LEGALISING CORRUPTION IN INDIA

An alternative way to deal with gigantic nature of corruption which penetrated in to minds and souls of majority citizens of India

No country in the world is never ever free from corruption. The size, magnitude and manifestations of corruption may be different and varied. At least in the country like India, where all sections of people are corrupted in one or the other way, complete eradication of corruption may be an  Utopian idea and may be over ambitious. The reasons for corruption are many and varied, rather corruption is mere a symptom of the prevailing system.  The disease lies in the outdated laws, bureaucratic and democratic setup, multiparty parliamentary republic system to cite few. Unless this root causes are not addressed, corruption can’t be removed by any means. Even if Jan Lokapal Bill or something like that is accepted, it would not stop corruption. Mere a bill or law can’t bring any noticeable change in the country. Corruption will prevail irrespective of all such laws and thousands of anti-

corruption officials or civilian watch dogs.

Adding another legal body will not help, because supporting mechanisms, like the Indian Penal Code, the code of Criminal Procedure, the Indian Evidence Act, etc are remain the same (According to Mr. Suresh Kopade, Special IG, Pune, Maharashtra with ET, 8 April 2011). To date, there are many such prevailing laws in India to protect the rights of majority individuals and none of them are properly implemented. Likewise, this  bill also will meet the same fate in future. Many quote that, as long as vote bank politics are not put to an end, corruption prevails in one or the other form. But it is not the vote bank politics alone, which are causing corruption, it is corrupted electorate, who are also major cause for all the menace. Unless, there is a law to punish the corrupted electorate or irresponsible electorate who never cares for exercising their franchise, we can’t put an end to corruption. Majority of the educated who are in no need of immediate money offered by contestants and who are not interested rather feel responsibility to exercise their franchise are the main reason for the election of corrupted persons in to the helm of affairs. Whoever exercises their franchise are poor and illiterate, who don’t exercise their franchise until they are sufficiently fed or offer money. If not, why simple and honest people are not elected? In private, if any rogue or killer or rapist or goon or terrorist meets any politician for any favor, he/she can’t say no to him/her, because they need to consider every one as voter and need to make their best efforts to protect their voters.

In India, where corruption involved from the day of birth to death, how to fight against corruption? If it is urgent and definite need to control corruption and put corrupted into Jails, then we may have to treat this entire country as Jail and put the remaining righteous – Corruption free minds and souls - citizens of country in to the Jails, which we are currently using. From Auxiliary Nurse to Anganwadi Teacher to Office sub staff to IAS Officer to Ward member to Member of Legislative Assembly/Parliament to State/Central Minister to Common public, everyone are corrupted, then how to control corruption? When Auto driver to Vegetable vendor to Shop keeper to Petrol bunk owner to Theatre owner to Doctor to Lawyer to Contractor to Journalist and whom not, everyone are corrupted in one or the other manner or involved in cheating fellow individual and nation in one or the other way, why are we talking about corruption free India and targeting only bureaucrats, political people and industrial houses? And why are we leaving the remaining citizens, whose minds and souls are already corrupted and never retires to the bed without involving in one or the other type of corruption. Is stealing stationary from office where we are working or making personal calls from office phone or applying for undue government welfare schemes or taking money to exercise our franchise or taking dowry are not considered as involved in corruption or illegal acts? If yes, then how many of us are not involved in such things? How many righteous people are there among us? Then how to stop corruption?  

Ordinary citizens may involve in corruption in small magnitude? But does it mean that he/she be scot free and run behind only big? We Indians are corrupted by nature, heart and soul. We are accepting corruption and cherishing the corrupted. If you are not corrupted, it is not the others, but your wife and children throw you out of the house. It is your friends and relatives make mockery of yourself. It is the society, which morally and emotionally kills you of being not corrupted. That is why, it is the general individuals, who need to change and correct their corrupted minds, otherwise nothing can be achieved with this bill or some other bill, because at present, at least in India, corruption does not confined and taking place only by politicians or bureaucrats, it is majority of the individuals who are corrupted by deeds or minds or souls or by all. Synonyms of ‘Corruption’ are Dishonesty, Immorality and Depravity etc. If taking bribe only is considered as corruption, then only bureaucrats and politicians need to be targeted, but if we consider generalized meaning, then majority of us Indians are corrupted or involved in one or other significant acts of corruption in our daily life. At present this is the prevailing condition in India. Then whom to blame and whom to target and how to stop corruption of this magnitude with innumerable manifestations?

Legalizing corruption may be only the best and lasting solution for this. With the help of which, we can standardize the corruption, so that government exchequer will not be over burdened, people will receive services by paying whatever set fee by the government, government need not to allocate major share of budget to salaries and pensions, can spend majority of the budgeted amount on development programs, can stop giving salaries to the employees rather can charge them in return based on the prospectus of each post, charge politicians according to the positions they were offered, allow industries to pollute the environment and charge them accordingly, all shop keepers to adulterate items they sell, allow people to take taxable dowry, allow theatre owners to sell tickets in black, to cite few. May look embarrassing, but all these things have been taking place without any control and which we are currently accepting at the cost of the country and cherishing such corrupted and wishing such corrupted to glorify our houses in the form of sons and son-in-laws. Then why not we fight for Legalising the corruption for the benefit of this country, otherwise which can’t be dealt with by any means????