Corruption is a transmissible, malignant and putrid virus, which has penetrated its roots in every part of the world
Mudasir Majeed Peer
No section of a society is free from it. Every country has been caught in the welter of corruptions. People worldwide are involved in this act. It is not an infection confined to a single state of a country or a single country of the world. It doesn’t set free any. From a simple peon to the highest rank officials work under its influence.
The phenomenon of corruption is not an alien to us. It has birth ed from the human mind with the aim to mar the human development. It is an illegal and unauthorized act which is done by a person working in a system (government) by illegitimate means i.e., bribery which works as an incentive to a his/her mind and makes him/her to infringe the law and commit the felony. Corruption plays an important role in neutralizing the honest, reliable, decent and law-abiding functioning of a system. Every government has become a slave to corruption. This is only because the employees of a system are involved in this menace. It has set toughest challenge to the development of every system. In India the corruption has reached an alarming level. Despite the formation of stringent laws to act against it, no improvement appears on ground. Everyday we hear about frauds, scams, and scandals. The politicians, high profile graft and even the lower level employees are caught in the acts of venality. But the law hardly seems a criterion in dealing with criminals. India is not the only country that is affected by corruption. It exists in every country. But India holds a big share amongst corruption dominated countries. The multi-crore scams which have been brought to light by media have created a big void in India’s legal system of governance. 2G spectrum scam, Common Wealth Games scam, Satyam scam, Bofors scam, Bihar fodder scam also known as Chara Ghotala, the Hawala scandal etc. the process will continue but scams will not end. The 2G spectrum scam has left no attempt in vacating the financial reservoirs of India. It is the scam worth of Rs. 1.76 lakh crore. The credit, according to CAG reports goes to A. RAJA who has wholeheartedly deposited his accounts with the government’s money. Ministers, politicians, bureaucrats, and other persons who are the part of a system (government) get their hands tainted by taking bribe to favour the illegal acts. What will happen to such a nation where the big fraudsters are at the helm of affairs? They (Babus) take the ride of the people and betray the norms of a legal system. They foster the cancer of corruption and cultivate it in every society. Everyone speaks against the menace of corruption. No one supports it. It is always the target of severe criticism. Tell a minister to deliver a lecture on corruption; he/she will leave no stone unturned in pouring out the severe bashing against it and against those who are involved in it. Tell a bureaucrat or any person for the same, again same thing will happen. But the truth is entirely different from what they deliver to people. They will never accept that they are the real villains however they will censure the corruption. They victimize us but we are equally responsible for this crime. Our state has the distinction to be the second corrupt state in India after Bihar. Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, is concerned about the increase in J&K. He is not happy with bureaucrats as they have failed to deal to control this menace. But is Omar Abdullah of firm belief that his top associates or general and political brass are free from this disease? The honest employee of the government will never be given chance to work as per his/her will. If he/she struggles to work honestly then that person has to land in trouble, because the upper-rank employees have the power to muzzle the voice of lower-rank employees. They either transfer the honest people to far places or warn them to not raise voice otherwise they (lower-rank employees) will land in vicious circle. In Kashmir there are many districts where the corruption is running amok. From a top official to a peon in a department the illegal money propagates and this has raised our state to number second. The state has a wing called Vigilance that has been assigned the job to keep vigil on everyone associated with government. We hear, watch and read from radios, TVs and newspaper respectively that “today vigilance nabbed this official and other day that official in charge of venality”. But what is this then which has taken our state on number second amongst the top corrupted states of country. Is the Vigilance department weak? Are the vigilance officials inefficient due to whom our state is on number second? Or is the vigilance officials tainted also that is why they fail to act? Corruption in education department, police, R&B, PWD, PDD, Health, Social welfare etc. none of the departments are free. A wing of police which has been assigned the job of watching traffic movements, check vehicles, check the licenses of drivers, check the documents of vehicles etc. is called traffic police. They have earned a measly good image in serving the state. Whenever you see a traffic policeman your pocket should be warm otherwise you are going to lose a day in convincing him that what is truth and what not. Show a However we can’t label all the officials of this department, because there are still the people who believe in honestly executing their duties. But few black sheep have casted the shadow over their honest work and have rendered a bad name to whole department. The state is badly caught in the mess of corruption. It is not just restricted to administration. It exists in legislation and judiciary also. Our state is already going through the serious problems like, unemployment, illiteracy, poverty, and corruption makes these problems even more serious. The government announces different schemes for the development of rural areas but these schemes are hardly implemented. The grants released get disappeared in between the officials and the rural development remains a dream. Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah is worried about the increasing menace of corruption but he needs to do something serious now which should at least drop the state down from the top corrupt states of India. We cannot expect a corruption free state but at least there should be a decline in the alarmingly increasing level. Omar Abdullah should chalk out a strategy to curb the corruption level. He should order the probes into the properties of ministers, MLAs and bureaucrats. He should shape up a trustworthy and intelligent squad which should keep a close eye on the activities of everyone for a peon to the top state officials. Whosoever is caught in charges of venality should be punished as per law. No one should let go scot-free. If the early measures are not taken then the state is surely going to sink into the corruption epidemic and result will be the catastrophe to state development. Author is the student of MCMP 2nd year G D College Baramulla and hails from Kupwara. He can be mailed at pir.mudasir@gmail.com
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