A story on 'Corruption Free India'.
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Corruption is omnipresent. However, it is more sinister and prevalent in developing countries. The evil of corruption is quite widespread in our society. I am going to narrate a story that portrays how corruption adversely affects the life of people in general.
Once upon a time (not very long ago) in a town there was a bank like all other banks in the world that earn huge profits by lending people’s money to people in the name of loans. The people working in banks are predominantly so called intellectuals having little inclinations for emotions. Put simply they are indifferent to people’s need and quite sensitive to figures, amounts, facts, and rules. Such people don’t hesitate doing selfish deeds, though it may harm other people’s interests.
A manager of the nature above mentioned, oversaw the functioning of the bank we are talking about. Every day he would receive hundreds of loan applications that he very meticulously rejected and refused. Though the banks are instructed to provide financial services to the less fortunate, but the only class they provide their services to are the classes that are fortunate as they fulfill all the requirements and clauses sought by the banks. Or they readily grant loans to those who pay them some bribery.
Once a very humble father accompanied by his promising son entered his office with closed hands. The father pleaded to the manger, ‘Sir, my son has topped in the district in Secondary Examination. I wish to send him to university for engineering. However, I don’t have the money to pay the humongous fee. I have come for an education loan! Could I avail the loan?’ The manager did not consider the application of the needy father and the son. The reason behind the refusal was he had to give loan to a man who had bribed the manager. So, the manager flatly refused the needy father and the son. There were tears in the eyes of the father and the son when they left his office.
There is no system in our society that can check the rampant corruption in the Government run organizations, banks, institutes. This corruption is solely responsible in keeping India bogged down in the mire of backwardness. Unless this corruption is wiped away, the pace of progress and development continue to be slow.
Explanation:
Corruption in India is an issue which affects the economy of central, state and local government agencies in many ways. Not only has it held the economy back from reaching new heights, but rampant corruption has stunted the country's development.[1] A study conducted by Transparency International in 2005 recorded that more than 62% of Indians had at some point or another paid a bribe to a public official to get a job done.[2][3] In 2008, another report showed that about 50% of Indians had first hand experience of paying bribes or using contacts to get services performed by public offices, however, in 2019 their Corruption Perceptions Index ranked the country 80th place out of 180, reflecting steady decline in perception of corruption among people.[4][5]
The largest contributors to corruption are entitlement programs and social spending schemes enacted by the Indian government. Examples include the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and the National Rural Health Mission.[6][7] Other areas of corruption include India's trucking industry which is forced to pay billions of rupees in bribes annually to numerous regulatory and police stops on interstate highways.[8]