Money remains the same in anyone’s hand, whether it is earned legally or illegally. A nation going poor with the money handled by bad people with good position is going to damage the environment in various ways like construction of poor quality structure with more estimation will make the structure to become damaged soon with generation of waste and consumption of next round of materials from the environment. There is a saying that anyone who plucks the honey will lick his hands, in the same way anyone who handles the money will also keep some percentage for his sincere work and he will use his position, degree and intelligence to handle the things. So it is very much essential to digitalis e the currency in order to prevent all types of corruption, black money and similar things and to save this earth for our living.
1. Contentsof section15: No ‘note orcoin’in transaction.
Chapter3-Corruptionintransaction.
3.1-Imbalance in‘legal earningandexpenditure’withrapidchangesinlifestyle made corruption
mandatoryor the personneedtosuffer.
3. Corruption in transaction.
3.1. Imbalance in ‘legal earning and expenditure’ with rapid
changes in life style made corruption mandatory or the person
need to suffer.
Position in the corruption index of 133
countries surveyed (2003): 83rd (survey
by Transparency International). Source [7]
Thanksto this statistic, because we are not in the first position at present, that, does not mean we
are goingmaintainthe same inthe future also.Anotherpossibilityis most of the corrupt people are
veryintelligent and thus they might have escaped from these studies, and thus we might have got
lessstatisticsthanwhateverisexistinginreality.Whatevermaybe the corruptionrate andwhatever
may be the numberof incidences, even a single corruption incidence has to be condemned. This is
not the simple problem as we think. No one will be ready to accept the bribe or to give in the first
instances.Anyone whojoinsanyjob in the beginning will be very honest to their work and will not
accept anybribe may be for manymonthsor years.Many painful instancesinone lifemake the man
to accept the bribe.So,anynumberof people postedin the anticorruption team is not going to win
overthe processof corruption.We needtounderstandthe life of everyindividual in this world. Life
includesmarriage,dailyexpenses/monthlyexpenses,construction of house, making some property
to supportthe life whenthe individual becomesold,expensesfortheirchildren’sexpenses-marriage
and so on. Any person may be getting any amount of salary and increments, and he may be in the
service foranynumberof years.The total amount of money that the individual is going to get from
hiswhole service shouldmeetall theseexpensesasthatpersonthinks.The levelof thinking and the
lifestyle will be decidedbythe influencesfromhisrelatives, friends, and the environment, in which
the individual isgoingtogrow,sothe acceptance of lifestyleisdifferentfordifferentindividuals. For
example one individual may be happy with bicycle, another individual may not be happy with
Maruthi 800; he wants a better car than Maruthi 800 and so on. All these thinking’s is going to
influenceeitherdirectlyorindirectlythe process of corruption, violence, theft and so on. So, these
aspectslike corruption,violence,theftandsoon will notstopuntil we create a societywiththe mind
of satisfaction, equality, gets all the necessary requirements with whatever profession that he is
goinglead.Thislookssomething different and possible to achieve, but it is necessary to create the
society like this for good of the world and for the betterment of our children and the future. For
example asincere officerwhoisworkingdayandnightfor the bettermentof the society,one dayhe
suffersfrom some illnessandif he does not have the money to purchase the medicine at that time
(lateritmay come as reimbursement) andhe has to beg many of his friends to collect some money
for whichhe has to paylot of interest,orwhenhe doeshave nothave the money to pay the college
fee forhisson whoisintelligentandgota meritseat,will notbecome the same personasbefore.He
2. will start using all his intelligence to collect more and more money so that he will not have the
similardifficultiesinthe future,so,he utiliseshis power and makes the thing little complicated, for
example an ‘income certificate’ giving officer will not put the signature simply, he will ask 101
questionsforthe candidate,he will ask 101 documents for the same, and he will take his own time
to sign the certificate giving the reason pointing meters of files arranged on his table. The person
whogoesto the office for many days leaving his village early in the morning, giving lot of bus fare,
fasting or eating in the hotels for many a times spending lot of money (For an ordinary man these
expensesare reallyhuge),andreaching the home late night without getting the work done, makes
himto thinkto give some money and get the work done and many times the income of the person
will be defiantly more that whatever mentioned in the certificate (this may be another reason to
give the bribe) thus both the officer and individual are benefitted in this process, and thus the
corruption thrives very well.
Pointsat which the people are going to start their corruption: When the person suffers from some
economical crisis – during illness / surgery, for the sake of sons / daughter’s education / marriage,
duringthe planto construct some home /firm, for the purpose of savings to lead a comfortable life
whentheybecome oldatthe time of presentillnesses and so on. Sometimes the people start their
corruptionwhentheysee theirfriendbeingsufferingfromsome economiccrisislike not able to pay
the house rent-notsentthe son for medical collage even when the son of his friend took the merit
seat in some private collage-was not able to pay the bill of the hospital may be after some bypass
cardiac surgery,whentheirfriendconstructssome new building/buy’ssomethingnew and so on. It
may be because of the influence of the familymembers/friends/andthe society.Someof the people
may involve inhuge bribe whentheyare inpower to spend the same money to retain in the power
and to get the power again.
