Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Overpower the Corruption Within

Corruption or say corrupt society is what, any citizen of any civilized society did not want but sometimes the consequences and with the series of events we find ourselves in the midst of such corruption. Corruption shakes the foundation of any civilized society and that’s why we do not accept it in any form. The year 2010 we has witnessed so many corruptions within our country.

All the three pillars of democracy whether it is Legislature, Executive and Judiciary were all found to be involved in corruption, even some Journalist too are in the lap of corruption.

Although our performance in Comman Wealth Games was good which now had hide the misdeeds of many big shots in the government and administration.

Several concerns were raised over the preparations of the Games and these included excessive budget overruns, likelihood of floods in Delhi due to heavy monsoon rains, infrastructural compromise, poor living conditions at the Commonwealth Games Village, delays in construction of the main Games’ venues, the withdrawal of prominent athletes, widespread corruption by officials of the Games' Organizing Committee.
Miloon Kothari, leading Indian expert on socio-economic development, questioned the justification of spending billions of dollars on a 12-day sports event "when 46% of India's children and 55% of women are malnourished".
The Indian media also alleged that Games' Organizing Committee officials were involved in serious corruption and these allegations included acceptance of bribe during the process of awarding construction contracts for the Games' venues. The Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee on 5 August 2010 suspended T S Darbari (joint director in the organizing committee) and Sanjay Mahendroo (deputy director general in the organizing committee) following the report of the three-member panel which was probing the financial irregularities related to the Queen's Baton Relay.Organising Committee treasurer Anil Khanna resigned from the post in the wake of allegations that his son's firm had secured a contract for laying synthetic courts at a tennis stadium. There were also multiple cases of items being rented for the 45 days for more money than it would cost to actually buy the item. In one such case, 72 golf carts were hired for 4.23 lakh each, when they could have been purchased for 1.84 lakh each.
Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), an apex Government of India anti-corruption agency, released a report highlighting financial irregularities in up to fourteen Games projects. As per CVC report, in total 129 works in 71 organizations have been inspected. The preliminary findings include — complete lack of involvement of the city and the community at large, award of work contracts at higher prices, poor quality assurance and management, and award of work contracts to ineligible agencies.
Although now the Central Vigilance Commissioner PJ Thomas himself is now facing charges about his illegal recruitment, he has been in this special position even while facing criminal charges against him. The trail is on in Supreme Court.
Apart from this Rajya Sabha this year again found Calcutta High Court Judge Soumitra Sen guilty of misappropriations of Public Money.
The arrest of senior IAS officer Ravi Inder Singh, a director of Internal Security division of Union Home Minister in connection with the leaking of important information from the Ministry in exchange of money and call girls has proved the bureaucracy’s involvement in corruption.
This all went on, many in the government are directly and indirectly involved in the connection of Common Wealth Games big scam, again after the CWG, 2G Spectrum corruption involving the Telecom Ministry and the Minister A. Raja directly, after about a month the minister reluctantly gave his resignation, such is the lust for power. This again brings a shameful chapter in the history of Indian Media, some big Journalists of the country are found lobbying of a certain Minister.
All the three pillars of Democracy, whether it be Legislature, Executive and Judiciary and unfortunately the fourth pillar or estate Media too is bungling under the grip of corruption with money and lust all around.
We can now well guess where our country is floating over corruption we had given the responsibility to run our country to the people, who are much interested in their own welfare rather then the welfare of the nation or society at large.