Crooks and their stooges.

A prestigious consulting based in Singapore has rated Indian bureaucrats the worst in Asia with a score of 9.21 out of 10. Worse than Vietnam at 8.54, Indonesia at 8.37, Philippines at 7.57 and China at a distant 7.11. Cheers all round. According to this report Indian civil servants are uniformly corrupt, have so much power that they cannot be punished and are protected by the almost frozen judiciary. The only reason that they did not make a perfect 10 is probably because a rare one out of 1000 does some work. This is not a surprise to any Indian or foreigner who has visited India. What is surprising is the number of people who are ready to defend these scum. A fellow, who described himself as a social worker, writing in an English daily said that we should not have strong laws against corruption because that will prevent honest civil servants from carrying out their duties in case of false accusations of corruption. There are tens of millions of civil servants at the center, at state governments, municipalities and other bodies so there is a vast army of scavengers living on crumbs falling from the trough. One common refrain is that lower grades such as C and D should not come under the proposed ombudsman. A sub-auditor in Indore, Anand Pathak has been found to possess Rs 100 million worth of assets including 2 plots, 3 buildings and shops. A lower division clerk ( the lowest creature ) at Ujjain Municipal Corporation has assets worth Rs 80 million including 2 houses, 2 shops 2 JCB machines, 1 dumper and a Tata Safari. An example of the principle of diversification of assets. The CBI caught a Junior Telephone Engineer in Indore, SN Mishra red handed accepting a bribe of Rs 20000. E Sreedharan has just retired as head of Delhi Metro. He offered to resign when a bridge under construction collapsed killing 7 people. His resignation was rejected. However, when a footbridge collapsed just before the Commonwealth Games everyone blamed the Delhi government for stealing vast sums. The reason why civil servants are so afraid of " false " accusations is because the allegations are true. We can recognise and forgive an honest mistake from someone who is trying his best. It is the crooks that we want to be put away forever. The scary thing is that the economy is running on black money and may collapse if that disappears. When you are used to luxury from crime you will do anything to protect the source. That is the talisman protecting the scum.