Most of us are corrupt. We donot showour income correctly.We have bettermanipulatorsto show
our income aslowand expense asmore, creating a negative balance and showing loss can be done
mostly by the intelligent people. An employ who is getting Rupees 10000 to 15000 salaries per
month(mayget Rs.14000 to the handafterdeductionforPF,IT, Insurance andso on) whofindshard
to lead the life by paying Rs.4000 as house rent, Rs.2000 for condiments, Rs.500 for milk, Rs.500 for
electricity, Rs.500 for school van for two children, Rs.500 for LPG cylinder, Rs.1000 for the parents
medicine, Rs. 2000 for the petrol of the two wheeler of the working man, Rs.3000 (average for 6
members) for the cloth, shoes, slippers, bus charges, railway charges, auto fares and so on during
travel and others, will not save any thing at the end of the month and if someone falls sick in the
house and if that consumes Rs 2000 or 3000 then he has to take that money as the loan. With all
these things he has to pay at least Rs.3000 to 5000 tax to the government, since it is accountable
money.If thisisthe case thenhowthispersonisgoingto construct a house inhislifetime,how he is
going to conduct his children’s marriage. Through this I am neither encouraging the people to
participate in the corruption nor supporting the people who involve in the corruption, my concern
here aboutthe practicality of life, that is the disparity between what we get as salary and what we
have spend for leading day to day life. Is people who are suffering from this disparity are
compensating the same with corruption or the try to get more than, what they want through this
corruptionisthe questiontobe answeredbyeveryindividual whoare directlyorindirectlyinvolvein
the process of corruption.
3. But a factory ownerwho earns millions of rupees may show the loss and ask for the compensation
from the insurance company or from the factory. Or a land lord who has 100 hectares of land and
earning millions of rupees will not at all come in to the picture of tax.
The person who gets Rs10000 to 15000 salarywhen he fells in economic crisis may become corrupt
and may take Rs 10 or 20 at the time of preparing the income certificate file, and if this person is
caught bythe anticorruptionteamhe will losehisjobandhe will come to the street with his family,
children,andthe oldparents.Whereasthe factory owner who is showing millions of rupees as loss
will be livinginthe bigbungalow and will be roaming in the luxurious car is a model for the society
and everyone respectshim.Inthis sense, who is more corrupt? How the society is running with all
these things.A personwhoisnotable to maintainthe familywithhissalaryaftermanyyearsof hard
work in his studies getting 10 or 20 rupees as bribe- is he corrupt? Or, the person who swallows
millions of rupees and show loss always in the records and get the compensation always from the
government instead of paying the tax-is he corrupt? You need to think.
Places (Examples) at which the corruption places a major role: Every where the corruption may be
playingamajor role,butinrealitynoone will accept the fact that he is corrupt. If someone asks me
to prove someone as corrupt at some place if I mention here, then I will defiantly fail to prove the
same.Thenthe readermay ask me,what is the necessity write about the corruption in this book at
thisjuncture?Inthe true sense Iam alsocorrupt inthe waythat “I alsogot some sponsorfromsome
company to attend some conference”. What we can expect is that corruption may be playing a
major role at the public and private offices when they give the job / work contract / certificates /
reports /while dispensing free medicines-equipments-materials and so on.
Who isnot goingto take any bribe?If chance permitseveryonetakes the bribe. It is very difficult to
say that whoisnot goingto accept the bribe.If someone isnotacceptingthe bribe means –he is not
normal in his attitude, or he is a real saint, or he may be in the fear that some will catch me while
taking the bribe.
Whenpeople startgivingbribe:Whenthe people come toknow that whatever work that they want
will notbe done onthe same day, then they will think spending money and another day is not nice
to get the same thing and there is no guarantee that they are going to get their work another day
also,or whateverthe requestthattheyare askingmaynot be the truth like they may be getting the
more income than whatever quoted in the certificate, or they may be helpless and they are not in
the positiontofightagainstthe corrupt system, orthe personwho is going to give the bribe may be
a personwhois goingto receive the bribe atthe otherendthus it may the chain of corruption like a
clerkreceivingthe bribe froman applicant and the share will be given to the higher officer and the
other colleges so that the entire system works with unity to share the corrupt money thus the
people who knew all these thinks will think nothing will be done even if we come for months
together because the entire system is corrupt thus let me get my work done with whatever bribe
they expect. Thus the people will start giving the bribe.
Why people start giving bribe: It is just to get their work done as early as possible. Delay in getting
the work done may further cause the loss to the applicant, and no one is sure that a non corrupt
personisgoingto occupythe seat.So,the people whostartgivingthe bribe will make the moneyfor
himself andforthe purpose of bribe fromthe workitself andthusthe quality of the work is going to
suffer.
4. Are all people givingbribeare happy?All the peoplewhoare givingbribe are not happy. The people
who give the bribe also know that, if I bribe, I will not be able do a good work for the society and I
will be cheatingthe nationinthe sense the life of the workdone withpoorqualitywill have less life
and durability. But, because of distribution and redistribution of money at various levels that was
supposedtobe usedonlyforthe work isnot used because of corruption from ‘Javan to diwan’, still
people withthisunhappymoodwill continue tobribe because theyneed some work on which their
life isdependentandif they do not bribe then the work may go to some other person who is ready
to bribe and that person is not at all bothered about the quality of the work. Many a times the
officer and the people who get the work may sit together and the plan the work and does the
estimation in such a way that the estimation of the work includes the bribe percentages also.
Are all people whoare receivingthe bribe are happy?Mostof the people who receive the bribe are
not happy.Buttheystill continue tobribe,theyalsoknow thatbybribingtheyare goingto cheat the
nationand the societybydoinglowqualitywork.Butthe people whoare receivingthe bribe are also
helpless because they may be getting very less salary from their institution and thus they are not
able to lead the life like their friends who were less intelligent and hard working than him
throughouttheireducation.Orthese officersmayhave to give the percentage of collected bribe to
the higher officer or to the in charge minister and so on. Thus anyone who gets in to the system of
corruptionhasto receive the bribe and give the bribe to sustain in the system and thus to lead the
life with that profession.
Is there anychain of bribe existing in the society? There is possibility that the ground level worker
receivingthe bribe andtransferringthe percentage tothe higherofficial,then the higher officials to
the district level officer and then to the state level/national level officers and leaders. All these
possibilitiesare presentandwiththeirfriendstheyshare their views in their own ways, giving their
own reasons. One way it may look right form their point of view sitting at the receiving end, but it
may look wrong when it is looked from the giving end.
