Thursday, October 15, 2009

Rot starts from the head

The corruption in bureaucracy is so rampant at all levels of government departments that it has become a normal practice in our country. Bureacracy has become synonemous with corruption. And it is run under political masters. So it has become natural for our bureaucracy to become corrupt because it is under the corrupt political class, though all politicians and bureacrats are not corrupt but majority of them are tainted. The corrupt nexus between bureaucrats and politician has become so strong in our country that now it has become very difficult to break it. The unfortunate thing is that the nexus between the two corrupt practicetioners are going from strength to strength. An appraisal by an internation institution has brought out a report in which India has been among the most corrupt nations. It is shameful for the entire nations. Recently, a report has come out that the US companies have given bribes to the Babus of different government departments for contracts and licenses in the the last 10 years. They have given bribes ranging from Railways, Maharastra Electricity Boards, Excise to Navy in India. Regarding the bribes given by the US companies to Indian Babus, Indian ambassador to the US Meera Shankar had written a letter to Prime Minister Office for taking appropriate action against those Babus of different departments who have taken bribe, but PMO is sitting over the letter. It is not only during the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government that the US companies have given bribes to Babus but also during the Vajpayee-led NDA regime the India Babus had received bribes from the US companies. There is a law in the US under which the Companies have to reveal all their activities for getting favour in foreign countries and by doing so they have disclosed and we have come to know about the underhand dealings of our Babus, coutesy US companies. Though it is not the first time that the corrupt practices have been broken out in foreign country. The Bofors scandal was also disclosed in foreign land and so is four years back the Food for Oil scandal. The question here arises whom to blame for this sordid affairs in our country. The situation demads that a revolution should be started against corruption by the people in the country to root it out. Our prime minister is a man of integrity and honesty. His integrity and honesty is unquestionable. But where the majority of the political classes irrespective of political parties are corrupt, the PM also becomes helpless and that is the reason his office has not acted swiftly against corrupt practices adopted by bureaucracy in the country. The bribe in India is called speed money and without the gratification of babus no files move and their political master can not do anything because they are also part and parcel of their corrupt games. Otherwise the country would not have been counted among the most corrupt nations in the world.

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