Dear Editor,
My joy knew no boudns when I learnt about the resolve of Jammu mayor to start a campaign against corruption deep rooted in the soil of Jammu and Kashmir UT.. Really it is a very noble cause which can help redeem the people from this contagious disease. We appreciate Mr. Mayor in his sincere endeavour of weeding out corruption from J&K UT and ensure him about our fullest co operation in this noble cause. But, sir to detect the corrupt and the corruption is like detecting a fish drinking water inside the reservoir. It has got deep roots in the soil of Jammu and Kashmir and has dissolved in the blood. Every person with an ounce of brain knows, how, in spite of the much hyped claims about the implementation of digitisation of records in all the govt. offices one can neither get neither any document nor its copy, having paid proper fee for that, without greasing the palm of the person bound to issue the same as a part of his duty. Even the compensations or any other amount is not transferred to the account of the beneficiary unless he pays a fixed percent of the amount in advance. For e stamps hundreds of rupees are charged over and above the face value. The findings will startle us when we find the black sheepskin camouflaged in our own houses. The palacious house of bureaucrats, politicians and even of the average government servants in the posh colonies of the capital cities of UT and the big towns reveal how much these so called public representatives and public servants have looted the coffers of the state and the UT. If their present assets are compared with the one they had at the time they entered the public and political institutions we find heaven’s difference. There is one wise sayings A single swallow can not make summer but for the concerted efforts of all the persons at the helm of affairs one can not eradicate this epidemic gone deep into the soils of the nation. We the people of the UT pledge to co operate you and pray to god for your success in this Herculean job.
Shiv Kumar Padha
Basohli.