Is the person who is not going to receive any bribe is he going to stay happy? The persons who are
not gettingthe bribe maybe veryrigidintheirlife andhe mayfeel asense of happinessthinkingthat
he is notdoinganythingwrongor theymay have an alternate source of income.If aperson does not
have an alternate source of income,thenmostof the time the personwill notbe able to make up all
the necessaryeventsinthe life especiallyanunexpected event in the family without any savings in
his accounts. So, during unexpected events the rigid person is going to suffer and this is going to
disturb his happiness.
Why corruption exists? Corruption exists because of inequality, endless dissatisfaction, over
ambition and so on. More than this the common cause for the existence of the corruption is the
disparitybetween whateverwe receive as salary (Income) and the present market rate to lead the
life (Expense).Same workdone attwodifferentplaceswillgenerate differentincomes.Andthus the
personwhogetslessincome may become corrupt and he may try to lead the life like his colleague
who is getting more income and leading a better life. If the salary of the person is not going to
suffice forall hisneedslike house rent,condiments, petrol, and other essential activities according
to his lifestyle then that person is more prone to involve in the corruption.
Are the people whoworksforAnti corruptionare they really good? All the people who are going to
work for the anticorruption may not be good, because they also have ambitions like a common
5. people.So they may start making the money with their profession. Apart from that they may have
some godfatheror the well wishers,sothese people mayuse theirpower to give trouble to people
whoare againsttheirgodfatherand the well wisher.Orthese people mayhave toworkaccordingto
the guidelinesgivenbytheirseniorofficersorthe concernedminister, thus they may not be able to
decide what is right or wrong and thus they have to work blindly as per the orders from the higher
officers.
Are the people who work for the Anticorruption are they going to lead a better life? Not always.
They may not be getting good salary, still they are forced to stay non corrupt because they are in
anticorruption team. There may be lots of threats from the people who are corrupt. There may be
lotsof pressure fromtheirseniorofficerorthe ministers.They may have the fear to lose their job if
they do the things that whatever they think it as right.
The moneythat isgoingto generate fromthe corruptionbyany means – how it isutilized?Isitgoing
to help the nation or the individual? The money that is going to generate from the corruption is
alwaysnonaccountable money(Blackmoney), so it is also used in non accountable way. When it is
not accountable moneythenthe people who are going to own this money are not going to pay any
state or central tax to the government,thusthe moneyisnotgoingtobe useful forthe development
of the nation.The personwhoownssuchtype of moneyis always a dangerous person to the nation
and thistype of money may be used for any type of activity including the process of disturbing the
peace of the nation.If suchtype of moneyexistswiththe personwith the evil mind then it can lead
to harmful effectsonthe commonpeoplesandthe nation.Since itisthe nonaccountable moneythe
money is not stored in a proper way, means it might have kept in some place as a dead capital and
thus the money is not going to be useful either for the nation or for himself during the course of
illegal storage of the money,butitmaybe usedfor underworldactivityduringhispersonnelcrisis,or
it maybe storedunderthe coverof charitable or religionthusthe people whom we respect as saint
may involve orparticipate inthe processof corruptioneitherdirectlyorindirectlyandthey may also
use the same moneyfortheirunderworldactivity.Many a times this type of corrupt money may be
storedin a huge and it remains stagnant and thus it becomes the dead capital and the nation faces
the economiccrisisbecause of lackof currency.Most of the moneygeneratedinthe illegal way may
not be stored in the nation or in the national banks and thus they may be stored in some
international bankandthusthe moneyof the nationandof the people will move out of this nation,
whenonce thismoneymovesoutof the nationthenthiscorrupt personutilize the same money in a
effective way sitting in this nation telling all big things to the people and making the people to
believethe same andthusgainingthe powereitherpoliticallyorreligiously and thus generating the
illegal moneycontinuouslyandshiftingthe same to some international bank and utilising the same
for his underworld activity. Thus the money of the people of this country will move out of this
countrythroughcorruptionand the nation remains developing or underdeveloped and the people
whowork sincerelyinthe nationwill notgetthe adequate salarybecause the national and the state
budgetare most of the time negative budget thus not able to do anything rational for the employs
or for the people who live in that nation thinking the nation as great and filled with faith and
prosperity.
When is the end for corruption? The corruption will not end “till all the money becomes
accountable, every individual knows-every individuals income, till the entire economic event
becomes transparent and visible to every individual, till we achieve the goal of equality, till we
6. respectall the profession equally”. It is essential to achieve the norms like ‘all working people are
going to get their share for their work’, ‘since all are working, all should be non corrupt-no one is
speciallyeligible forcorruptionsince all are working in their field equally for equal hours with their
physical and mental strength’, ‘the person who expects the bribe is not the only person who is
working,butthe personfromwhomhe expectsthe bribe isalsoworkingandcontributinghisenergy
for the growth of the nation’, ‘every speciality has its own skills, whether it is after a prolonged
formal educationornot’- inthe mindsof everyindividual toendthe corruption.Itisthe cunningness
of some of the people made the education costly and thus the educated class expecting more
returns to compensate the old deficits, if the education becomes completely free then we can
expect the educated population to serve without expecting the corruption since most of the
corruption is done only by the educated population.
What isuncoveredcorruption?Whatiscoveredcorruption?Anuncoveredcorruptionisaccountable
corruption, at least in the minds of two, that the person who gives the bribe and the person who
receive the same, in which there is the direct shift of material / money between these two
individuals. The coveredcorruptionwillnotbe visibletothe personwhoindirectly gives the money
but will be known only by the person who receives the money. The uncovered corruption is
amenable for enquiry by the anticorruption team. But the covered corruption is not visible for
anyone exceptthe personwhoreceivesthe corruptionmoney.Then what is uncovered corruption?
