ESSAY ON CAUSES OF CORRUPTION AND ITS REMEDIES

ESSAY ON CAUSES OF CORRUPTION AND ITS REMEDIES

Gangster "I'm thinking of getting back into crime, Luigi, - legitimate business is too
corrupt"
CORRUPTION:
An act done with intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the
rights of others. It includes bribery, but is more comprehensive; because an act may be corruptly
done, though the advantage to be derived from it be not offered by another. Sometimes corruption
is understood as something against law; such as, a contract by which the borrower agreed to pay
the lender usurious interest. It is said, in such case, that it was corruptly agreed, etc.

CAUSES OF CORRUPTION:
The causes of corruption are many and complex. Following are some of the causes of
corruption.
µ Emergence of political elite who believe in interest-oriented rather than nation-oriented programmes
and policies.
µ Artificial scarcity created by the people with malevolent intentions wrecks the fabric of the economy.
µ Corruption is caused as well as increased because of the change in the value system and ethical
qualities of men who administer. The old ideals of morality, service and honesty are regarded as
an achronistic.
µ Tolerance of people towards corruption, complete lack of intense public outcry against corruption
and the absence of strong public forum to oppose corruption allow corruption to reign over people.
µ Vast size of population coupled with widespread illiteracy and the poor economic infrastructure lead
to endemic corruption in public life.
µ In a highly inflationary economy, low salaries of government officials compel them to resort to the
road of corruption. Graduates from IIMs with no experience draw a far handsome salary than what
government secretaries draw.
µ Complex laws and procedures alienate common people to ask for any help from government.
µ Election time is a time when corruption is at its peak level. Big industrialist fund politicians to meet
high cost of election and ultimately to seek personal favour. Bribery to politicians buys influence,
and bribery by politicians buys votes. In order to get elected, politicians bribe poor illiterate people,
who are slogging for two times’ meal.

REMEDIES OF CORRUPTION
Is it possible to contain corruption in our society? Corruption is a cancer, which every
Indian must strive to cure. Many new leaders when come into power declare their determination
to eradicate corruption but soon they themselves become corrupt and start amassing huge wealth.

Many People become materialistic and money oriented, there is no important of ethics and
morals in business dealings. Many people thinking that money which coming to their pocket is
good, same way many thinking that money which going out from their pocket is bad, but they
don’t consider the way money traveling.

This is because these kinds of people have no moral accountability to anybody; and these kind
have people have full trust on money, they strongly believing that money can hold big role in their
life, they believing that money can solve their current and future problems, they believing that
money can give them life without problems. Some of the remedies are given below:

µ What can be remedy of corruption? It can be only possible if people can understand and start to
believe the values of ethics and morality in their life. People will start to believe that their life is
accountable if they really start to believe in GOD, in oneness of GOD and if they really start to
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 live life on the way which GOD has chosen for mankind.
GOD has given the wisdom to each and every human being, heart of everyone telling him/her that
the way he/she following to get money is good/bad. The most important thing is person should
listen and follow the good part of his heart.

µ Foolproof laws should be made so that there is no room for discretion for politicians and bureaucrats.
The role of the politician should be minimized. Application of the evolved policies should be left
in the hands of independent commission or authority in each area of public interest. Decision of
the commission or authority should be challengeable only in the courts.

µ Cooperation of the people has to be obtained for successfully containing corruption. People should
have a right to recall the elected representatives if they see them becoming indifferent to the
electorate.

µ Funding of elections is at the core of political corruption. Electoral reforms are crucial in this regard.
Several reforms like: State funding of election expenses for candidates; strict enforcement of
statutory requirements like holding in-party elections, making political parties get their accounts
audited regularly and filing income-tax returns; denying persons with criminal records a chance to
contest elections, should be brought in.

µ Responsiveness, accountability and transparency are a must for a clean system. Bureaucracy, the
backbone of good governance, should be made more citizen friendly, accountable, ethical and
transparent.

µ More and more courts should be opened for speedy & inexpensive justice so that cases don’t linger
in courts for years and justice is delivered on time.

µ Local bodies, Independent of the government, like Lokpals, Lokadalats, CVCs and Vigilance
Commissions should be formed to provide speedy justice with low expenses.

µ A new Fundamental Right viz. Right to Information should be introduced, which will empower
the citizens to ask for the information they want. Barring some confidential information, which
concerns national and international security, other information should be made available to
general public as and when required. Stringent actions against corrupt officials will certainly
have a deterrent impact.

CONCLUSION
Corruption is an intractable problem. It is like diabetes, can only be controlled, but not
totally eliminated. It may not be possible to root out corruption completely at all levels but it
is possible to contain it within tolerable limits. Honest and dedicated persons in public life,
control over electoral expenses could be the most important prescriptions to combat corruption.
Corruption has a corrosive impact on our economy. It worsens our image in international
market and leads to loss of overseas opportunities. Corruption is a global problem that all
countries of the world have to confront, solutions, however, can only be home grown.

I used the sentence “we the common man are the solution” because we are the only reason
why corruption is so popular in INDIA. We are the persons who are motivating corruption to
be successful. We support corruption that is why it exits. Since we are the only person who
elects ministers that are supporting corruption in INDIA. Common citizen of INDIA let us start
working from now onwards with common goal of removing corruption from INDIA. Think

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 the day when we will achieve our goal and whole world will say “INDIA IS AN DEVELOPED
COUNTRY.

Labels: ESSAY ON CAUSES OF CORRUPTION AND ITS REMEDIES

Essay on Vigilance and E-Governance
Essay on Vigilance and E-Governance
CONTENTS
1. What is Vigilance?
2. What is E-Governance?
3. What is E-Governance?
4. E Governance Plans:
5. Online Delivery of Land Titles in Karnataka, India
6. Computerized Interstate Check Posts in Gujarat
7. Online Indian Railway Train Status and reservation System:
8. Work Progress Monitoring System:
9. Conclusion:
What is Vigilance?
A very simple meaning of vigilance is watchfulness or to bring awareness. But here when we
are talking about vigilance, it means we are talking about how to fight against corruption
.corruption includes misuse of power, money and misuse of government property etc. we
want to bring corruption at zero level. This can be ensured by watchfulness, caution and
vigilance or we can say in others words it can be achieved by E governance. Because E
governance provide access to information to empower citizens, enable their participation in
government and enhance the awareness, watchfulness or vigilance.
What is E-Governance?
It is the use of various modern Information and Communication Technologies such as
Internet, Local Area Networks, mobiles etc. by Government to improve the effectiveness,
efficiency, service delivery, promote democracy and minimize the corruption. Or we can say
e Governance means electronic controllership and electronic management.
E- Governance Plans:
As we now vigilance is required for ensuring the effective, proper and corruption- less
functioning of any private, public or government organization/group/individual. For same
purpose government has implemented various online services under National E-Governance
Plans.
Following are the examples of online service under National E-Governance Plan Income Tax
A. Central Excise
B. Passport/VISA
C. Road Transport
D. Property Registration
E. Pensions
F. Gram Panchayats (Rural)
G. Agriculture
H. Municipalities
I. Employment Exchange
J. Land Records
K. Company Affairs
L. Police
M. Railway Reservation
N. E-Courts

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Here we will discuss some examples and we will see how they are proven effective tools of
vigilance for not only fighting against corruption but also improving effectiveness, efficiency
and comfortness of public.

