Corruption is an everyday fact of life in India. Paying bribes is a common practice adopted by people of India. In fact they have become used to it. Almost everyday people have to pay bribe in order to get their job done in public offices successfully. Slowly it has become an essential part of our life. At one time, bribe was paid for getting wrong things done but now bribe is paid for getting right things done at right time. Corruption in India has wings not wheels.
My earliest memory of paying a bribe was when my driving licence was made. I had to bribe an agent. I got it made without giving any driving tests etc. When I was in college, I used to go to cinemas with my friends and many times we had to buy tickets in black. When I was recruited in Railways for a job I had to bribe a police officer for getting my police verification done, inspite of having a clean record. Then I had to bribe the doctor in Railways for getting through routine medical checkup. Once I had to bribe a traffic police officer to get away while driving without licence.
I have paid bribes in government offices, while registering my house, in hospitals, in trains etc. I have also bribed many people for getting my work done illegally.
So you see this thing corruption has become a daily fact of our life. It has gone deep in our daily life.
But now the time has come when we should stop all this corruption and bribery. It is true that one person cannot remove corruption from the society, but one person can still do lot of small things and if each of this ONE PERSON does these SMALL THINGS, the SUM-TOTAL will be very LARGE.
My earliest memory of paying a bribe was when my driving licence was made. I had to bribe an agent. I got it made without giving any driving tests etc. When I was in college, I used to go to cinemas with my friends and many times we had to buy tickets in black. When I was recruited in Railways for a job I had to bribe a police officer for getting my police verification done, inspite of having a clean record. Then I had to bribe the doctor in Railways for getting through routine medical checkup. Once I had to bribe a traffic police officer to get away while driving without licence.
I have paid bribes in government offices, while registering my house, in hospitals, in trains etc. I have also bribed many people for getting my work done illegally.
So you see this thing corruption has become a daily fact of our life. It has gone deep in our daily life.
But now the time has come when we should stop all this corruption and bribery. It is true that one person cannot remove corruption from the society, but one person can still do lot of small things and if each of this ONE PERSON does these SMALL THINGS, the SUM-TOTAL will be very LARGE.
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