It’s hard to build a house, run a business, or do anything without paying bribes. And yet, citizens’ anger about this open, unchecked corruption won’t erupt into Anna Hazare-type rallies.
Sri Lankan transition was smoothly managed. Check Bangladesh for contrast. They forced their incumbent into exile, installed a mostly unelectable govt of non-political people.
When it was launched in 2011, the Anna Hazare campaign — with its key demand for a Jan Lokpal — caught the imagination of lakhs of Indians and drew people from all walks of life.
Pawan Khera accused me of helping BJP’s rise through Anna movement. It would take a lazy mind to imagine that all was well with the India story before Anna.
Anna Hazare wants to recreate the good old days when he almost became the modern-day Mahatma. Cut him some slack, because he was just Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘puppet’.
DMK govt accuses Centre of withholding funds, tightening borrowing, unilateral deductions from state accounts. Says Centre's accounting & funding decisions have 'artificially inflated' debt burden.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
But the businessmen are also not complying with laws. If you do not comply with laws and still want no action from the government, then it also lead to many serious problems. In India, the corruption is allowing many businesses to survive. The cost of compliance is high compared to bribe.
Jan Vishwass Bill 2.0 will redice some of the harassment, by decriminalizing some perty crimes that were used to harass.
But beyond that, the country needs municipal reforms and judicial reforms.
Customs office is just one example that belongs to Centre. But most corruption happens at state and municipal level.
Absolutely agree. The local level corruption is still rampant and it’s mainly the bureaucrats. Does anyone in the country has the balls to touch the bureaucracy ?
Also I actually want everyone in this country to understand that 70% of ours problems are created by these bureaucrats. We should pass a law so that we can fire them and this whole notion “safe job” needs to go away.
Might have to go bit rogue and break some laws like Maharashtra did when they killed a lot of gangsters a decades ago to achieve the peace we see today. I am not suggesting violence btw, rather taking radical approach.
Thanks for talking about this. This is something only the central government can solve. They should have done it in 2014 when modi had a so much political capital that he could even get away with demonetization. Why is even congress there is this country? So useless.
That corruption is rampant, is everyone’s case. Mine too. But look at the author whitewashing all reasons why there was a public blowback against the Sonia govt. Clearly a biased view.
But the businessmen are also not complying with laws. If you do not comply with laws and still want no action from the government, then it also lead to many serious problems. In India, the corruption is allowing many businesses to survive. The cost of compliance is high compared to bribe.
Jan Vishwass Bill 2.0 will redice some of the harassment, by decriminalizing some perty crimes that were used to harass.
But beyond that, the country needs municipal reforms and judicial reforms.
Customs office is just one example that belongs to Centre. But most corruption happens at state and municipal level.
Absolutely agree. The local level corruption is still rampant and it’s mainly the bureaucrats. Does anyone in the country has the balls to touch the bureaucracy ?
Also I actually want everyone in this country to understand that 70% of ours problems are created by these bureaucrats. We should pass a law so that we can fire them and this whole notion “safe job” needs to go away.
Might have to go bit rogue and break some laws like Maharashtra did when they killed a lot of gangsters a decades ago to achieve the peace we see today. I am not suggesting violence btw, rather taking radical approach.
Thanks for talking about this. This is something only the central government can solve. They should have done it in 2014 when modi had a so much political capital that he could even get away with demonetization. Why is even congress there is this country? So useless.
That corruption is rampant, is everyone’s case. Mine too. But look at the author whitewashing all reasons why there was a public blowback against the Sonia govt. Clearly a biased view.