Why Aam Aadmi can’t blame Khas Aadmi for corruption

Here are some titles I thought about this post, but couldn’t put it as it doesn’t justify what I am writing below -

• Why AAP is is not only option.
• What change the society needs.
• Who is AAM AADMI.

The reason why AAP started was anti-corruption movement, and whats the definition of corruption, its not which is limited to PMO office or central government. Ofcrouse everyone wants to talk about swiss bank, farm houses, and illegal land acquisition, those are big pocket money takers. As much as that needs to be cleaned, if we are saying that that corruption is done by ‘KHAS AADMI , the other part of corruption is happening among 'AAM AADMI’ and here are some points for starters -

• Parents paying bribe to get into school, college, even tuition (seriously? you need to pay extra money to get your kid into tuition. You suppose to ask for more accountability from school.)
• Individual paying bribe to get license, to make passport, to get Gas bottle, to get phone line, use the phone on someone else name etc
• Individual not paying taxes (ask yourself how many people pay taxes in india, and don’t give the excuse that if I pay tax that money will go in politicians pocket, you suppose to pay it and ask for development in return, you can’t keep blaming the leaders that they are not repairing roads or water doesn’t comes 24/7, its really naive to ask for those basic needs and at the same time you are not contributing anything to economy.)
• Government official not working during office hour and playing cards and doing personal work outside the office.
• After accident running from the incident place and paying bribe to police to not get involved.
• Paying and Getting black money for land, house, business transactions.
• Paying money at airport to get more luggage, phones, laptops.
• Paying money to traffic police when your under-age son or daughter get caught or run into accident or even allowing them to go on road when they are clearly not mature enough to handle that thing.
• Paying bribe to collectors and lawyers to get illegal clearance, sign on papers, and lot of small things which you might think will take long time otherwise.
• Not delivering quality service as a doctor in government hospitals and at the same time working in multiple clinics in morning and evening.
• Doing direct on home electricity, pulling wires from government cable lines for society functions, parties etc.

The list can go on and on, this are just few things came to my mind while writing this. This are micro corruptions which AAM AADMI is introducing in society and some of them are so basic that without knowing everyone is contributing thinking that everyone does that.

Few quick workaround also might be able to help to improve certain situation. Here are some thing to start with -

• Schools - Government school teachers should be forced to have their kids into the same school where they are teaching, they will get to know what value they should be delivering.
• Opendata - Provide the data online for any and everything possible. (this will spread awareness among people, and why not when you can defend your action by data. e.g. when you say you can’t process something, you can ask people to check the status online and explain how many stuff you covering everyday.)
• Hospitals - Doctor’s - should be forced to have insurance coverage when their kids gets admitted to government hospitals. That will bring accountability in their work and they won’t treat people the way they are treating currently.
• Awareness - Every individual can make difference. You can think where the money comes from in the house, and ask compelling question to earning members. (However, often all the member of the house gets so blind in spending the money, they doesn’t care how my parents, wife, husband earns so much.)
• Social Media - Use twitter, Facebook to spread the word on wrong doing. If you see some place where there is everyday traffic because of wrong parkings or illegal construction take a picture and post on twitter and tag the officials, I am sure one day you will be able to get their attention and if not you, viewers hungry media will help you to get there. (At the same time don’t be shy to flag the wrongful information being shared, now a days there is lot of buzz around parties paying money to people to do wrong marketing, you can invalidate and flag those tweets, posts and comments.)

Now when AAP is saying that we are AAM AADMI all the above things done by AAM AADMI Ofcourse the people who takes bribe are government officials but the person pays for also equally culprit in this cases. They are representing rickshaw driver, who often drives on wrong side, charges extremely high price if you are new in area, pays bribe to traffic police upon breaking the law, parks on road. They are representing Merchants, small vendors who pays bribe on every small step to get their work done. Moral of the story is its not AAP or any parties fight to fight against corruption, its individual’s choice. You as individual has a choice which you make time to time ant thats what got all of us here, when your minor works also doesn’t move forward without placing money on the table. The same individual whom you initially paying 10Rs at some stage, he gets progressed in system and come up with the formula where he might think that I have got this many promotion and at my position I am suppose to get 10x bribe. Just by saying that politicians are doing corruption of crores doesn’t justify common man’s 10 Rs bribe, because matter of fact in this case severity is not measured in relative manner.

In my opinion people need to take charge and keep the officials accountable, you don’t need any party to offer something at 50% or free, you want to leave with dignity and have them create development opportunity and transparent governance for better life. Because honesty and activism of few individuals won’t get you there where our nation should be, it requires lot more than that.

If you disagree with anything feel free to post comment below, as this discussion doesn’t end here.