The uncoveredcorruptionisthe moneyormaterial askedfordoingsome workwhich is suppose d to
be done without expecting any returns for the service that is rendered or is the money or the
materials that offered by the person who needs the work to be done. There are laws and people
available to prevent this issue.
What is covered corruption? This is the corruption done by an individual or by the group of
individuals who run some office / organisation / industry / so on, sometimes under the cover of
charity / religion / social organisation / so on. In this type of corruption the individual gets lot of
moneyforhim though the sale of his products / through the students who joins his institution / so
on.In whichthe individual willbe sellinghisproductsforahighcost / collectsmore fee or donations
from the students, gives less salary to his employs, shows loss in the audit and thus gets the
compensation from the insurance or support from the government since it is a charity / religion /
social organisation and thus he becomes rich day by day and this corruption is not in terms
thousandsorlakhsbut in terms of millions and billions. Here no one will know that they are giving
bribe tosomeone – noone will knowthattheyare payingmore moneyforthe product that they are
buying (no one will know the exact money required for the manufacture of that material), no one
will know that they are paying more money for their education and so on. Thus, this is not coming
underthe law(because the lawisalsonot able to recognise the same), so it is not recognisable and
the extramoneywhateverthe persongetsis going to become the ‘black money’ it may or may stay
in our nation, it may reach the safe destination anywhere in the world. Everyone wants that that
product but no one knows the exact cost involved in the manufacture of that, thus everyone pay
more money for the product thus that person becomes rich. This will never end unless all of us
become intelligentaboutchoosingthe productaftergettingthe complete details about the same or
the governmentshouldanalyse the costinvolvedinthe manufacture of thatproductwithoutgetting
in to any bias. Thus we can prevent preparing the product for the low cost, and selling the same
product for the high cost keeping great margin (thus grabbing the money of the innocent people),
giving less salary for the employs that are going to prepare those products (thus utilizing the
7. helplessness of those employs). Is it necessary for us to decide whether such type of activity is
corruptionor not?If itis corruptionthen,isit necessary to stop the same or not? If so, who / when
/ how? And so on, without creating loss neither for the manufacturer nor for the customer nor for
the employs who work under the manufacturer.
Who are all the people,whoare goingtoinvolve inthe corruption?Mostlyeducatedofficial whohas
the power to give some certificates-registration, some of the officials who have the power to
distribute the materialslikeration,medicinesandsoon,those officialsandthe peopleinpowerwho
give the workcontract for the people,those peoplewhopassordersforthe appointmentsandso on
may be getting the bribe.
Why people start giving the bribe? Most of the people who need the things to be done fast, who
needs manipulation in the certificates and the registrations, who are confused about the
procedures, when they do not know where and how to get the work done, sometimes the people
may thinkthat is the government fee that they are paying, after prolonged waiting for the work to
be done, the people who are giving the bribe may be the bribe recipients on the other hand. Thus
many people offer bribe for many reasons.
When the people will start giving information about corruption? People will give the information
only when the corruption rates are high and not affordable, when the corruption taking person is
some enemy of the person for political, property, caste, love or other social reasons, when that
positionisoccupiedbyone corruptpersonwhichwassupposedtobe occupiedbyanotherpersonso
the enmity of losing the power may influence the person to give the information about the
corruption, rarely by the people who concern about the society really or by the people who make
moneythroughthe corrupt personbygivinginformationandtellingthe person that we are going to
repeat the same in the future also.
When the anticorruption team is going to catch the corrupted person? Most of the time the
anticorruption team is going to catch the person who is involved in the corruption as soon as they
get the information or when they identify some corruption provided when they are not under the
fear or influence of their higher officials or the leaders. So, depending upon this influence further
management of that corrupt man occurs and this may take any turn.
Whom the anticorruptionpeople are goingtocatch? If the personnel involved in anticorruption are
very much perfect then they may catch all the people who does corruption, but this will never
happen because they have lot of limitation like their jurisdiction, power, position of the so called
corrupt personandso on.So evenif theysee the corruptioninfrontof their eyes they have to think
it as nocorruption,when the corruption is done by the person who is powerful, who is not coming
undertheirjurisdiction,andthe personwhom they cannot question, because he is exempted from
enquiry, thus they escape from the probe for corruption.
The truth is these anticorruptionpersonsare givenfull power to catch the people who take 10 or 20
rupees,buttheydonot have the powerstocatch the people whodocorruptionintermsof millions.
So,the anticorruption team has to catch millions of people to make a million worth corruption but
not one case which involves millions of rupees.
8. If these people are under the influence of their senior people or some corrupt leaders then these
anticorruption team has to work (or used as) like an assistant to promote the corruption.
If thisisthe scenarioof the people who work for preventing the corruption then let us think about
the common people who see the corruption in every step of life. The common people should not
have any special senses working for seeing and listening about the corruption (Selective deafness
and selectiveblindnessforeventslikecorruption).If a person says, that I had seen some corruption
like one officerdemanded100rupeesfor giving some certificate, then the same person has to visit
the court at least 10 to 20 times, telling the truth, spending his own money, leaving his own
earnings, spending money for bus charge and for the food, overall it may cost 10000 to 20000
rupeesandwhatthe practical lessonthathe will learnforthe future is,he will neverspeakthe truth
inhis life time,because of the fearof goingtothe court andthe police station repeatedly to tell the
truth.Thus the people,becomesselectivelydeaf andselectivelyblindforthe events like corruption,
murders,theft,rape andso on.Sometimestheymayhave totake the loansto go to court to give the
witness and many a times they have to face the threat for being telling the truth for which the
common people is not going to get the protection continuously.
