Who can check or remove corruptiuon in India ? Our rulers - both bureaucrats and politicians are corrupt, and our judiciary is useless. For illegal bribes, judiciary finds solutions through legal means. For every small doubt, corrupt are set free. And it is not difficult to create confusuion. Adv Jathmalani got Diary cases scot free, because judiciary was quick to accept Jethmalani's version that diary is not a regularly maintained cash book or ledger ? And so are thousands of other cases, Abohar MP, Parliament Spealer, Balram Jakhar was fully entanged,, with documentary evidences, but against confusion about diary, he was also let off. Lallu Parsdhad Yadav - the ost corrupt - is the Railway Minister, and earning acclaims from foreign university MDA students ? Could it be any worse. Himachal SukhRam caught red handed with croroes of rupees cash in his bed, still roams free, and against a smallest confusion, he will also be let off. Criminals have occupied both political and bureaucratic powers,and our judiciary is impotent. Why cry uselessly.
Monday, April 14, 2008
CorruptionFreeWorld.com
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Powerful men are almost always bad men. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. So the saying (by Lord Acton) goes.
Corruption plagues this great world of ours, from Africa to America and everywhere in between, varying only in degree (and not in kind) from nation to nation, society to society. Some have argued that corruption is necessary for smooth functioning of societies, others even that it is beneficial to all involved. Fortunately, neither is even remotely true. That corruption harms the victim on whom it is perpetrated needs no elaboration. But that it also surely harms the perpetrator does. Perpetrators often need the collusion of their peers and connivance of their superiors (to whom they owe their power and its attendant benefits). As a result, they are forced to share their spoils with these peers and superiors. Worse, they also live in constant fear, of being betrayed or exposed. This constant fear they live in as well as the easy money they have access to force them to lead sub-optimal lives, inhibiting them from fully using their potential.
It is no secret that corruption plagues the underdeveloped and developing world, but as political and corporate scandals in rich countries remind us time and again, it plagues the developed world as well. Corruption may be widespread and pervasive in poor nations (with almost no one untouched by it), but its scale and intensity by and large are often of much smaller in magnitude than in rich nations (with a few notable exceptions, of course). This, however, by no means makes corruption in poor nations benign or even harmless; for, although small in magnitude, the havoc corruption in poor nations wreaks on victims is perhaps more devastating than it does in rich nations. In rich nations, on the other hand, corruption is not as pervasive, but where it occurs, is severe in scale and intensity.
Corruption’s pernicious claws hurt more than just individuals and families – they hurt economies as well. As the OECD quote above indicates, economists are coming around to the view that, contrary to previously held conventional wisdom, corruption’s impact on economic growth is significant, and that it is no coincidence that the world’s poorest nations also tend to be the most corrupt.
So what does CorruptionFreeWorld.com have to do with all of this? As we all know, corruption’s greatest friends are fear exerted by the perpetrator on the victim and secrecy into which the victim is coerced as a result. By providing a forum where corruption can be reported to the whole wide world anonymously, our hope is the following: a) victims will be encouraged to report abuse without fear or favor b) perpetrators will be deterred from crimes in the future as well as brought to justice for their crimes in the past, and c) finally, well-meaning corruption fighting governments and their law-enforcement bodies can use this forum as a resource to track down perpetrators and crack down on the bane that hurts us all.
Corruption plagues this great world of ours, from Africa to America and everywhere in between, varying only in degree (and not in kind) from nation to nation, society to society. Some have argued that corruption is necessary for smooth functioning of societies, others even that it is beneficial to all involved. Fortunately, neither is even remotely true. That corruption harms the victim on whom it is perpetrated needs no elaboration. But that it also surely harms the perpetrator does. Perpetrators often need the collusion of their peers and connivance of their superiors (to whom they owe their power and its attendant benefits). As a result, they are forced to share their spoils with these peers and superiors. Worse, they also live in constant fear, of being betrayed or exposed. This constant fear they live in as well as the easy money they have access to force them to lead sub-optimal lives, inhibiting them from fully using their potential.
