Corruption is the Price we pay for Democracy

A democracy that defined for people long back is not what people had nowadays nor wanted it. It's everyday survival for citizens. 70% of Indian people are trying to hard to meet ends even if they have 1 lakh per month salary. I say stop dreaming or speaking about an ideal world, false hope, let's face the reality. People in India are not in need of ideal world but trying to fit in the real world. Everyone speaks of what an ideal place we need to live by removing major things like corruption, poverty like want to have lord Ram rule society with up-to-date technology like apple.

We can't prevent corruption, it's a never ending cycle, Just how people started educating girls for change in society, corruption became a change in society just like that which can never be removed. Now we should not worry about corruption because people who talks are people who can't live with society reformed. People are habituated with laziness, power, comforts. They can't live without their lifestyle that was the cause of giving bribe/taking bride.

If a person who rightfully lives according to law can't afford an own house, the best education for his children, fixed asset to enjoy the social life with his family then why shouldn't he take a bribe or receive the bribe to make his life more comfort. Its common people so they don't have sentiment for corruption because they earn money through their business which they earn and try to save but it's not necessary for keeping blame on corruption because society development is not based on entire corruption money, the government can reduce the education cost of private schools so middle class and poor people can afford their children education. It's just reducing the cost of living by govt that people can fit in. The government should show the accounts of how taxes are utilised because its people's money.

Corruption is not the problem but the laws and power of people who uses according to their benefit are the problems for a society which makes rich people richer and poor even poorer. Today I saw in the newspaper that our GDP is 7.9 which is highest in last 5 years. But who knows what is GDP when the poor and middle-class people are struggling for food that fills them for the day. The present society making people crave for money which makes them do anything for their livelihood. In back years corruption is for people who dreams more than what they need but now corruption is for every citizen who wants to fill their basic needs with quality.

Corruption means getting something through unjustified means. The ten rupee note that policemen own by illegal means to the huge scams of hundred crore rupees that the corporate businessmen own by illegal means is said to be a part of corruption. It's a kind of deterioration that leads to falsehood and deception.

India today faces a number of problems and corruption is the gravest among them. Being a Keralite, I would like to talk on the condition of Kerala. One of the completely literate state in our country, keralalites are considered to be literate. Even then the govt institutions prove to be a place where the honest and sincere people need to roam about for peace and happiness. This condition is not just confined to poor people who are in need of loans but it extends to the honest and sincere police officers of various investigation agencies. I think that's the reason why many cases are yet lying unproven and on having a glance at the cases that are to be proved like Abhaya case, Sampath custody murder case, and so on the power of the top investigative officers who are involved in it directly or indirectly trying to escape from these cases and making the subordinate officers to not disclose the truth is clearly evident. Just have a look at the economic condition of India. Even after the glorious completion of sixty years of independence, our country is considered to be a developing nation, but a completely sovereign socialist republic and democratic nation.

We can't misinterpret our democratic set up because compared to the autocratic setup in China our country is having a great outlook for the concerns of the common man. Developments can't be compared to autocracy or democracy alone. It is linked with the correct govt set up with corruption less people. Thus Singapore which is one of the most democratic and well-developed countries with no corruption proves to be a fine role model for our country. Since our country is a nation with so many cultures and many other diversities, if we could build a nation which is corruption less, then it's no time that our nation too will be one of the major superpowers in this world.

It's in basic nature, as long as the money or any asset got value, it will be like a sugar for ants. Though ants can't eat all the sugar in a day they will try their best to empty the sugar bag to only store for their future needs, in humans its for future future future family needs.

Especially in a country like India where still the marriage is a compulsion having kids is a compulsion and having them for entire life is a compulsion, its so natural that an employee or politician or some other will try to earn and save for entire life, ethically or unethically is a second concern or no concern as it.

