- Bribe Hotline
- 13 years ago
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Sir why dont you join ********** campaign as you can help to bring a change and thrash such jokers
Ipaidabribe.com is fully supportive of this movement and we give the move for a Janlokpal bill our undiluted support. We have done this in many ways, by taking part in protest marches in Bangalore, engaged in discussions and public meetings, given interviews and sound bytes to support the cause, put up information and links on our site and exhorted other citizens to lend their support.
We are deeply concerned about the break-up of Baba Ramdev’s fast by the government. We condemn it as unwarranted use of force against an act of peaceful protest.
However, the danger with the agitationist approach is that when they are carried out under the full glare of the media, the real issues are forgotten. The anti-corruption agenda also gets politicised in the process. Suffice to say that none of our political parties are clean and none can therefore escape by supporting an agitation against the government.
We believe that the boycott of the deliberations of the Joint Committee for drafting the Lokpal bill, by Civil Society representatives can be counter-productive. The Joint Committee is the most important forum today for civil society to interact productively with the government. We must not forsake this opportunity. We must continue to work with the government if we have to get a Lokpal Act. No provocation should deviate us from this path. A stalemate is in nobody’s interest.
The issue of corruption is so vast and complex that it will take many different initiatives, focused on a variety of fronts. In the long term, we need to improve our political system, because at the end of the day, politics is the only process to resolve our public challenges. Since this will take time and sustained effort, we can achieve considerable success in the short term to reduce corruption, by improving systems and processes that touch large numbers of people on a daily basis. Ipaidabribe.com aims at using citizens’ experiences to analyse where we are going wrong in the delivery of government services and suggest process reforms to reduce corruption. We can clean up our the processes of filing FIRs, issuing ration cards, driving licences police processes, our driving licences. Success in doing this will prompt faster change. It will encourage larger numbers of citizens not to vent their anger and frustration through agitation, but effectively resist corruption through individual steps in their daily life and transactions with the government. Faced with this silent but potent resistance, corruption at this level will come down. As honest officers in the government gain the upper hand, the process of reducing corruption will gain even more momentum. This process will be gradual and will not attract front page headlines. But it will be a real and demonstrable improvement.
It is in this way that we hope to effectively tackle the hydra-headed challenges of corruption in India, with the support of citizens.