Online Delivery of Land Titles in Karnataka, India

Previously(i.e. Before the computerization of The Department of Revenue in Karnataka),
farmers had to seek out the Village Accountant to get a copy of the Record of Rights, Tenancy
and Crops (RTC) -- a document needed for many tasks such as obtaining bank loans. There
were delays and harassment. Bribes had to be paid.

Land owners find it difficult to access the Village Accountant, as his duties entail traveling.
The time taken by Village Accountants to provide RTCs has ranged from 3 to 30 days
depending upon the importance of the record for the farmer and the size of the bribe. A
typical bribe for a certificate could range from Rs.100 to Rs.2000. If some details were to be
written in an ambiguous fashion, out of selfish motives, the bribe could go up to Rs.10,000.
Land records in the custody of Village Accountant were not open for public scrutiny.

But Now (i.e. after the computerization of The Department of Revenue in Karnataka) for a
fee of Rs.15, a printed copy of the RTC can be obtained online at computerized land record
kiosks (Bhoomi centers) in 140 taluk offices. Without delaying and any bribe.
The Bhoomi software incorporates the bio-logon metrics system, which authenticates all
users of the software using their fingerprint. A log is maintained of all transactions in a
session. This makes an officer accountable for his decisions and actions. The government also
has plans to web-enable the database to make available to the farmer a copy of the land
record locally through an Internet kiosk -- although without signature such a copy will only
have an informative value.

This scheme also useful for preventing lands-scam Due to availability of all the data related
to land is at a common server.

Computerized Interstate Check Posts in Gujarat

Gujarat has an extensive road network, which carries a large volume of commercial traffic.
Major highway systems link Dehli to Mumbai and provide the principal link to the Kandla
sea port on Gujarat's west coast. Gujarat's 10 check posts are positioned at the border with
three neighboring Indian states. Nearly 25,000 transport vehicles enter daily through these
check posts.

Trucking companies want to maximize their earnings from each vehicle. Often this has
prompted transporters to load their trucks beyond permissible axle load, creating a serious
safety hazard.
Previously (i.e. before the computerization), a suspect vehicle is flagged to a stop, and then
weighed on a weigh bridge located away from traffic. The legal penalty for overload is Rs
2,000 per ton. However, any fine often has been (illegally) negotiated

The problem of corruption was particularly difficult to attack as the corrupt were backed
by politicians. In the absence of any systematic inspection of vehicles, the transport
companies also adopted various illegal practices. Duplicate copies of a single registration
book from the Regional Transport Office (RTO) have been used for many different vehicles,
using fake license plates.

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In the computerized process, all the check posts are monitored at a central location using
video cameras installed at every check post cabin. The video camera captures the registration
number of all trucks approaching the check post. (There are flood-lights and traffic lights
which make the check posts appear like a runway at night.) Software converts the video
image of the registration number to a digital form and the details of the truck are accessed
from a central data base. An electronic weigh bridge captures the weight and the computer
issues a demand note for fine, automatically.

Through the use of computers and other electronic devices at 10 remote interstate border
check posts in Gujarat, India, a team of savvy public officials have reduced corruption and
significantly increased the state's tax revenue.

Online Indian Railway Train Status and reservation System:

Before the computerization system it was very difficult to know the availability of seat and
getting reservation without paying additional money. Passenger has to pay additional money
inside the train also.
But after computerization availability of seat are known to all also passenger can himself
book ticket online, it reduces the money handling (dealing) in other words we can say its
reducing the corruption. Also auto up gradation of passenger tickets increases the revenue
to Indian railways and decreases the additional income (bribe) to TTC.

Work Progress Monitoring System:

This software is intensively used in all type of industry to monitor the work progress of
company/ section/ individual. This is not directly relate with money corruption but it is
dealing with monitoring corruption which include delaying of projects/works which leads to
increase hidden cost of company also leads to inefficient work.
Conclusion:
Now we can say vigilance and e governance are complementary to each other.
To prevent or minimize the corruption we have to have transparent system which can be
achieve by deploying E-governance in all sector and everywhere.
But the biggest challenge of deploying e-governance is not technology but change
management. Change management is important not only in terms of cultural change but also
in terms of changing operations and processes workflow that the automated environment
will introduce.

"E-governance, however, is not really the use of IT in governance but as a tool to ensure
good governance. E-governance does not mean proliferation of computers and accessories;
it is basically a political decision which calls for discipline, attitudinal change in officers and
employees, and massive government process re-engineering
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Corruption In India
All luxury corrupts either the morals or the state.

- Joubert

Corruption in the Indian society has prevailed from time immemorial in one form or the other.
The basic inception of corruption started with our opportunistic leaders who have already done
greater damage to our nation. People who work on right principles are unrecognized and
considered to be foolish in the modern society. Corruption in India is a result of the connection
between bureaucrats, politicians and criminals. Earlier, bribes were paid for getting wrong things
done, but now bribe is paid for getting right things done at right time. Further, corruption has
become something respectable in India, because respectable people are involved in it. Social
corruption like less weighing of products, adulteration in edible items, and bribery of various
kind have incessantly prevailed in the society.

In today's scenario, if a person wants a government job he has to pay lakhs of rupees to the
higher officials irrespective of satisfying all the eligibility criteria. In every office one has either
to give money to the employee concerned or arrange for some sources to get work done. There is
adulteration and duplicate weighing of products in food and civil supplies department by
unscrupulous workers who cheat the consumers by playing with the health and lives of the
people. In the assessment of property tax the officers charge money even if the house is built
properly according to the Government rules and regulations.

