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| Omar Abdullah losing battle against corruption? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 19: The practice of awarding civil servants for honesty has been going on in Jammu and Kashmir for more than a decade now. It is always important to protect a species that is on the verge of extinction and incentives must be used to keep the honest on course.
During one of the recent debates on a New Delhi based private television channel the participants were discussing the scourge of corruption in the country and in one voice all of them expressed grave concern over vanishing of the honest politician, honest civil servant, honest businessmen, honest professionals etc.
During the course of the same debate a participant read out a paragraph from a novel in which the writer has warned that once honesty becomes a self-sacrifice in a society or a country, rest assured such a society or such a country is on course to absolute destruction and anarchy. The biggest problem with corruption in our State and the rest of the country is that it has been finally accepted as a way of life and perhaps as the best possible way of life. The honest may be feared, but they are generally avoided. The honest are praised in public and cursed in private. It has become fashionable for the overwhelmingly corrupt society in Jammu and Kashmir to brand the honest civil or police officers as 'crackpots'. Those who still refuse briefcases of gratification in our State are made 'popular' by branding them either mad or incompetent.
While the fast vanishing species of honest is proof enough that it is a withdrawing trait, the corrupt not only have a field day, but also wear the fruits of their dishonesty with pride and hauteur. Families of corrupt civil servants lose their moral moorings as they go about the affairs of life paying their way through. The parents high on the wine of ill begotten wealth hardly realize that they are filling the hearts and minds of their children with a lethal poison that does not kill, but renders them worse than bestial animals.
The State Government has been bestowing awards on honest public servants and for the last some years even the sanctity of these honesty awards is being widely questioned. State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who started his innings with a clean slate has already started becoming unsure of his capacity to handle the dragon of corruption in the State.
The steady fall in Omar Abdullah's confidence to weed out corruption from public life has emboldened the corrupt and the dishonest. It would not otherwise have been possible for the corrupt public servants to demand monetary considerations openly in offices and public places. If a CM without any baggage from the past like Omar Abdullah fails to handle the scourge of corruption in J&K, we would definitely have achieved the so-called distinction of being the most corrupt people in India. |
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