It is no secret that corruption plagues the underdeveloped and developing world, but as political and corporate scandals in rich countries remind us time and again, it plagues the developed world as well. Corruption may be widespread and pervasive in poor nations (with almost no one untouched by it), but its scale and intensity by and large are often of much smaller in magnitude than in rich nations (with a few notable exceptions, of course). This, however, by no means makes corruption in poor nations benign or even harmless; for, although small in magnitude, the havoc corruption in poor nations wreaks on victims is perhaps more devastating than it does in rich nations. In rich nations, on the other hand, corruption is not as pervasive, but where it occurs, is severe in scale and intensity.
Corruption’s pernicious claws hurt more than just individuals and families – they hurt economies as well. As the OECD quote above indicates, economists are coming around to the view that, contrary to previously held conventional wisdom, corruption’s impact on economic growth is significant, and that it is no coincidence that the world’s poorest nations also tend to be the most corrupt.
So what does CorruptionFreeWorld.com have to do with all of this? As we all know, corruption’s greatest friends are fear exerted by the perpetrator on the victim and secrecy into which the victim is coerced as a result. By providing a forum where corruption can be reported to the whole wide world anonymously, our hope is the following: a) victims will be encouraged to report abuse without fear or favor b) perpetrators will be deterred from crimes in the future as well as brought to justice for their crimes in the past, and c) finally, well-meaning corruption fighting governments and their law-enforcement bodies can use this forum as a resource to track down perpetrators and crack down on the bane that hurts us all.
Combating corruption
AS A DOCUMENT which enumerates the various socio-economic causes of corruption in India and catalogues the measures needed to arrest it, the Vigilance Commission's just-released Citizens' Guide does not contain many novel or trailblazing ideas. But it does more than a good job of identifying the appalling scale of the problem and the urgent need to tackle it. Much of the subject matter between the two covers of the CVC's guide to fighting corruption has a familiar ring to it. This is not surprising as the publication bears the unmistakable stamp of the Chief Vigilance Commissioner, Mr. N. Vittal, who has used his office to carry out a high-profile campaign aimed, on the one hand, at the modification of the rules and procedures which encourage corruption and, on the other, at sensitising the public about the menace.
Corruption in India has assumed such large proportions and variegated forms that large numbers of the public have come to believe that it is impossible to get rid of this malaise. In such an atmosphere of pervasive cynicism, one of the things that the guide repeatedly emphasises - and quite correctly - is that the scourge can be managed or controlled. Other countries have been notoriously corrupt in the past (for example, Britain in the 18th century) but have succeeded in tackling the problem through a mixture of administrative and electoral reform. The situation in America during the late 19th century vis-a-vis corruption bears a strong causal resemblance to that which exists in India and many other developing countries today. In dispelling the gloomy but widespread notion that corruption in India cannot be curtailed, the Citizens' Guide notes that even Botswana, according to a World Bank report, has improved the probity in its public life.
The Chief Vigilance Commissioner, who evidently perceives his office as a catalyst for organising a war against corruption in India, may be a tad too optimistic if he believes that the guide could become a common basis for citizens or groups of citizens to mobilise themselves in this effort. But in a country which buckles under the gigantic burden of corruption and struggles to find a way to overcome its oppressive weight, any step towards giving the still-nascent anti-corruption movement a fillip deserves to be warmly commended. The guide acknowledges the need for a variety of strategies to fight corruption, ranging from general measures such as the simplification of rules and procedures and the application of information technology to specific steps such as trapping corrupt public servants. While agencies such as the CVC can play a vital role, any comprehensive strategy to combat corruption would have to involve other bodies such as NGOs and the print and electronic media.
Although it may hurt the pride to admit it, India is one of the most corrupt countries on the world map. The latest Corruption Perception Index conducted by Transparency International, a Berlin-based NGO which conducts an annual survey which attempts to aggregate perceptions of corruption within countries, ranks India a lowly 72 out of a list of 91 nations. It is small comfort that nations such as Bangladesh or Uganda rank lower in this list of infamy. As early as 1964, the Santhanam Committee, which was set up to examine the increasing menace of corruption in the administration, observed that the ``tendency to subvert integrity in the public services instead of being isolated... is growing into an organised well-planned racket''. If anything, it has grown much larger and become even better organised since. The war against corruption is formidable and not going to be easy to win, but the CVC or anyone else who fires a few salvos deserves to be cheered for engaging the enemy.
