Raghunandan Tr:
Little interesting thing to share: Yashavantha Tumakuru's father
Sannamuddhaiya, works for the Revenue department in Tumkur. He is currently the
Hon president of the state employees association. I learnt much from him and i
respect him a lot. Ten years back, he was the president of the Tumkur
employee association, and i was Assistant commissioner there.
Once we both had a heated argument on corruption when i was
to take extremely severe action on village accountant on a corruption case, which
was not proved. During the conversation we ended up classifying corruption into
three categories.
One: the 'Demand corruption'; the most visible form of
corruption, and called as retail corruption, where the official 'demands' a
favor/money, for doing his ‘duty’ Eg. Asking for bribe for giving ration card.
Second: ‘Risk corruption’; where the official and the
citizen ‘agree’ to exchange favors, for giving ‘illegal benefit’ to the
citizen. Eg: allowing set-back violations.
Third: ‘Safe corruption’; where the official does extra legal
work for the citizen, and takes money in exchange. E.g. Getting driving license
out of the way, in single day!
We tried to tackle it starting from the first to third
category. But, then first itself proved so difficult, and still I am struggling
to work with systems that would free us from the ‘demand corruption’.
I can say with some surety that first category can be
eliminated. I am not sure about second and third category, though I would like
to work hard to remove those too.
We have a very long way to go…
Dearly waiting for the new instalment of,"I and the Govt.".
ReplyDeleteIts been a month now, sir.
Sir , i think third category can be eliminated by legalizing the test cases :
ReplyDeleteSo for ex : all the below pointers should be made legal
1. Driving Licence(DL) in one day : 1000
2. DL 2 Days : 500
3 : DL 3 Days : 300
4 . DL 4-7 Days : Normal Charges
5 : DL not delivered after 7 days : You can seek compensation from govt.
So the income can be distributed among the employees and some to govt. fund too via a mechanism .
I think its a win-win situation .Although the example may not be a good one .
And as you pointed out Transparency is the best way forward where everybody can see live information.
And thanks for your blog and effort .