>Dear Mr. Barve,
> Sameer Kelekar seemed to miss the point that I was
>making...........that in about 48 years of joining the Indian
>Union many of our state civil servants, minor bureaucrats,
>mamlatdars, panchayat officials and some politicians seem to have
>learnt well from our Delhi masters the practice of extorting
>bribes with a standard operating attitude of " Bribe me
>handsomely or I shall stymie your efforts to access services to
>which you are entitled and frustrate your getting anywhere whether
>it is a driving licence, attestation of a birth certificate or
>other documents leading to establishing your title to ancestral/
>family property. "
> W.r.t. to Sammeer`s comment that democracy is not meant for
>the faint of heart I detcect a laissez-faire attitude of
>accepting bribery and corruption as the cost of democracy. Why
Hi Joe:
Where did I accept bribery ? In fact, i am talking of fighting it,
a point that you seem to have conviniently omitted in your response.
>is it that in western countries applicants for services like
>driving licences do not have to grease a gov. clerk`s palm to
>proceed with an application and it should be considered
>acceptable in Goa ?
The point is you could fill up a library with PhD thesis analysing why
things are so and so in the West and why not in Goa, but my point is
it is not analysis which is required but it is fixing which is required.
Analysis would do a good Goanet discussion; fixing needs guts and a
belief that merit alone is the right way.
regards,
Samir
