Congress drags its feet over tackling graft. It may pay a high price

CORRUPTION AND INDIA

India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is highly respected for his personal integrity, however, he has to realize, it is not enough for him to be personally honest. The financial integrity of the PM of a country is given, taken for granted. It is a prima facie qualification for the job.

The PM of India has to lead. He has to ensure that not merely he is honest, but financial integrity must govern his government and the key institutions of the country. That too, is part of the prime minister’s job, and it cannot be shrugged off.

It is interesting that senior leaders of the Congress have maintained a discreet to politically expedient silence, when leadership was the crying need of the hour.

Even the opposition parties have maintained silence and distance on this subject. Why? India is a poor country with rotten and cracked-up infrastructure. How can money be permitted to be stolen from such a poor country, with 250 Mn people living below the poverty line of USD 2 per day? India desperately needs clean and honest leaders.

Singh has done a wonderful job in managing the economy of the India. However, corruption and moneymaking rackets have reached unprecedented levels, during these years. Never before, in the history of India, has corruption scaled current levels.

Singh’s legacy of economic growth will be overshadowed by the grotesque monster of rampant and unprecedented corruption.

Rajendra Aneja

India is emphatically a kleptocracy. I'm not being a pessimist, but a realist. Corruption is so chronically pervasive that it'll take a leviathan revolution to eliminate it, thought it can't be eliminated completely. The power of 'lords above the law' can only be shaken to the core, they cannot be toppled like dominoes. The government officials, apart from being utterly corrupt, are reckless & feckless. The government doesn't care a damn about the nation, otherwise it wouldn't try to make people complacent with a booming economy; it'd take some steps like reforming certain sectors to ensure that India would become the world's no.1 economy, as prognosticated by Morgan Stanley, and now Citigroup(though forecasted years of the achievement differ). Most probably Morgan Stanley's prediction would prove itself to be false.

Corruption has also made its way into the private sector. Sales managers have long lured the sales managers of other companies with 'gifts'. But now a new money-making-avenue has emerged. HR managers of outsourcing companies, which do mass-recruiting(10000-20000 per year or more), have started taking bribes from the management of mediocre private engineering colleges for visiting their colleges for on-campus-placements. It seems far-fetched but it's a well-known fact in the industry and academia. A little research will prove that.

India might never be able to rescue itself from the shackles of corruption. It's already a kleptocracy & will become a plutocracy.

This query under the Right to Information Act addressed to the former Commissioner of Police, Bangalore, will give you an idea of how shabbily the law and order enforcement agencies in India work, being either corrupt, inefficient or outright indifferent.

http://www.rtination.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12...

India is a morass of muck, to say the least. There is hardly any competition to India when it comes to corruption and sleaze coexisting with unbounded optimism of Indians ... it remains to be seen whether this is the hope of a terminal patient or the confidence of a rock star (maybe high on marijuana !).

on their part, some Indians are bristly to a fault by any suggestion that there may be something wrong with it ... and there are some Indians who hate even the 'I' of India for some legitimate and mostly imagined reasons. the winners will decide the future of India.

Hasan Ali khan has been granted bail by Bombay High Court. The presiding Judge charged the prosecutors of incompetence and failure to provide any tangible evidence to prove that Hasan Ali Khan was involved in Money Laundering or held balances abroad in foreign banks.It goes to prove that half baked cases are being put up before courts to ward off political sniping by opposition politicians, and press especially the electronic media.Enforcement directorate the prosecuting agency is reported to be considering filing an appeal, against the order, with the Supreme Court of India.

Heavy corruption is the fastest way a state can lose its legitimacy. Corruption is like a domino effect where it can be almost impossible to fix without the cooperation of some of the highest leaders in power, like Mr. Manmohan Singh. India cannot afford to be slow and hesitant in fighting corruption because of its rapidly growing population, in which many live in poverty. Money needs to be invested in infrastructure and programs that would help the state rather than take needed materials away from them. It is the prime minister’s upmost responsibility to address these falling infrastructures. Although many may say the prime minister is not corrupt, he is just as guilty to let it happen. Assertiveness is the only solution to combat corruption in India. With the prime minister being so respected and having no evidence of corruption, he is the only individual that can introduce rapid change. Perhaps if Mr. Singh is not willing to fight corruption at the rapid rate that it needs to be, someone else should take over.

only "a million rupees now"? that's the us$ of ?? well, that's nothing if you know the huge money of corruption in China... corruption everywhere that's what I think.