Challenges in the path of stamping out the evil of corruption are but formidable. Black money, an outright ominous end product of the whole gamut of corruptions, has come to account for 40 per cent of the Gross Domestic Products (GDP).[xii] Unverifiable reports simultaneously suggests that unscrupulous industrialists, scandalous politicians and corrupt officers have since put in about US$ 1500 billion in their private foreign accounts, which they have quite necessarily been misappropriating from time to time. The worse that the matter more often than not languishes on one excuse or the other for unimaginable period, which provides uncalled for sanctuary the perpetrators. One of the hurdles constituted of immunity provisions. One could now see silver lining after the “prior sanction provision” under Section 19 of The Prevention of Corruption Act – 1988 has been blown away and Section 197 Cr P C made redundant.
There is a saving grace that the world view of an average Indian is averse of vices. The broad masses of the people have a simple task to ask for transparency, accept the verdict as the rule of the game what they otherwise do in the name of their fate, burn the real life demon what they do with the mythological ones and last but not the least, get to zero tolerance for the perpetrators beyond all bounds of personal links and likes. Operational side of the campaign calls for making the institutions of democracy efficient. It will handle much of the nexus of political, bureaucratic and criminal elements in the country.
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