New Delhi: Is India most corrupt country
Financing of elections and winning of voters through all kinds of fair and dubious means is believed to be at the root of corruption- Lalit Sethi
Is India really the worlds most corrupt country as a recent international report would have us believe or is that corruption is too open in public dealings, especially at the day to day level and only greased palms moves files or gets the work done? Every day new rules are framed to make life difficult for the citizen as the Right to Information Act, which has completed a year of operation, has failed to make headway or bring about transparency. Perhaps, there were great expectations from the RTI and it is too soon to expect results. In any case, most citizens, educated or not, would find it difficult to engage in the hassles of running up to the designated officials or the Chief Information Commissioner to seek redress of their grievances.
Some non-governmental organizations have set out to help the people in trying to get their work done from official agencies and they claim a degree of success in their efforts, but the law leaves the private sector or non-governmental sector out of its purview. Those agencies are covered by the consumer courts, which are again flooded with complaints. There is no doubt that the situation is indeed complex. Yet there is no doubt that the RTI was regarded as a harbinger of transparency for the good of the common man. When it will truly happen, time will tell.
The President has noted that Rashtrapati Bhavan is receiving applications by the thousand for all kinds of information and his staff may well be at their wits end forwarding them to the relevant authorities. That speaks for open governance and a degree of public awareness. The Prime Minister took enormous interest in Parliament when the Bill on the right to information was being debated and he appeared to promise the people of India the proverbial moon. He set great hopes on an open society. Whether his hopes and dreams have been realized is not known, but he has spoken of caution that professional middlemen may be out to grab the opportunity to serve their own ends by using some simple and unaware people.
But the fact remains that Indian officials will soon learn to cover their tracks to deny information to the seekers of it. The wrongdoers will also learn to devise secret modes, which cannot be easily uncovered. This is perhaps happening in the First World or the advanced countries. Indians will not be slow to learn the tricks of the trade.
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