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| Eradicate corruption to build New India | | | Dr. Daleep Pandita
Every year central and
state vigilance commission issue instructions to their departments for celebrating vigilance week with full enthusiasm. This mere symbolic tokenism for such a short period has been continuing for the past several years without much sustained efforts all along the remaining year. Does this short period exercise yield desired effects at the ground level and produce appreciable results palpable by common man, remain fact to be pondered with?
By and large people of the country give mandate to the governments on important issue of eradication of corruption menace from our society. Addressing this vital issue seriously, that is actively eating our nation at all levels, assume utmost and urgent importance. Counting on accountable governance, public at large expect concrete steps, at least to have mass awareness against this evil, so as to produce deterrent effects rather than punitive results.
Prevention of corruption by creating sustained public awareness is a campaign where not only government departments and their employees need to be involved but people en mass should play their responsible role for ending up this exercise as a great success. Zero tolerance towards corruption is the need of hour which must be fully activated immediately. Thus corruption free environment at ground level will reform our country to strong vibrant New India.
Government must be serious in its commitment towards implementation of anti corruption measures by regularly sensitizing their employees continuously throughout the year. Departments associated with vigilance must be equipped with complete infrastructure and given well trained honest manpower who are dedicated towards the cause. Stress must be laid on granting them adequate judicial powers rather than empowering them with vast administrative jurisdiction. They should be accountable and result oriented so that people have faith and confidence in such institutions. At the same time, there is need to have proper check and balance on their functioning, so as not to misuse such agencies for settling personal scores and taking political vendetta. Such credible caretakers must not succumb to undue tactical pressure of their governors for petty benefits for goofing up the facts that send wrong message to masses and encourage law breakers.
All related agencies need to identify the seriousness of this malignancy and establish a connect with the people for not only to expose this menace completely but to create sufficient knowledge about its consequences especially among the uneducated and rural poor. Voluntary citizens and non governmental organisations, who work with limited resources and strive for creating awareness against corruption, need to be recognised and encouraged. Sufficient examples of discouraging such front runners by the rulers have been seen in the past. It not only reflect unexpected attitude of authorities but waste public money and intern conveys the message of inefficient governance to the society.
It is important to understand the types and genesis of corruption, so as to tackle it more specifically rather than holistically. Normally corruption in our society is perceived to be financial fraud or economic crime. Actually corruption is much more broader term having wide ambit and different ramifications. It ranges from intellectual corruption to physical corruption, to sexual corruption, to moral corruption, to social corruption, to religious corruption, to ethnic corruption and very many types of corruption, all having negative implications on development and progress of our society. Basically corruption comes in to existence either by need or by greed and both these modes are directly related only with the mindset of an individual. It is fundamentally connected with moral and ethical values those develop during the upbringing of a person, as society only shape up such ethos.
Vigilance mainly adopts two ways in fighting corruption. One aspect is punitive vigilance that deals with creating much needed awareness so as follow thumb rule of " prevention is better than cure ". It not only creates fear in the mind of corrupt due to horrible consequences of corruption but also builds morale against unfair and illegal practices that ultimately lead to self satisfaction of a person. All actions under this exercise are aimed to create deterrent effect in the mind of a common man that creates sense of discipline and responsibility in him. This approach is purely educative, informative and propulsive in nature.
The other method is punitive vigilance that provides punishment after committing the crime or acts of commission or omission. It is reformative that corrects human aberrations and serves lesson for others. Having major drawback that it can be used as a tool for victimization and vindication, so in practice it is less encouraged to preventive vigilance. Chances of its misuse are comparatively more that punitive vigilance. Conclusively, together with the government we need to change our mindset, feel consciously responsible and fight for our rights by creating much needed vigilance awareness to fight against corruption menace in order to rebuild our New India. Compromising with our moral and ethical values by succumbing to this evil for our petty gains, in turn destroy us and our nation, which we can not afford at any cost. |
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