Friday 28 March 2014

Is this the right time to take up issue of corruption on a primary note?

Note: The following views and thoughts are strictly personal. Neither do I belong to any political party nor do I support any. The views may vary from person to person.

Arvind Kejriwal may be right that after many years, there has been a current of wave to drive away corruption from this country. He is taking measures to any extent to achieve a non-corrupt India.
But just stop and think for a moment, a middle class man who has a daughter wanting to become a doctor, a son who wants to become an engineer, a wife who wants a new saree, and his parents who are suffering from some kind of illness. Now, what in the world would affect him if the JanLokpal Bill is passed or not?  Why would he even care if Modi is helping Ambanis or not?
Mind well, I am talking on a very thin line of demarcation between what is right and what is wrong.
Please try to understand and take this positively. I am not saying that if the middle class person does not care, people are free to indulge in malpractices. NO. Not at all. But also, sometimes yes.
I was learning Principles of Economics, and there I came under this concept called 'Trade-Off'.
Today, if you notice, this concept of Trade-Off has crept in our daily lives in disguise of our actions, our virtues, our necessities, our everything!
The point I am trying to convey here is that, there hasn't been enough opportunities for the middle class population in the last 7-10 years. There is this devil called corruption, which has suppressed those opportunities.
There are two types of corruption, one which creates opportunities, and the one which destroys them.
Again, I am talking on a very silver lining, so e.g. If a person is indulged with the business group of India, and is helping them creating opportunities, our GDP increases, foreign income increases, imports and exports increase, and in the end it is the common man who gets benefited.
This is not corruption actually, its a trade-off. Sometimes, it is taken in the wrong sense.

Also, the realization that we are in 21st century and the fact that technology is evolving at a lightning speed nowadays, we can see countries like China, Japan, USA,... hell lot of research work, newer technology day by day, inclination of people towards science and innovation,etc, etc... when was the last time you saw an innovation or a technology in India creating a breakthrough in the field of Science and Technology? We have companies like Google creating Google Glass, Google Watch, companies like Sony,Samsung, spending loads on R&D. I am not underestimating India, but we need to open our eyes. Within 2020, there will be a whole new world of technology and innovation, super computers, augmented reality, and infinite many things. India will have to push its limits if it wants to be there on an equal footing with other countries.
What I am saying is that, this is not the time to take up issue of corruption on a primary note.
We need to create opportunities, make a breakthrough, invest in R&D, create job opportunities, make the business policies flexible, and much more.

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