Political corruption is worst in India. The major cause of concern is that corruption is weakening
the political body and damaging the supreme importance of the law governing the society.
Nowadays politics is only for criminals and criminals are meant to be in politics. Elections in
many parts of the country have become associated with a host of criminal activities. Threatening
voters to vote for a particular candidate or physically prevent voters from going in to the polling
booth – especially weaker sections of the society like tribals, dalits and rural woman occurs
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frequently in several parts of the country. Recently, the Government increased the salary of the
M.P.'s from Rs.16, 000 to Rs.50, 000, that is 300% increase to the existing salary. But many of
them are unhappy with rise and want the Government to increase the salary to a much more
extent. This clearly shows how the politicians are in constant thirst for monetary benefits and not
caring about the welfare of the people. Tax evasion is one of the most popular forms of
corruption. It is mostly practiced by Government officials and politicians who lead to the
accumulation of black money which in turn spoils the moral of the people.

Major Factors Responsible For Corruption:

1. The most important factor is the nature of the human being. People in general, have a great
thirst for luxuries and comforts and as a result of which they get themselves involved in all
unscrupulous activities that result in monetary or material benefits.
2. Moral and spiritual values are not given utmost importance in educational system, which is
highly responsible for the deterioration of the society.
3. The salary paid to employees is very less and as a result of which they are forced to earn money
by illegal ways.
4. The punishments imposed on the criminals are inadequate.
1. The political leaders have spoiled the society completely. They lead a luxurious life and
do not even care about the society.
2. People of India are not awakened and enlightened. They fear to raise their voice against
anti-social elements prevailing in the society.

Measures To Control Corruption:

There are some specific measures to control increasing corruption.

1. The Right to Information Act (RTI) gives one all the required information about the Government,
such as what the Government is doing with our tax payments. Under this act, one has the right
to ask the Government on any problem which one faces. There is a Public Information Officer
(PIO) appointed in every Government department, who is responsible for collecting information
wanted by the citizens and providing them with the relevant information on payment of a
nominal fee to the PIO. If the PIO refuses to accept the application or if the applicant does not
receive the required information on time then the applicant can make a complaint to the
respective information commission, which has the power to impose a penalty up to Rs.25, 000
on the errant PIO.
2. Another potent check on corruption is Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). It was setup by the
Government to advise and guide Central Government agencies in the areas of vigilance. If there
are any cases of corruption or any complaints thereof, then that can be reported to the CVC.
CVC also shoulders the responsibility of creating more awareness among people regarding the
consequences of giving and taking of bribes and corruption.
3. Establishment of special courts for speedy justice can be a huge positive aspect. Much time
should not elapse between the registration of a case and the delivery of judgment.
4. Strong and stringent laws need to be enacted which gives no room for the guilty to escape.
5. In many cases, the employees opt for corrupt means out of compulsion and not by choice. Some
people are of the opinion that the wages paid are insufficient to feed their families. If they are
paid better, they would not be forced to accept bribe.

The one thing that needs to be ensured is proper, impartial, and unbiased use of various anti-
social regulations to take strong, deterrent, and timely legal action against the offenders,
irrespective of their political influences or money power. Firm and strong steps are needed to
curb the menace and an atmosphere has to created where the good, patriotic, intellectuals come
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forward to serve the country with pride, virtue, and honesty for the welfare of the people of
India.

Tanvir

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Written by N. Vittal

Published: 13 July 2013

The Central Vigilance Commission on 31st October 2000, introduced the practice of observing
the week starting from the birthday of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as the Vigilance Awareness
Week. This was an effort at making the employees of the government of India
organisations aware of the dangers and harm caused by corruption ,which is anti poor, anti
development and anti national .

31st October was chosen as the date as it is the birthday of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of the
great leaders our country who is an outstanding icon and role model for patriotism, political
integrity, visionary but highly pragmatic leadership and value based politics. The birthday of
Sardar Patel was deliberately chosen because during the freedom struggle, Sardar Patel was the
leader who did all the demanding hard work not visible in the public eye of raising resources and
organising the political movement .This task called for , absolute integrity, an excellent capacity
for management and inspiring leadership.

The Central Vigilance Commission[CVC] was set up in 1964 following the recommendation of
the Santhanam Committee which was assigned to study the issue of corruption in public life and
suggest measures to be taken to check corruption among the public servant of the government of
India as well as in the political field. The jurisdiction of the CVC was restricted to the public
servants. So far as the political leaders were concerned, an organisation called the Lokpal was
visualised to be set up. Unfortunately, while the CVC was set up in February 1964, the Lokpal
has been a matter of debate. In the last forty years a Lok Pal bill hs been introduced in parliament
nine times but with no results. The latest was the Lokpal bill introduced in December 2011 which
was passed by the Loksabha and is now before a joint select committee.

The situation about vigilance awareness today is totally different from what it was way back in
2000. The political developments at the national level in the last three years have drawn almost
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the total attention of the media and the powers that be to the issue of corruption in public life and
governance. In short, 2008 can be called the year of scams when a glimpse of the dimensions of
corruption in governance was revealed thanks to the series of scams. 2009 witnessed the pent up
anger of society at large which exploded into two movements one led by Anna Hazare and his
team under the banner of India Against Corruption. The second was led by Baba Ramdev, who
has a large following thanks to his televised yoga classes every day. While Anna Hazare focused
on the issue of the Jan Lok Pal Bill with the Jan Lok Pal as the silver bullet to kill the demon of
corruption once for all, Baba concentrated his movement on the allegedly enormous amounts of
funds of the order of US $1.3 trillion in tax heavens sent by Indians out of our country. His
demand was that this money must be brought back to India and would of immense value in
building the vital infrastructure for the nation.

Both the movements have in a way greatly dissipated but at least they ensured that the people all
over the country and the common man became aware of the issue of corruption in every sector of
public life

Vigilance means alertness .If we are alert, about the harm caused by corruption, we can prevent it
we can also take action to punish the guilty so that there is a deterrent effect. If there are weaknesses
in our system, we can take corrective action to design better systems that do not provide scope for
corruption,

In other words, if we are aware of the dangers of corruption and vigilant, we can take action for
predictive, preventive and punitive vigilance.

Based on my observations and association with this issue, I have come to the following conclusion:

(i)The source of corruption ultimately is in the human mind. It is greed which is at the root of
corruption. The Bhagawat Gita itself recognises that every person acts according to his nature or
guna. It classifies people under three categories as those who have satva guna, rajo guna or tamo
guna. Each person will behave only according to his guna. If we want corruption to be checked
in public life, we must design systems that will promptly punish those who indulge in corruption.

(ii)The main reason why corruption flourishes is in our system, is that no body is held accountable
in our system of governance .We must design a system in which everyone will be held accountable
and there will be prompt and assured punishment of the corrupt

(iii) If we look at the dynamics of corruption, we find that it is a vicious cycle involving the neta,
[political leader] the babu [bureaucrat], the lala [business and corporate sector] the jhola [NGO]
and the dada [criminals]. Starting with political corruption, the bureaucrats also flourish in
corruption and they are encouraged by the corrupting corporate sector, and the business
community .Even the non governmental sector is involved in the vicious cycle, ultimately topped
by criminalisation of politics.

