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Corruption Causes and Cures Part 3

Corruption or graft is, these days, an open game in the system of licences and permits for setting up enterprises, securing quotas of raw materials, imports and exports, and expansion of trade and commerce. Consequently, the types of corruption have increased a thousand fold. The panorama is vast and baffling and beyond control, despite the loud-talk of anti-corruption measures, stringent of public/private administration is unaffected by the germs of corruption.

The incharge of broom-workers grants his worker a paid-leave against half the amount of the worker's wages. A bus conductor can charge you half if you don't insist for a ticket, and he pockets your coin. A duty officer at a police station will not record your complaint unless you stop the itching in his palm. A clerk of an office of public dealings-like corporation or municipality will not tell you the seat of one of his colleagues if you don;t shake hands with him carrying a currency note in your fist.

In a court you cannot come to know the date of the next hearing in your case until you please the naib-courts and their gang, Grease the palms of concerned officers of a transport authority and get a driving  licence for a truck even if you do not know now to ride a bike. Don't observe traffic rules but still go scot free if the sergeant at the crossing in pleased with you.

Bribe the invigilator and pass your exam without knowing the names of your text books during your academic year. Be an examiner and encash something . Be a contractor, sell cement in black-market, and pay the earned amount to the overseer and his seniors to get your bills passed. Bribe health officer and sell adulterated stuff profitably. Please the income tax bosses and turn your back money into white.

Your land to get some loan; your cheque will be passed only when a percentage of the cheque amount is paid in cash as a bribe to the dealing hands. You want to get a good job suiting to your qualification; then pay the amount of six months salary in cash and in advance to some agent who can manage you the job. You have applied for a pass-port or a telephone; don;t worry you will get it; the only thing you are to do is to grease the palm of those who come for confidential inquiry.

You want to get a pious-religious society Registered for the charitable service to humanity; no you can't get  it registered until you please the dealing clerk of the Registrar of societies office. You have have some work to be done by the Rationing inspector; then don't forget to carry with you a 'bottle and a currency note for him. If you want that some good work, that you have done to the society, should catch the eye of some journalists, arrange some cocktail party for them. So on and so forth.

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