Corruption has become part of life in India. Don't tell me that you have not paid your way out of any traffic challans. so it starts right from the people like me and you and then we vote/elect people based on what benefits we are getting by electing them. This is the case of politicians bribing us and we happily agree to elect them. Now when we are so complicit in this offence of corruption then who are we to talk about corruptions done by Ministries/Govt Dept.
Problem is with us we don't want to improve ourself we don't want to think above what is beneficial to us. If we need to get rid of corruption we need to first fix ourself and this will go Bottom up.
True. Agreed with first part.
But I don't agree with second part.
Its not bottom up. Its always top to down.
If Indian railway senior management(TOP) could have easily refused the bribes from French and matter would be over there.
"Bottom-to-top" excuse is used by people at top to refuse the reforms of corrupt system.
If TOP is clean, bottom is only subservient to orders from TOP.
TOP is leader, commander. Bottom is only a follower.
At personal level, you might refuse corruption, but that won't change things because your power and responsibilities are smallest. You are irrelevant part of System.
But person at TOP is most powerful and most responsible due to his powerful position in the system. So, when he gets corrupt, whole system loses control and goes awry.
Its wrong to blame a common man for corruption at the TOP. Share of blame/responsibility is proportional to your position in system.
So, if anyone has to clean up the system, its the TOP. It has to be from TOP.
It never works from Bottom to up, unless its a civil war which can influence the TOP part of the system. Otherwise, an individual hold near-to-zero responsibility to corruption at TOP.
China knows this top-to-bottom very well. That's why they have enforced maximum(death) penalty on seniormost officials.
While in India, officials at top use "bottom-to-top" analogy and blame the common man for corruption. Such excuse confuses the Indian public and diverts the attention from real issue - Corruption at TOP(leadership of system).
Cleanup will only work from top to bottom. Bottom-to-top is only through civil war. Do you want India go that way? Well, we are already partially in that path(naxal war against corrupt Indian governance.)