It is with a great shame one reads accounts of corruption in MCD and
other areas of the Delhi Admin recently highlighted in the
Times of India. People have got so inured to the suffering and
poverty that they forget to gauge the extent to which this kind of
corruption, wherein winter wear meant for the poor children is diverted
and sold off and the money is pocketed by the officails concerned , who
invariably spend it on alcohol and women wherby the poor children
shiver in the cold , not even knowing that a feudal , savage system
has robbed then of their due from the local admin.I am being morbid
and sarcastic as this is how it can all be summed up.
Corruption is often highlighted only in monetary terms and the scale
of it. It is never highlighted in terms of the human suffering
it causes and the angst which goes through the poeple who would have
otherwise benefited from any well meaning scheme.
Similarly medicines meant for the poor are sold off in
the black market whereas the supposed beneficiaries die outside the
major hospitals for want of money to buy those very medicines.
I wish the newspapers highlight this human aspect of corruption
with the same pizzaz they highlight the page 3 parties in Delhi Times.
I wish they take up the issue of corruption in every major department
and highlight its consequences on the weaker, the poor and vulnerable
sections who are the most affected.
Corruption can be highlighted on the revenue front wherein , revenue
meant for the exchequer is siphoned off by the officals in collusion
with the payer and the corruption on the expenditure front wherein the
revenue collected is again siphoned off or mismanaged thus affecting the
quality of goverance adversely.
Recently on a trip to a Vasant Kunj slum near B-8 , I was amazed at the
level of awareness among the residents of this cluster on the human
aspects of corruption. At 7 in the morning all of them pray silently
in their houses, mind you the same time, to punish those people who
by their action of omission or commission have condemned us to this
state. Let their children also suffer in the same way as ours
and if possible , let them pay for their sins in this birth not
in the next as only then will they realize the enormity of their
crimes.
Only one person confessed that their ire is directed at the local
officials and some NGO old them about the poweer of the unified field
theory , where prayer by many at the same time for a common objective
is very effective, and they feel that only God can save this country.
Already 2 MCD officials of the slum wing have been stricken with cancer
at the same time and the children are suffering from ill health.
This talk about unified field theory from the residents of a slum
amazed me. I am writing my views after I came across these people.
Let these people who cause untold misery on other human beings suffer for their sins.So help us God.