Discussions, as such, bear out abiding and ever increasing nature of the phenomenon. It also speaks of its unmistakable resilience to most, if not all statutory and legal safeguards in place. It is both about the political and bureaucratic actors, who tend to transgress their oath of honesty and integrity. It is symptomatic of multi level chinks in the framework of the control mechanism. In over all perspectives, it speaks of system fragility to face onslaughts of individual as much as organized orgies.
The existing check points against political operatives constitute first, the public platform of elections. The second and subsequent check points constitute of provisions of mid course intermediate and final corrections, available with the two respective houses of the Legislature at the national and provincial levels. There are then scores of statutory independent bodies including the judiciary to call the shots. Notwithstanding, there is in place the institutions of Lokpal and Lokayuktas to get to investigate and redress public grievances about corruption, favouritism and official indiscipline in administrative machinery. There impeachment provisions in respect of certain set of functionaries as well.
There are then service and/ or profession disciplining authorities in the case of bureaucrats, professionals and business persons.[ix] This is besides well set common laws. The Government of India, notwithstanding, has set up the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to advice the government, government institutions and departments in planning, executing and reforming their vigilance works. The CVC, in turn, has taken a number of steps including the task of interfacing with people at large through a website to get to the broad and specifics of the inside out to perform its charters.[x] Council for Clean India (CFCI), an initiative of the CVC, has been in vogue for nearly decade to get much of the catalysts on one platform to work for prevention of the dreaded evil of corruption.[xi]
The slips in the system, notwithstanding, rule the roost. One of the discernible symptoms of the phenomenon constitutes of disproportionate assets (DA), which, literally, goes along as a rule in proportion to the level of authority in decision making. The change phenomenon, both in quantitative and qualitative terms, tend to exemplify a case of one time locale specific cottage industry of delinquent action assuming subsequently the form and shape of all pervasive heavy industry with ancillaries all over the country. The perpetrators, in particular the political persons, tend to enact phoenix. Even while indicted and prosecuted, they hold potentials to romp back in public life, using different tantrum.
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