How can corruption be eliminated in Bangladesh [দুর্নীতি দূরীকরনের উপায়]

♦ Corruption is restraining every movements of the nation toward development. Particularly it is dwindling the growth rate, foreign direct investment, leading to capital outflow, misappropriation of development funds, shortage of government resources etc. Thus how to fight or at least control corruption to keep it within limit has perplexed both people and government. Even lots of ideas are all around to combat corruption but nothing is working well.

♦ The term corruption is a elusive and complex phenomenon. Its definition are legion. Even the means and forms of corruption are also legion. In general, corruption refers to perversion or destruction of integrity in the discharge of once duties by any unfair means. In other words, corruption means deviation from established rules and practices legal, moral social or customary.

However, the corrupt practices may be categorized into two:
♦ A decision depart from government established criteria for decisions of the relevant class.
♦ A monetary reward benefiting either the official directly or those related to him.

♦ Within these categories, major examples of corruption are bribery, misappropriation of public resources, kickback and commissions, nepotism, favoritism, gift giving, cheating, fraud, dishonesty, embezzlement, intellectual corruption, and corruption of the soul.

 To pull out the root of corruption from our society, following measures must be considered:
♦ To create a moral ground against corruption, government, non-government and civilian organizations have to launch anti-corruption campaigns.
♦ Head of the government should enunciate clearly to all ministers, parliament members, local leaders that no compromise will be made in case of corruption.
♦ All local and national newspaper should be committed to inform the people about the magnitude and depth of corruption of the central and local leaders, government official, godfathers and others.
♦ The police and anti-corruption bureau should be reorganized.
♦ An independent anti-corruption commission should be given enough power to file and proceed corruption cases.
♦ Special attention should be given to train special units in case formulation, legal and judicial issues to avoid any loop holes in criminal prosecution.

After all, corruption must be seen as a destructive way to economic progress and development. We must identify the corrupt persons as corrupt not as party workers. Because, they are the enemy of the nation.