WHY NOT LEGALISE " CORRUPTION "- PART- 2
How do we reduce corruption in the government by incentivising government employees?
Interesting idea. But the methodology has to be carefully thought out. We have the culture of corruption. We simply have to monetise it.
USA is also corrupt? Not to this extent. Imagine a traffic cop in India with the powers that the cop in the USA has. There if you get a ticket your insurance shoots up. Yet how many cops accept a bribe and let you go? Hardly any. Here it would be 90% with that kind of power ! Insurance rates in India dont even change with tickets received yet cops are so corrupt
So tackling corruption should be a multipronged approach
Step 1) Increase emoluments of government workers like cops and judges etc. Make it so attractive that losing the job is bad news
Step 2) The above can be done thru a system of incentives.
1) Make a percentage payable to the concerned department for every project that is completed on time and within budget. This money will be distributed among those in that office. (This will prevent the wrong contractor being given the job for monetary considerations)
2) Give judges an incentive for each case that is settled within the allotted time
3) Give cops an incentive per 100 FIRs lodged and a bonus for each year where there is less than 1% cases that have not been solved. The bonus is given to that police station where the distinction has been achieved (so there is an incentive both to lodge FIRs and to solve cases). Every Police station has to try its best to meet both criteria
Now there will still be some Policemen or other government employees who will want more owing to their power and greed.
So a 'whistle blower' program has to be initiated.
Anyone reporting corruption will be rewarded and the people from that department itself will come forward since they lose a lot of incentives if one of them is corrupt. Incentives are reduced for departments where corruption has been discovered and not reported by the employees themselves.
A mandatory five years imprisonment is compulsory for any corrupt worker (apart from seizure of all earnings since inception)
So if more roads are built by the Road Construction department on time and within budget- incentives will accrue to that government department
Similarly more power plants, airports and ports created, cases solved, crime reduced - more the concerned department earns through incentives. Since these projects have huge values the amount given to the government employees also will be substantial.
If rules are bypassed the new 'efficient' courts and Police will take over and corruption will be uncovered or 'assumed' to the detriment of that department.
Anonymous websites will enable 'Whistle Blowers' to reveal the corruption of their colleagues secretly. Anti Corruption squads (ACB's) will jump into action to investigate. ACB's will be rated on the number of successful cases handled per year and will be extremely high paid individuals so that their honesty is unquestionable
This will slowly result in the near elimination of corruption from government. Once this occurs the best people will be attracted to this profession. We will have a new breed of government employees who will be professional and ambitious and efficient.
Political appointments will cease since transfers and appointments will be removed from the ambit of politicians.
Without corruption black money will be reduced in the country. Tax collections will surge.
Politicians will be given a percentage of all incentives given to government employees for election funding. So they will approve more projects. But if they approve useless projects they will lose elections since goonda power will be impossible with the new 'efficient' and independent police.
So the politicians will be careful.
Loans will be forthcoming from anywhere in the world due to the new effciency of the government. Hence a new breed of honest politicians will emerge.
With the new effective 'delivery' system (owing to better policing and better government services) subsidies can be removed and replaced by discount coupons redeemable in any store. The savings to the nation will be substantial. Even after paying the politicians incentives for election funding the taxes can be reduced. This is because of the huge reduction in black money supply and the corresponding increase in tax collections.
The increase in tax collections will more than pay for the increase in payments to government servants thru the incentive system
The education system also can be rejuvenated thru the incentive system. The greater the number of kids who pass thru the school system the greater the incentives. However the incentives will not be paid if the kids do not pass a simple exam given to all kids.
This way a public- private partnership can be created which will give companies which 'adopt' schools tax benefits for the number of students who go on to college from their 'adopted' schools.
This way we can incentivise our government and make it a very lucrative and paying job. And make our government more efficient. We can also remove black money and increase tax collections this way. Politicians will be less likely to be corrupt since their election funding is taken care of. They are less likely to use goondas to win elections
since the police will not support them anymore. Politicians will focus on thinking of better projects to win elections
But beware those who remain 'corrupt'.
Jail, humiliation and poverty awaits
Imagine a more efficient government and a less corrupt India !
We can do it and become a world superpower !
Interesting idea. But the methodology has to be carefully thought out. We have the culture of corruption. We simply have to monetise it.
