Why & How people get Corrupt?
That's what i am trying to understand in my own way. I know about myself as one among the 1.2 billion who are living in the country named India.
Lets me start the analysis and root causing the reasons as far as i can interpret. I am also trying to understand why the Traffic Police happy with a quick money?
This thought about traffic police started bugging me since i was caught for the first time when i bought my new bike. It was in 2005 i was going to get my number plate painted and just before the shop the traffic constable stopped me for not having my number plate painted. I tried to convince him, already he was keen to make few quick bucks so i had to shell out Rs.100 without. He never gave me a challan for that. That was the first encounter with great Indian corrupt traffic constable. After this there were few encounters where i had to shell out bucks either for parking in no-parking area or because i didn't carry my pollution certificate. I reminded the traffic police about the rule (see the below new article) he never bothered to hear.
I gave a thought into all this about why traffic constables are happy taking monies,
1. They get job only after paying heavy bribes at the time of recruitment/selection.
2. They are one of the highly underpaid government employees. It is said their normal salary is about Rs.7,000 to 10,000.
3. They too have children and family whom they have to feed at the end of day. On one side the inflation rates are going up but the salaries are not increasing with the same proportion.
They too want their children to have a better education and knowing the condition of government schools no sane person will be have any intentions to send them there.
4. Leading to all these reasons we also need to understand how we as a society are also reason giving opportunities for them to continue to thrive on this corrupt act.
- Why dont we carry all the documents like driving licence, insurance and pollution documents?
- We try to explore new heights like driving after getting drunk.
- We dont obey traffic rule/ nor many times we have the patience to wait at a signal when we dont see a traffic constable around the corner.
- We knowingly park our vehicles in no parking zones.
- When our vehicles are picked by police we dont want to run around the station so we pay the little bribe of 50 or 100 to get rid of the cop.
Next if the process of selection of traffic police is simpler with less number of bureaucratic involved than it will help reduce the amount of bribe to be paid. And to a large extent lot of bad blood flows with fresh new blood. So all the existing cops should be given VRS at one shot and a fresh new set of cops who are young energetic and haven't got the taste of corruption must be appointed. Also the option of service for stipulated time frame like a short service commission in Army must be explored. In that case many people will volunteer if the government supports these people in getting better opportunities after retirement. I am able to think as of now with these options.Left upto guys...
