What is corruption?
Before digging deep into the topic "Who is responsible for corruption : government or people?" Let's briefly describe corruption : "Corruption is the misuse of power and money for the sake of selfish motives". Power is an axe to grind for politicians and civil servants and money for well off people. They use baits of money to have their cup of tea.Who is responsible for corruption?
It is a matter of great concern that there is no field left which have not been stained by corruption. It starts from low level and goes to the top most as the coal scam and a great scam in IT sector at central level.Now a million dollar question arises that who is responsible for corruption : people or government? Actually both of them are responsible but in my point of view people are responsible for corruption to much extent. Let us see how? As formerly said for the fulfillment of selfish motives one takes help of bribe. It is a cause if individual thinking, that of self-centeredness.
True face of situation
It comes into view that government servants compel people to do so, this is not completely true. There are other reasons also like lack of complete knowledge of government procedures, or a case of instant coffee, or when approval to an illegal project/work is required, or when we brake rule want to close the case or want the judgement leaning towards us then we offer bribe. Therefore, it can said that people are responsible for corruption to much extent.What is bribe?
Here comes a funny thing that bribe is not considered as bribe anywhere as it is sweets/gifts in the case of government work, it is donation in the case of education, it is a cup of tea in the case of traffic police, and it has many more faces.How to tackle corruption?
Now, let us take a look at points which can help us to tackle the problem of corruption. A recent step taken by our PM, Narendra Modi, was demonetization, it has abolished black money to much extent and privatisation of power sector os also a step on the the same line to curb corruption.And now I wanna to suggest two points :
- first one is 'do follow rules' then no one can put a question mark on you and
- second have knowledge of procedures of government work, it can be done through internet or by RTI Act, the Right To Information Act.
Nice article about corruption but in my opinion demonetization had not become a big reformer for corruption .
ReplyDeleteNow adays again corruption is a big problem for us as people are thinking that corruption is the smart and easiest way for completing their task and they think by giving bribe ( so called gift or sweet ) is the easiest way of completing their work . So we have to work from the origin of this problem which is to change the mentality of people of doing work.we have to increase awareness in Indian people about misuse of money and help them to understand that giving money is the criminal offence .