USA is also corrupt? Not to this extent. Imagine a traffic cop in India with the powers that the cop in the USA has. There if you get a ticket your insurance shoots up. Yet how many cops accept a bribe and let you go? Hardly any. Here it would be 90% with that kind of power ! Insurance rates in India dont even change with tickets received yet cops are so corrupt
So tackling corruption should be a multipronged approach
Step 1) Increase emoluments of government workers like cops and judges etc. Make it so attractive that losing the job is bad news
Step 2) The above can be done thru a system of incentives.
1) Make a percentage payable to the concerned department for every project that is completed on time and within budget. This money will be distributed among those in that office. (This will prevent the wrong contractor being given the job for monetary considerations)
2) Give judges an incentive for each case that is settled within the allotted time
3) Give cops an incentive per 100 FIRs lodged and a bonus for each year where there is less than 1% cases that have not been solved. The bonus is given to that police station where the distinction has been achieved (so there is an incentive both to lodge FIRs and to solve cases). Every Police station has to try its best to meet both criteria
Now there will still be some Policemen or other government employees who will want more owing to their power and greed.
So a 'whistle blower' program has to be initiated.
Anyone reporting corruption will be rewarded and the people from that department itself will come forward since they lose a lot of incentives if one of them is corrupt. Incentives are reduced for departments where corruption has been discovered and not reported by the employees themselves.
A mandatory five years imprisonment is compulsory for any corrupt worker (apart from seizure of all earnings since inception)
So if more roads are built by the Road Construction department on time and within budget- incentives will accrue to that government department
Similarly more power plants, airports and ports created, cases solved, crime reduced - more the concerned department earns through incentives. Since these projects have huge values the amount given to the government employees also will be substantial.
If rules are bypassed the new 'efficient' courts and Police will take over and corruption will be uncovered or 'assumed' to the detriment of that department.
Anonymous websites will enable 'Whistle Blowers' to reveal the corruption of their colleagues secretly. Anti Corruption squads (ACB's) will jump into action to investigate. ACB's will be rated on the number of successful cases handled per year and will be extremely high paid individuals so that their honesty is unquestionable
This will slowly result in the near elimination of corruption from government. Once this occurs the best people will be attracted to this profession. We will have a new breed of government employees who will be professional and ambitious and efficient.
Political appointments will cease since transfers and appointments will be removed from the ambit of politicians.
Without corruption black money will be reduced in the country. Tax collections will surge.
Politicians will be given a percentage of all incentives given to government employees for election funding. So they will approve more projects. But if they approve useless projects they will lose elections since goonda power will be impossible with the new 'efficient' and independent police.
So the politicians will be careful.
Loans will be forthcoming from anywhere in the world due to the new effciency of the government. Hence a new breed of honest politicians will emerge.
With the new effective 'delivery' system (owing to better policing and better government services) subsidies can be removed and replaced by discount coupons redeemable in any store. The savings to the nation will be substantial. Even after paying the politicians incentives for election funding the taxes can be reduced. This is because of the huge reduction in black money supply and the corresponding increase in tax collections.
The increase in tax collections will more than pay for the increase in payments to government servants thru the incentive system
The education system also can be rejuvenated thru the incentive system. The greater the number of kids who pass thru the school system the greater the incentives. However the incentives will not be paid if the kids do not pass a simple exam given to all kids.
This way a public- private partnership can be created which will give companies which 'adopt' schools tax benefits for the number of students who go on to college from their 'adopted' schools.
This way we can incentivise our government and make it a very lucrative and paying job. And make our government more efficient. We can also remove black money and increase tax collections this way. Politicians will be less likely to be corrupt since their election funding is taken care of. They are less likely to use goondas to win elections
since the police will not support them anymore. Politicians will focus on thinking of better projects to win elections
But beware those who remain 'corrupt'.
Jail, humiliation and poverty awaits
Imagine a more efficient government and a less corrupt India !
We can do it and become a world superpower !
posted by vaneet kundra at
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
8 Comments:
I have gone through, both of your pages- legalise corruption. I am impressed by your point of view. I have written my comments earlier also, but these 2 pages, need to be debated by the government. Please send a copy of this to the Prime Minister.
Brig. Nalwa,
Thanks a lot for your comments. I am happyt that you keep on leaving your comments off & on.
Sir. May i request you to do something on the ground, which can change the fabric of our country ?
Writing is quite easy.
But implementation needs lot of hard work and only " bravehearts " can do it. Please do not take my comments personally. I am generalising the issue.