To break the vicious cycle, we will have to begin with tackling the political sector. Political sector
will be unwilling to commit hara kiri because today politics has become an exercise in the use of
money power[mostly black money] and muscle power. Over the years we have developed a
system, where blackmoney acts as the oxygen for corruption and vice versa. Almost every sector
seems to have been affected by the taint of black money and hence the emotional appeal of Baba
Ramdev.

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The solution for the blackmoney is of course to device systems which will prevent generation of
black money. The humongous amount of black money ought to be brought back to India and used
for nation building purposes, .The best solution appears to be what Fali Nariman, the eminent
legal expert has suggested. The entire funds which are unaccounted for in the offshore tax heavens
can be declared by law [issued as an ordinance] to vest in government of India and managed by an
authority called Custodian for unaccounted funds in the tax heavens. Those who can prove their
legal ownership of the funds in such tax heavens and prove that they have paid their taxes for the
amount in India can claim the amount back. But others will be in the situation of ‘thieves stung
by a scorpion’ as the Tamil proverb goes and keep quiet.

To prevent future generation of black money, drastic tax reforms, especially income tax is called
for. It is discretion of the tax authorities that is the happy hunting ground for generation of
corruption and we can make the tax laws simplified and the laws can be made exemption free. At
present, it is estimated that income tax has more than 200 exemptions. So an exemption free tax
laws with a reasonable rate, say 10-15% i is ideal. A similar philosophy can be adopted right across
the spectrum of taxation so that the enormous amount of black money generated by misuse of
discretionary powers can be checked.

The future movements of black money to tax heavens can be broadly checked by strengthening
the Money Laundering Act 2003 where a big loophole has been provided by not covering the taxes
generally evaded for generation of tax money like customs, excise, registration of property taxes,
stamp duty and so on.

(iv)In tackling political corruption, the most urgent need is for changing laws for funding of
political parties and bringing them on par with United States or Germany. In my view the idea of
public funding of elections will be a no brainer. Many laws in India which have been made rather
with best intentions yield totally counter productive results..As the Bible says, the path to hell is
paved with good intentions.

(v)The politicians will not commit hara kiri if we expect them to give up their way of exploiting
their office to amass wealth. Their behaviour changes only with two factors. One is, when there
is a TINA factor (There Is No Alternative) or when they get a vote bank advantage.

(vi)Finally, any organisation works better if the right people come to the right job. To ensure the
right people come to the right job, we should adopt what I would call the 2T formula. The first T
is Transparency. There must be total transparency so far as qualifications required by a candidate
for any post, the selection criteria and process are concerned, So far as the selection process is
concerned, this will ensure that right people are considered and the right process is adopted. The
second T is the TINA factor. The selection process itself should be such, apart from being
transparent, that There Is No Alternative but to select the right person for the job. To this extent,
there will be an inbuilt guarantee that for any post in public governance, the right people will come
to occupy them. It is not difficult to build in this condition so that automatically, over a period of
time, the right people will come to occupy all posts.

(vii)The next major element in changing to political sector is decriminalising it. The concept of
the integrity of institutions was articulated by Justice Kapadia in the judgement of PJ Thomas case
who was appointed as the CVC in 2010.

This principle may be extended to organisations like Parliament and legislature so that these
organisations, which are meant for drafting laws for the country, are not themselves tainted and
crippled by the presence of criminals and potential criminals. It is true that for more than five to
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ten years the suggestion has been pending with the government and these amendments will never
be made, if the initiative is left only with the political parties. This Gordian knot must be cut by
the Chief Election Commissioner, who can declare that any candidate who is facing criminal
charges in court of law can not contest elections till he is cleared finally by the court of law. This
issue then could be easily tested in the courts. Where the courts will pronounce the judgement on
whether the order issued by the Election Commissioner in discharge is valid. After all, TN Seshan
brought a revolution virtually single handed in the powers of the Election Commission by
interpreting his constitutional responsibility of the EC in such a way that during the period of
elections that is, between the notification and declaration of results, Election Commission virtually
became the state government of the state where the elections are held and for elections for
parliament are concerned, Election Commission’s power becomes more than the power of
Parliament itself! The government of India can not announce any new concession and make laws
and the Parliament definitely will not pass any laws which have a bearing on the free and fair
conduct of elections. The sensitivity that have been built up over the years, thanks to the
movements of Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev have perhaps, created today an environment where
such an initiative by the Election Commission may proved to be effective. Otherwise, we will be
waiting for ever.

(viii)Further, to clean up the entire system and make it more accountable, for every sector, namely,
politics, judiciary, bureaucracy, corporate sector and media, we could make appropriate changes
to bring in greater transparency and accountability. In this way, it should be possible to in a very
reasonably short time of two or three years to break out of the vicious cycle of corruption and make
the public life in India an exercise in virtuous cycle of dharma.

If we take a medical analogy, our country today is suffering from a multiple organ failure of
governance. I am 74 today. Five years back,. I had an experience of suffering multiple organ
failure, a quarter nary bye pass surgery followed by a heart attack, pneumonia, acute renal failure
and enlarged prostrate. A battery of doctors consisting of the cardiologist, pulmonologist,
diabitologist and urologist worked together and save me from the jaws of death.

Who would be the doctors for our nation, which is suffering multiple organ failure of
governance?. In my view, three constitutional authorities, namely, the judiciary, the Comptroller
and Auditor General of India and the Election Commission and the statutory authority of Central
Vigilance Commission can act as doctors. Exercising their own powers and their skills, they can
help greatly in installing such virtuous cycle of dharma for a nation to escape the trap of corruption.

29 Nov

“PROMOTING GOOD GOVERNANCE—-POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION OF VIGILANCE” [Winning

Essay in Vigilance Awareness week]

Governance is the process of taking decision and implementing them for the betterment of the
masses and hence the nation as a whole.
Good governance ensures that the entire process of through which citizens receive their services
must be of impeccable integrity, fully accountable and hundred percent transparent.
Vigilance is the most important way to ensure good governance as it involves keeping a watchful
eye on personnel and promoting integrity and honesty in them.
Government employee and bureaucrats besides all other class of citizens, require vigilance
because:
a) Decision making process in public department is slow
b) There is scope for jumping queues.
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c) Possibilities of negotiations emits
d) Delay in providing services is detrimental to client as they are very crucial

Hence vigilance can easily deal with corrupt and dishonest personnel so that common man can
get speedy delivery of services
Vigilance in itself is not a process but rather a philosophy that provides:
a) Accountability and transparency to all works
b) Reforms decision making process to make it simple
c) Ensure transparency and open information system (on lines of RTI act )
d) Punitive action to dishonest officials
e) Promote and encourage honest personnel.
f) Create an atmosphere of trust between organization and client which promotes good will.

