War on Corruption- Role of an Individual
WAR ON CORRUPTION- ROLE OF AN INDIVIDUAL
Winston Churchill once famously told,”War is too serious a business to be left to Generals.”Similarly administration of a country is also too serious a business to be left to the government and the representatives. People’s participation and involvement in the administration, formulation of programmes’ and policy implementation is not a once in a five year routine, but a perennial role that they should seldom abdicate to a few. American philosopher Thoreau once told, “That government is best which governs least.”Often an exuberance of governance, devoids citizen’s of enthusiasm and involvement in the affairs of the state; a sort of enforced disinterest will be the result. If constitutionally, people are envisaged for the active participation in governance, they should also be equally allowed to set right any evils of administration that plagues the country. Corruption is one of the most insidious diseases that cankers the body politic, like a caterpillar to the host plant. Sixty five years in the life of an individual is a considerable period, and so is it in the phase of a Nation’s development. Instances are abundant where countries thought perpetually and irrevocably lost everything in the Second World War, rose from the ashes of death and destruction like Phoenix and leads a life of prosperity by the stint of honesty and hard work. Why India, a country blessed with abundant natural resources, bountiful rivers ,wet agricultural land , a vibrant scientific community and a pool of English speaking technical professional remains backward ,devoid of any prosperity among the Comity of Nations? Why a country of One billion is not producing even an Olympic champion? Why India , one of the biggest democracies of the world wherein forty percentage of the people live below BPL (Below Poverty Line) and many of its mothers and children are undernourished? Are we a country lagging in agricultural
Winston Churchill once famously told,”War is too serious a business to be left to Generals.”Similarly administration of a country is also too serious a business to be left to the government and the representatives. People’s participation and involvement in the administration, formulation of programmes’ and policy implementation is not a once in a five year routine, but a perennial role that they should seldom abdicate to a few. American philosopher Thoreau once told, “That government is best which governs least.”Often an exuberance of governance, devoids citizen’s of enthusiasm and involvement in the affairs of the state; a sort of enforced disinterest will be the result. If constitutionally, people are envisaged for the active participation in governance, they should also be equally allowed to set right any evils of administration that plagues the country. Corruption is one of the most insidious diseases that cankers the body politic, like a caterpillar to the host plant. Sixty five years in the life of an individual is a considerable period, and so is it in the phase of a Nation’s development. Instances are abundant where countries thought perpetually and irrevocably lost everything in the Second World War, rose from the ashes of death and destruction like Phoenix and leads a life of prosperity by the stint of honesty and hard work. Why India, a country blessed with abundant natural resources, bountiful rivers ,wet agricultural land , a vibrant scientific community and a pool of English speaking technical professional remains backward ,devoid of any prosperity among the Comity of Nations? Why a country of One billion is not producing even an Olympic champion? Why India , one of the biggest democracies of the world wherein forty percentage of the people live below BPL (Below Poverty Line) and many of its mothers and children are undernourished? Are we a country lagging in agricultural