I was wondering about the new India rising up. We are all rising up. Up up and Up. Up against what i wonder? Somebody whispered its up against corruption? The one word that has become the motto of every man, woman and child in India. We all wont corruption to end like it is Ravana from Ramayana itself. And if there is Ravana we need a Ram. And we found our Ram in Mr. Anna Hazare.<\/p>\n
Its pretty convenient actually. Someone started a small fire promising food and we all join in for free food. I mean anyhow we don’t believe we can cook by ourselves so we decided to move into a house where someone will cook for us and who knows even feed us!
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\nLets go back to Corruption. Yeah i fucking hate corruption. That’s what i say, you say and so does everyone else. And we hope that Anna Hazare will wave a magic wand and it will end corruption. Like in Harry Potter isn’t it? One flick and it vanishes! And what then? No corruption, life is great right!<\/p>\n
Yeah it is great. Let me give you a scenario. You go to a government office. You want to get your property registered. The guy sitting at the table in front of you gets paid 20,000 a month and at age of 40 he has a family to manage at 20K a month. Its the same money a lot of people spend on just eating out in a month ( vast majority of the anti-corruption movement ). So now that guy is frustrated with his meager salary. And since Lokpal is passed, well corruption has vanished isnt it? So he wont take a bribe.<\/p>\n
And so you would come to this office day in and day out and try to get your work done. But there is no incentive for anyone to work. What does it matter to him whether he clears your file or not? He’s still going to get the same 20k a month. So who the fuck are you to him?<\/p>\n
I guess a lot of people who have read till here would say that this means i support Corruption. No i do not! But Lokpal wont give you the solution. The solution lies in raising the standard of living of the country. The solution lies in better economic conditions. The solution lies in giving incentive to people to get their work done efficiently!<\/p>\n
Fasting and holding a country to ransom is doing nothing but reducing our economic output. It is a movement that in-essence would increase corruption and not reduce it. It would add another layer to already complex multi-layered system we have and give another set of people a chance to profit out of it.<\/p>\n
If the guy in front of you in a government office had an incentive to get your work done, he would do it without money. Let the government create a system that would be linked to incentives. Let people pay money and decide the worth of the work they need.<\/p>\n
Another cause of corruption is the complexity. If buying land was as simple as logging on a website, fill some forms, select a property, scan and upload documents and go to payment page, WOULD WE EVER PAY BRIBES FOR THIS? We wont! So we need to reduce the complexity of the system and not add another LOKPAL to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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