Becomes so, once started. One more thing is human can't stop inventing comforts which doesn't come easy which cost a lot, so anyone who aspires to have that will try his legal ways and illegal ways as well to get those newly invented comforts though he can't buy legally he will try illegally like corruption, also because of compulsory marriage and compulsory kids population will boom.

As population booms overwhelmingly. The difference between rich and poor increases this in-turn increases the money fear factor in all employees and politicians to lead and get best life compared to the ones who can't afford, whatever the way legally or illegally, as pollution and human population on the planet earth keeps on increasing, natural calamities, scarcity of food and wealth all will have huge demand and to compete in that demand again money needed so earn it legally or illegally.

In fact in a overpopulated country like India. There is always someone to pay the bribe and always someone to grab it. In fact corruption is prevalent all across the world but significantly worse in over populated countries. Its a vicious cycle.

Hi Friends,

Nothing alone in itself is bad and no one alone is responsible for the corruption that it today in our society?

Do you think that Democracy is playing a role in the corruption or you don't think so?

But let me tell you something "if there is a piece of Diamond on the road and you find it, it must belong to someone but would you try to find the real owner and will hand over it to him? despite the fact, this diamond has life changing value for you?

Now you need to answer me that, and in today's life how many your friends will praise you if you return the piece of Diamond?

From the time we born to the day we die, we have surrounded by rules that we follow, some are natural some are from God and some others are the one that we make it run the society in a better way.

I do agree that to all that we are the part, as we are part of the democracy, and we are part of the system, so finally it means that when we say that corruption is the price we pay for the democracy, then there is a problem in the system. That system today that we see is a democracy but you could give it to it any name. We have a problem in it because we see people are escaping from the rule of law. They are sure that you can't do anything even if the steal your money, they can kill you, rape you, humiliate you. There is a gap in the system and we are not taking measures to fill that gap.

So end of my conversation, that the biggest problem is that we are losing ethics, we don't have in place proper laws, and to implement those laws we have poor mechanisms in place and for that, we need people who accept that the problem is in us and find ways to fix it.

In my point of view, corruption is not the price that we are paying for the democratic country. We all know it very well that democratic is having its advantages and disadvantages but corruption is the thing of which we are only one who all are responsible.

Reason? Why are we all responsible?

Because we all are running behind money. We do not have sufficient time for ourselves to make our passport, visa, driving licence. Etc. For all this thing we like to give preference to give bribe instead of waiting for long time to give our time instead, we like to take help of an agent and definitely agent ask for commision plus bribe. This is today world scenario.

How can we stop corruption?

We have to start from our own house. We have to try to do all our works ourselves and we have to teach the same thing to our children also. By this, we can give our contribution for the growth of the nation and in the long run, it will help to improve the mentality of people who are taking a bribe that it is not an option for anyone.

To conclude I would like to say that taking bribe and giving is a crime. We have to think about our country and laws. We should try to follow all laws because of all this laws and rules for our benefits only. We have to stop thinking about giving and taking bribes. We should think about developments of our country by paying tax on time and doing all our work with honesty. After all proverb is their "HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY".

Hi Friends. I am Raghav and I am here to convey my thoughts about our present topic which is corruption is the price we pay for democracy. This statement connotes that with the good governance form, democracy. We also have to abide its companion, corruption, which comes along with it.

This is the fee we pay for the good governance, democracy. Lets talk about corruption. Corruption is the abuse of power. The person with the power when uses his influence for benefit of himself or some special person it is called corruption.

The most common cause of corruption is believed to be a combination of discretion and accountability. Governments with enormous discretionary power and low accountability are more corrupt than those with less discretion and more accountability. Mainly, there are three forms of government. Other than democracy, the two others are Monarchy and Autocracy. In Monarchy, ruling people is always from a single family.

This is the most common and used form of government for thousands of years. The head of government is called king which has ultimate power. No one can ask question to him about his deeds. As in this system, discretionary power is totally in the hands of one man with no accountability.

