Social Ideas on Corruption Hatao!!

Even most corrupt is after the slogan of 'corruption hatao', It makes us think of messages which government department should be posing on the regular TV/Media and Public places. Here are some of thought for thinkers;

(a) Identify the departments which is likely to be more pathetic on corruption practices and put labels or sign board advising points detailing about corruption..incidences.

(b) Identify roads in city where traffic police is more prone to corruption preapre Spatial diffusion map of corruption in your city.

(c) Identify corruption free places and place symbol or signage indicating corruption free. Like No Smoking zone.. Corruption Free Zone.

(d) Prepare direct messages for anti corruption..(but I wonder there is no system to punish those caught red handed) with going through court process.

(e) Special Messages for Holi, Dewali, Anivarsary, Wedding, Birthday and other occasion which enhances corruption related favours.

(f) 'Say No to Cash' campaign for payments above certain amount should be through banks instrument only. Include large traders/ departments/municipality and transaction beyond certain amount per day.

(g) Start closing cash /payment counters at government offices, auto remittances through all government department directly to the accounts of beneficiaries.

(h) Corruption in certain offices like PDS, Dairy, Hospital, Police and like wise should be non bailable offence.

(i) Builders who deal in 40:60 or 60:40 of black and white components should be identified with the help of IB, Police and Citizens. Maintain close check on all the deals of property tracing the roots of transaction at the revenue department level.

(j) Identify Schools and institution charging capitation fee, extra charges etc to be accountable to district education officers. DEO should be more stringent in inspection of school accounts/ public or private. Make education a corporate activity for the high end schools, and let them pay taxes.

(k) Charity commissioner, should look at the corruption from his perspective since most the institutions are not doing charity clearly many of them are business empire evading taxes.

(l) Public display of massive projects accounts by conducting public vigilance week in all departments and publication of key data for transparency.

(m) Every post office should have seperate section dealing in accepting corruption related complains which gets forwarded to concern departments of central or state government. Post offices should have directory of anti-corruption offices for state and country where complains can be forwarded.

(n) More powers to CVC and state vigilance offices in monitoring and accepting complains from one and all.

Geoinformatics Technologies for Fighting Corruption

When the decision making depends on the indviduals wishes, the horror of corruption emerges. In most of the public utility cases using right technology might reduce the content of corruption. The reform initiatives for the e-governance has recently slowed down in order to acheive transperancy in functioning of the government offices. The access to the information recently made online through e-tendering, online greveinces, tracking of complains status, etc becomes outreach program to fight against corruption at the system level.

Most the government contracts and payment when assigned digital tags, the citizens would get the desired knowledge about their area of interest. The use of Geoinformatics (GIS and Remote Sensing) and tracking devices most of the monitoring tasks of the government program and services can be achieved. Two departments are example for the reduction in corruption intensity these are Indian Railway and Telecommunication for the common men. Most of the e-tendering process by the governments have become easier and little hassle. But the decision making still remains with the department heads and executives in the government, these are not assisted by Information technologies. The Geoinformatics so far have penetrated in some ministries and department which is helpful in monitoring the works and progress in the sectors.

The people in general is not conversant with the e-governance initiatives by the department which might have been helpful in reducing the corruption. The technology penetration is possible in all the governed departments which helps in monitoring and assigning the tasks for the development and status of works. But governments are slow in implementing the technologies citing ignorance and pitfalls ahead. Using internet has been limited to just having a site, some departments have opted to inform general public about their works and achievement. Most of the public services do not interface with citizen citing confidentiality. The legal tools under discussion might help in punishing the culprits, why not use the technologies to monitor and analyse the decision making of the key departments? T

he application areas of Geographical Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing has raised the technological possibilities for integrating the services departments to allow users to get access to functions performed by the local and state governments. Next generation reform should allow the citizens to access the service information on their mobile, PCs and Laptop using the mentioned technologies.

Show your worth: the power of Capitial

Public accounting has never been subject for those who are interested in commerce. The onus of proving the sanctity of capital ownership now lies on the holder of capital. Thus the present declaration by Baba Ramdev and others, Shri Anna Hazare and other declarations by MLA/MP or IAS officials is an welcome exercise. But crux of the problem is this is visible transection, even the tax authorities knows it and well clear of any doubts. What is not clear is functions performed with the money by these large individual corporate giants.

Capital is not stinky for many, its our right to earn well to provide for needs as well as wishes of all those concerns us. Power comes from capital its understood, those who are on top should be worth millions, no matter it has come from hard work of their enterprise and activities. Law of land is messy in dealing with the earnings, and there is free fall post 1991 for those who wish to reach top of capital earners.

Ethics of business or politics shows us the way we handle the public money, all the individuals and corporate uses to maximize the return on investment. The individuals who does not wish to acquire capital also holds high moral grounds but would be weakened to get closer to seat of power. That is the mantra explained in political strategy circles. The urban areas around the world is place wherein the people tend to show their capital and get respect irrespective of their background of manner of generating it.

What is your worth? Individual would feel powerless in such a situation, the few people like Mahatma Gandhi and now Anna Hazare has courage to stand tall among the Penguins of today's Socio-political world.

Independence from dependence: Anna & Baba syndrome

Suddenly the voices in Delhi is getting cluttered with people shouting slogan for 'Second Independence' on the call to over throw the 'party in government' or 'government'. Its getting heady mix of 'civil' society with head on collusion with 'system'. Its getting in revolutionary mode with jeering crowd and ping pong media travelling to venues. The evening press breifs and treatment to media gives a notion of online or virtual revolution sans streets of country.

Gone are the days from JP movements people confronted physically with the government, today with the literacy level increased people have started pointing at the system virtually and impact ha s been tremendous. But its also true unless on the streets the change would be less attractive.

The objectives of two leaders converging from different ideologies at Delhi shows the strength of Indian society and leverage two together gets in bending the government at will. The society at large prefers to junk the idea to participate cohesively without any kind of leadership. The trust has been lost at most of levels in the system and also within the civil society.

The loss of words for the naming the civil society unrest, or rather populist nature of protest, it claims to be 'Second Independence' , not saying from whom. Its getting tighter to explain even by the civil society representative to explain the notion of independence. Corruption should be removed and checked over time in all the systems and members should fight together with out getting involved in larger syndrome.