Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Essay:Corruption-A Necessary Social Evil

The omnipresence of corruption, spreading its poison in almost every single country in the world consistently disturbs the delicate yet complex fiber – socio-economic –politico of the society. As expected, developing countries suffer more from corruption than developed countries displaying the degree of vulnerability of its sections ranging from government, its policy issues to infrastructure and developmental issues.

Foremost among them is the close nexus between the administration and the bureaucracy whose self-aggrandizement and covetousness slows down the various development and welfare measures. Moreover, over centralization makes it difficult to access the basic services and amenities which state is obliged to give its citizens.

At the same time, to break the backbone of the nexus government proactively moving towards the e-governance to enhance the requisite accountability and transparency of the system to its citizens. Additionally, by enacting various people centric laws like RTI, Right to time bound of delivery, DBT etc government is sending strong signals to various echelons that it is public interest, which should take precedence over all other matters including personal.

Thus, one can say that along with progressive decentralization equal importance should be given in making behavior among public officials to make them people friendly. Moreover, corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. Most importantly, it is the duty of every citizen to effectively and efficiently utilize the weapons given by the government to completely weed out the corruption from the social, economic and political sphere of the society.

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