Corruption in India- A Review

Corruption in India: DNA & RNA written by Economist Vivek Deva Roy and Lavish Vandary. Economist Dev Roy work for Center for policy research, Delhi; Lavish works in Indicas, India’s economy observer organization. The book is published on 8th December 2011.

All over India corruptions spreading, every year corruptions enhances more than double, although methodical corruptions are controllable. In this book it is mentioned that no doubt India is going to be corrupted, every spheres of the government machinery, and hence the public life is blanketed by its adverse affect. 

The book further reads- bribes and corruptions have become very generic and ordinary to peoples livelihood, and also become the phenomenal medium of transactions and dealings between the government and its people. It was argued in the book that in general Indians are not corrupt; when the Indians go abroad for work or for living, they do not involve in any sorts of corruptions and wrong doing unethical activities, as the environment is so. Therefore, it could be established that India’s economic policy is the reason behind its corruptions and unethical practices.

The book also mentioned since 1991, the year when economic reforms began, the race for big corruptions sped up. During 1990 in India black money (non-taxed money) volume was 31,546,00000,000/ (Indian Rupees), in the year 2000 fattened up to one lac 95 crore rupees which hit the bell of 461548 crore rupees in 2010- in ten years time gap.

The book further commented, if the bases and techniques of corruptions could be diagnosed, proper treatment could be engineered. Another temporary possibility could be to use emotional tactics as means to solve the problem in lieu of systemic measures, but this is also expensive, as society and economy have to pay a hefty price for it. Rather, the book opined, technology could play an important role in mitigating corruptions.

It is also confirmed that a sectoral or a particular spherical corruption could relatively easily be bottled up, but other distant, unrelated or sporadic corruptions could never be controlled or stopped for good. In many countries after consistent efforts and repetitive applying contra measures corruptions are successfully controlled down to a tolerant limit. In the Indian sub-continent culture and nature is identical. So, corruptions could be defeated if, only if political commitment is established. Since, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka have the same culture and economic pattern the same problems and solutions could be imitated, as almost everything is identical. To understand the corruption-psychology and socio-politico-economic characteristics of this Sub-Continent this book would be very helpful indeed.