Corruption and black money

Off late we have found various movements against corruption and brining out the black money in. But the Indian government has been stubborn on this matter. The revelation of the various scams like 2G, CWG, Coal crimes, Adarsh,Crime at the defense ministry says that the corruption is penetrated across various functions and areas and there are no boundaries hence.

What is the solution for this. How we can come out as corrupt free country.

I would say that day will never come. Because we are human being and the corruption is not only a problem of India. It is a problem across all over the world. Media here in India is projecting this in a big way and hence we feel too cheap about our government.

The people who have reached the top positions at various sectors have worked hard and also used the money for getting such positions. The politicians think that It is their time to get their benefits and end up in making the most of it. We sit here and talk about their cheap mind , but given an opportunity, we would have involved in the corruption too.  When BJP is talking about the corruption happened since independence and it blame on congress as it served for most if these independent years, it can be understood now that given an opportunity, the BJP would have also done the same thing. Little more or could be less.

Coming back a common man, we are also involved in corruption OR black money in some way. Look at the below examples.

·         We give money as tips to the waiters- may be 10 Rs, 100Rs or even 500 Rs. This money is not taxable and hence  it will become a black money to the waiter and will get unnoticed. In big hotels, if the salary of a waiter is 15,000 Rs and if he earns 10,000 Rs per month on an average taking tips, then he will pay tax ( if applicable) to 15,000Rs only and not for money earned as tips. Hence the money converted itself to black and he will use for this expenses and keeps the salary intact.

·         We wanted to get our work done. Specially at the government offices. We know the speed at which the government offices works. We give some money as bribe. Black money again plus the corruption. Corruption and blackmoney here can be interrelated.

·         You get caught without having proper documents  by the police or you have drunk while driving. According to the rule, you will have to pay fine. But you pay less than the penalized money to Police man and get way with a problem and feel satisfied with your accomplishment. Both police and you as a responsible citizens of India are doing this crime for  your benefits.

·         Commissions at various levels. This is another big time balckmoney.We act as a agent and get the commission for our service.Mainly as real estate agents. No bills. Only cash deposited.100% taxfree money.

·         Have you seen any small time shoppers give you the bills. No.If you ask the bill, then the tax extra. This means you have to pay more money which  no body wanted to pay. He creates fake bills and pays the minimal taxes.

I feel we need to correct our fundamentals before trying to clear the corrupted society. Corruption should have a topic in social science at the school levels to understand  it impart our children to be positive right from the childhood. If you do so, we can hope that the corruption will reduce and the like minded young leaders will initiate action at the society , state and national level to get rid of corruption. We can only work towards it….