Those who live in India must have faced corruption at some point of time or other. I lived in India for the first 30 years of my life before coming to the US. But I am very proud to say that I never had to pay a single bribe to anyone neither did my husband. As were talking over tea table today about who is responsible for corruption? Is it the system, the society, the corrupt employees? No the answer almost always is we..
We are always in hurry. We go to a govt. office and find out that our file has not moved and the clerk concerned is least bothered to do anything unless we pay him/her bribe. What to do in that situation? Just take some more pain, keep going to him more than once and force him to do your job without paying anything. This is a small price that we can pay to prevent corruption at a lower level. The other day we went to the income tax office and there was this attendant whose job is to photocopy documents. My husband approached him, but he just pretended as though he did not hear him. The intention was give me money, I will do photocopy. My husband went downstairs and got it copied outside. That's it. Similarly there was another instance. There was a guy going on the road and cops caught him because he broke some traffic rules. When they asked him to produce his document, he could not because he had no document. Then he was fined some 350 rupees which he refused to pay and instead offered the cop can you take 100 rupees instead and let me go. So who do we blame now.
We often say this is a free country and we will do what we like. But there are certain things like law and order and we have to abide by it.
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