Monday, April 18, 2011

Why Anna Hazare

Harshad Mehta the great cheater in share market got success in motivating CMD, GMs and DGM of the various banks by extending them costly gifts and cash and it was he who could cause loss to various banks in hundreds of crores of rupees. Government of India could not learn lesson from this event. They could not assess and visualize the level and dimension of corruption prevailing in the banks when top ranked officers are indulged in earning money through illegal ways.

Madhu Koda and Mr. A Raja could get success in causing thousands and lacs of crores of rupees to the government only because top ranked bankers and top ranked administrative officers in government departments supported them. Other junior clerks do not have guts in the present system to raise voice against corrupt officers or become whistle blower in fear of repercussions. Malicious role of bank officials cannot be denied in Ketan Parikh scam, UTI scam or even in 2G or CWG scam. But none of regulating agencies is interested to take against the erring top officials and modify the system.Lacs of cases are therefore pending in various Lower courts, district courts, High courts ,various tribunals and Supreme court.

Indian bank, Global Trust Bank , many private banks ,many regional rural banks and at least one hundred cooperative banks were caught in unhealthy lending leading to huge capital loss and even merger of such bank or closure of such banks.RBI and Ministry of Finance could not understand how much deep rooted is the disease of cancerous corruption in the bank. When top ranked officers are corrupt they cannot allow honest officers to hold creamy posts.

In the recent past Central Bureau of Investigation caught eight top ranked officers including CEO of financial Institutes involved in bribe led lending, but RBI officials could not visualize that when top of any financial institute are so much corrupt, there must be a team of corrupt officers down the level who blindly supported CMD or ED or GM of that bank.

Survival of fittest is no more hold good in modern era. Now survival is possible only for those who know the art of flattery and art of bribery.

Historic LIC housing Finance scam did not open the eyes of regulator of financial institutes only because top ranked officers and minister get money in selection of ED and CMD of PSU banks and in turn CMD of financial institutes get money for giving promotion to officers working under him. In such dirty and corrupt atmosphere officers at lower level have to earn money through illegal sources either in lending or in contractual works and share the same with his bosses to get quick promotion and choice posting superseding many seniors. It is open secret that these corrupt top ranked officers do not leave any clue of corrupt dealings and they do not allow bribe lending leaving behind an documentary evidence. These corrupt officers do not declare such bad advances as Non Performing Assets as long as adequate safety measures are taken to safeguard the actual lender. They are able to manage even vigilance officers and CBI officers to get rid of them.

These clever top officers resort to telephonic pressure on field functionaries and in case of exposure of their evil work they trap other junior officers and sacrifice them on the altar of honesty and discipline.

All this is possible only when top ranked officers get huge discretionary powers to select officers, promote officers and transfer reluctant honest officers as per his whims and fancies.

This is possible only because courts are unable to deliver judgments even in two or three decades.

The reign of injustice and climate of corruption grows and grows only because judiciary is beyond the reach of common men, only because justice is too much costly and only because there is shortage of good advocates and honest judges who are devoted and sincere in their job and who allows the case to die a natural death in a decade or two until the main culprit top officers is retire from his service safely.

This is why thousands of cases filed against corrupt bank officials are languishing in the offices of CVC, vigilance offices, CBI, Ministry of Finance or Banking Division without any punitive action against erring officials.

This is not astonishing to anyone in the country that one lac crores of bank finance is unrecoverable and treated as bad assets by banks and more than three lacs crores of bank’s lending is though bad but not declared to save the image of the bank, to keep the share value up and to boost up the morale of credit officers but in fact bad assets are not declared as Non Performing Assets mostly to save the corrupt officers. Even courts are unable to recover the money from willful defaulters. So many fast track court also failed to achieve the goal of recovery because corruption is rampant in all offices.

This is why people of India need to support movement launched by Anna Hazare and his team against corruption.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Cancer of Corruption can be cured

Many politicians have now openly admitted that it is not possible to remove corruption from life and corruption is deep rooted in the system. People in general have also accepted the corrupt practices as routine way of business.

However it is very much necessary to try to reduce it if complete stopping is not possible.

I however do not believe that it is not possible to make India free of corruption when it was made possible by our great leaders to make India free from the clutches of British rule.

Right to recall is one step to create fear in minds of corrupt politicians and corrupt officers working in government departments in particular and all evil doers in general.

To make judiciary active, sincere, honest and effective is another step to give quick punishment to perpetrator of injustice. It is necessary to make police and judges accountable to public and force them to catch hold of real culprit within shortest period of time. By action courts and police both have to demonstrate that all criminals are punished in shortest period.

Third way is to inculcate good habits right from the beginning of one’s education and promote good students in all sphere of education life.

Fourth is to stop corruption in recruitment, posting and promotions. Departmental heads and ministers are in general applying their power of discretion to earn illegal money in doing whimsical promotion, transfers and posting of service class people which gives rise to flattery, bribery and ultimately corruption for survival. Such unhealthy practices results in growth of corruption practices. As such corrupt officers sitting at top post should be sent to jail first to send the desired message down the line.

Fifthly all honest persons, effective officers , devoted political workers have to brought in focus and given all powers to deal with corrupt service men and corrupt politicians. Media should give maximum coverage to good work of good officers instead of giving news of accidents, murders, rapes or bollywood actors and actress. When players of cricket can be made Hero of the Nation by media there is no doubt to me that real performers in other walk of life should be given more weightage by media.

