Sociology on Corruption

Introduction to main subject: The corruption in India has its roots everywhere staring from politicians finish with lower class part time workers. Furthermore, there are 2 effects ,that are seems to be primary by the supporters of anti-corruption campaigner Kisan "Anna" Hzare, which are : corruption allows wealthier citizens to access resources and preferential state treatment that they are not entitled to and corruption constitutes a drain on the savings of many ordinary Indians by demanding for bribes by state functionaries.

This state of corruption that India is in now is affecting its economy a lot. India has been ranked as 94th out of 176 countries in corruption. A study in 2005 found out that about 62% of Indians had experience of paying bribes to get jobs done in public offices successfully. The largest sources of corruption in India are entitlement programs and social spending schemes made by Indian government. Another daily source of corruption include trucking industry, where is obligatory to pay billions in bribes annually to police stops.

One of the main causes of corruption is said to be the fact that India include excessive regulations, complicated taxes and licensing system , numerous government departments each with opaque bureaucracy and discretionary powers, monopoly by government controlled institutions on certain goods and services delivery, and the lack of transparent laws processes.

The fact that violent career criminals enter parliament since the 1970`s, had weakened popular faith in governmental institutions. The current relationship between politics and criminality is a consequence of corruption that arose in the public office. The only way to combat corruption, by words of Hazare, is to have a substantial overhaul of the wider legislation that currently protects the most powerful public servants who abuse their positions, and a real engagement with the influence of violence and organized crime on national politics.

As it seems from the words of Pankaj Mishra, the corruption is mostly consequence of people trying to survive. He tells his personal story of how he gave few rupees to a train conductor, because in India to get a job like that you have to give a big part of your income to someone who could provide you with this job. So Pankaj felt sorry for him, as he understood the scheme himself and knew that this guy would never be able to get this job without bribery. Indians have to pay big price for their survival. He refers to a famous book "Behind the beautiful forevers" by Catherine Boo, where she gives very brief examples about the corruption that is going on within the slums.

The book explains that without money you are no one in India. The police won`t help on your case, but put you in the unofficial cell with others who can't afford bribe, Judge will go against your case, Doctor will not even try to heal you and etc. As Katherine Boo mentions in the book, the corruption is the only way to succeed, or at least make your life less bad than it is now. The problem for India is that the population

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