ENGLISH ESSAY ‘CORRUPTION’ FROM
450 TO 500 WORDS
There
is no doubt that after independence, Pakistan has progressed in many areas. But
it is also rightly said that the two factors which characterize the Central and
State governments in our country are Minus efficiency and Plus corruption. If Pakistan
has flourished in any sphere, that is corruption. Pakistan is in the grip of
the worst form of corruption. Corruption in the country’s public and
administrative life has considerably increased during the last two decades. A
corruption, to a certain degree is a legacy of the British reign and is not
peculiar to Pakistan alone but is a universal phenomenon.
Official
files and documents do not move unless the palms of the concerned officials are
greased. One cannot get the official copy of a court judgment from the copying
agency of the court unless one pays some extra money to the typist, besides
paying the official court fees. An honest man’s application is subjected to
delays by red Taoism. Corruption in some public-dealing offices has reached a
saturation point and people have started taking corruption for granted. The lot
of the common man is miserable as he has to stand in long queues, grease the
palm of petty peons and clerks and put up with tyrannies all around whereas
businessmen and industrialists are aware of the fact that they can get anything
done by paying bribes. We all talk about corruption but the half – hearted
measures taken to root out corruption are neutralized and turn out to be a
futile exercise.
Our
leaders do not seem to be keen on removing corruption and one gets the
impression that these leaders themselves are responsible for the corruption in
the country. Inquiry Commission and Investigating Committees are merely an
eye-wash as the ministers are not concerned with any real purpose served as
such and the result is that corruption is eating into the vitals of our
society. It seems extremely difficult to clean the Augean stables of
corruption.
Some
great statesmen and intellectuals have advocated that some eminent statement,
with no political ambitions, should constitute themselves into a National
Forum, should collect and process material regarding complaints, and prima
facie cases can be established to publish their findings and press the
government to appoint regular Commissions of inquiry.
Most
ministers spend large sums of money to win elections, which to most of them are
investments to be recovered with compound interest. Politicians are, thus far
more liable to corruption.
The
cure of corruption may lie in the appointment of a register of public
grievances against the administration, who is appointed by the Parliament and
who enjoyed great authority and whose main function should be to handle
citizens complaints against administrative abuse, incompetence and corruption.
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