Thursday, April 14, 2011

Is Corruption India's biggest problem?

This was a question in one of the NDTV's forums and I typed in my view on it. Somehow the did not accept my post. So I am posting it here.

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No I don't think corruption is the No1 problem for India. It is just a way to blame someone else for our bad state. If we want to talk about real problems we need to address issues like
1) Primary Education
2) Drinking Water
3) Sanitation
4) Nutrition.....
I can go on. These are the real problems of India. If you really think of it how many times did you bribe a person in your life to get something done? Of my 23 years in India the only time that I had bribed a person was to a ticket collector in trains to get a berth. I don’t know if that were earth shattering. I know it would have reduced a miniscule amount for the Railways but I don’t think it is a bigger problem than any one of the ones that I stated above. Corruption is more of a intangible problem and it is going to exist in one form or the other. I think we should focus more on tangible problems than say that "India is not developing fast because of our corrupt politicians". Even the politician is one amongst us.

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