Government should not allow politicians spending in political rallys, election campaigns or buying voters by offering gifts in cash or kind. None of government functionaries should be permitted to spend a single pie in extending welcome to ministers or high rank officers. None of businessmen, contractors, service providers or service men and none of government departments or PSUs should be allowed to extend financial support to political contestants. No function should be permitted by district administration which is organized for welcoming a leader or an officer or for inauguration or for any purpose. Government can provide a common platform at its own expenses for popularizing a scheme or for politicians contesting election at panchayat or village level. Not a single pie should be spent on flattery and to make this plan fully successful our government should take lesson from other developed countries.

There is no question of government funding for election. Rather contesters in election should go door to door for campaigning. Every contestant has to show their performance and prove that they can serve people of India if they are given opportunity. Role of money should be completely made zero. Person selected from a group of say 5000 voters should then be made member of district level elected body. Member so elected for District level assemblies should selected educated member for state assemblies and then for Parliament. Such process will give true power to Panchayat level workers and remove corruption from the root. Further this process will save crores of rupees which are spent by the government and politicians on conduct and process of general election.

Last but not the least media should stop news, discussion and debate on caste and community. Any person or group of person making analysis of voters or servicemen or officers or politicians or organizations based on caste and community should be punished. By hook or by crook Indian government or the people of India have to create an atmosphere where every citizen of India voluntarily give due respect to rule of law and there is fear of law in minds of all people. Rule enforcing agencies and monitoring agencies must have full liberty to punish breaker of law without any fear of repercussion from politicians or top ranked officers. Money mafia or naxal elements who are extorting money from people of India must be booked to task and put in jail until they exhibit change in habits or show reformation in their mind.

Merit and only merit should be highlighted in all sphere of life. Honest and sincere workers who have been posted in remote or critical areas or who have been shunted away by gang of corrupt officers and corrupt politicians should be brought back to mainstream and given powerful post by removing and weeding out corrupt officers.

I would like to say here that movement of Anna Hazare is very much commendable but it can get the desired success only by support of politicians under the existing framework set for functioning of various legislative and executive organs of the government. Political parties have to come together and unitedly fight against corruption and if needed dethrone existing government if it does not listen. Mahatma Gandhi and Jai Prakash Narayan got success in their goal only because they had political support as well as public support.

Message for Kapil Sibal, HRD minister

If a child is not getting admitted in school, or he is not getting proper education in school ,then who is responsible for such sorry state of affairs prevailing in most of the state run or stated aided schools?

If poor common men are not getting required medical care and needed medical facilities at government run hospitals , then who is responsible, punishable and accountable for such mismanagement in government run hospitals?

If fake medicines are supplied in hospitals or sold from medicine dealers who is responsible and accountable for it? If doctors do not attend their duty honestly, then who is supposed to take disciplinary action against them punish them? Unwarranted pathological tests are prescribed by unscrupulous doctors to patients in nexus with owners of pathological labs, and then who will hang such inhuman doctors?

Officials and babus of various Municipalities and Municipal corporations are not passing construction map without taking bribe or passing unlawful construction after taking bribe, then who is supposed to take action against such corrupt officials?

Fake and inflated Bills of unscrupulous contractors as well as suppliers are passed in all government offices only after payment of shares of bribe to various officials and ministers. Whose duty is to stop such malpractices prevalent in government offices, public sector undertakings and public sector banks and insurance companies?

Chartered Accountants put their valued signature without making adequate checking of books of records. CAs verify books of accounts as less as possible when they get commission as much as they desire, otherwise they delay the process. Judges do not decide the case as long as they get f their share in illegal money advocates collects from their clients. Who is supposed to trap such corrupt judges?

Officials of pollution control board issue clearance certificate after taking bribe, Income tax officials passes assessment order after taking bribe, custom officials clears shipment after taking bribe, passport official issue passport after taking bribe ,and so on ………. who is responsible for such illegal practices?

Scam in thousands and lacs of crores of rupees are detected in various departments under central government, have any minster or departmental head punished without the intervention of court?

Lacs of crores of rupees are declared as Non Performing Assets in public sector banks, why is government not taking adequate steps to recover the money from such willful defaulters and why the government is not punishing CMD, ED and DGM of such banks who is promoting unhealthy practices cleverly and getting retired without facing any punitive action from any corner?

Why vigilance officers POSTED IN VARIOUS BANKS AND PSUs and officials of Anti Corruption Bureau or official of CBI themselves take bribe and close the case lodged against various corrupt officials?

Why is government silent spectator of all such unhealthy practices prevalent in government offices and why is government continuously silently watching Chirharan of Draupdi for decades together?

Do the government and ministers think themselves great by pointing out their accusing fingers towards member of opposition parties? Why is central government not taking appropriate action against state government which is not performing as per central directives? Why do you hesitate to accept the performance recorded by Nitish and Narendra Modi government?

Before maligning and before character assignation of Narendra Modi your government do not introspect and admit willful and inordinate delay in punishing the guilty of Anti Sikh Riot or Bofors scam or stamp scam or share ghotala or UTI scam and so on……

Is Manmohan trying to hide his fault by pointing out his accusing finger towards Mr. Advani or Mr. Narendra Modi who is appreciated by all learned Indians.?

Why hundreds and thousands of clerks and officials involved in Chara Ghotala of Bihar state were punished but the then chief minister Mr. Lalu Yadav who masterminded the scam was made railway minister. Why not real culprits involved in stamp scam not punished even after lapse of two decades? Why Manmohan Singh and his flatterer minister kept silence for two years on various scams and why did he not take any action against corrupt officials to demonstrate that he is active, efficient and capable?

Last but not the least why various departments entrusted to stop corruption is not functioning honestly and why Lok Pal Bill or judicial reformation has not been put into effect for last four decades though central government has promised to do so many times? Why leaders of Congress Party and other partners of UPA hesitant in supporting movement launched by Anna Hazare against Corruption.

“Chor Ki Dadhi Me Tinka”

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