"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country".
As India stands at the threshold of yet another Independence Day, it might be worthwhile to spare a thought to the hapless aam aadmi who have had to take a beating from various quarters. While the 2G, CWG and many other G's that is yet to be exposed, take the chunk of media space, the issues of the aam aadmi gets invariably sidelined to a old fashioned corner.
For the person on the street who have had to pay a bribe to get his child's birth certificate, had to go hungry for a week to accumulate money to bribe a government official to avail a government discount scheme that he rightfully deserves and even finding a space in the general ward of the dilapidated govt hospital, everyday life for him is a pain. Not voicing his irk or complaints, the aam aadmi suffers in silence at the unfairness meted out to him at every single minute of his existence.
It might not be exaggerating to say that if anyone suffers in silence when India turns a new chapter this Independence Day it is the aam aadmi. Though the term the 'aam aadmi' has found mention in political speeches and in the lambasts the Opposition turns on against the government, there is no stoic voice backing the sentiments and rights of the Real India comprising predominantly of the common man like you and me.
Here are some instances that shocked the senses of the aam aadmi recently -
13 pregnant women died in Feb 2011 in Rajasthan when they were infected due to contaminated IV fluids resulting in their deaths along with the yet-to-be-born foetus. The case hasn't seen its logical end with the guilty only charged and the fate of the case hanging in the balance.
For the person on the street who have had to pay a bribe to get his child's birth certificate, had to go hungry for a week to accumulate money to bribe a government official to avail a government discount scheme that he rightfully deserves and even finding a space in the general ward of the dilapidated govt hospital, everyday life for him is a pain. Not voicing his irk or complaints, the aam aadmi suffers in silence at the unfairness meted out to him at every single minute of his existence.
It might not be exaggerating to say that if anyone suffers in silence when India turns a new chapter this Independence Day it is the aam aadmi. Though the term the 'aam aadmi' has found mention in political speeches and in the lambasts the Opposition turns on against the government, there is no stoic voice backing the sentiments and rights of the Real India comprising predominantly of the common man like you and me.
Here are some instances that shocked the senses of the aam aadmi recently -
13 pregnant women died in Feb 2011 in Rajasthan when they were infected due to contaminated IV fluids resulting in their deaths along with the yet-to-be-born foetus. The case hasn't seen its logical end with the guilty only charged and the fate of the case hanging in the balance.
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When thousands in the country going to bed hungry every single night in the country, it was recently reported that the food grains were rotting in the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns, making a mockery of the Public Distribution Sytem.
The Adarsh Housing scam was the most insulting of all that brought shame of the highest order for the Indian. In a balatant act of utmost contempt and loathe, the residential complex meant for widows and other dependant kin of the Kargil war including widows and parents were illegally usurped by army men and bureaucrats to their own personal benefit.
There is also the controversial land acquisition that has rocked the helpless farmers for whom their fields are more precious than anything else. In the name of developmemtal activities, the fertile land in Gurgaon-Noida extension was sold off to private investors to construct express ways. Acting as a double blow, not only was precious fertile land misused, the farmers were paid a pittance for their land with the state administration acting as a facilitator for the land being handed over to the farmer to the corporate houses.
These are only a handful of cases that has affected the aam aadmi but the thousand other cases that has gone unreported are very much in existence that has not managed to grab the media spotlight. But what the politicians fail to realise is that it is these very people who are responsible in electing the politicians who engage in corruption and loot the rights of the voiceless and helpless public.
For a country that has come to think that corruption is a way of life and it is absolutely fine to bribe the traffic policemen for jumping the red signal or the bribe that an illiterate villager pays to the hospital compounder to the release the body of his kin from the mortuary, there has to be a major shift in the Indian attitude to bring about changes in the grassroots level.
For an article that has written with yet another frustrated aam aadmi that hopes to change the way we think and say that corruption is unacceptable, hope is all we have at the end of the day. "Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country".
Jai Hind
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Manoj.M.Koushik
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You have left out an important and a shameful scam of our state which is worth a mention - Illegal mining which is not only filling up the politician's black money account but ruining the environment to the core as well.
ReplyDelete@shreyas-agree dude..but i didnt write this on corruption..just tried to tell how corruption is also a cause which doesnt allow us to be independent..
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