It isalso verydifficultforthe courtto decide the truthat the firstinstance,since the judgement may
come in favourof the person who has done the mistake. So to decide about the truth it may take a
prolonged enquiry. Thus the lawyer / police / court are not doing any wrong at any step in
identifying the truth and to give the judgement for the person who is correct and it is the natural
process that occurs in the identification of the truth, but on the other hand it may be the costlier
affairfora commonman,eventhe personwhoiscomingfor givingthe witnessneednotpayanyfee
for the lawyer or the court. So a wise common man exhibits selective deafness and selective
blindnesstosafe guardhimself andhisfamily,speaking about his helplessness with his friends and
well wishers casually. But, this is not going to give any solution for the person who suffered.
Since the person was not ready to give the bribe and he started fighting against the corruption in a
legal way the officer might have demanded many more records to come to a conclusion of that
person was coming under the poverty line or the officer might have told I need to conduct a spot
inspectionbefore issuing the certificate and the expense of the spot inspection has to be filled by
the applicant to the government as though he is generating more money for the government.
Because of all these delay,the applicant will get the certificate well after the recruitment and thus
he has not submittedthe income certificateintime,thushe mighthave lost the opportunity for the
job,and suchtype of opportunityhe maynotget inthe rest of the life and thus he will remain poor
throughouthislife.If the nationisfilledwith such type people whose intelligence goes waste with
gettingsuitable jobfollowingtheirprolongedformal studies, then how can we expect the nation to
become developed in the future at least.
Thus the common people will not give the information regarding the corruption, the people in
charge will notcatch the people if they not coming under their jurisdiction, not coming under their
power and so on. Even if they catch a person who comes under their power and jurisdiction
ultimately that money may become his personnel money in the court and the person who catches
the personnel moneyascorruptmoneywill be de promotedortransferredawayfromhisfamilyand
children as a punishment.
9. Shall we allow the corruption/ theft/violence to continue? This you have to answer by using your
commonsense.If we allowthe corruption to continue government is not going to get more money
and the people who work in the government sector will not get more legal money. If the people
working for the government get less salary as we consider the present market value then it is
practically not possible to lead a sensible life in the present world. If these corruption / theft /
violence continues then we will not be knowing who / when / how people is going to become the
victims of these process and who / when / how the group of people are going to be benefitted for
how long? And if this is the situation then everyone wants to become more and more rich and in
thisprocesssome of the people will startworkinglegallywhichisreally legal, working legally which
isnot legal inthe true sense,workingillegallywhichmaylooklegal,workingillegallywhich may look
illegal but practitioners are not at all bothered about the law except getting the money they want
and thisdependsonthe powerdue tohisposition,level of thinking,mindpower,bodypower, place
of work, influence andsoon, and some will win for ever, some will win for a while, some will lose
for some time and some will lose permanently.
I am not persontotell inwhat way the people has to live and if something happens to myself then
to certain extent the people may come for the support if I am right and the people who gives the
protection,maygive the protectioneitherforashort periodor forever. But the mental agony when
we come across some insultwill nevergooutof our mind,and this applies to every person who has
mindinhisbrain andthe response tothisstimuluswill be differentbythe differentpeople and some
may become violentopposingthe illegal practice,some becomes violent during the illegal practice.
Considering all these things all of you have to think what to practice and what not to practice, so I
cannot give answerforthese things.Eachone of you hasto decide whatkindof life youwantto lead
and whattype of life youexpectfromotherswhenyoucome across other people inside the house,
inthe office,onthe road,inthe bus stand,inthe railwaystation,inthe massgatheringsandso on. If
everyone wants the peace and prosperity for ever then everyone has to practice non corruption,
truth, love and affection among one another. This looks impractical in the present world. But with
the establishmentof Model village all thesequalitieswill be automaticallyupdatedineveryone’slife
like when we are in sorrow we pray and scold the god more, in the same way when we do not get
any chance to practice corruption,violence,andso on, because everyone will have the same scope
for doingall these thingsinhisareasandthe personwhodoesa small mistake alsowillbe known by
everyindividual andhe will be treatedlike a person without life and this type of treatment will not
be done by anyone else butwill be generatedwithinthe mind of the person who does the mistake,
then automatically everyone wants lead a perfect life.
What isthe effectof corruptiononthe growthof the nation? A nation develops faster if there is no
corruption in that nation and the nation rotten fast if there is more corruption in a nation. The
processof rottening will be directly proportional to the severity of the corruption. There are many
reasons why a nation with more corruption will not come up is mentioned here. Any nation’s
development depends on the development of the majority of the population, in any corruption
scenariothe people whoare able togetthe corruptionisthe minor and the major group who needs
the work to be done at the receiving end and thus they need to give the bribe to get their work
done.So,manypeople small share of moneywillgotofew people’spocketswhere it becomes a big
bulk of black money. For an ordinary man giving a small amount of bribe at one instance may not
cause any economic burden as it is compared to the expenses of coming another day to get the
same workdone,but repetitionof the same practice everywhere andatevery instance like at every
10. offices,ateveryhospitals,ateverycontract,at everymarket,at every gate, at every work and so on
makes the common man poor day by day and a nation which contains more poor people becomes
poor.Since the corruptionmoneyimmediatelybecomesthe blackmoney, this black money is going
to escape from all the taxes because no will give receipt for this corruption thus the hard earned
moneyof the common person when it goes to the pocket of the corrupt person becomes the black
money.Mostof thiscorrupt moneywill be usedforthe underworld activities like bribing big giants
to maintainthe position,spending irrationally during events like public meetings, elections and so
on. Purchasing more and more properties so that their next two three generation gets adequate
propertiestoenjoy.Mostof the moneymaybe storedat various places illegally thinking that it will
helpwhen trouble arisesandthusitbecomesadeadamount.This dead amount will not participate
in the growth of the nation. Sometimes this black money may go and settle in some international
bankand thus itmovesoutof thiscountry.If there is more corruption itleadstogeneration of more
blackmoneyandthe nationisgoingto getless tax and the people who give bribe at every instance
becomes poor and poor day by day, their affordability goes down, their nutritional status goes
down,prone formany diseases thusagainthe governmenthas to spend more money on the health
sector with the scarification of the working days and thus the earning. On the other hand
governmentmaynotbe able to give bettersalaryforthe people whoworkinthe governmentsector
and thus the people who remain non corrupt will have to compromise in every step of life like
housing,diet,travel,cloth,childrenschooling(Ivisitedone of the CommonEntrance testcounselling
process after my uncles daughter completed her pre university course with my uncles daughter,
uncle,andwitha familyfriendwhoknew which are the colleges are better for academics, staff and
infrastructure so that we can choose a better college at the time counselling among the colleges
available forherrankand category. Just before the entry to the CET cell my uncle told his daughter
‘look,youselectonlythe seatwhichispurelygovernmentseatbutneverthe managementseateven
if you a geta goodcollege undermanagement (High fee) quota, I will not be able fulfil the fee and
the expenses’. He was a retired teacher and these are the words came out spontaneously from his
mindjustbefore sendinghisdaughterforthe counselling.Thisindicatesagovernment employ, who
gets less salary throughout his service as compared to the present market value and their children
has to compromise in the selection of college and the subject. Since my uncle did not have the
chance for corruptionand thusremainedas non corrupt teacher, his children has to compromise in
theireducation.Ultimatelymyuncle’sdaughter got the subject of her choice but not the college of
her choice, but she was happy after she visited her college.
