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Originally Posted by Samurai You apply for a power connection and nothing happens. You visit the office repeatedly and find out that they won't move the file unless palms are greased. Corruption in government offfices is not an individual trait. It is a collective pool, everybody gets their cut, all the way up.
So, what are your options? Go to his boss... |
Samurai, agreed that in some places, its a lot easier to give in and just wish for things to improve (and hope for privatisation, is one such case).
Let me give u another example... i started my career in an indian IT company... and the building we were working in had no power supply connection from the govt. Why? Because the company's owner refused to bribe his way into getting a connection. So instead, the building was fed supply from a set of diesel generators 18 hrs a day, 5 days a week. Whenever the weather was good, we would open the windows and ask for the ACs to be switched off.
The problem is that we are so used to bribing our way through that we have started preferring bribing over taking the normal route and we blatantly advise others also to do the same. This thread is a classic example of this. Instead of asking the thread starter to go stand in a queue, take a test, follow the procedure etc etc., he is being advised to go via a third party that will indirectly grease some palms and deliver him a license at his doorstep, EVEN WHEN THERE IS NO NEED FOR ALL THIS!!!!
Everyone will have some incident or the other where one had to pay a bribe and it could sometimes be out of necessity and sometimes out of sheer laziness. Maybe, though God forbid, eventually v1p3r will also acquire such a story.
Its become difficult to eradicate corruption from the system. And one of the reasons is that its become a mindset now that u have to grease palms to get anything done.
By the way, we are kinda wayyyy off topic now...
Amitoj