Detoxicating ministers and officials!

By: vineeth

Bangalore : India | 10 months ago

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Finally a much cheered move by the government has found the right path. The year 2008 saw an unprecedented increase in the number of corrupt ministers and officials nabbed by the Karnataka Lokayukta. For the ignorant, Lokayukta is an anti-corruption cell started by the state government. The cell was commissioned in 2001 primarily to clean up the system by netting the big fishes in our society unearthing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.

In 2008, as many as 280 traps were laid and 88 raids were conducted in which assets exceeding Rs 1.8 billion were discovered. This is a staggering increase from the 2007 figure of 116 traps. Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde attributed the success to the public support, for without their complaints they would not have been able to catch the corrupt. “We have as many as 23,000 cases pending, speedy disposal is the need of the hour”, said Justice Hegde. A 24-hour helpline has also been set up to receive complaints.

The drive has surely sent ripples across all those anti social officials and hope corruption is in check soon. What is even more awe-inspiring is the fact that the Karnataka Lokayukta has now surpassed the CBI in the number of raids trapping corrupt officials. Long live Lokayukta!!

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zuheb | 10 months ago

That indeed was a brilliant step by the state government to weed out all the corrupt officials. But the biggest loophole is that the these officials are usually not taken to task or prosecuted as our judicial system is "SO EFFICIENT". I hope they act faster and remove these corrupted lagoons & punish them severely.

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Eswar | 10 months ago

Creating a department to curb correction is an oxymoronic in democratic countries like India. Though it is agreed that corruption which exists in bureaucratic set up is an universal phenomenon, has assumed its role as a part of India's culture. The babus (bureaucrats), leaders and politicians have been accepting bribes in various forms. Corruption has been rampant even in pre independent India. Krishna Menon the foreign secretary of newly independent India declared "Decisons are made with out my intervention". In today's India stories and rumours of corruption are evident in every facets of civilian life right from getting a job, to getting a bearth in a train to playing for a regional cricket team to studying in a well known institution.

It is blunderous to assume that the county is a corrupt nation. There are and have been examples of honesty and selfless sacrifices, like the police men who gave up their lives in Mumbai attacks. The irony is that, to every such story there exists one contemporary one in which a govt officer is brutally murdered for denying large sums of money as a gift to a CM's birth day party.

The oxymoronic nature of Lokayukta can be compared to a needle in a haysack or 'a small ray of light in the dawn making way for a bright day'.

You be the judge.