Corruption

Corruption is an act of falsehood conduct by an individual holding a powerful position. The youth worries a lot about a corrupted India because it is affecting our country adversely . Let us see what does our constitution says about corruption.

Prevention of Corruption Act, 1998 says public servants can be penalized for corruption under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860. The IPC defines “public servant” as a government employee, officers in the military, navy or air force; police, judges, officers of court of justice and say any local authority established by a central or state. Section 169 pertains to a public servant unlawfully buying or bidding for property. The public servant shall be imprisonment for upto two years or fine with or both.  So the question arises here that “Have we abided this section “? Many might say yes but think for one more time have we really?

          

When we think about corruption, the first thing which comes to our mind is money in bundles. A student can also be corrupted, now few might ask how; in an examination hall if a student cheats then he or she is a corrupted citizen. That student has gone against the section 169.  Let’s be honest for a moment we all are corrupted in some way or the other. Let it be you or me. We may not accept it but we are. We can’t remove corruption completely we can just reduce it. It is an immeasurable issue.

Corruption can be categorized into 3 categories.

Ø  Political corruption-It includes kidnapping, violence, injustice, murder etc. To win in election, political parties are using liquor, women, wealth and everything among people.

Ø  Administrative corruption-It includes persons like higher authorities, officers, clerks etc.

Ø  Professional corruption-It is related to fake medicines, duplicating import items/theft items, mixture in eatables, adulteration.

                        The Jan Lokpal Bill is an anti-corruption bill drawn up by the civil society activists in India seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent body to investigate corruption cases. To draw the attention of the government, a campaign “India Against Corruption” (IAC) was started in 2011. Anna Hazare is the head of the civil society and IAC moment.

              The definition of corruption given by Transparency International (TI) is “the misuse of public power for private benefit”. Transparency International publishes the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) since 1995, annually ranking countries by their perceived levels of corruption as determined by the expert assessments and opinion surveys. However, there are some limitations which are as follows:-

Ø  The index has been criticized on the basis of its methodology.

Ø  Corruption is too convoluted in nature. The nature of corruption varies from rural areas to urban areas.

Ø  The index only covers public sector.

CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX 2017

RANK	COUNTRY	2017 SCORE
1	New Zealand	89
2	Denmark	88
3	Finland	85
4	Norway	85
5	Switzerland	85
6	Singapore	84
7	Sweden	84
8	Canada	82
9	Luxembourg	82
10	Netherlands	82

India has been ranked 81 with 40 points.

It is acting like a virus which is eating our people’s honesty, labour's hard work and country’s economy.  It is in our hands whether to allow it to grow or to at least reduce the corruption level. Just ignoring few notes is your contribution towards Corruption Free India. Here is a small attempt to tell people how worst it has become and we really need to stop this. Let us work together for a Corruption Free India.

                                                                                 

                                                                               Jai Hind.