According to Transparency International survey, bribery still continues undeterred in government offices despite CCTVs and computerization. As cash is mainly preferred as bribes is even computerization is circumvented. Property registration and land issues is a top area of corruption and a majority of people have to pay bribes due to coercion or inefficiencies prevailing in government offices.
Survey shows as many as 67 percent of Indians had to grease the palms of corrupt officials to get the work done. Telangana leads south India in terms of corruption this year. This is followed by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.As such India’s overall ranking in the Corruption Perception Index has risen three places to 78 out of 180 countries.
Corruption affects everyone including our lawmakers. Its hurdles our economic growth and
inhibits business operations, investment and employment generation. The wider impact of the corruption is that it lowers trust in rule of law and ultimately affecting quality of life. It is the impunity upon the corruption is built. "So we need to demolish this impunity. Otherwise, all efforts to bring an end to corruption are in vain, says Nobel Prize laureate. Rigoberta Menchú.
That's why corruption in India is growing as there has been no serious efforts to cut down the impunity. And this impunity can't not demolished unless or until, we don't radically reforms the electoral systems. The corruption breeds right from the time our netas enter electoral battle. They lie in declaring their assets, file false election expenditure details while spending colossal money for getting elected. Data shows India's May, 2019 elections were the world’s costliest one. An unprecedented more than Rs 50,000 crore ($7 billion),were spent, according to the New Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies.
The whole system has become corruption-elastic. Don't expect any drastic change from netas. There has been a lot of debate on electoral reforms but nothing has been done even by Modi government.
So let us make an initiative. As the actor Jennifer Lawrence said," “We need to tell each other our stories. We need to show that everyone — our neighbors, our families, our community leaders — everyone we know is touched by corruption.”
"Khazane ko choro se nahin pehredaro se dokha hain,
Is desh ko sirf dushmano se nahin,in gaddaro se dhokha hai."