MCD officials should suffer. Review on Municipal Corporation of Delhi

It is with a great shame one reads accounts of corruption in MCD and

other areas of the Delhi Admin recently highlighted in the

Times of India. People have got so inured to the suffering and

poverty that they forget to gauge the extent to which this kind of

corruption, wherein winter wear meant for the poor children is diverted

and sold off and the money is pocketed by the officails concerned , who

invariably spend it on alcohol and women wherby the poor children

shiver in the cold , not even knowing that a feudal , savage system

has robbed then of their due from the local admin.I am being morbid

and sarcastic as this is how it can all be summed up.

Corruption is often highlighted only in monetary terms and the scale

of it. It is never highlighted in terms of the human suffering

it causes and the angst which goes through the poeple who would have

otherwise benefited from any well meaning scheme.

Similarly medicines meant for the poor are sold off in

the black market whereas the supposed beneficiaries die outside the

major hospitals for want of money to buy those very medicines.

I wish the newspapers highlight this human aspect of corruption

with the same pizzaz they highlight the page 3 parties in Delhi Times.

I wish they take up the issue of corruption in every major department

and highlight its consequences on the weaker,the poor and vulnerable

sections who are the most affected.

Corruption can be highlighted on the revenue front wherein , revenue

meant for the exchequer is siphoned off by the officals in collusion

with the payer and the corruption on the expenditure front wherein the

revenue collected is again siphoned off or mismanaged thus affecting the

quality of goverance adversely.

Recently on a trip to a Vasant Kunj slum near B-8 , I was amazed at the

level of awareness among the residents of this cluster on the human

aspects of corruption. At 7 in the morning all of them pray silently

in their houses, mind you the same time, to punish those people who

by their action of omission or commission have condemned us to this

state. Let their children also suffer in the same way as ours

and if possible , let them pay for their sins in this birth not

in the next as only then will they realize the enormity of their

crimes.

Only one person confessed that their ire is directed at the local

officials and some NGO old them about the poweer of the unified field

theory , where prayer by many at the same time for a common objective

is very effective, and they feel that only God can save this country.

Already 2 MCD officials of the slum wing have been stricken with cancer

at the same time and the children are suffering from ill health.

This talk about unified field theory from the residents of a slum

amazed me. I am writing my views after I came across these people.

Let these people who cause untold misery on other human beings suffer for their sins.So help us God.