Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Corruption - the perennial menace

My mathematics teacher always used to say "Mathematics rules the world". How true!!!
Its indeed the 'Mathematics of money' that rules the world. Right from birth to death ie.. from getting a birth certificate to getting the death certificate one needs to face this same ordeal.

Even when we are criticizing our politicians and bureaucrats for the corruption, its highly important for one to look into why this menace is present. If you ask me, I would say the prime reason for this is the tax scheme that we are having in India. The tax rates be it the Income tax, sales tax or the corporate tax all are quite high. As a reason, there is increased urge for getting more money. So one to easiest ways in curbing this problem is to have a revamp of the tax structure.

There of course is the problem of excess greed and power. We have two evident examples for this right in the present scenario itself - Mr.Lalit Modi (IPL) and Mr.Suresh Kalmadi (CWG). In both the cases the monopoly of both the individuals in the respective games proved to be the critical factor. Though both of them are under investigation from the Enforcement Directorate and other related government agencies now, its really disheartening to know that they had such a 'free hand' all these days.

The different campaigns like the Jaago-re, Parivarthan movement have helped a lot is controlling this menace. Its high time that more stringent and efficient policies and laws are made to curb this.

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