{"id":17550,"date":"2023-03-13T16:56:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T11:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=17550"},"modified":"2023-06-26T05:55:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:25:27","slug":"india-cant-push-corruption-dirt-under-carpet-any-longer","status":"publish","type":"editorial-analysis","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/editorial-analysis\/india-cant-push-corruption-dirt-under-carpet-any-longer","title":{"rendered":"India can&#8217;t push corruption dirt under carpet any longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The impact of corruption is especially heavy on common citizens and even more on poorer and vulnerable persons in communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Corruption:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It refers to misusing public power for personal gain. Corruption is the destruction of values.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Causes of corruption:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Political\u00a0 factors:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Politics has Populist practices.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Especially known as nexus with the corporate sector exposed by the NN Vohra Committee in 1993.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Economic factors:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Resources concentration in a few hands.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even in past liberalization era, income of top 10% people huge rise and income of bottom 10% poor people, farmers are there remains stagnant or experienced decline.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Socio-cultural-religious factors:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, Socio-cultural factors encourage corruption and not a discourage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is, India has a tolerant culture against corruption.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Legal and administrative factors:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Administrative structure, legal loopholes, outdated laws, arbitrary laws and laws encouraging and recognising become also basis for promoting corruption, that is corruption doesn&#8217;t have only moral dimensions, it has also legal dimension.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>ARC-II given three major causes of corruption:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>British colonial legacy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> historically imbibes corruption in the system and is deeply rooted specially in administration.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Centralized<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> administration of Power.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Public sector jobs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are wanted by people by any <\/span><b>hooks or crooks.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Corruption =Monopoly+Discretion+Secrecy-Accountability\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>General causes:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personal gains &#038; self-preservation (hedonistic tendencies)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less salary in the public sector as compared to the formal private sector<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lack of proper values, education and training<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lack of transparency<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poor emotional intelligence\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No motivation and reward for honest officers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Low rate of conviction<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusion:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a need for reforms in each and every section of the system to fight against the menace of corruption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Integrity, transparency and fighting against corruption have to be part of the culture. They must be thought of as fundamental values of the society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>News Source: <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/opinions\/2023\/mar\/10\/india-cant-push-corruption-dirt-under-carpet-any-longer-2554618.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>\u00a0The Indian Express<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: The impact of corruption is especially heavy on common citizens and even more on poorer and vulnerable persons in communities. Corruption: It refers to misusing public power for personal gain. Corruption is the destruction of values. Causes of corruption: Political\u00a0 factors: Politics has Populist practices.\u00a0 Especially known as nexus with the corporate sector exposed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/editorial-analysis\/india-cant-push-corruption-dirt-under-carpet-any-longer\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India can&#8217;t push corruption dirt under carpet any longer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1957,1955,1956],"paper-wise":[],"subject":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial-analysis\/17550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial-analysis"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/editorial-analysis"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial-analysis\/17550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17550"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=17550"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=17550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}