Vigilance can be a more set of words hung upon the wall.it should be embodied in both play and
practice. Vigilance must involve
a) Preventive Vigilance:
I. Reforming system to ensure faster delivery.
II. Regular disclosure of all assets and sources of income.
III. Publication of minutes of all meeting that are directly responsible for any wrong doing.
b) Reactive vigilance :
I. Punishing corrupt individuals who have abused their authority and through undue influence
earned gratification and benefit and hence provide a loss to the exchequer.
II. Starting and following criminal proceeding against such dishonest individuals under
prevention of corruption act and GPC.
c) Suggestive Vigilance:
I. Making surprise inspection in departments and checking relevant documents to ascertain no
wrong doing
II. Creating a network of whistle blower that have highest state protection, to impose any intra-
departmental misconduct.
Good governance is an utopian concept that is difficult to achieve in reality and practice. But
then also it should not dissuade us from striving for a finding the loopholes in our system and
plugging them to prevent any kind of misconduct.
We must remember that vigilance is the only price that freedom asks. When a single person
refuses to give or take bribe,
It must be taken as example .These small gestures are the only means by which the poorest of the
poor can get rid of the pitiful state they live in and banish the anguish and poignancy that they
deal in demanding their basic rights.

1546 words essay on corruption in India

Sangeeta Agarwal

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1. Introduction

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In its most general sense, corruption means the perversion or abandonment of a standard. Hence
it is common to speak of language or of moral corruption. More narrowly corruption refers to the
abandonment of expected standards of behaviour by those in authority for the sake of
unsanctioned personal advantage.

In the business sphere, a company director is deemed to be corrupt if he sells his private property
to the company at an inflated price, at the expense of the shareholders whose interest he is
supposed to safeguard. Lawyers, architects and other professionals are similarly guilty of
corruption if they take advantage of their clients to make undue personal gains.

2. Lok Pal Bill

In June 1969 a UN seminar held in Stockholm on "Ways of Safeguarding the Rights of

Individuals against the Abuse of Administrative Power" discussed five principal means of
ensuring such protection:

I. Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry.

II. Procuracy of the Soviet Type.

II. Judicial Remedies of the English Legal system.

III. The French Counsel d'Etat.

IV. The Ombudsman of Scandanavia.

V. The following would be the main features of the institution of Lok Pal and Lok Ayukt:

VI. They should be demonstrably independent and impartial.

VII. Their investigations and proceedings should be conducted in private and be informed in
character.

VIII. Their appointment should, as far as possible, be non-political.

IX. Their status should compare with the highest judicial functionaries in the country.

X. They should deal with matters in the discretionary field involving acts of injustice, corruption
or favouritism.

XI. Their proceeding should not be subject to judicial interference and they should have the
maximum latitude and power in obtaining information relevant to their duties.

XII. They should not look forward to any benefit or pecuniary advantage from the executive
Government.

The Lok Pal would have the same status as the Chief Justice of India and be appointed by the
President on the Prime Minister's advice after consultation with the Chief Justice of India and the
Leader of the Opposition.

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The entire edifice of the Lok Pal can be brought down by a mere ordinance, as the Press Council
was in 1975 during the Emergency.

The National Front Government introduced the Lok Pal Bill, 1989 in the Lok Sabha on
December 29, 1989 within days of assuming office. It lapsed with the dissolution of the Lok
Sabha in 1991. The four Bills of 1971, 1977, 1985 and 1989 varied greatly in their ambit and
scope.

(The 1971 Bill was similar to the one of 1968). To give an overview at the onset, the 1971 and
1985 Bills excluded the Prime Minister from their purview while the 1977 and 1989 Bills did
not.

While the 1989 Bill contain improvements on earlier Bills, its jurisdiction Clause was the
narrowest.

On August 3, 1995, the former Minister of State for Personnel Affairs, Mrs. Margaret Alva,
informed the Rajya Sabha that the Government had already circulated the two Draft Bills on Lok
Pal of 1985 and 1989 to all political parties seeking their views.

3. Central Vigilance Commission

On the Santhanam Committee's recommendation a Central Vigilance Commissioner was set up

by the government by an executive decision embodied in a resolution in the Ministry of Home
Affairs dated 11 February 1964. The process and functions of the CVC, as detailed in the
resolution include the following:

(i) To undertake an inquiry into any transaction in which a public servant is alleged to have acted
for an improper purpose, or

(ii) To cause an inquiry to be made into

(a) Any complaint that a public servant had exercised his powers for improper or corrupt
purposes.

(b) Any complaint of corruption, misconduct, lack of integrity or malpractices on the part of a
public servant including members of the All India Services even if such members are for the time
being serving in connection with the affairs of a State government.

(iii) To call for reports, returns and Statements from all ministries, departments, or corporate
Central undertakings so as to enable it to exercise general checks and supervision over the
vigilance and anti- corruption work in the ministries, departments, undertakings.

(iv) To take over under its direct control, such complaints, information or cases as it may
consider necessary for further action which may be either:

(a) To ask the CBI to register case and investigate it, or

(b) To entrust the complaint, information or case for inquiry—

(1) To the CBI, or

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(2) To the ministry, department, or undertaking concerned.

The resolution further provides that:

‘’1. The CVC—

(a) will be appointed by the President by under his hand and seal;

(b) will not be removed or suspended from office except in the manner provided for the removal
or suspension of the Chairman or a member of the UPSC;

(c) will hold office for a term of 6 years or till he attains the age of 65, whichever is earlier and

(d) on ceasing to hold the office of the CVC, shall not accept any further employment under the
Union or State government or accept any political public office.

2. The CVC will be attached to the Ministry of Home Affairs, but in the exercise of its power
and function, it will not be subordinate to any ministry or department and will have the same
measure of independence and autonomy as the UPSC.

3. The CVO in ministries and departments will be appointed in consultation with the CVC, and
no person whose appointment as CVO is objected to by the CVC will be so appointed.

4. The CVC will have the power to assess the work of the CVOs and VOs and the assessment
will be recorded in the character rolls of the officer."

Central Vigilance Commissioner Displays list of Corrupt Officers on Website

The Central Vigilance Commissioner Nagrajan Vittal has created a sensation by listing the
names of 88 corrupt IAS officers and 21 corrupt IPS officers. Vittal locates five key players in
the Indian corruption scene: the corrupt politician (neta), the corrupt bureaucrat (babu), the
corrupt businessman (lala), the corrupt NGO (Jhola) and criminal (dada).