Many a timeschildrenof middle andlowerclassfamilymissing the college they want, subject they
want,and sometimesthe seatitself isacommonscenario.Theymaynotbe able togive the high fee
prescribed and thus they will miss the seat and thus they may remain poor throughout since their
parents were non corrupt and not made more money. People who pay more money will not be
happy with less salary, when they start working. And those who pay more fee presently, in the
future they will select either a place where they get more money (In which the larger segment of
poor people isnotgoingtoget the benefitfromthem) ortheymaychoose a job with less salary and
becomes corrupt (Thus the common people are going to be affected by giving the bribe). It is the
simple mathematics of investment and getting the income for the investment that graduate have
done. If such graduates are corrupt or if they expect more salary, on either the side the nation is
under the loss, but when we look at the individual he may be correct, if we consider the law of
mathematics. So, if there is no corruption then there is more income for the government, better
11. fundingtothe collegesandlessfee tothe studentsandthuslessexpense forthe educationformore
people and that we can expect a better service for a lesser salary and the nation will be at the
benefit in terms of education and productivity.
What is the effect of corruption on the people who are learned/educated/scientists and so on? A
nation’seconomybasicallydependsonwhatwe are importingandwhat we are exporting. If we are
exporting raw ore, raw food items, raw materials since we do not have the technology and the
skilled man power to convert those raw materials to ready to use materials, then we need to sell
those raw materials for a low cost and we need to buy the ready to use materials for the high cost
like steel, electronic gadgets, cars and so on. After the graduation these young minds will be
enthusiastic to work better with good principles. But at the entry itself they will lose all their
principles it is because at the entry itself they may be expected to give the huge bribe may be in
terms of lakhs which they may not have in their hands. May be in the beginning they may not be
knowingthere are many opportunities available for their qualification, if this is the case then they
may arrange any range of money possible necessary to give the bribe and bring all possible
influencestoget that job and this effort may be more if the candidate and his family feels that the
jobis secure,comfortable, givesmore salaryandthe place of work may be close to their properties
so that they can monitor their properties with ease. With all this intention the candidate may join
the job.If the candidate andhisfamilyfeelsthattheyare notgoingto the similar opportunity in the
future theymaytry all the possible routespossible by them and try to get the job so in that process
theymay start givingthe bribe frompeontoclerical manto the officerin charge to the minister and
the same processmay repeatat manyplaceslike while gettingthe necessarydocumentslikeincome
certificate,caste certificate, residential proof (address proof), and attestation of these documents
and so onat varioustimeslike atthe time of puttingthe application, at the time of entrance for the
job or during the interview, at the time of getting the job for contract, and the time of job
confirmation,duringpromotion and so on. So there is no end for giving the bribe and it is true that
those whogive bribe ateverystepof life are definatlygoingtoexpectthe bribe ateverystepintheir
work and for putting every signature. Thus the learned person or the educated person becomes
corrupt as soonas he entersthe jobandsometimeshe maytell tothe people whorefusetogive the
bribe like-‘doyouknowhowmuch I have given to come to this seat, do you know how much I have
to give retainmypositionhere,whoiscorrectinthisworld, give 100 rupees and get your certificate
and getlost’.If the learned person is not willing for the bribe then the officer can give 101 reasons
for notsigninghiscertificate thusthe personwhogivesthe bribe andgets the job from day one will
start collectingthe bribe tellingthe same dialogue.Theselearned and educated people are wiser in
escaping the enquiries and they use all their skills obtained during their education just to get as
much as money possible during their service. They know the conflicts in the law and the rules and
theyuse the same thingto signimmediatelyfor those who give bribe and use the same conflicts to
put queriesforthose whodo not give the bribe and thus delay the process. If some enquiry comes
for the same theythiseducatedpersonwill show somerule book in favour of his query and will not
showthe rule bookwhichisin favourof the applicant even though he knew about it. If the enquiry
people showthe rule infavourof the applicantthenthe officerwill politelywill tell that I have gone
through the rules written in this but in that book and thus he will escape and thus the learned and
educatedpeople usesall theirknowledge todelaythe processof giving the licence, certificates and
so on and thus the people who walks to the office repeatedly will ultimately decide to give the
money and get their work done.
12. On the other hand those people who do not want to give bribe may be more intelligent and they
may get the job by virtue of their intelligence and the luck and if they do not suffer from any
economiccrisisorif theyhave propertiesto support their life and if both the husband and the wife
are earning good amount and if they feel it as sufficient or if they are in fear of getting the
corruption then they may remain non corrupt.
