WHO SAYS - CORRUPTION
In Delhi, these days
the hot topic is corruption. A lot of people are talking about corruption, and
still a lot more are talking about eliminating corruption. All and everyone are
participating. Removing corruption has become a slogan of the day. Diverse
views are being expressed about it.
Where the contenders
are more than the resources available and the distribution of those meagre resources
poses a problem, that problem is solved by the rules of corruption.
·
The Ration
is limited and the ration cards are more. The objective is to secure ration;
·
The queue
is long and the time at your disposal is less. The objective is to get to the
counter;
·
The seats
are limited and the admission seekers are abundant. The objective is get an
admission
The instances may be
many more. How to solve the problem? The only way in these circumstances is to
get a privileged place.
Some theorists may try
to solve the problem by laying down a merit criterion. Only the meritorious
will get position. But this criterion does not satisfy the failed ones. He
feels dissatisfied. This dissatisfaction
is more aggravated if the feeling of depravation is coupled with availability
of resourcefulness. This is the reality-approach. Those who aspire do not need
a justification (of merit-criterion) they need a success; a selection. This
gives rise to the thought of corruption.
The view what some
people call – corruption is in fact a philosophy. The philosophy is that
resources should win. It should win even against the merit. It should win
against everything. Some resources are spent to make the remaining resources
win and attain the apex position. The success and selection reside at this apex
position.
The point is how one
sees the corruption. First, it should be understood in its philosophical
perspective. One sees corruption differently in different circumstances. If it
favours the seeker then he chooses it and if it favours the opposite one then
he criticises it. One view on corruption is largely dependent on one’s position
– from where the one views it. This is called selective criticism.
In the present
society, vituperating and abusing in the name of corruption is merely a
selective criticism. In Delhi or for that reason in the whole society how many
parents are ready to give up thinking of admission in a respected school
despite of it being violative of the rule of distance from the school. How many
people are ready to fulfil all requirements of documentation and medical
check-up etc. for obtaining a Motor Licence rather than paying an agreed sum of
rupees to get rid of this requirement?
If one’s claim is
satisfied; it is satisfied conveniently; it satisfied without any rigours –
then one is voluntarily ready to spend some money. The money is earned only for
convenience. This thought of convenience emerges from the resourcefulness. This
motivates for the violation of rules. But this is very natural thought. Along
with economic development people start valuing their time in terms of money. If
one can earn more in a time span then he prefers to pay for saving that time
span. This payment is called bribe. This bribe is self-induced corruption. The
seeker does it himself.
The question of
payment becomes more pinching when two people lay claim to the same
opportunity. If both these claimants are almost equally competent and
meritorious then the problem poses still a bigger dimension. As per
understandings of human nature, both the claimants will make effort to get a
favourable outcome. This is the basic and foremost reason for that practice
which these days, is known as corruption.
These days some people
are in focus of media. These people are making promises to end corruption. It
is not clear what they are saying. They should tell if they are promising to
change the mentality of the people. They should tell if they are promising to
change the approach of the people. They should tell if they are promising to
change the result of evolution of humanity. Or they are just kidding.
Some of such
luminaries may allege that this article is favouring – the corruption. It is
not so. This article is neither for supporting nor for condemning it. It is
just to understand it. It is also to understand those claims which are being
laid down unscrupulously these days.
Corruption is a human
tendency; a congenital approach of human mind; a result of spirit of survivability
which has / has been developed during evolution. The present value system calls
this human tendency with a bad name – the corruption. It is not clear what the future will do. The corruption may be useful; may be painful;
may be illusive; may be convincing; may be agonizing; may be pleasing; may be
tormenting yet it is the tendency of the human race and without it the human
society would have not achieved its present form and status. It has to be understood as such.
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