Intro – corruption
Corruption – a global problem threatening the legality of laws, rules, and regulations.
Corruption is not a mere behavioral adaptation of wrong-doers.
Corruption is a habit, a bad habit that is hard to find any internal resistance once you start enjoying it
Corruption is now deeply infused into the veins and arteries of society everywhere.
Corruption was once taken as a vice by most people, and now, there are days when people are trying to find the possibility of getting into corruption.
Such a drastic transformation, that no one tries to rethink before stepping ahead to ask for illegitimate graft from the other side, which might be sometimes too vulnerable to oppose any wrongdoing.
Definition of corruption-
- Corruption is planning a hypothetical project and showing the random figure of the monetary budget only to be siphoned away before the completion of the project.
- Corruption is introducing a ‘smart city’ concept, but the higher the budget, the greater the possibility of illegally siphoning off the proposed funds before the project starts.
- Corruption is covering the roads with loam and dust, and then covering the outer layer with coal tar. Neither the roadways nor any of the buildings could withstand a single rain.
- Corruption adopted by builders and engineers is making a mixture of cement and sand in a ratio of 1:10, and mixing soil in the mixture, resulting in the collapse of the structures in some countable days.
- Corruption is extorting money to do the work that is assigned to us.
- Corruption is that to win an election one promises to spend incredible amounts of money on infrastructure, and after winning the promise is forgotten at once.
- Leaking of papers just before the entrance examination or entry through a safe passage or back door for those willing to pay huge bribes for a seat is corruption.
- Corruption is demanding bribes from disaster victims for funds allocated for their rehabilitation.
- Corruption is the denial of the admittance of underprivileged children to renowned institutes or schools despite having seats reserved for them.
- Corruption is paying bribes to enter the Sanctum Sanctorum without standing in a queue.
- Corruption is filling vacant posts in various government departments by people who pay for them, thus depriving candidates who are far more qualified and capable.
- Corruption creates substantial hurdles for the people unwilling to pay in return.
- Corruption is all about promoting nepotism, favoring people in your community and area, though you still have to find a suitable candidate for the proposed job.
- Corruption is making laws that suit those who willingly open their wallets for you.
- Corruption involves excessive amounts allocated for bridges, highways, and buildings, which either collapse or become inoperable within a few months of inauguration.
- Corruption includes allotting government-owned land to top industrialists at nominal prices. The government might have used the property to build an educational institution hospital or factory on that land, but for corrupt leaders, taking huge bribes from industrialists seems more attractive.
- Corruption involves abandoning or demolishing existing buildings and renting them out illegally with some undisclosed benefits.
- Making one’s interests by making people fight and creating enmity among them is also political corruption.
- Implementing new policies by eliminating already available public facilities due to political differences is also a part of corruption.
- Corruption is getting caught red-handed for asking for a bribe and then paying a bribe to get free from the allegations.
- Corruption is providing inferior quality items in the government hospitals to put the money in their pockets.
- Taking money for children’s books and mid-day meals and not providing them is also corruption.
- Corruption is about influencing voters and election officials to obtain favorable results and thus directly depriving the common people of their right to vote.
- Bribing doctors by pharma industries, engineers by contractors, teachers by educational equipment suppliers, and political leaders by industrialists is corruption.
- Taking unjustifiable money as loans from the banks and then instead of returning the same, the loan defaulters either flee from the country with the help of politicians or are arrested only to be released within hours, this is corruption destroying the financial backbone of the nation.
- Corruption is not letting the underprivileged of society have what they deserve thus depriving them of the lawful rights of a sovereign nation.
- Due to corruption, there is not enough job market available and then the youth are being accused of incompetence and unskilled.
- Corruption is the black marketing of essential items and life-saving drugs.
- Stating falsehood about the country’s actual state is a form of corruption.
- Giving direct access to the economic assets of the country to industrialists is also corruption, by doing so the nation does not get benefit from its assets.
Unrealistic system
Yes, you heard me right. I have some old essay books published before 1984 with no topic on corruption.
Surprised, right?
I was equally surprised when I decided to write on ‘Corruption’.
The iniquitous method is adopted by whatever big names you notice through various mediums.
This was a slow process with many hidden under a wrap, and with time, all the hesitation and reservations vanished into thin air.
Corruption is one of the appalling factors adversely affecting the entire world in the long term.
It is said that excessive desire for anything is not good, especially money.
But this concept is now as outdated as creating fire by rubbing two flintstones against each other, people are going mad after money like there is nothing more important than hoarding money.
No honey without money
Yes, having enough money to survive in this world is important.
There is no barter system to get something that we need. Moreover, with the rise in materialistic lifestyles, people are not at ease with underprivileged people, no matter how humble they try to pretend to be.
When we want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
– Paulo Coelho
This famous quote silently holds a place in the hearts of people who make every possible effort to embrace a life full of corruption. They are thinking about money, dreaming about money, sleeping on piles of cash, avoiding direct contact with their immediate community, wandering between the hustle and bustle, and in the long run, these are the loneliest people in the world.
Yes, when we develop a strong desire for money, we cut ourselves from so many events around us because of some intrinsic urge to hide the accumulated money leading to restless nights, and days.
Conclusion
Finally, I acknowledge that I am not citing the Corruption Index in this article.
I am neither quoting the happiness index nor the GDP index.
Many indices are so flawed and one-sided that they may influence my views regarding corruption.