Corruption is a major leakage because of which a major chunk of benefit does not reach the intended beneficiaries. Apart from increasing the service-delivery cost, it undermines local development by weakening the rule of law, diverting resources from intended recipients, and typically adversely impacting the poorest most dramatically.
And this is an issue where no single stakeholder can significantly reduce the problem on his/her own. If one person stops bribing or taking bribe, it will not make any difference. Infact, it will take a much broader effort to implement effective institutional reforms and a conducive climate that minimizes opportunities for corruption.
However, seen from today's Means-and-Ends-Class's perspective and the various rules proposed; it would seem that even corruption can have its uses and can be justified into a rightful act under certain situations.
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Corruption is a product not only of opportunism but also inefficiency of system and people. For example: people bribe to get something from back door if the queue is very long he has urgency.
So, to certain extent it is justified from that person,s perspective but the end result is that it dilutes the whole idea of transparency and fairness.
corruption has percolated to each and every sphere of life and now we have reached such a situation that even if we become ethical and discourage it then we are going to land ourselves in a big soup because people indulging in such acts are always very powerful and can cause considerable damage to common people like us..there is only one way it can be considerably reduced is by bringing out its negative effects and repercussions clearly before the masses and then collectively take requisite measures to curb it like bringing in transparency and accountability into the system etc...corruption cannot be wiped out but it surely can be checked
well whether corruption is good or bad is a very dicey question......it all depends from whose perspective are u looking at the broader picture?? one thing is for sure that it is a necessary evil, no matter mow much we condemn it,at some or the other point in time we all engage in it.......so certainly after the means-and-ends class we cannot paint a completely negative picture of corruption, so lets just accept this fact that nothing is completely black or white!!!
rashi(p30031)
Corruption is not a one-man show. Its from the bottom to the highest official. Everyone has a share of the pie.
What I'm more interested in how could one break such acts looking from the CAC pov.
Since there are many people involved; any change in the status quo could only be brought about if a proportionate (or better still more) people come on a common forum and raise the issue. The only thing that can kill this kind of collective action is another collective action.
That is why, I had proposed (and still do) classes to learn how to break collective action as well.
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