Important Materials on National Security for IPS LCE Examination
Topic: Incorrigible Corruption
By: Dr. N. Dilip Kumar (IPS)
Courtesy: Ministry of Home Affairs
Abstract
Corruption warps a man with wealth and equips him with various escape routes. The systems and rules come to his rescue, and he knows how to use them to avoid getting caught, and how to wriggle out if he gets caught. Detection itself is difficult, If detected, process of justice can be delayed, purchased, obstructed; witnesses won over, and Senior Advocates and Prosecutors can even influence the system by foul means for willy-nilly helping him. Since the trial takes ages, his name is not sullied, as "he is still not convicted" and is allowed to use this advantage to worm up again to a warm place.
Introduction
When it is considered brazenly normal that official decisions and actions are influenced by the glitter of gratifying gifts and not by the merits of mundane matters, defining corruption seems the least relevant. More so, when, dizzy with the agony, caused by this omnipresent virus, the society has already reconciled to it as a grim reality of a common, intractable and incurable affliction. From death certificates, disposal of dead bodies, to surgeries and supplies of medicines; from normal traffic challans to registration of FIRs, investigations to trial and jail; from ration cards to land records; from parking to hawking; from permissions for constructions to prevent demolitions; from purchases, processing of files, clearance of cheques to developmental works and welfare schemes; varieties of NOCs; and tax assessments; and even in administrative matters— from appointments and promotions to transfers and punishments— you name any Government activity, without a gratis nothing moves. With exceptions being very rare, the society is stupefied. Corruption warps a man with wealth and equips him with various escape routes. The systems and rules come to his rescue, and he knows how to use them to avoid getting caught, and how to wriggle out if he gets caught.
Detection itself is difficult, If detected, process of justice can be delayed, purchased, obstructed; witnesses won over, and Senior Advocates and Prosecutors can even influence the system by foul means for willy-nilly helping him. Since the trial takes ages, his name is not sullied, as "he is still not convicted" and is allowed to use this advantage to worm up again to a warm place. While uninhibited corruption is, therefore, used undauntedly for assuaging his avarice, society is (un)scrupulously silent.
While the Scandinavian countries, New Zealand and a few others have been able to contain corruption, we are still unable to understand, let alone control this menace, though we are signatories to the UN Convention with regard to corruption. In place of a spirited action, we only continue to believe in ritualistic motions, gurgling out statistics, or churning our brains at frequent conferences, which are crudely described by some as places of resultless intellectual shadow-boxing. Therefore, we do not even raise eyebrows when public servants insincerely follow the annual ritual of taking the grand pledge in a chorus:
"We, the public servants of India, do hereby solemnly pledge that we shall continuously strive to bring about integrity and transparency in all spheres of our activities. We also pledge that we shall work unstintingly for eradication of corruption in all spheres of life ...", though we know fully well that it is broken the very next moment. It is, therefore, no surprise that all efforts made through vigilance and watch, penal processes and pledges, could not even prevent the spread of this virulent virus, leave aside its eradication. Though the road ahead looks fizzy without a salubrious solution to celebrate, there may still be some ways and means. Perhaps, Joseph Pulitzer rightly said -"There Is not a crime, not a dodge, not a trick, not a swindle, not a vice, which does not live by secrecy. Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the Press and sooner or later, public opinion will sweep them away."
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