Corruption
Introduction
Corruption is a disease, a cancer that eats into the cultural, political and economic fabric of society, and destroys the functioning of vital organs. In the words of Transparency International, “Corruption is one of the greatest challenges of the contemporary world.” It undermines good government, fundamentally distorts public policy, leads to the misallocation of resources, harms the private sector and private sector development and particularly hurts the poor. Corruption also defined as 'the abuse of public power for personal ends' - has always existed.
Definition
There are four divergent views on the definition of corruption comes from moralist, functionalist, social censurists and social constructionist realists. The moralist view “corruption is an immoral and unethical phenomenon that contains a set of moral aberrations from moral standards of society, causing loss of respect for and confidence in duly constituted authority”.
Corruption in Bangladesh
The term corruption is not new to Bangladesh. During recent decades, corruption in Bangladesh has significantly increased. Among ordinary people in Bangladesh, corruption is viewed quite clearly as 'a way of life'. Nowadays we see corruption in every field of life. In our society there is no department which is totally free from corruption. It could be the Politics, police, customs or educational institutions like schools and colleges. Corruption produces a very bad effect on the society. It destroys the ethics and the values of the society.
A recent survey carried out by the Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad reinforces that impression: the survey found, among other significant data, that 95 per cent of respondents believed that the police were the most corrupt department in the land, followed very closely by the customs, the department of excise and taxation, the bureaucracy, and the judiciary. A solid 62 per cent of respondents believed that the primary responsibility for corruption in Bangladesh
Corruption is a disease, a cancer that eats into the cultural, political and economic fabric of society, and destroys the functioning of vital organs. In the words of Transparency International, “Corruption is one of the greatest challenges of the contemporary world.” It undermines good government, fundamentally distorts public policy, leads to the misallocation of resources, harms the private sector and private sector development and particularly hurts the poor. Corruption also defined as 'the abuse of public power for personal ends' - has always existed.
Definition
There are four divergent views on the definition of corruption comes from moralist, functionalist, social censurists and social constructionist realists. The moralist view “corruption is an immoral and unethical phenomenon that contains a set of moral aberrations from moral standards of society, causing loss of respect for and confidence in duly constituted authority”.
Corruption in Bangladesh
The term corruption is not new to Bangladesh. During recent decades, corruption in Bangladesh has significantly increased. Among ordinary people in Bangladesh, corruption is viewed quite clearly as 'a way of life'. Nowadays we see corruption in every field of life. In our society there is no department which is totally free from corruption. It could be the Politics, police, customs or educational institutions like schools and colleges. Corruption produces a very bad effect on the society. It destroys the ethics and the values of the society.
A recent survey carried out by the Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad reinforces that impression: the survey found, among other significant data, that 95 per cent of respondents believed that the police were the most corrupt department in the land, followed very closely by the customs, the department of excise and taxation, the bureaucracy, and the judiciary. A solid 62 per cent of respondents believed that the primary responsibility for corruption in Bangladesh