He has conceived a 13 point action plan which he feels would block corruption. Among the 13
point action plan include mobilization of youth to fight corruption, making of CVC Bill into a
Law, equal treatment of demand and supply sides of corruption, using e-governance and IT to
check corruption, removal of absolute Laws through Sunset principles, removal of Laws that
promote corruption, inaction of corrupt public servants Act, implementation of the Benami
Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1998 etc.

Sanction for prosecution/departmental action against officers found guilty of corruption still
subsists under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) and Section 197 of the
Criminal Procedure Act (Cr PC) although the "single directive" that required investigative
agencies to obtain departmental sanction even to begin investigation against corrupt officials has
been done away within the new CVC Act.

4. Legislation against Corruption

The Prevention of Corruption Act came into force in September 1988. It consolidated the
Provision of Corruption Act, 1947, some sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Criminal

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Procedure Code, the Criminal Law Act, 1952. The sole idea was to bring all relevant provisions
in single Act.

The 1988 Act enlarged the scope? Of 'public servant' and included a large member of employees
within its ambit.

5. Various Commissions on Corruption of Politicians and Public Companies

In the last forty years (i.e. between 1955 and 1997) more than two dozen the Government of
India to inquire into the. charges of corruption against politicians and public companies.

Some of them were:

(i) Das Commission against Sardar Pratap Singh Kairon, Chief Minister of Punjab (1963)

(ii) Ayangar Commission against Bakshi Gulam Mohammad, Chief Minister of Jammu and
Kashmir (1965).

(iii) Khanna Commission against Biju Patnaik, Chief Minister of Orissa (1967).

(iv) Kapur Commission against Dayanand Bandodkar, Chief Minister of Goa (1968).

(v) Mudhokar Commission against V.K. Mahtab, Chief Minister of Assam. (1968).

(vi) Sarkaria Commission against M. Karunanidhi, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1976).

(vii) Grover Commission against Dev Raj Urs. Chief Minister of Karnataka (1977).

(viii) Vimada Lai Commission against Vengala Rao, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (1977).

(ix) Gurdev Singh Commission against Zail Singh, Chief Minister of Punjab (1979).

(x) Chagla Commission (1956) against Union Finance Minister T.T. Krishnamachari.

(xi) Aivar Commission (1967) against five ministers of Bihar.

(xii) Madholkar Commission (1968) against 13 ministers of Bihar.

(xiii) Reddy Commission (1977) against contracts entered by former Union Defence Minister
Bansilal.

(xiv) Vaidyalingan Commission (19791 on charges of corruption and wielding extra-

Constitutional authority to interfere in government affairs against Kanti Desai, son of Morarii
Desai and Gayatri .

(xv) Kailasam Sadasivan and Ray Commissions (1981) against spirit scandals of Kerala and
Tamil Nadu.

(xvi) Shankranand Committee (1990) on corruption charges in Bofors deal.

(xvii) Jankiraman Committee (1992) on Security Scam.

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Vohra 'Committee was set in July 1993 to study corruption in India by taking stock of the links
between Government functionaries and political personalities and crime syndicates and mafia
organisations. The Committee submitted its report in October, 1993, where it stated that
"network of the mafia is virtually running a parallel government pushing the State apparatus into
irrelevance".

Eradicate Corruption - Build A New India

Building a new India is almost impossible as long as there is the cancer of corruption in it.
Corruption is an obstacle that the people of a country must overcome to be a happy nation. The
national goals of economic prosperity, infrastructural development, and overall advancement will
remain elusive until corruption is wiped out from our country. Eliminating corruption is impossible
without the collective will of the people and the Government. The next major revolution India will
have is anti-corruption revolution. It has already started.

Indians have seen so much of corruption and its horrible consequences that they have only one
yearning; they all want to live in a corruption free India. Every Indian wishes to breathe in a
cleaner, prosperous, progressive, stronger, self-reliant, more organized India. This is possible only
when the evil of corruption has been totally vanquished.

Unless every Indian (especially in the public sector and Government run departments) discards
corruption totally, the objective a new prosperous India can never be achieved.

Einstein quite rightly said, “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those
who watch them without doing anything.” India is a developing country facing many challenges.
Corruption is the most detrimental of them. India was placed at 76th position out of 168 countries
with a score of 38 out of a possible 100 in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions
Index 2015.

Corruption is like a canker to the health of the economic and technological prosperity of a nation.
Corruption became rampant with the winning of freedom. Owing to the fallible democratic system
and lack of stringent punishment mechanism for the culprits, it thrived, more in politics,
government administration departments. Gradually its nexus became more nefarious. Corruption
in India spread as a result of the connection between bureaucrats, politicians and criminals.

Political corruption is worst in India. The major cause of concern is that corruption is weakening
the political body and damaging the supreme importance of the law governing the society. In the
past few decades there was every conceivable scam and scandals in all key ministries. These cams
and scandals tarnished the image of the country nationally as well as internationally. There were
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so many scams that people lost complete trust in the government. Indian Coal Allocation Scam,
2G Spectrum Scam, Commonwealth Games Scam, Telgi Scam, Satyam Scam, Bofors Scam, the
Fodder Scam, etc, are some of the many scams that were done by elected ministers, politicians,
bureaucrats, and high government officials. The Indian Law system is so incompetent and
vulnerable, that in spite of being guilty, politicians, bureaucrats, high government officials remain
scot free.

Now the most crucial question: ‘How to curb this evil of corruption?’ Although many anti-
corruption agencies have been created to fight curb corruption, but they exist in name only. The
only solution to the problem of corruption is people’s involvement in eradicating it from the face
of our country. They will have to take the issue in their hands. The French Revolution and the
Russian Revolutions stand as perfect examples which show when the people of a country unite
against an oppressive evil, how the evil just vanishes. Since they are the losers in all the scams and
scandals, as the money wasted and misused is their tax money, they have the right to curb scams
and scandals. There must be large scale protests by the people against scams and ill practices.

Of late owing to the growing awareness and protests by the people, the central Government has
been taking some steps to curb corruption. Some anti-corruption agencies have been set up.
Agencies such as RTI, the Central Vigilance Commission, and PIO have been created. The people,
along with their unified protest, must use these agencies to curb corruption. The media can play a
great role in curbing corruption. The concerted efforts of the people of India, anti-corruption
departments, and media have the power to root out this evil from India. One thing is crystal clear;
unless people themselves pledge to eradicate corruption, this evil will continue to exist. So it is
possible for India to become totally corruption free, provided Indians resolve to be corruption free
themselves. Let’s join hands and eradicate corruption from the face of our country. The day
corruption dies, a new India will automatically emerge and stun the world with its advancement in
all fields.

