Monday, December 29, 2008

Using Information to Weed Out Corruption

Wikipedia defines corruptness as, "impairment of integrity, virtuousness or moral principle; depravity, decay, and/or an incentive to incorrect by improper or unlawful means, a going from the original or from what is pure or correct, and/or an federal agency or influence that corrupts."

The above definition is quite clear and we can very well understand from the above definition as to what exactly corruptness is. Inch general speaking, we state a individual is corrupt when we happen him/her not fulfilling his/her duties and indulging in incorrect practices. Corruptness is ubiquitous and quite prevailing in those societies where people are not witting of their rights and make not experience responsible towards the society or surrounding they are living in.

The root cause of corruptness is wearing away of moral values and most importantly, our via media with the negative state of affairs i.e. we accept it as a manner of life. Our life is so fast that we don't have got clip for anything else. If we land in a state of affairs which is stopping us to accomplish our end we immediately throw the custody of corruptness to acquire to the other side. In doing so, we often bury and sabotage the consequences. According to me corruptness can be classified in two groups:

1) Need based corruption

2) Greed based corruption

Need based corruption - It originates when there is big disparity in the income of people. They may belong to either same business office or same nation. The individual with high income can afford all the necessities of life whereas the individual with low income is not able to make so. In this situation, the individual with low income indulges in corruptness but the cause for this scenario is his/her needs. Since the individual was not able to carry through his demands so he/she set aside the honestness and follow the way of corruption. But this corruptness may be short lived as the individual may experience uncomfortable because of his/her conscience. Moreover, the individual may seek to counterbalance his/her incorrect behavior by doing some good under-cover and keeping in head that he/she never indulges in such as patterns which may seriously harm the society.

Greed based corruption - As the name suggests, the implicit in cause of this type of corruptness is "greed". In footing of corruption, it can be defined as deep selfish desire for money, power, position and mercenary things. It originates from within when a individual is loath to drill self-restraint and indulges in incorrect methods to accomplish things which necessitate forbearance and difficult work to own. In this case, the individual go slave of extravagance (while he/she believes the other manner round) and completely perverts from the way of righteousness. The people of autumn in this class are self-centered and never believe of either the people who are getting affected by their incorrect behavior nor make they waver in indulging anti-human and anti-national activities.

Now allow us calculate out how to utilize Information to battle the corruptness First of all we necessitate to understand how the organisations indulge in corruption? It is quite easy for the organisations to make so as they utilize our ignorance as their best tactic. Whenever we travel to some business business office to acquire our work done we normally are not aware of the work flowing in that office. To acquire our work done speedily we either pay payoff or take the aid of touts. Now conceive of a state of affairs where we are well acquainted with the work flow. Volition you take the aid of a middleman? Volition you pay bribe? The reply is large NO.

E-governance tin be very well used to carry through it. Every organisation can supply the necessary information on its website using which any individual can acquire his job solved without requiring anyone's help. If the information searcher feel that some information is left out then he/she may utilize Right to Information Act (to cognize more than about it, mention to my article "Right to Information Act India")to obtain it. By putting information online, the function of touts is completely abolished i.e. they don't come up in image who play a major function in corruptness cycle. Moreover, by putting the information online the sections can very well pass on any updating done thereby keeping the operation of the system quite transparent. When all updated information is set on a website, then no 1 can indulge in corruptness and the hold in any procedure can immediately be recognized and stairway can be taken to take it or inspection and repair the system, as the lawsuit may be.

In the concluding portion I would wish to state that by being crystalline every organisation not only facilitates people connected to it but also assist itself by creating a good mental image in the eyes of public and enactment responsibly. The function information can't be undermined and I believe it's the best manner to struggle corruption.

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