This is proved to be very corrupt governance. That's why democracy had replaced earlier popular Monarchy. Monarchy is not very much popular now a day. Only five countries still have absolute monarchy.

I my opinion, corruption is not related to Democracy or non-democracy. Because in democracy at least we have the right to expose or report corrupt activities even if it is done by the government itself or by their employees. Supreme court, high courts are there to listen to us but the process is little time consuming so people choose not to report, it is a choice of an individual. We see that countries like China (where communism works behind the curtains of democracy) are no better than us, it is ranked equivalent to India in corruption perception index of Transparency international and people can't even raise there voice against the system. Whereas countries with successful democracy like US, Germany, Denmark etc. , have the lowest corruption rate. In democracy at least there are opposition parties to keep a check on the ruling party and their corrupt activities. So, democracy gives us a tool, it is up to us how we use it.

In India, majority of the corruption is spreading because of people with power in public services who demand money and lazy people who do not have patience & try to evade the due process for any of their work by the means of a bribe (eg. Driving license processes are so corrupt), but things are changing with the increasing digital services and corruption is decreasing. So individuals need to develop their mindset and that's how the country can progress.

Hi friends.

Corruption is like a salt content which is present along with sea water. It is very tough to remove but it takes more time to remove it. Like wise corruption is very difficult and takes time to remove it. I don't say that salt content in ocean does not occurs naturally. We are the one's who are responsible.

Similarly we are the ones who introduced corruption. When a fresh water living organism is introduced in ocean it is very difficult for it to adopt the new surroundings either it would die or try to adopt itself. Like wise when a fresh candidate is selected, he tries to remove or he changes according to it.

Mostly humans has a mentality to adopt themselves. I do not blame not only the politician's for the corruption we are also involve in corruption. As you or your relatives had been involved in it in any forms of corruption. This is a practical example. We are the source for corruption.

Corruption can be removed from us by changing ourself. Changing means if we go to an government office for a job means we have to wait till our job gets over. We are waiting in the ticket counter for more than one hour then why can't we wait in government office till our job gets finished?

This is an example for changing ourself. There are many things to change in ourself. I am not the person to tell.

Democracy is a government of the people, for the people, and by the people -Abraham Lincoln.

Democracy means rule by the people to ensure that every citizen takes part in the decision-making process either directly or indirectly through elected representatives. India is the largest democracy in the world. In the last more than 6 decades it has worked successfully well to some extent. But in modern India, it has to face many challenges that need to be tackled in order to ensure true democracy. These challenges should include social and economic inequalities, poverty and unemployment, Illiteracy and ignorance, casteism, communalism, population explosion, regionalism, corruption, and terrorism, taking drugs etc. I do agree with you all but what I feel is CORRUPTION is not only an issue but it is the drugs which every individual is consuming. As everyone is affected by CORRUPTION. So blaming each other is not the solution to it, we all should come forward and destroy its root.

Let those root may be anyone. We must report to police if we see anyone taking any thing as a bribe. If police are asking for the same approach to higher authority.

The main point is that it has to be eradicated completely. Then only we can attain economic growth of our Nation.

Hi friends,

In my perspective corruption is the consequence of weak democracy & lack of good governance. Corruption is lethal from elementary to advanced level. In every election we elect leaders who have been in their solitary worlds seen only during election with their bunch of false promises (manifestos). Our votes turn them into rulers rather than public servants with accountability. Then starts their ignorant reign where cash flows only in top level, leaving middle & lower levels in distraught.

This happens only because we people have forgotten that we are rulers here. They who boast of sitting on the top are our pawns. Corruption can only be removed with moral education which has degrading with time in the rat race of success. Its time to keep apart individual success and seek unified glory.

As a suggestion to change I would like to mention urgent setup and functioning of fast track courts, introduction of national protest helpline to help people to raise voice against any government if necessary overthrow a incapable government, educating the ignorant mass of the importance to stop bribery and a independent body to keep an eye on govt officials, public servants to prevent corruption.