Article -74 Week 34 SHUTTING OUT CORRUPTION WITH NO OPTION TO SSR:

Article -74 Week 34

SHUTTING OUT CORRUPTION WITH NO OPTION TO SSR:

What do we feel inside yourself, when you pay  Rs 10,000/ bribe to amend an innocent typo in the IGM? To put a rubber stamp on the online print of a TP copy at Rs 50 per document? To chase the peon who moves around the tea stalls in the Customs Office with the rubber stamps in his pocket and pay him Rs 20/ to put the stamp on after the signature of the Inspector? To pay Rs 80,000/ to the Customs officer in Vizag to renew Steamer Agency License? To Pay a monthly fixed bribe of Rs 4000/ to the Customs officers in Vizag port when you have low volume of exports or import? To pay Rs 12000/ to CONCOR officers in Delhi ICD to release the cargo, because of an innocent typo in the Forwarding Note? To pay the Customs officials on every IGM copy? On every CMC permission? Every Bond cancellation? Every Shipping Bill submission? Every EGM ? On every inspection? When you bring to India your personal effects by containers on transfer from overseas, paying Rs 20,000 to Customs Officers? When you pay Rs 40,000/ for every back to town container from the Terminal to the CFS? Paying bribe of Rs 16,000/ for a permission to move a box from Pipava to Nhava Sheva via Colombo? To pay bribe to get your Passport in spite of the online system? Pay in lakhs to Income Tax raiders for the narrow interpretation in finding faults in your books or not cooking your books properly by experts? Paying lakhs to the Service Tax officers for assessment or centralization? To pay DG shipping for Multi Modal Transport license? For dispensation on crewing? To MMD officials for passing seaworthiness? SSR to NSICT by force? To the traffic cops in JNPT on the hapless trailer drivers on their serpentine queues?  To the Municipality officials for Shops and Establishment certificates? To their occasional visits to your offices demanding and negotiating bribes? To pay to get a birth certificate? To again pay to get a Death certificate? To pay to get a Marriage certificate? The list is long and exhaustive.

Do you not get angry? Do you feel ashamed of being an Indian? Do you feel frustrated? Don't you feel that your soul has been soiled? A piece of you is rotting within your conscience? You may have the power to endure and swallow, but can you ever overcome these strong feelings that dents your freedom, choice, and opportunity? 

The answer is on the streets of India. We are proud of being Indians, the way we have expressed our pent-up hurt with unanimous solidarity with Anna Hazare's movement. Let's be part of this large movement to clean our house. It is our house. We have to clean up. Let's not look at others to to do it for us. 

Vande Mataram!

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Rath