Let’s Build A New India

By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev | February 02, 2016

It is harvest time, and just as crop is cut down while harvesting, it is time to drop opinions and
ideas you are carrying about others and yourself, and begin life afresh. This is as true for a nation
as for an individual. Whether it is India’s internal workings or our relationship with the world, it
is time to drop the old baggage.

If we want peace and wellbeing in our nation, we should not deepen divisions within and around
ourselves. If we nurture hatred and violence, all we will have is exploding bombs; nations
deserve peace.

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The business community can play a leading role in taking this step. The subcontinent’s countries
could form a loose union for economic purposes—while maintaining their cultural identities.
Then, we could focus on everyone's wellbeing and prosper. We have been developing nations for
too long!

Today, India is on an economic threshold. Economy does not mean stock market, it means
hungry people will have food on their plate. If we handle the next few years right, we can change
the lives of hundreds of millions who are in a horrible pit of social and economic deprivation.
We have a leadership focused on building India. Everyone must support that, and the opposition
and ruling establishment must take responsibility for implementing decisions. When millions of
people are postponing their meals to another day, postponing vital decisions in Parliament is a
crime.
We need to shed this mentality where we mistake agitation for leadership. Bandhs and rasta roko
were used to bring an occupying force to its knees. The foreign invasion is gone and it is our own
nation now, but we still want to do bandhs. Stopping the country is one kind of talent. Making
the country go is another kind of talent.

It is the duty of every citizen to ensure that India is a properly functioning democracy. Every
month gather a meeting with local representatives and find a way to solve issues in your area.
Democracy is not a spectator sport. An elected leader is just a citizen on temporary employment.
How does employing somebody and not ensuring he works make sense? The quality of the tree
and fruit depend on the soil, and changing the condition of the soil is in our hands.

A nation is not its land and buildings—it is its people. If we as a nation have to rise and be
empowered, the foremost thing is to empower the people. Empowerment does not just mean
amassing material wealth or technology. It is entirely an inner process, a spiritual process.

Spirituality does not mean going to the temple or praying to heaven. It is about living here in an
all-inclusive way and experiencing everything as a part of yourself. At the same time, it will
hugely equip the individual to be more efficient, capable, balanced and, in turn, more productive.
Spirituality beyond sectarian religions, spirituality which is a natural outcome of human longing
to know—it is only in reinstating this fundamental quest and longing to know, realise and
liberate, that individual human beings will have the strength to seek and endure the challenges of
building a great nation.

India is capable of bringing a new paradigm of what it means to be successful in terms of

creating human wellbeing. In the modern world, nations of great affluence are suffering from a
terrible sense of disenchantment within. This culture has mastered the laws that govern inner
wellbeing.

However, if we want the world to engage with us, cleaning up our act on all levels is important.
The most obvious aspects are eliminating endemic corruption and ensuring physical clean-up. In
the past, we as a culture have exhibited enormous sense of cleanliness and aesthetic, but this has
been destroyed due to poverty, excessive population and the pressures of daily living. This has to
change now.

I am sure the coming years will see a much better India—a new India. Every individual,
irrespective of ones responsibility or influence, has to stand up and make it happen. Just
governments cannot do it, some other leader cannot do it. Every citizen has to do it!

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Corruption In India
"Corruption is Social Evil" "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts
absolutely."

In its simplest sense, corruption may be defined as an act of bribery or misuse of public position
or power for the fulfillment of selfish motives or to gain personal gratifications. It has also been
defined as "Misuse of authority as a result of consideration of personal gain which need not
be monetary".

In recent Centuries India has earned a place among the THREE most corrupt countries in the
world. Corruption in India is a consequence of the nexus between Bureaucracy, politics and
criminals. India is now no longer considered a soft state. It has now become a consideration state
where everything can be had for a consideration. Today, the number of ministers with an honest
image can be counted on fingers. At one time, bribe was paid for getting wrong things done but
now bribe is paid for getting right things done at right time.

It is well established that politicians are extremely corrupt the world over. In fact, people are
surprised to find an honest politician. These corrupt politicians go scot-free, unharmed and
unpunished. Leaders like Lal Bahadur Shastri or Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel are a rare breed
now who had very little bank balance at the time of death. The list of scams and scandals in the
country is endless. Now Recently Before Start 2010 Commen Wealth Games Corruption is
playing major role with commen wealth games. The Bofors payoff scandal of 1986 involved a
total amount of Rs 1750 crore in purchase of guns from a Swedish firm for the Army. The
Cement scandal of 1982 involved the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, the Sugar Scandal of 1994
involved a Union Minister of State for food, the Urea Scam and of course no one can forget
Hawala Scandal of 1991, the Coffin-gate, fodder scam in Bihar or the Stamp scandal which
shocked not only the political arena but the entire society.

Is it possible to contain corruption in our society? Corruption is a cancer, which every Indian
must strive to cure. Many new leaders when come into power declare their determination to
eradicate corruption but soon they themselves become corrupt and start amassing huge wealth.

There are many myths about corruption, which have to be exploded if we really want to
combat it. Some of these myths are: Corruption is a way of life and nothing can be done about
it. Only people from underdeveloped or developing countries are prone to corruption. We will
have to guard against all these crude fallacies while planning measures to fight corruption.

It is not possible to kill or remove the corruption by improving the Social-economic conditions
of the . Because we all know that the most of the people who are corrupted are not economically
or socially backward, surely they will be having a notable social status.

"Despite a decade of progress in establishing anti-corruption laws and regulations, these results
indicate that much remains to be done before we see meaningful improvements in the lives of the
world's poorest citizens."

The following steps should be considered to eradicate corruption:

Greedy business people and unscrupulous investors should stop bribing the political elites.Don't
be either at the receiving or at the bribing end. Political elites should stop putting their private
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gains before the welfare of citizens and economic development of their regions. Government
should include a chapter in text books related to corruption and its desire consequences.

We are all need to stop talking about Corruption but we right now start ourself take the initiative
and be Brave ourself. Corruption is going to end only when people like us stand up and speak
out.

If we do not take step forward to remove corruption from root, the word developing country will
always be attached with our country INDIA . So we the common man are solution for removing
corruption from our INDIA and hence we will be also helpful in making our country developed.

