CORRUPTION

 CORRUPTION

Corruption is the absence of honesty and virtue. Usually, the society void of law and order is a corrupt society. In such societies people do not do their duties well and try to work for their personal benefits. Corrupt people do not abide by laws and adopt evil means to get their aims. They discard morality and good manners. The society where uch people are in majority is called corrupt society. These people cause many evils in society. No measures can bring good fruit unless corruption uprooted. Corruption is a flea that sucks the blood of the nation and the country. Pitiless measures should be taken to end corruption from society for the uplift of a country. 

There are many causes of corruption. Anyhow the sole cause of corruption is to get more and more riches. People think corruption a shortcut to be prosperous. They adopt different evil ways to this end. Corruption has become a fashion in almost all the fields of life.

The most obvious cause of corruption is ignorance. In Pakistan a large number of people are ignorant. They do not know their rights and duties. They show no interest in national activities because they do not understand them. They have no sense to elect honest representatives. As a result corrupt people come to the throne. These representatives instead of working for the welfare of society, struggle for their own interests. They do not bother to adopt proper means to get their ends. Rather they adopt corrupt means to get their objective. Therefore corruption prevails in society.

Poverty is another cause of corruption. Poor people when cannot fulfil their needs fall prey to corruption. Their income is too short to fulfil their needs. The person, who cannot buy food and medicine for his children, does not pay any attention to morality. He can easily be tempted to evil deeds.

The unequal distribution of wealth is another cause of corruption. In Islamic society, a tax i,e Zakat is taken from the rich and is given to the poor. In the great days of Islam there was no one so poor as to receive Zakat. Therefore, the money of Zakat was spent on the works of public welfare. Now people do not pay Zakat and alms. And that has resulted in an unequal distribution of wealth. 

The following measures can help to eradicate corruption from society:-

First of all, the government should take solid steps for the spread of education.

Accountability should be examine of any department in the country and corrupt person should also be dismiss from svc and all their property should be capture, sale out and their money should be spent on prep of dam and welfare of poor peoples.   

Secondly, the government should improve the economic condition of the country. Better economic condition would end poverty from society. In this regard, government should encourage investment. 

Moreover, the punishment for the corrupt people should be severe. 

Anti-corruption department should be made active and effective for the eradication of corruption. 

                                   WRITTEN BY MUHAMMAD SHAFIQUE