Citizens of India experience corruption in their everyday lives through almost any interaction. For reasons such as it being the root of poverty, resulting in injustice, and being detrimental to the relationship between the people and the state, corruption needs to be taken out of India’s political and economic system. Although the costs and hardships of removing corruption from India will be great, resolving and extracting it from the system will benefit a majority of the citizens.…
Cause of black money: 325 Black money is cash received from underground economic activity or black market on which tax is not been paid to the government. Black money in economic terms is regarded as unaccounted money or unrecorded gains. Rationing system: Black economy originated in India during World War II when India was facing acute shortage of daily necessities. This was the time government adopted rationing as a remedy measure to resolve the demand supply mismatch. By rationing government introduced a system of control where prices of goods were no longer decided by Interaction of market demand and supply. This led to the beginning of unauthorized sale goods at higher price. This control over the price continued post 1947 promoting black marketing in India and once government institutionalized price control, it grew enormously. High tax rate- Tax rate were abnormally high during initial tax regime of India. Tax rate applicable to an individual were as high as 97.50%. Such high Tax rates probed individuals to evade tax as much as possible resulting in huge accumulation of Black Money. Complicated tax law- Tax Laws in India are so complicated that even honest tax payer fails to file correct Income Tax returns. This compels the individuals to evade tax to avoid long complicated procedures involved in paying tax. Bribe-- Bribe is one of the main source for generation of Black money as this money is not disclosed to Income tax office. Bribe is used as means to get work done at a faster pace by all kinds of people from peon of a company to the owner of a company and is used for all kinds of work i.e. from getting admission in school to getting a job in a company, from getting birth certificate of a new born baby to the pension of a retired person. Even Entertainment industry has leveraged the concept of bribe to make their scripts juicy, they have used this topic over and over to make famous movies and serials like movie “Kala Bajar” and serial “Office Office”…
Although India is the largest democracy in the world, it continues to struggle on a daily basis to fight corruption in politics at both the national and local levels. In a nation with such a rich diversity of languages, cultures, and traditions, nothing is more important to reconciling all the differences than the right to vote. However, the democratically elected government seemingly does nothing to bridge the enormous gap between the rich and the poor and to make the lives of the 300 million people living below the poverty line any better (Roy, 1). While India has more people living in poverty than any other nation, finding a solution to these basic issues of human rights has recently taken a backseat to nuclear weapons testing and other extravagant nationalist issues on the Indian political agenda. Furthermore, the instability and corruption of the government since India won its independence in 1947 has discouraged the long-term investments that are needed to drive economic growth.…
In India, corruption is something we all learn to live with. We have been breast-beating over the sorry state of affairs from the times India marched on a Sovereign nation.…
Corruption in India is a major issue and adversely affects its economy.[1] A 2005 study conducted by Transparency International in India found that more than 62% of Indians had firsthand experience of paying bribes or influence peddling to get jobs done in public offices successfully.[2][3] In its 2008 study, Transparency International reports about 40% of Indians had firsthand experience of paying bribes or using a contact to get a job done in public office.[4]…
Corruption is defined as the misuse of any power of public consequence for private gain. Corruption is not something new, as per Arthasastra of Kautilya ( around 3rd century B.C) :…
It is necessary for us to first identify the causes of corruption. It is in its various forms such as bribery, nepotism, extortion has penetrated deep into the vitals of our social system and destroy the moral fiber of our society. It has also become an integral part of our administration, social and political culture. Not only law paid government and private employees but also our senior civil and military officials have fallen to the evil of corruption. Thus it is gnawing away at the vitals of our society. The rising level of it has given the way to opportunism, depression and a sense of insecurity. People have now started thinking there is no end to corruption and that to feed the corrupt on has be corrupt oneself. The major reasons of fast creeping corruption are political instability, poverty, unequal structure of society, lack of accountability, weak political institutions and absence of rule of law. It is also regarded as the murder of merit. Resultant they are affecting political stability equal distribution of resources and power, confidence of local and foreign investors and political institutions. A Greek statesman Pericles has described corruption in a fascinating way.…
IN INDIA judiciary is one of the three pillars having co-existence with legislature and executive. Judiciary is in some way at a higher pedestal amongst these three organs because it is the only mechanism to keep the executive and legislature within their jurisdictions by confining them not to abuse or misuse their powers. It controls, corrects or quashes the executive, however high it is, and even sets aside acts of the legislature if it acts contra-constitutionally. Judiciary is the guardian and final interpreter of the Constitution. It is a place of utmost trust as it is last resort for the people.…
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The answer is very simple to tell but is extremely complecated to understand. Technically corruption is any kind of act in self interset to use public services illegally. Now there are several situations when we don't follow the law but that is not corruption if it is in public interset. Like if you give five extra minute to a sick student in exam then it is against rule but is not a kind of corruption but if you give four extra minutes for rupees then it is a kind of corruption. It is the simplest example to distinguish corruption and humanity. The corruption is not always visible but is always observable. It means one can observe every kind of corruption but corruption is not always visible. For example, if a sub division officer is not taking any action against his junior for the offence of corruption then it is a kind of invisible corruption but is still observable. Now it comes to cause of corruption. Who is the real cause of the corruption ? We can't give the whole credit to the system. We are equally responsible for the same thing. No doubt the system don't let us allow to change itself but remember we can change it slowly. Lets ask one question to your mind. Why should I loose my chance to get something illegally which others are getting ? For example, there is a job opportunity and someone equally qualified as you are is trying jack, then should you use a jack ? This question has every answer. It is not illegal or is not morally wrong. It completely depends upon you. We know corruption is a way of living for everyone nowadays. But the main question is who is responsible ? Now I think you understand, we the people are responsible, not the system. Now you will ask that how one can change the system ? I am not expecting a change in the system from you but just try to change yourself a bit. Just a bit not completely. Just try to change small things and see large things will be…
In recent Centuries India has earned a place among the THREE most corrupt countries in the world. Corruption in India is a consequence of the nexus between Bureaucracy, politics and criminals. At one time, bribe was paid for getting wrong things done but now bribe is paid for getting right things done at right time.…
The causes of corruption in India include excessive regulations, improper tax structure, complicated licensing systems, lack of transparency in the laws, monopoly by some of the government institutions, discretionary powers in the hands of government departments.…
2006), robbery has declined by 28.85% (from 8,407, rate of 2.24/100,000 in 1953 to 18,456, rate of 18,456 in 2006)…
The society reflects our education most of our officials whether in public sector or private sector are corrupt. The assets they have acquired are often several times higher than their known sources of income. We read about income-tax raids or Central Bureau of Investigation raids on the residences of high officials. Wealth amounting to crores of rupees is recovered during these raids. We watch on TV channels the scams that are…
Corruption is a global phenomenon. Corruption is a disease in both endemic and epidemic. It marks mockery of administration, development and democracy. Corruption in public life has reached an alarming stage and has enraged. Globally a sensitive issue the level of corruption has also increased substantially in India. Corruption breeds out of dishonesty and illegal behaviour of the people who misuse their official position and authority.The World Bank defines corruption as the use of “Public office for private profit”.…