CORRUPTION FREE INDIA TO BECOME A DEVELOPED NATION.
Corruption is a multifaceted devil, which has been a part of Indian culture for a long time and it has been so deeply ingrained that it has become difficult to root out. However, it should not be given a cold shoulder rather it should be analysed and eradicated to protect the country which is of the people, for the people and by the people. India’s democracy and corruption are a dichotomy when resource allocation is disturbed by transferring pockets for private use rather than turning India into a developed nation with taxpayers’ money for public use.
Political aspects have peeped into this problem and have punished people who jump on the bandwagon of corruption. Rectification of tax evasion, legal actions for bribes and generating social awareness are yet to become valiant enough to enable citizens to secure and safeguard their rights and perform their duties unmitigatedly. Well, I consider developing India as a transferred epithet used to describe its citizen who in turn should be developed to make this piece of land prosper economically, socially and politically.
As a seventeen-year-old when I think of corrupted India, government institutions and public departmental workings are rapport to me. Sometimes it contradicts this assumption through an interrogation that why is politics alone to be blamed when corruption is a part of every citizen’s cold blood. Yes, I have watched people on signals paying bribes to policemen for not wearing seat belts and I am inured with blackmailing which migrates the extortion money for accessing one’s basic right. Here the limelight is on people, not policemen and rights, not money. So, the recapitulation lies in the fact that despite being diversified, India needs to be united as a mixed economy serving the interest and entertaining the duties of both government and the general public.
There exist myriads of initiatives committed towards “Zero Tolerance against Corruption”. Setting up an anti-corruption agency, a Lokpal, making the Right to Information Act more effective and using technology as paraphernalia to curb corruption are being fostered. The big cheese and the most recent act of Demonetisation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a revolutionary step considering national interest at the forefront. However, some noteworthy teething problems in its implication and by its effect flourished just like new currency notes of 500 and 2000.
Loopholes arising in the comfort addict minds for the drug of corruption need rehab. This vague and complex nature of corruption attached to election voting, opaque transactions, bribing and extortion needs the attention of both public and the government. Making donations to
political parties' titles transparent, Automated taxation and installation, as well as accountability of CCTV recordings, should be given a trump card. Most prominently, there should be a common matrix to measure the level and impact of corruption followed by considering this externality paramount, giving it a major piece of the pie of the country’s development.
Growing the youth by ensuring universal literacy to empower citizens to make sage choices, in turn, melting the corruption, economic betterment through fair production and consumerism leading to transparency in transactions and overall development via public support for various buoyant policies which may not be perfect in themselves but will slowly strangulate corruption and persuade evolution.
To sum up, the citizenry needs to be strategic and pivotal enough to make India corruption free, striving to withdraw from promoting and participating in corruption willingly or unwillingly. Undoubtedly, this can not practically take place overnight but can be anticipated after every peaceful and fair night when the sun rises, humans work with sheer honesty and unfairness dulls making India a developed country.