In our recent political history, corruption has become a buzzword due to its all-pere been existence in all our rent political history, corruptivate organizations. Corruption has always beonseonstant phenomenon in our country. But recent drives against corruption and a huge public conscience and consciousnen in cur counterede momentum. Bangladesh has been branded as the most corrupt country against world give secutive four years by Transparency International. So, both local and international pressure and call have created an urgency to fight and curb corruption in Bangladesh.
Corruption can be defined in simple term as unethical and unfair practice or means to draw any profit than in term as unethical and In broad terms, corruption includes abuse of power distortiores against law and harms herinciples, bribery, favouritism, extortioning duence deception and illegalstandard practice and princ group draw personal benefit damaging the country’s interest. in pantheruption has been so rampant that it has become a matter of fact common affair. No govt. service or work could be done or is available without corruptiort.
Corruption is a social evil. Moral degradation and ethical decadence is the main cause of corruption. People’s unscrupulous actoral degradation areed to amass wealth, materialistic attitude of life-all these breed corruption. Besides these personal reasons there are some social causes of corruption. Capitalistic economic system distribution of wealth, excessive gap between wealth and poverty. economic insolvency, high linguis unemployment etc. are the social and economic causes of corruption. Adding to this poor administrative system of govt. and lack of law and order in society also contribute to spreading corruption.
Corruption has entered each and every core of our administration, public governance, office and organisation. In a poor and underdeveloped country like Bangladesh the effects of corruption in economy and in politics are very devastating. If govt. officials are corrupt, people do not get good service from them. If politicians and policy-makers are corrupt, it affects and retards country’s overall development. By doing corruption, a section of powerful people amass huge wealth and lead a very carefree and luxurious life. This creates social gap and discrimination. Administrative and institutional corruption creates depression and grievances among people. Corruption in education system lowers down standard of education. All these personal and corporate or institutional corruption seriously harms the image of the country, causes social and political instability, increases economic and social crimes and also.discrimination and disorder in the society. These, in the long run hamper social and economic development of the country. Study shows that corruption is responsible for about 2% of GDP decrease and about 40% of our development budget is either misused or wasted due to corruption.
People’s ethical sense should be strengthen. For this a good education system which stresses on creating morality is necessary. Consciousness about corruption and fighting against corruption is also necessary. Corrupt officials and politicians should be severely punished. We should have good and effective laws for preventing corruption. A just and equal social and judicial system is necessary to prevent corruption. Accountable, transparent and efficient administration is also necessary. We have to remove social injustice, social gap and wide gap between wealth and poverty. Besides, Anti-Corruption Commission should be made effective and independent so that they can fight corruption and prevent it.
