Essays

'Corruption' is not an uncommon word today. Not a single field is spared of its grasp. Starting from junior levels to senior officials, everybody is corrupt these days. Now the question arises- what is corruption? Corruption is to give away your moral values and ethics in order to gain some power particularly in monetary terms. Today if you want to take admission in a school, they will ask for big donations. Authorities are not concerned with the capabilities of a child. All they want is money. People from middle class families find it hard to admit their children in good and reputed school just because of high donations and fee structure. This is a very simple example of corruption.

Millions of vehicles are running on the roads. There needs to be an efficient and honest traffic police official on duty. Hut everyday lots of accidents take place. The reason is the carelessness and disobedience of traffic rules of road. But traffic police is negligent towards all the mishaps or maybe they are silent spectators to the happenings, till their

monetary interest is gained. Whenever someone crosses red light, traffic police bothers little to fine penalty on him. They just charge some money for themselves and let go the wrong doer. In this way, nobody follows the rules sincerely because everyone knows that they can get rid of any kind of dispute by giving just 50-100 rupees extra to the police.

Not just the traffic police but also the police, who is meant to protect the people from criminals is also corrupt now- a-days. The job of police is to curb crime in every possible- way They are supposed to protect the public from thefts, robberies and any other crime. But they are also irresponsible towards their duty. They take the bribe and let go even the hard-core criminals also. Today nobody wants to serve nation. Everyone wants to serve himself only Clutches of corruption is so strong that even a common man is in its grip.

The reasons for this rising corruption can be numerous. It is present in the country just as the blood is circulating in the body. The whole system has become corrupt now. But that doesn't mean that everything is ended. Even now honest souls are present in this world. The corrupt people suppress their voices. But it is high time when every citizen should get up and start a war against this evil practice. When all the hands will join each other than they jointly will throw out this person out of their lives. Otherwise it will eat upcountry's reputation the way parasites do.