On the otherhand some of the educated or learned or scientists or doctors or engineers and many
more groupsof people maydevelopaversionforthe systemexistinginthe nationat many instances
like existence of the corruption,forbadroads,poorhousing areas, poor traffic sense of the people,
overcrowded roads, government which is not able give the jobs suitable for their education and
efficiency,governmentwhichisnotable togive sufficientsalaryfortheireducationandefficiency or
they may develop attraction toward better e governance, better roads, better housing, better
housing areas, better traffic sense of the people, getting better salary and facilities for their
educationandefficiencyandsoonexistinginthe otherdevelopednationmaymake these educated
people to sit in front of the internet and search for the job all over the world and if they get the
chance then immediately they will move to other developed nation and they may use all their
knowledge toachievesomethinggreatand thus the knowledge migration occur may be because of
the bribe expected at the first interview and that might have made those educated population to
hate every instance in the nation and start searching for the job outside the nation. Thus we lose
skilledpeoplewhowere supposedto convert this raw materials in to ready to use materials will go
and workin some othernationfor a betterlife andthusour systemisexpertin identifying the most
brilliantpeople forgivingbetterseatsinthe highereducation but not experts in retaining the same
people in the nation, in fact they may have lot of enthusiasm to work in the nation and they may
have lotof dreamsaboutthe nationand about their life, but in the first instance itself if they come
to know that without giving bribe they are not going to get the job their entire love toward the
nationand theirdreamwill godownandwhenthere isa possibilityof gettingabetterjob anywhere
inthe worldtheymaygo there and start working. The people over there may extract a better work
from these young people and may earn more but this is not going to bother these young minds
because theymayalsobe getting better salary and the facilities as compared to their native nation
and that moneylooksprettygoodbecause their parent were getting very less salary in their native
nation and they were in financial crisis always, now whatever money they are getting in the other
nation is giving some relief for their financial crisis so their parents will also think let him live
anywhere in this world, let him lead a peaceful and happy life, let him not suffer as we suffere d
getting so less salary in this nation. These young people may also say ‘who told not to extract our
workingenergyandefficiencywhenwe are youngandto give goodreturns for the same, and in this
nationneitherourefficiency is used effectively nor we get a good salary, the person who does not
have the knowledge of ABCD is expecting me to give lacks of rupees to give the appointment and
thisblindgovernmenthasgivengoodcar, ban glow, one assistant for each finger, apart from giving
good salary and thus maintaining that corrupt, nation eating man at a high position to facilitate his
eatingandI have to give moneytoget the jobit seems,he thinks I will not get job if he is not giving
the job, why should I work under the dirty people like him after paying lakhs of rupees and so on’
and indirectly telling to his friends and relatives who stay in their native nation confirming his
decision of going to some other nation for the sake of is a right decision.
On the otherhand those whodonot get the opportunitytoget the job they expected may retain in
their own nation and when they feel that the nation is not giving suitable job then he may start
13. doing whatever job comes to his side and start leading the life with that and he may shout badly
aboutthe systemexistinginhisnative nationwithhisfriendsandfamilywhen he moves on the bad
road, when he gives some bribe to get some work done and so on.
On the otherhand people whosettle well inthe nation may not think anything else. They may lead
the life happily with whatever they have.
Those who do not have any opportunity to go out have to lead the life in their native nation with
whatever work they get and whatever money they get in their native nation obligatorily.
Thus corruptionanditsconsequencesmake the learnedandeducatedpopulationtothink in various
ways, makes them to think of getting better jobs outside the nation, will lead to knowledge
migration,leadstoscarcityof skilledpeople inthe nation,leadstolessinvention, when there is less
inventionanddevelopmentof technologyandutilisationof same technologyinthe nation,thenthat
nationhas to depend on other developed nation for technology and for necessary material. When
there isless invention and technology in one nation it facilitates export of raw materials for lesser
price (Since thisnation’ssciencedonotknow how to convertthose materials in to useful materials)
and without any other path nation has to import ready to use materials for a high cost (The nation
whichisimportingthe material hasto believe whatever cost they are paying is the cost involved in
the manufacture.Forexample the costof one injectionmaybe 2000 rupeesinthe Indianmarketbut
the actual cost involved in the manufacture may be 20 rupees and the company may sell the same
productfor 1000 rupeestothe firstdistributor,the seconddistributorgetsthe same for1500 rupees
and sells it for 1750 rupees, the pharmacy will sell at rupees 2000, that is the MRP plus VATS extra.
The manufacturingcompanymayclaimthat theyhave investedmore on the research to invent that
molecule and that money they have not got it back, the first distributor will say I have to pay more
moneytothe flightandvehicle to get the medicine to my office and the pharmacy people may say
we do not getany people whostudiedPharmacyandtosearch these peopleitisone of the toughest
task for us and we have to give more salary then only they will remain, like this the original
manufacturingcostis so less like rupees 20 but the cost at which the end user gets is very high like
2000 rupees.Thistype of dependencyoccursineverystepof life likeiron,cement, fertilizers, paint,
medicines,machineryequipments, software, hardware equipment, electronic items and so on the
listisendless.Letuslookinto the every house in India about 30 to 40 % of the total house cost will
go out of our countryfor variousequipmentsthatispresent in the houses. offices, hospitals and so
on due to lack of technology in us and the same materials might have been manufactured by our
people as employs in some other nation and they get good salary out of it. Presently the building
may cost 40-60%, electronic equipments like fan, phone, oven, fridge, television, stove, iron box,
computers and so on will cost 25 -30%, utensils, furniture’s may cost 5-10%. The money that we
spendon electronic gadgets and some of the materials used in house construction like paint, iron,
tiles and so on will go out of this country. All these are due to our deficiency in retaining the
educatedpopulationinside ournationandwe still sittingandthinking about the food water shelter
and the termresearchare still adream forthe nation. The educated population may not sit in front
of some office and do strike asking for job but they sit in front of the net and will start searching
where isthe betterresearchisgoingon,where isthe betteracademicsare available,where I will be
fittingwell inthisworld.If bribe is expected from a person who is really having the knowledge, his
reaction to that expectation will be different and he may tell “thanks for calling the interview, I
learnt something out of it, I am not interested in this job”. He will move out of this nation and we
14. will move behindequipmentsspendinglotof moneyoverit.Thusthe nation is not going to improve
in terms of economy.
