Dictionary
meaning is, 1
Dishonest, unethical, and illegal behavior, 2
to spoil the moral discipline of someone or a country, 3
to indulge in smart cheating officially.
Generally,
we notice three types of corruptions and they are active corruption,
compulsory corruption and passive corruption. Active corruption
refers to actual act of corruption and compulsory refers to that
corruption in which a person indulges due to circumstance and passive
corruption refers to conniving at corruption practice of other people
even though, is able to stop it. Many legislators and bureaucrats,
come in this type who, are not indulging in any corruption but also
do not do anything to stop it. In compulsory type, the person
involved is the victim and so a loser while in active the person is
gainer and benefactor.
Corruption
has wider implications, out of that bribery is one aspect that
bothers most the common man, and so my suggestion as given in the
earlier posting is related with this aspect of bribery (unwilling
bribery or compulsory corruption). We shall discuss corruption as a
phenomenon in this posting to understand its wider implications.
Following
aspects are frontal when this phenomenon is studied.
- Compulsory corruption or unwilling bribery, when a victim is compelled to pay bribe under duress
- Willing bribery, when a person willingly bribes to get an illegal matter pass through, encouraging active corruption
- Active corruption, in this a person in position misuses his authority to demand bribe per force encouraging compulsory corruption
- Manipulation of licenses, Permits etc
- Favoring unethically
- Partiality in justice
- Delay tactics in giving verdict
- Corruption is a type of cheating
- Undue demands such as sex or any
- Making legal provisions suitable for one against any others, this is called law maker’s corruption
- Exploitation of authority - Active corruption
A separate
book will be required to elaborate on the points I have highlighted
here. As for my posting, here
I shall give brief description of the aspects given above. That may
make the topic more understandable.
Psychologists
have confirmed that this habit to indulge in corrupt practices is
primarily due to lack of self-respect. People with self-respect never
indulge in this unethical behaviour. That means if any society shows
repeatedly this habit popping up it means that the society and the
people in it are not having any self-respect. If we see that Indians
are having corruption in all aspects of life from government to
personal life, it means we are people without self-respect or shame.
All aspects of cheating come under this behaviour.
I put here a
very simple and usually experienced case of corruption for example of
selfishness; desire to break a queue to get early and benefit first.
I have noticed amongst Indians that there is general expectation that
they should be excused by a law while they want that the same law is
enforced for all others. These defects are the root behind the
problem of corruption in India. Unless these are addressed properly
and eradicated from the minds of common man we cannot have an honest
administration in this country.
Other
examples of corruption show that one has to indulge in corruption to
counteract other corruption. For instance one pays bribery (defensive
corruption) to stop officer from misusing his authority (aggressive
corruption, corruption of misusing authority) to annoy.
A
representative in the house of Parliament one Mrs. Renuka Choudhary
had rightly said that, people get the type of government they
deserve. It is time to seriously think on these points and if we
realize that this problem stems from our own shameless behavior, we
may be able to, one day, resolve this menace of corruption
permanently, not otherwise. I am sorry to admit.
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