It is necessary to create fear in the mind of evil doers by punishing top ranked corrupt officers and ministers who perpetrate evil work, irrigate and promote evil culture by taking support of his flatterers and yes-men. For this purpose they misuse the delegated powers of posting and promotions invested in them.. These powers of posting and promotion have to be changed and the concerned law must be made seniority based and fully transparent so that corrupt officers cannot manipulate the posting and promotion as per whims and cannot post all flatterers at key posts .It is very sad that In the existing system honest and devoted workers are shunted away and posted at the most critical place because perpetrators of corrupt practices do not want to see any impediments in their path.
Corrupt officers and corrupt politicians who are powerful know it very well that none of Indian courts can punish them for their evil work.They also know that even if they are trapped or exposed they can manage police , investigating agencies and also judiciary by dint of their money power.
Corruption flows from the top. When the top officers and ministers are punished it will create a demonstrative effect down the level.Unfortunately in our country for all big scams low level officers and clerical staff are made scapegoat and punished whereas ministers and top officers who verbally gives instructions to his subordinates for doing evil works are not even touched. This gives wrong signal to good workers. During last five years or fifty years, none of rulers have taken any drastic action against any corrupt person at top position which could have produced demonstrative effect on other politicians or on other officers. On the contrary every corrupt officers who got exposed due to some reason or the other got acquitted and rather promoted by the system and hence the trend of corruption got aggravated and by now it has become an accepted culture.
This is why I am of strong view that root cause of all malady lies in selection, recruitment, promotion ,posting , transfer of bad workers who are flatterers and yes-man of the boss, minster or local rich person.Thousands of transfers of staff takes place after change of Chief Minister in a state due to this corrupt culture.
Everyone in service sector in India specially in state services knows that he or she has to pay thousands and lacs of rupees to his higher bosses for getting cream posting and quick promotion superseding several senior and capable staff. In politics a person can get party ticket for contesting a general election for state assembly or for Parliament only when he or she is a goof flatterer of a minister or undisputed yes-man of party bosses and also he or she can spend crores of rupees for fighting election as also for giving donation to the political party.
Merit is not awarded in our country in any field of life . Good work is not recognized anywhere in the country. This is why people prefer becoming yes man and earning illegal money along with bosses . Society also is unable to distinguish rich but corrupt officers from poor but honest hard workers. If bad workers get appreciation and recognition all where , it is but natural that good workers will gradually discard their goodness . This is happening in our country and we proudly say that this is Indian style of working, corruptions is accepted system and so on.
In some of PSU banks their CMDs , EDs or General Managers or DGMs are so much clever that they are earning money even by way of recruiting person from campus or formal interview directly in even higher scales. They in this way give pain to those officers who have been honestly and sincerely serving the bank for last 5 to 35 years.They are humiliating senior workers by promoting juniors and appointing freshers in higher scales in the name of reformation .They are even promoting to even corrupt and inefficient workers and ignoring good workers only because they believe in flattery, golden gifts, red carpet welcome and lending to bad borrowers. Due to such wrongful execution of good policies unhealthy culture is developed and workers of such bank become indifferent to safety of bank’s assets. Even RBI , Banking Division or Ministry of Finance are manageable provided the top ranked officers is clever to make money ,involve in lobby and take advantage of the lobby to not only remain in the system but always appear as rising star.
Can you take any drastic step to bring about maximum possible transparency in transfer , posting and promotion to ensure completely seniority based promotion and seniority based posting at good places?
Merit of a person is judged by different person in different perspective and hence one person is assessed good or bad depending upon the goodness and badness of assessing authority. In a country when maximum number of people are dishonest it is not desirable to give generalized discretionary powers to all top officers to pick and choose as per their whims. Merit cannot be judged even by number of degrees in a country where even educational degrees are sold in the market or where large scale unfair means are allowed or sold in all examinations.As such it is better to give respect to age of the person than to live the working class on the mercy of corrupt officials.
Last but not the least , solution to all problems India is facing is to make judiciary and police department effective by providing them all required infrastructure and adequate manpower to deal with the cases they have to handle so that none of the cases remains pending for more than three months . They must be capable in either awarding punishment or in acquittal of the accused.
10.01.2010
