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Anatomy of Corruption and its Remedies

Corruption is known as a snake which is continually poisoning the human mind ever since they are interacting with each other and are striving to live a better life on earth. Widespread of corruption has caused disappointment and discontent among the community. The machinery of government gets rusted and ceases to work in the intended manner. Corruption decreases respect for law and sense of loyalty to the government. In a society governed by corrupt officials, the whole system of moral, ethical and religious values is impaired. The distinction between right and wrong disappears. Revolutions and military takeovers become common. Today every student of history knows that one of the causes of the downfall of nations has been corruption.

Causes of Corruption:

The causes of corruption are many and complex. Following are some of the causes of corruption.

• The appearance of political privileged who believe in interest-oriented rather than nation-oriented programmes and policies.
• Artificial scarcity created by the people with malevolent intentions wrecks the fabric of the economy.
• The broad thinking of people towards corruption, complete lack of strong public protest against corruption and the lack of strong public forum to oppose corruption allows corruption to control over people.
• Vast size of population coupled with widespread illiteracy and the poor economic infrastructure lead to endemic corruption in public life.
• Complex laws and procedures alienate common people to ask for any help from government.

Remedies of Corruption

Is it possible to contain corruption in our society? Corruption is a cancer, which every Indian must strive to cure. Many leaders come with a power to declare their determination towards corruption but soon they themselves become corrupt and start amassing huge wealth.

Many People become materialistic and money oriented, there is no important of ethics and morals in business dealings. Many people thinking that money which coming to their pocket is good, same way many thinking that money which going out from their pocket is bad, but they don’t consider the way money traveling.

This is because these kinds of people have no moral accountability to anybody; and these kind have people have full trust on money, they strongly believing that money can hold big role in their life, they believing that money can solve their current and future problems, they believing that money can give them life without problems. Some of the remedies are given below:

GOD has given the wisdom to each and every human being, heart of everyone telling him/her that the way he/she following to get money is good/bad. The most important thing is person should listen and follow the good part of his heart.

 Foolproof laws should be made so that there is no room for discretion for politicians and bureaucrats. The role of the politician should be minimized. The Application of the evolved policies should be missing in the hands of independent commission or power in each area of public interest. Decision of the commission or authority should be challengeable only in the courts.

Cooperation of the people has to be obtained for successfully containing corruption. The People should have a right to evoke the elected council if they see them becoming indifferent to the electorate.

Funding of elections is at the core of political corruption. Electoral reforms are crucial in this regard. Several reforms like: State funding of election expenses for candidates; strict enforcement of statutory requirements like holding in-party elections, making political parties get their accounts audited regularly and filing income-tax returns .Responsiveness, accountability and transparency are a must for a clean system. Bureaucracy, the backbone of good governance, should be made more citizens friendly, accountable, ethical and transparent.

The number of courts should be opened for speedy & inexpensive justice so that cases don’t stay remains in courts for years and justice is delivered on time. Local bodies, Independent of the government, like Lokpals, Lokadalats, CVCs and Vigilance Commissions should be formed to provide speedy justice with low expenses. A new Fundamental right is Right to Information should be introduced, which will empower the citizens to ask for the information they want. Barring some confidential information, which concerns national and international security, other information should be made available to general public as and when required. There are several actions against corrupt officials will definitely have a restriction impact.

Conclusion

Corruption is an intractable problem. It is like diabetes, can only be controlled, but not totally eliminated. It may not be possible to root out corruption completely at all levels but it is possible to contain it within tolerable limits. The dedicated persons in public life, control over electoral expenses could be the most important prescriptions to combat corruption. Corruption has a corrosive impact on our economy.