What is corruption

When lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain, it is called corruption. Or when a work/task is not done well or properly, we say there is something wrong and we call it corruption. We use the word “pure” as the opposite of corruption. Corruption is found every where. In the world there is no any society or country which has no germs of corruption. The U.S.A comes at 10th place among the least corrupt nations in the world. Denmark, Finland and New Zealand are at the top in corruption. Iraq, Somalia, Myanmar, India, Pakistan are the worst cases of corruption; they also represent some of the most troubled nations in the world.

Root Causes of Corruption

Nowadays we see corruption in every field of life. In our society there is no any department which is totally free from corruption. Every affected person comments that he does not like corruption and wants to remove the corruption from the society. In order to remove the corruption from the society we should know the causes of corruption. Whenever we don’t know the causes of corruption, we will not finish this lame duck from our society.

There are many causes of corruption which are following:.

• Poverty: Poverty is very common factor of corruption. Poverty insists a poor man towards corruption. We all know that a poor man lives from hand to mouth. In this modern age dearness is increasing day by day. In order to fulfill his family demands, he does corruption. Mostly it has been seen that rich people get benefited through poor. They pay a handsome amount of money to the needy people for doing wrong deed.
• Greed: Greed is also another cause of corruption. Nowadays the greed of the people towards money has been increasing day by day. Every one wants to make oneself rich. Not only the poor but the rich also has the greed for money. This greed for money persuades the all classes of the society towards the corruption.
• Negative thinking: Negative thinking counts a lot in corruption. Some people want to bring harm to someone due to jealousy for this purpose they do corruption.

Effects on society

Corruption produces a very bad effect on the society. It destroys the ethics and the values of the society. Corruption makes the people to do every type of bad thing. Due to corruption people do not perform their duty well. There are many examples of corruptions lying in our society. We often see, when a common citizen violate a law, police arrest him. But as he offers bribe to the officer, he immediately release him after taking the bribe from him. This shows that the police officer is corrupt and he not performing his duty well. Like wise our courts are not fulfilling their duty in a well manner. If you have money, you can make the judge take decision in your favor. In this way the innocent is punished and the culprit released. Our politicians, doctors, engineers, journalists, teacher etc are doing corruption in their fields. In these circumstances what do you expect with our society? The answer is “just corruption”. When a common man sees corruption in every field of life, he also makes himself a corrupt man.