Some comments have appeared in the media to the effect that the moral underpinning of corruption is being underplayed in the zeal of fashioning a legal broom to clean the body politick of the grime of corruption. While one may not hope to cure the propensity to steal or cheat or other crimes by law, effective policing, good legal framework to deal with these crimes and dispense suitable deterrent punishment for these crimes can control them. In the same way, while the propensity to corrupt practices can not be rooted out by law, a comprehensive law and a suitable enforcement machinery should deter those who otherwise indulge in such practices with impunity and encourage a lot many more along the same path as one of least resistance.
A more relevant and deeper social issue that may have a bearing on corruption is the stake one has in active perpetuation and/or passive acceptance of inequity as a fact of life, as indeed an important basis on which all progress (most importantly economic) is constructed. The stratification in our society has invariably brought about a fast moving resourceful India of private enterprise distinguished from the large slothful sarkari India of millions whose lives have not been much illuminated by the magic wand of liberalisation. Corruption will inevitably result in such a scenario.
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