I asked God, “What is corruption?” He replied back saying “Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency”. Without giving much time I asked, what can it cause to the human kind, after a long pause, he replied, “It was the one that took my life before 2000 years for 30 pieces of Silver by Judas”. Baffled by the answer and with great depression in heart, I asked “what can be done to stop it?” He started thinking and he read few big books from his rag. While he was screening a book, he laughed victoriously and shouted, “I’ll send a messiah with the solution and let him be called Anna”.
Anna through his 13 days fast re-proved the world what Satyagraha can do and the meaning of “Satyameva Jayate”. But the first question that arises in every mind is, “What is corruption?” Taking money for or for not performing duty can be the abstract definition of corruption. On a higher abstract level, corruption happens in places wherever there is transaction of money between two individuals.
In India more than 45% of people have been a victim of corruption which includes everyone right from 2 days old baby to the grand old man of India. The most disgraceful part is according to Swiss Bank report is India has more black money in their bank than the rest of the world combined. Yes, that is our money that has been kept over there. On the contrary, these black money laundering people are paying interest to Swiss Bank for not revealing their names.
Now that corruption has gone up to a level that through 2G scam through which every individual in India lost 1.76 Lakh personally had made the world know that few Indians will even sell their motherland for cash. Bandwidth allocation to Uninor, Pakistan based company is a standing example. Corruption initially started out of pressure, but now it has become the habit of the people which is much more contagious and irresistible than the cigarettes. This badly acquired money is used for killing people social activists, funding terrorist, sucking out basic amenities from every Tom, Dick and Harry.
Government, do you think democracy is something that comes every five years? Even if you have a slightest thought in that line, please forget it. Our Jan Lokpal is going to help us exercise democracy continuously not like voting.
Here are few important points about Jan-Lokpal
* The people’s bill will bring more 45 Lakh employees under its ambit which includes everyone right from Prime Minister to the clerks in every office.
* Jan-Lokpal can also scrutinize all the NGOs and Corporate agencies.
* All the whistle blowers who continuously try to uproot corruption and bring about transparency will be protected and safeguarded through this bill. If it had been introduced earlier, Shehla Masood would have been saved, but never worry it will save a million in future.
* If you think Lokpal can over-power parliament, then it is wrong. Can election commission or Supreme Court master upper and lower house? No right, so is Lokpal.
* Investigation will be completed in a year’s time and trial in the next one year. So, we need not tent in court for 20 to 30 years for most of the case as we do now.
* Compensation will be given if your work is not completed in time. Yes, even the western countries will envy our bureaucracy.
* CBI and other vigilance agencies will be merged with Lokpal and so from after this cannot be used as a tool to jail the ‘Raja’s’ and ‘Rani’s’ of the country “when needed”.
* Citizen Charter will be placed before every office and it will explain the working of office.
* What will happen if officers in Lokpal become corrupt? Don’t worry, it will be transparent body and if complaints are lodged and proven against the officers in Lokpal they will be dismissed immediately from the Lokpal panel.
Many criticized this noble notion of removing corruption. Few like Arundhati Roy came on print media to bring down our beloved neta. Mrs. Roy questioned the integrity of Anna? But do you know what their credibility and views are? Mrs. Roy was the one who wanted Kashmir to be given to the separatist. Few people want to stay away from the crowd so that they are noticed, but believe me standing in front of a crowd and leading them is much tougher than commenting. Mrs. Roy, please take up some other topic, not this, because this is people’s issue! Come stand with us, you will know what it means. You are welcome.
It is tough to correct or rehabilitate all the corrupt people. A software engineer knows it well, addressing problem at all points makes it a brute-force which is inefficient, but when certain strategic points are found and processed, the solving becomes easier and so is this problem of corruption. Anna’s draft checks corruption of the current generation. But how can we remove it from every cells of individual in the society?
Charity begins at home and so is corruption. Every parent and teacher wants their children and wards to be successful and this in turn it has made people choose wrong paths and has now created a society that is symptomatic, decadent and where values of honesty are rotting out. But, instead of successful individual if they try to create a good citizen then it can create a society that is blessed with political jurisprudence, communal amity and high moral integrity. Yes, it can. Yes, our Jan Lokpal will take care of current generation frauds and cheats, but the future is in the hands of every Indian.
I’m assuring you, I’ll make my son a good citizen with high moral integrity and let us all take the same oath.
Against Corruption with many more,
Alagiri Samy.S
www.rebelspath.blogspot.com
Special thanks to Viswa, Srilekha Ravindrakumar, Aishwarya, Irfana, Vishnu Vardhana and Gopikrishnana for their valuable inputs.
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