It is possible..today's generation is willing to change this system. And soon corruption is gone
out from India.Every person should have his own responsibility to avoid corruption

A strong youth movement in the country only can remove corruption and each student should
take a vow to begin this exercise courageously within the family-Former President
Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam

Karthick Babu

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Corruption is not a new phenomenon in India. It has been prevalent in society since ancient
times. History reveals that it was present even in the Mauryan period. Great scholar Kautilya
mentions the pressure of forty types of corruption in his contemporary society. It was practised
even in Mughal and Sultanate period. When the East India Company took control of the country,
corruption reached new height. Corruption in India has become so common that people now are
averse to thinking of public life with it.

Corruption has been defined variously by scholars. But the simple meaning of it is that
corruption implies perversion of morality, integrity, character or duty out of mercenary motives,
i.e. bribery, without any regard to honour, right and justice. In other words, undue favour for any
one for some monetary or other gains is corruption. Simultaneously, depriving the genuinely
deserving from their right or privilege is also a corrupt practice. Shrinking from one’s duty or
dereliction of duty are also forms of corruption. Besides, thefts, wastage of public property
constitute varieties of corruption. Dishonesty, exploitation, malpractices, scams and scandals are
various manifestations of corruption.

Corruption is not a uniquely Indian phenomenon. It is witnessed all over the world in developing
as well as developed countries. It has spread its tentacles in every sphere of life, namely business
administration, politics, officialdom, and services. In fact, there is hardly any sector which can be
characterised for not being infected with the vices of corruption. Corruption is rampant in every
segment and every section of society, barring the social status attached to it. Nobody can be
considered free from corruption from a high ranking officer.

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To root out the evil of corruption from society, we need to make a comprehensive code of
conduct for politicians, legislatures, bureaucrats, and such code should be strictly enforced.
Judiciary should be given more independence and initiatives on issues related to corruption.
Special courts should be set-up to take up such issues and speedy trial is to be promoted. Law
and order machinery should be allowed to work without political interference. NGOs and media
should come forward to create awareness against corruption in society and educate people to
combat this evil. Only then we would be able to save our system from being collapsed.

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 ress Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
31-October-2016 18:15 IST

Vigilance Awareness Week begins, All encouraged to take Integrity Pledge

The Central Vigilance Commission, as part of its efforts to promote probity in public life
and to achieve a corruption free society, observes Vigilance Awareness Week every year.
The week in which 31st October, the birthday of late Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel falls is
observed as Vigilance Awareness Week. The observance of Vigilance Awareness Week
renews our commitment to achieve the goals of promoting integrity, transparency and
accountability in public life. The Commission, therefore, lays greater emphasis on
generation of awareness among the public as a more effective and sustainable means of
fighting corruption.

“Public participation in promoting integrity and eradicating Corruption” has been chosen
as the theme for Vigilance Awareness Week this year by the Commission. We need to
eliminate corruption for taking the economic growth to needy sections of the society.
Although various anti-corruption agencies strive to address the problem of corruption, their
efforts cannot be accomplished without the active participation of all the stakeholders. It is
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therefore, imperative that an aware, active and empowered public is involved in any anti-
corruption campaign.

The Commission believes that creation of greater awareness among public and their
participation in anti-corruption efforts would strengthen the resolve to eliminate corruption
from society. The Commission appeals to all stakeholders for wide participation and all
around generation of awareness among all sections of society.

Preventive Vigilance Essay

631 Words Nov 19th, 2012 3 Pages
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Vigilance:-
Vigilance means to be watchful to be alert what is happening and what can happen.
There are traces of concept of vigilance in our olden literature like Atharva Veda.
Originally, it was Henry Fayol who listed out awareness and security which was later referred as
‘Vigilance’.
Importance of Vigilance :-
Vigilance makes preparedness to be watchful always and sense the happening around oneself.
People always have wrong approach towards vigilance as they perceive vigilance as enquiry,
fixing responsibility etc. Vigilance is not investigation but it is prevention.
To punish and not to prevent is like pumping the water through a pump without arresting the
leakages which result in wastage of water, energy and time.
Why do …show more content…
It has several advantages:
• It is global in its impact and affects the working of the department as a whole.
• It is less costly and does not require elaborate specialized machinery like punitive vigilance.
• It is impersonal and does not act as a fetter upon the rightful exercise of authority.
• It is not directed against an individual.
• It cannot be misused for vindictive purposes.
Tools of Preventive Vigilance
1. Standardization:
Laying down clear cut conditions/ procedures in order to reduce discretion and scope of granting
undue favors.
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“PROMOTING GOOD GOVERNANCE—-POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION OF VIGILANCE” [Winning

Essay in Vigilance Awareness week]

Governance is the process of taking decision and implementing them for the betterment of the
masses and hence the nation as a whole.
Good governance ensures that the entire process of through which citizens receive their services
must be of impeccable integrity, fully accountable and hundred percent transparent.
Vigilance is the most important way to ensure good governance as it involves keeping a watchful
eye on personnel and promoting integrity and honesty in them.
Government employee and bureaucrats besides all other class of citizens, require vigilance
because:
a) Decision making process in public department is slow
b) There is scope for jumping queues.

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c) Possibilities of negotiations emits
d) Delay in providing services is detrimental to client as they are very crucial

Hence vigilance can easily deal with corrupt and dishonest personnel so that common man can
get speedy delivery of services
Vigilance in itself is not a process but rather a philosophy that provides:
a) Accountability and transparency to all works
b) Reforms decision making process to make it simple
c) Ensure transparency and open information system (on lines of RTI act )
d) Punitive action to dishonest officials
e) Promote and encourage honest personnel.
f) Create an atmosphere of trust between organization and client which promotes good will.

Vigilance can be a more set of words hung upon the wall.it should be embodied in both play and
practice. Vigilance must involve
a) Preventive Vigilance:
I. Reforming system to ensure faster delivery.
II. Regular disclosure of all assets and sources of income.
III. Publication of minutes of all meeting that are directly responsible for any wrong doing.
b) Reactive vigilance :
I. Punishing corrupt individuals who have abused their authority and through undue influence
earned gratification and benefit and hence provide a loss to the exchequer.
II. Starting and following criminal proceeding against such dishonest individuals under
prevention of corruption act and GPC.
c) Suggestive Vigilance:
I. Making surprise inspection in departments and checking relevant documents to ascertain no
wrong doing
II. Creating a network of whistle blower that have highest state protection, to impose any intra-
departmental misconduct.
Good governance is an utopian concept that is difficult to achieve in reality and practice. But
then also it should not dissuade us from striving for a finding the loopholes in our system and
plugging them to prevent any kind of misconduct.
We must remember that vigilance is the only price that freedom asks. When a single person
refuses to give or take bribe,
It must be taken as example .These small gestures are the only means by which the poorest of the
poor can get rid of the pitiful state they live in and banish the anguish and poignancy that they
deal in demanding their basic rights.

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