“Better to target the notorious ones first and deprive them of their ill-gotten gains- Taking on corruption- Julio Ribeiro”
“Better to target the notorious ones first and deprive them of their ill-gotten gains- Taking on corruption- Julio Ribeiro” Highlights By: Balbir Singh Sooch, Advocate, Ludhiana
“Taking on corruption: Well begun: If the AAP government in Punjab can make a difference, it will endear itself to the populace”
. Better if he gets rid of the really notorious ones and deprives them first of all their ill-gotten gains. I wish him luck in his
endeavour. I shall watch his progress in this mission with much interest.
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Punjab’s new Chief Minister is determined to meet the menace of corruption head-on. It was the first promise he made to the
people after assuming office. It is not going to be easy. But if he means it and takes the campaign seriously, he and the AAP are
bound to make a difference that will endear the populace to this new party.
Is BJP living in a dream world or does it think that the people can be taken for a ride by its propaganda machine? Corruption and
communalism are the two great evils that keep our great country backward. The BJP avers that it has tackled the menace of
corruption successfully.
All parties need money to fight elections and keep their cadres intact. The BJP has managed its coffers in a novel manner. It has
invented the electoral bond which has been structured to hide the identity of those corporates who patronise these bonds.
Naturally a quid pro quo would have been woven into such transactions but the top leaders and ministers would be forced to
keep any itching fingers firmly to themselves.
What hurts the common man is the daily corruption that she or he experiences at the hands of the ubiquitous low-level
government ‘servant’. It is not only traffic cops and police officers in thanas who extract their pound of flesh, but also small
functionaries in every sarkari department who make the life of the ordinary citizen unbearable.
An NGO I am involved in is the Public Concern for Governance Trust (PCGT), set up 20 years ago to combat corruption in
Mumbai. At first, PCGT entertained individual complaints. We wrote stern letters to the small functionaries holding up sanctions
of benefits enjoined by law. A copy of such letters were sent to the senior-most official in the organisation, and also to the
Director, Anti-Corruption Bureau. It worked. The victim received what she or he was entitled to.
We took a policy decision to discontinue this service when we found that the number of requests was greater than our meagre
staff could cope with, and also because we felt that we could invite unmerited, even adverse, attention from quarters that were
interested in status quo.
Not that we accepted the injustice. We decided to use the RTI in a major way to force the pace. DS Ranga Rao, an officer of the
Intelligence Bureau, joined PCGT the day he retired as Assistant Director from the IB’s Mumbai office. He took charge of our RTI
project with such dedication that we were emboldened to start a month-long internship programme for students, mainly from
law colleges, to acquaint them with this potentially effective instrument to fight corruption and train them in the practical use
of the Act to help people in distress.
Bhagwant Mann, AAP’s duly elected Chief Minister of Punjab, will have to struggle to weed out this deeply-embedded disease
of corruption at the cutting-edge of the administration. He will require the tenacity and single-mindedness of a Ranga Rao to
achieve even a semblance of success. If he gets rid of every culprit, it is likely that he will be left with very few to carry on his
administration. Better if he gets rid of the really notorious ones and deprives them first of all their ill-gotten gains”. Julio Ribeiro:
Updated At: Apr 15, 2022 05:58 AM (IST): The Tribune, Chandigarh
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“Better to target the notorious ones first and deprive them of their ill-gotten gains- Taking on corruption- Julio Ribeiro”
