The characters described in this post are all real , true and not fictitious. well any resemblance to any person living(and not dead) is intended
This post is not to hurt any one of the PS (public servants) but just to show case a few incidents that I witnessed and heard from my friends and relatives
One day I was rushing for the cab in the morning at 7.45am, I saw a vehicle came and stopped near a fruits stall, a guy dressed in brown color apparel (tan color??) got down from the vehicle, went to the shop keeper (who was lying asleep in front of the shop with a smile on his face…may be he was dancing with deepika padukone in dreams i guess :P) and asked him some questions for which the shop keeper gave some answers... the PS was not at all satisfied by the answers.. the SK(shop keeper) gave some money with a irritating face, the PS then asked for a cover(upon giving a small one he said “are woh bada wala packet dena”)
Filled in the packet with whole lot of apples(until the cover could not handle the weight....), the PS then demanded for another cover , filled in some more sapotas (i don’t really know what is it called in English ;))... and continued asking some more questions for which the SK said..... “subhe subhe kaiko dimag karab karte saab, aab chalo ne girak ane ka time hai” the PS then gave a smile and left
Mean while my cab came and I got in and this scene was the “Topic for discussion” in the cab..I narrated the whole scene to my cab mates, they started telling their experiences
One of my cab mate's friend used to run a hotel business, every day morning, afternoon, evening and in the night , the so called PS used to come and eat the respective special items of the day...one fine day the person ran into heavy losses as the number of PS where more than the number of customers :(..
One other cab mate's uncle is a builder in vizag.. he owns a gated community in which there are around 300 flats and guess what !!! the whole of B block which consists of 50flats are given are GIFTS apart from money!!!(oh common don't ask to whom...you should know it by now) . why only B block?? Does that mean Beggar’s block. Sorry no offense meant.
One more incident which happened with my relatives, they needed a permission from some government officer in some department so they approached the chief person of the department and got it done by giving some gifts
later 10 people from the same office came in and started doing some inspection...everything was as per rule and PERFECT!!!
Then they asked directly....without even shame... “enti peda sir ki iste saripothunda?? memanta waste gallama, bakwasgallama?? memella brathakali?? maku edho okati ichi pampinchandi sir?? ledante evarini gelakalo valani gelukutham .... maku rules lo una flaws ani thelusu.”....(sorry for non-telugu readers, wanted to maintain the originality of the scene and hence used the same words!!). I recorded the whole in my cell phone but my uncle asked to delete that as I would invite new problems...
In society, people working in software are assumed to be highly paid/earning people ... but the fact is ….these PS are highly(in fact very highly earning) people
we take salary on 1st and start distributing and hardly any amount remains by last week of the month , they take salary on 1st ,start collecting and it goes on and on…
Well there are many such incidents that are happening day in and day out..... in front of our eyes , we the educated youth can't just do anything apart from seeing everything like a movie....
Are they serving us or Are we serving them??
Little amount of corruption is there everywhere but literally the blood of public is served as gifts to them…..
PS……..Please wake up!!....Please be Human!!!
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ReplyDeleteEvarini kadilinchina ee desham lo jarige corruption deena gadhale.. very good post.
ReplyDeleteIf one person can see so many incidents of corruption in her/his life, I don't understand why it doesn't change - or may I know. We have learnt to live with the system. All of us want it to change but we don't force that change. Who has the time, patience and courage to fight for change? Its only a minor inconvenience isn't it? You might lose some percentage but if you don't pay up - you will not get anything. Yes I have also been there - done that. We all try to get government services when required and we don't have the time to wait then. We try to give some bribe to an enabler - read broker - to get things done for us. I think everyone is used to it and everyone has learned to live with that so much so that even if options are presented to them, they fail to choose them.
If LokSatta comes and promises people accountability by government employees with SLA's etc, we educated people fail to vote and elect them.
I feel that as long as we give in one hand and complain on the other hand, there wouldn't be much effect. Sad but true.
Sorry I've been so pessimistic with my comment but there is nothing hopeful which is happening. When the media (Barkha & Vir Sanghvi tapes), the reputed industrialists (Ratan Tata) are complicit with the government to share the loot at the highest level - who is there to ask about corruption at the lower levels? And where do I find hope?
Ok let me talk about something hopeful - People are really fed up with this corruption thing, I think they will rally behind any first real opportunity to overthrow it. And the information revolution starting with RTI act and ipaidabribe.com with the growing education levels would probably help in decreasing it and this is my only hope. My hope is on people who really don't have any hope to pay the bribe because only they will have the time and patience to fight it.
And keep writing.