Fighting Corruption

I wish people can understand that the only way to stop corruption, is to stop being corrupt themselves. Something that they will never ever do. We feed the snake and then cry, when it bites. All I know is that we cannot clap with just a single hand. Corruption is there, because we support it for our own selfish needs and puposes.

If one really wants to stop this evil, then one needs to change oneself. It is very easy to attend protest marches, shout slogans, blame the system, but it is very difficult to change ourselves, very difficult to speak the truth especially when the truth is against us.

If one really wants to fight corruption, then one should:

• Stop cheating in exams or appearing in them when one’s attendance is less than seventy percent or get proxy attendance marked.
• Stop giving donations for securing admission in educational institutions.
• Stop suporting quota reservations, as they are cutting the very roots of the country.
• Stop spitting in public places and stop throwing garbage on roads.
• Stop giving money to the traffic constable when stopped for speeding, jumping signals, tripling on bikes, not wearing helmets/seatbelts, drunken driving, parking at a no parking zone or violating any other traffic rule.
• Stop giving money to the police officer at the time of enquiry for getting passport.
• Stop breaking rules, 'Public Smoking' is an offence, stop doing it.
• Stop female infanticide/foeticide and getting sex determination test done (again an unlawful act).
• Stop giving money to the clerks for getting work done at college/university/different offices (work like getting documents, mark sheets, things that we have a legal claim to).
• Stop fights at some public places.
• Attend to some accident victim.
• Help some hungry/needy person.
• Stop taking and/or offering dowry.
• Stop giving false information so as to suit your selfish interests.
• Stop discrimination on the basis of sex, caste, class, religion, region, race, place of birth.
• Stop being lazy at work and start meeting deadlines.
• Stop playing games on internet and using social networking sites like facebook, orkut etc during work hours in office.
• Stop claiming funds/scholarships that are undeserved, by giving false information.
• Stop getting assured work done in courts.
• Stop taking commissions from companies for endorsing their product/services, if the same are substandarded.
• Stop misusing official powers.
• Stop being a mute spectator when somebody’s rights are being infringed, somebody is being physically, emotionally, psychologically abused.
• Stop child labor and child abuse.
• Stop environmental damage, cruelty to animals, felling of trees, pollution.
• Stop the violation of rights of women, children, old people, minorities, refugees, indigenous people, and other vulnerable groups.
• Stop injustice

And the list goes on and on and on and on.........

This is just the tip of the iceberg and one needs to stop and think on what is right and what is wrong and then take a conscientious decision. And stop neglecting one’s duty as a responsible human being..........