I saw a movie called NAYAK a few years back where a news reporter is asked to take over the reigns of C M .He accepts the challange and tries to solve maximum problems in a day, resulting in becoming the CM in next elections.Vaneet your both articles are good thinking of a good citizen who wants to see his country at par with the developed ones in everyway.BUT , which is a BIG BUT do our reigning politicians want to see their country a beautiful, healthy devoid of corruption , good roads, education and food for all???????????This is a big NO.All the politicians have travelled abroad on tax payers money a number of times but are their intentions good. I doubt. They want to see poverty, hunger, corruption, illhealth, malnutriion , illiteracy etc for what---just to save their chairs and be in power so that they can continue to enjoy power and perks and whatever goes along with it to the maximum and also collect so much that their coming many generation can enjoy the benefits.We need younger good thinking new breed politicians who are idealist in their approach for their countery atleast.GOD HELP US.
Dear Dr. Manchanda,
Thanks a ton for your continued support and your valuable inputs. I liked the movie " Nayak " so much, that i must have seen it, couple of times. This kind of a scenario is in reel life and not in real life, as you always say. I dont know why, its my instinct or whatever, i am quite optimistic that things will change as the time passes and public opinion is on the boil. One single park is required, and see the fire & ire of public towards the corrupt politicians and public servants. There is a LULL before the STORM...
Less corrupt india has become a myth...i dont think it can exsist..but still if we can do something about , the way you have written then definatley something can improve..our system is so much into dogs that its going to actually take a BRAVEHEART to clear the mess..lets hope & be optimistic that something one dasy will happen
Dear Lavi,
We got to be to be optimistic. When you are nearing the end of a dark tunnel, dawn is waiting for you. I dont know, how much time it will take, but we are in the evolving process..
One must dream and be optimistic, for, unless you do that you can not change or progress. I had a dream to fight against corruption and thought, the best way to do it was to get into the political system and do it. But the thugs will not allow you to enter. Just imagine, right under the nose of an efficient CEC (and his organisation), who thought they would enforce strict vigilance during the last Assembly Elections in Karnataka, candidates have spent any thing from one to 50 crores to win, against the maximum limit of 10 lakhs. i could spend only 1.5 lakhs of my hard earned money.Despite enormous campaigning from many quarters, including the Lok Ayukta, to "Vote Bengaluru" the educated lot remained away or were forced not to vote as their names ewre deliberately deleted from the voters list. The other voters were more or less bought. Can you imagine in Sarvagna Nagar Constituency, Bangalore, from where I contested, the voting was only 35.6%! Hundreds of my genuine supporters rang me up later over a week's time to say that their names were missing from the lists even though they possessed voter ID cards. I made noise, and, it was even videographed by CEC staff (but not published officially), about deleberate deleting of the names of educated voters and inserting bogus names in the voters list. In fact in my own house, the list shows two christians and two muslims as residing with me! Who is to be blamed for these deliberate acts? However, there wasn't enough time for the biggies to arrange bougus voters to match with bougus names, and also due delimitation, and hence the drastic fall in voting percentage. I think the first thing on the ground we aught to do is to organise making voters Lists as genuine as possible and to educate the voters to think and vote, and vote they all must. But all this needs money and volunteers, who are not available free; where will it come from? Now, I found an easy way to spend my time usefully, by associating with an NGO school where in I teach all subjects from class I to VI and also teach Science and Technolgy subject to a Diploma Course in Vocational Training & Rehabilitation for teachers for the mentally retarded persons. While doing so I intend to impart good values to the students so that they can take up fight against corruption in times to come - a slow process, which I ca'nt help due to lack of resources. But my will to fight is as fresh as ever and I storngly believe HE will orvide me good opportunity in the near future. That's how I dream.
Dear Cdr. Khilari,
I can understand your anguish in the deletion of names in the voter's list. This happens everywhere. But one tends to get frustrated. It is human. I salute to your will power and your dream, which is as strong as it was at the time of your election. You have not given up and you should not also. Sometimes, i wonder, if we are in a wrong country ? or we are wrong in the right country ? Line is very thin. If you have a dream, dont kill it. Time is not far off when people of this country will rise against corruption and wrong doings of the corrupt politicians. As i have said before, only one spark is required, and see how the fire catches on in this jungle of corruption ! It will happen, but i really dont know when ?
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