EK CUP CHAI

We are so used to the GIVE and TAKE formula today, we feel obligated to ‘thank’ anybody who work for us, even though they do it as a job. Human Relationship Values? Well for example : if some one came to our home(s) for Verification of Passport Details, we used to give them 200/- even before they asked it. A ‘Post Man’ used to be called home on Diwali for “Maamool”. May be this was a culture once, where no guest would leave a home without taking a gift from the host.

Today things have changed. The next time you have some guest for ‘Passport Verification’, you MUST give 300/- or else your passport will not be processed. Your post man demands money, otherwise he you will not receive those money ordrers you are desperately waiting for.

Not long ago, I worked with Revenue Department, in ‘Grievances Cell’. I happen to learn about some strange circumstances.

An old woman, whose father had been gifted a land by Zameendars years ago, is now asked to evict the lands.

A widow was not given her dead husband’s pension because, she doesn’t pay them 1000/-.

A government servant is not given his retirement funds, as his ‘percentage’ was not good enough.

All these cases dealt only with ONE department. Imagine more than 60 departments? No scheme and department was left uncorrupt. I thought I could complain. Everyone was busy, being corrupt. Some were busy, corrupting and some were busy not talking about corruption.

Later I left the job, without complaining about these corruption issues to anyone.

I still wonder who is the corrupt? Me or them? I never really tried to find out.

It reminds me of one gentleman called Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan. No I’m not comparing myself to him. Just as a thought – he is an MBBS who passed IAS entrance exam with Second Rank, served as a District Collector for many years. He couldn’t take the silly little things happening inside the system. So after 17 years of trying to work from inside the system, he quit his job. He recently started a political party – loksatta.
Visit: www.jayaprakashnarayan.blogspot.com

But the question still remains ‘Who is the real corrupt?’ Those who stayed down in the system without complaining or those who left it to have an outer view, and to try to change it.

Leaving the question aside (as we always evade questions) I think I’m Corrupt along with hundreds and thousand of people like me. Not because they quit jobs.

But because they don’t cast their VOTE.

India should find a punishment for this type of corruption.