Few days ago I read an article which said abt wat was possible, if by the turn of a wand, corruption was erased in India ... the growth rate would be 10% it is said from the current 8%. This looks mostly to be true especially after movies like "Knock out" (I know its almost a copy) tell the huge amount of money swashed in foreign banks by Indian power class.
But lets take a moment off and look from a different angle ... In a sense Corruption can be equated to friction ... its mere presence reduces the efficiency of the system. I hated friction when I was a kid ... why did it always had to come up whenever anyone planned to do anything ... I thought tht one fine day we can live in a world without friction ... I dont wait for it anymore not because I think it is not possible but coz I have learnt that it is not possible to walk without friction. So that brings me back to the point of comparing friction with corruption ... anyone can write tonnes of lines abt why corruption is bad ... I am trying to get something on the other side...
Lets take an eg. I repeat just an eg .You go to a government office to get something done ... now you dont meet all the requirements ... this has to happen because the government machinery functions in that manner ... There are 10s of thousand of things that you are supposed to know and till you are a professional at that dealing daily with such activities it is impossible to know all of them ... but there is a way out of this ... pay bribe ... get you job done ... now ur working day "chutti" to go to that office has been useful and things are pretty much OK.
There are many companies in India that are in the position they are primarily because corruption exists in India ... and one of them is pretty successful ... they say enough to buy the entire stock exchange market of Pakistan . I am not sure their rise is good or bad ... but I am sure they had their contribution to the 8% growth rate which we are boasting off ...
I dont endorse corruption ... I realised that in the current socio economic conditions, corruption is more like friction ... hate it .. love it ... but you cant get rid of it and it is not always useful to get rid of it either ... we are not at that growth rate just in spite of corruption but also because of as the title puts it ..."The friction of corruption"
1 comment:
Nice thought, but for sure can be interpreted in wrong way easily.
Its like saying.. its good for me, so well.. let it be. I dont know what will come to me of the 2% increase in growth rate.
P.S. Good to see you blogging.
P.S.2: Your blog sounds more like chatting with lots of ... included.
P.S. (some more) Are you using the chatting skill appropriately?? ;)
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