1 Anonymous wrote: I think you have completly misunderstood the Jan Lok Pal bill. Stop segmenting people on urban, rural, middle class, labour class, formal sector and informal sector. Everybody is victim of corruption. In India, corruption has reached such a point where a constitutinal body on the line of Supreme Court, CAG, and Election Commission alone can effectivelly prosecute and punish powerful people. What your article suggest is that people shoudl continue as usual and don t bother about corupption. Continue paying bribe to government officer in one department or other. Even our Industry leaders have written a letter to GOI expressing concern on such high level of corruption in various ministries. Many sittting MP and Ministers are facing heat on corruption charges. Things wont change unless you bring something new. Same logic was given before RTI act was passed, but in reality RTI has empowered citizens and curbed government officer powers. 10:53 am October 17, 2011 Raja Boppana wrote: That s a good point. But if the government is eliminated we will have more informal jobs. All hail ANARCHY. 10:58 am October 17, 2011 Ram wrote: We typically get in to All or Nothing mode,toms outlet. Lokpal is required, but not enough. That doesn t justify rejecting the idea of lokpal. A lot of money spent during elections goes directly in to cash for vote. This no doubt helps the poor, one could argue that this is a good thing. There are no Silver bullets and the People and Team Anna should realize. The fact is that while corruption hurts everyone, it hurts the poor more. Unfortunately, the government, team Anna and the people, all are looking for a quick win. 11:08 am October 17, 2011 Amol Joshi wrote: Let us not lose focus of how many Lakh rupees are held hostage as a result of corruption. If these laks made their way to the common man in the way of social services, better roads, etc, the entire society would benefit. The examples you cite will adapt to a more legitimate method of working. The US is a great example. When they were developing as a country they too had more corruption at all levels,toms shoes online. Their society adapted over time. So will India. Bring the Jan Lok Pal ASAP and begin the process of ridding the system of corrupt systems and people. 11:24 am October 17, 2011 Dan R wrote: This author s columns are visibly creeping to the left end of the political spectrum and we don t appreciate this at all. We would like for opinions to be presented in a fair and balanced manner. 11:27 am October 17, 2011 shankar wrote: this article touches the tip of the iceberg-while on the causality bit-can we have a referendum for Does India need to reconstitute its constitution? not a total makeover but for giving it more bite in terms of so many solutions with technology available for making transparency fundamental to all acts.For astart to reforms why not ask citizens to pay not Income tax but expenditure tax?Govt.earns revenue from expenditure tax not from income,cheap toms shoes.Thus every citizen who spends money for any service,product or facility pays a Related articles:

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