Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Bribe Vouchers to help INDIA Battle Corruption

Bribe Vouchers to Eradicate Corruption from the Country

After numerous schemes and loads of money wasted in fighting corruption, here’s my idea to fight corruption amongst the civil servants.

This is how its gonna work.

Bribe Vouchers will be introduced by government anti-corruption body.

These vouchers will be available at all the SBI branches. The vouchers will be available in denomination of Rs. 100/- and will have to be purchased from the bank by the person from now on to be referred as ‘victim’ who has been asked to pay a bribe. Those bribe vouchers will be paid to the government official from now on to be referred as “corruptor” who has asked for the bribe. A supreme court appointed NGO will keep a track of such transactions.

It will be mandatory for the corruptor to accept those vouchers. The victim will have to maintain the record as to how many vouchers have been given to corruptors. Once the corruptor accepts the vouchers it will be mandatory for him to do the work for which he has asked the bribe. There will be time limit of 3 months for the corruptor to do the job. Once the job is done by the corruptor, he needs to submit the vouchers to the bank, which will then be reimbursed to the victim. 90% of the amount will be given back to the victim. 10% percent deducted as service charges for the bank. The entire bribe amount will be then deducted from the corruptor’s salary.

Incase the corruptor does not do the job, after 3 months the same amount will be deducted from his salary or his pension or gratuity amount. The victim would be compensated 90% of the amount. 5% of amount would go toward to bank service charges and 5% would be given to an NGO as fee, which will then help the victim.

If the corruptor has taken the vouchers, done the job & not submitted them to the bank, after 3 months it will be considered as job not done and will result in deduction from corruptor’s salary.

If the corruptor refuses to accept these vouchers his name, division, rank, amount taken as bribe needs to be submitted to NGO who will then take the case and help the victim. If the corruptor don’t improve or are harassing victims they will be suspended from their posts and all benefits will be revoked for life term including retirement benefits.

The NGO will also maintain a data of incorruptible officers from now on known as “The Untouchables” they will be paid a yearly bonus for being honest and maintaining the dignity of their jobs. The list of Untouchables will be maintained to secure the reputation of “The Untouchables” so no one tries to make false claims against these people.

The Untouchables will be audited on a quarterly basis via mystery audits to keep a check on them.

Noticing that honesty pays and corruption does not will make people change their attitudes and hence reducing corruption amongst the government officials.

Hope this works!!!!!

2 comments:

  1. Hey Parag, Noble thought,.... all though i have a solution that may be easier and more effective....

    Instead of the vouchers ... why dont u just click a pic of the 'corrupter' and stick that on to a common website where he will be identified y his name, organization and role he plays.

    The objective here is to bring the 'corrupt' person to the notice of the company and the public.

    Effects :

    1) the company will have to take action to save face.
    2) The general public will be aware of the individual and avoid working with him.

    Each organization can be given ranks on the number of persons found corrupt or 'untouchable' ie non corrupt.

    So in a nut shell, all you will need is :

    a) a common website for the posting of details
    b) alert and concerned citizens who will take the step to photograph corrupt officials.
    c) a site admin who will scrutinize the uploads from the public and update the rankings of organizations and officials.

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  2. it is an awesome thought ya! same should be done in hotels as well.

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