure on keeping check on the business activity of wrong doers who are eventually some powerful politicians or the relatives of them. And it can be reason of a big embarrassment for the government if its own ministers are found involved in some kind of corruption. Governments have already faced many situations where Some of ministers who were in-charge of deciding some kind of policy which will be the fate for 1.2 billion peoples, were actually acting as middlemen for some personal gain.

But all this stuff which is in the picture is only a single side of coin which indicates that many powerful personalities from political and business class are involved in corrupt practices of denying the fundamental rights to a large section of our population or grabbing medium of the livelihood form the common public on the name of development of the country for the fulfilment of their own greed. Other side of coin indicates the corrupt practises of common public. Today, the corruption has become a part of our life by our own mistakes for which we have to blame our-self. In other words, if political and business class are accused of institutionalizing the corruption then common public is accused of socializing the corruption.

  The root cause of social corruption is the same as it is in the political or in business class which is "greed" or desire for some undue benefits. For example if a person pays bribe to get a government job then it is the first step toward institutionalizing corruption which lays the foundation for corrupt behaviour throughout his service in that department (in most of cases).  This single act can have many adverse effects on our society like

·         The person who got the job has grabbed the right of a deserving candidate which can eventually causes frustration in those deserving candidates and forces them to search the alternative like bribing for the job.

·         The person who is not deserving the job and got it by paying the bribe can endorse the corrupt behaviour throughout his service.

·         Non deserving candidates also compromises with the quality of service which could be better if a deserving candidate had got that job.

  

Another reason of social corruption is lake of knowledge about the rights. Sometimes we pay bribe as a general practice like tradition which is followed by most of others. This type of practice indicates that the corruption has a strong roots in our society and we don't raise our voices or if some of us does so, we laugh at him and advice him not to mess with powerful netas or babus.

At the time of elections, we elect the candidates not by his merit or his vision for the future, "most of times we not even know about anything about their vision" and just vote them because of his cast, religion or his surname or because his father was some powerful person. This is again very dangerous for our country which not only spoils the future of many bright youngsters but can make some changes the legislation for some type of personal gains or due to the lake of adequate knowledge of the matter,  which can adversely affect us.

 One thing is very clear from the history that change always starts from the general public not from the ruling or elite class. So, this time also it has to come from the same place as it used to be and the process has already started. Together, we are the power that can change not only our fate but also the fate coming generations.  Around 75% of our population is literate and average age of Indian citizen is about 25 years, which shows that we can make any impossible thing to happen together. Change in the attitude of society is infectious, if some of us take the stand then it will lead the nation towards a brighter tomorrow. We have to put aside our personal gains which we can get by corrupt practices, we have to elect our candidates only on the basis of their merits and their vision for the tomorrow, we have to know our rights properly and stop paying the bribe for our rights.

 

Corruption with in us.

Since last few month corruption is at center stage but the corruption which is under discussion is just a kind of it and corruption can be experienced at any level or any place in our country (i don't know about other countries). Corruption is in our attitude, we don't want to get punished by law at any cost and we offer the bribe for chai- pani to our administration. Our approach at first place will be like "yaar itna to chalta hai or ye to sab karte hai, kon thane-court ke chakkar lagayega" that is why these irresponsible and immoral peoples dare to ask for money. This is only about a form of corruption which is only in the hands of our bureaucrat or politicians but there are many other forms of corruption like not paying taxes, throwing west in open, employing children below the age of 14, parking cars on the road-side, taking advantage of situation (in many forms), not paying for services, government employees not doing their services with commitment, working on the personal fronts during office hours, using office utilities for personal purposes, misuse of government facilities, being yes man for your superiors and not paying attention towards duties (chamchagiri), misuse of position.

Now come to family front, in my great country there are many rules and regulations which are not approved by any rule book in the world but here we call them tradition. On the name of these traditions girls are kept illiterate, not allowed to go out from house, not allowed to speak in front of elders, forced to marry at early ages, not allowed to speak against domestic violence, girls can't speak if somebody is exploiting them (by any means), divorce is not an option for them even if they really wanted it. In my country a girl can't choose her profession even if she has required qualification and forced to be in closed walls on the name of family traditions.

On the name of cast a large section of our society is not allowed to pray in temples, not allowed to study in schools with others, they can't get drinking water from the same source from where upper cast peoples get water to drink, in some places they are not allowed to use government roads including many other facilities. This moral corruption denies fundamental rights to a large section of our society which feels cheated by being one of us.        
  

Meri Delhi Mai hi Sawarun !!!

Delhi, A better place to live but not for all !!!

According to the study, titled “A Situational Analysis of the Young Child in India”, 52 percent of Delhi’s population resides in urban slums and 66 percent children under the age of six and 69 percent women construction workers in these slums are undernourished. Forces, a voluntary organization working on child care services in India, mentions that  Delhi’s slum dwellers have no access to very basic facilities like safe drinking water and sanitation. Study tells that about 57 percent of families from these slums are using open spaces for toilets.

You can also write down the problems of any specific locality to bring it in the notice of Delhi's civic authorities!!!