CORRUPTION

The omnipresent yet invisible to the innocent eye phenomenon corruption recently got into every mobile savvy Indian's vocabulary ;thanks to Anna hazare's hunger strike and the fiasco followed.The last of the surviving tribe of gandhian was as ferocious as a hijacker in insisting to bring the "public touch" to the Lokpal Bill.But one wonders:Does it in any way control corruption?

Are we not having enough laws already?How come all Politicians are branded bad and the so called civil society representitives qualify as men of cardinal virtues?Don't we need a system at every nook and corner of the country where the civil society becomes the real watchdog of administrative procedures to prevent wrongdoing rather than a few getting into the lawmaking body by putting unnecessary pressure?Whose interest is served ,anyway?One feels sympathy to Government who agreed to the demands may be because of the fear of the so called revolutions happening in the middle and far east.

Corruption is not only the abuse of a post;it includes any violation of trust and is certainly not a monopoly of Government.A vendor of fruit who sells you bad product in a high price also comes under the definition of corruption. In our society, it is often people who does not have a direct share in power talk loud about corruption and it is this power deprivation which seems to be the driving force of the new age crusaders against corruption.

No one is going to give a clean chit to Government regarding corruption.But to make things better,there are better ways which are highly demanding than forwarding the messages"support Anna".Its time to stop blaming but act constructively using the existing system itself.

LET THERE BE LIGHT