Is corruptionfacilitatesmigration?Corruptionfacilitates migration because of two reasons. People
whogetsthe corruption,wantedto move to the offices or the place where they can get better and
continuousbribe.People who are not willing to give and those who think they don’t want live in a
corrupt nationmaygo out of that place for theirjobwhere theyneednotgive anybribe for the sake
of gettingthe jobor theymaystart self employmentinasuitable place forthemwhichmay be away
from their original place or some people if they have the qualification, opportunity and eligibility
may go out this nation. Thus, those who are getting the corruption and those who oppose the
corruptionwill move outof theiroriginal place livinginvariousways.The people whogetcorruption
will collectthe informationregardingthe variousplaces,the movement of money in that place, and
their share and income in that place and later they may try in all the possible ways to come to that
place where theygetmore bribe.These people maybringinfluencesontheir higher officials to give
the transferto that place or he may offerthe bribe tohishigherofficialsor the minister in charge to
give transfer to the place which he wants giving many reasons like old parents, he is sick, for his
children education and so on. On the other hand those who are not able to arrange the bribe
amount,those whoare notwillingtogive the bribe,those whogive the bribetoa wrongpersonmay
go out of their place in search of other job. Thus in both the ways corruption facilitates migration.
What isthe mathematicsincorruption?Mostof us will compare our life with the life of the people
with whom we studied in our primary and secondary education. Some of the people may not be
goodin primaryand secondaryeducationandstill theywill constructgoodhouse and will buy some
vehicle inthe age between20 to 40 years.Onthe otherhanda intelligentstudentinthe primaryand
secondaryeducationwhowasalwayscomingfirstinthe examswill getsome government or private
job,but he will not be able to earn the money like his friend who was not good in studies and who
has constructeda goodhouse.Sothe intelligentemploywill calculate,he wasnotsogood instudies,
hisparentswere noteconomicallygoodascompared to my parents but still he makes money more
than me and leading ahappylife in his own house and still I live in a rented houses, who is good in
thisearth,people give money to get their work done and they also make lot of money out of it, if I
take moneyfromno harm will happentothem, soletme take some moneyandconstruct a house of
mine. This way the mathematics of corruption works.
What is the effect of corruption over the common people? Common people are going to suffer by
givencorruption,buttheymaynot feel it. A common person gives bribe and he is happy in moving
in the public transport or over a two wheeler, where as a person who receives bribe will not be
happyto move in the public transport or with two wheeler, instead he wants car to move and thus
he spendsmore and wantsto earnmore withcorruption.Commonpeople losemoneyateverystep,
still they may not feel that they are losing the money or they may think it as the normal.
What type of reactions that the people show for corruption? What are the after effects of reaction
againstcorruption? People mayshowvarieties of reaction for giving money as bribe, still they may
give toget theirworkdone fast, otherwise their personnel expense will exceed the bribe amount.
They may scold the corrupt officer for some time or they may price the officer for the sign that he
has put and they make more money than whatever they spent in the name of corruption and the
15. ultimate suffereristhe nationandthe common major population which are innocent or will see all
these things with great tolerance.
Is my family is free from the process of corruption? I also paid money as bribe to get the caste
certificate aftermypre universityeducation,because the clerksaidtocome aftertwodaysto collect
the caste certificate,bribeworkedandIgotthe certificate immediatelythroughamediatorwhowas
standing near the office.
What isverypractical aboutthe corruption?People maylose the jobora life time opportunityinthe
absence of some certificate. Spending few hundred rupees will not be the burden to get the
certificate atthe needytime forthe commonpeople andpeople who are very strict will lose all the
opportunity and may become poor in the life.
DidI survive whenIwasin the governmentservicewithouttakingthe bribe?Icouldnotsurvive with
the Government salary when I was a ordinary government employ to full fill all the commitments
stickingtomy headat that time.There were twooptionsleftin front of me, number one take bribe
a unsafe methodof leadinglife andfull fill the commitments or search for a job which fetch money
legally.Ichose the secondone.If the commitments are more, then a ordinary government job may
not full fill the criteria’s.
My father may not had the chance to become corrupt, because of that I lost most of my precious
time(SinceIdependedontime consumingjobs,whichwere notuseful tomycompetitiveexams and
thusI did notget the chance to become an IASofficerorto get the mastersinmy profession,Icould
not achieve anythingmore withthe courtesy diploma course, except leading my life), so, I became
like this, I could not tell my idea’s to this world for a long time in this way (through my book), so I
alsoremainedasa middle classposition - ?The nationremaineddeveloping for many decades? The
world could not recognise my plans early and thus they might have spent more money on similar
projects,where myprojectwill workoutmore economical with better service (e.g. RCS, CRS, CRTS)
Corruptionisgoingto reachzero withthe establishmentof the MV.Everyindividual will know every
onespropertyand every ones income. Why we have to obscure our income and the property from
the eyesof thisworld.Tellingtruthandleadinglife isgoingtocreate far betterlife in the world than
telling lies and say I am under loss; I don’t have anything with me and so on. Such lies make the
violence andevil activity to persist in the society. Transparency in activity will prosper the society.
Source:
[7] India statistics facts and figures neoncarrot travelog.mht.