RTI brought marked decline in corruption in India
Published by the Transparency International, India's corruption index showed a marked decline from 88 to 70th position. The single-most reason for the drop in corruption in government was attributed to the Right to Information Act.
Right to Information (RTI) Act has served as a powerful weapon in fighting corruption which has shown a marked decline in the country, according to the latest Corruption Perception Index .
Published by the Transparency International, India's corruption index showed a marked decline from 88 to 70th position. The single-most reason for the drop in corruption in government was attributed to the Right to Information Act.
Mr George Cherian of the Centre for Consumer Action, Research & Training (CART) informed this at a semiar on ''One year of RTI in Rajasthan:Problems and possibilities'' here today.
He said out of the 183 countries' corruption indices, India's index declined by 18 points compared to that in 2005 and the major reason attributed to this steep fall is the public scrutiny through Right to Information Act.
Chief Information Commissioner of Rajasthan M D Kaurani, speaking on the occasion, emphasised the need for a separate executive wing and fund for the commission to make the implementation of the law more effective. He said at present the Home department is entrusted with the responsibility of execution and it is one among many responsibilites with the Home department. Besides, there is no separate fund allocated for RTI.
He said the Commission would soon launch a helpline in the state and added that ''though the significance of the law has been acknowledged, there is need to make it more powerful and effective with more fund and staff''.
Mr Venkatesh Nayak of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative(CHRI) and Mr Nikil Dey of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangatan also spoke on the occasion.
Right to Information (RTI) Act has served as a powerful weapon in fighting corruption which has shown a marked decline in the country, according to the latest Corruption Perception Index .
Published by the Transparency International, India's corruption index showed a marked decline from 88 to 70th position. The single-most reason for the drop in corruption in government was attributed to the Right to Information Act.
Mr George Cherian of the Centre for Consumer Action, Research & Training (CART) informed this at a semiar on ''One year of RTI in Rajasthan:Problems and possibilities'' here today.
He said out of the 183 countries' corruption indices, India's index declined by 18 points compared to that in 2005 and the major reason attributed to this steep fall is the public scrutiny through Right to Information Act.
Chief Information Commissioner of Rajasthan M D Kaurani, speaking on the occasion, emphasised the need for a separate executive wing and fund for the commission to make the implementation of the law more effective. He said at present the Home department is entrusted with the responsibility of execution and it is one among many responsibilites with the Home department. Besides, there is no separate fund allocated for RTI.
He said the Commission would soon launch a helpline in the state and added that ''though the significance of the law has been acknowledged, there is need to make it more powerful and effective with more fund and staff''.
Mr Venkatesh Nayak of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative(CHRI) and Mr Nikil Dey of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangatan also spoke on the occasion.
India ranked 72nd in latest corruption index
Noting that India is presently ranked at 72nd place among 180 countries by the Transparency International in its latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI), the Centre on Wednesday said it has taken several measures and is “moving progressively” to eradicate the menace.
“Government is fully committed to implement its policy of Zero tolerance against corruption. It is moving progressively to eradicate corruption by improving transparency and accountability,” the Minister of State for the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Suresh Pachouri said in Lok Sabha.
“Measures for strengthening the Anti-Corruption Bureau in various states are taken by the concerned governments while the Centre has decided to strengthen the CBI and departmental vigilance organisations,” he told the lower house.
“This include modernisation and upgradation of infrastructure of the CBI, appointment of CVOs on the recommendations of the CVC, formulation and implementation of annual action plans for vigilance activities through pro-active involvement of various ministries and departments, issuance of comprehensive instructions on transparency in tendering and contacting processes by the CVC,” Pachuri added.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Corrupt INDIA...?!
Corruption, which has now become an oft-discussed subject in India, never fails to evoke a gusting torrent of anger even from the well educated. The politicians have been making promises from time to time and pledging to do so many things but only shedding crocodile tears and heading their own way. The familiar saying, "Touch one touch all, and therefore touch none" grades their philosophy. Corruption is primarily and ultimately responsible for misguide-ness in India. False tax returns are filed. Tax are not realised honestly. Crimes are increasing at an alarming rate. Corruption is so deep rated in the administrative machinery of our country. Drastic measures should be adopted to cleanse the deep-seated corruption.
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