Dr. Joseph Juran (U.S.) ’s observation of the "vital few and trivial many", the principle that 20 percent of something always are responsible for 80 percent of the results is an absolute fit for Indian society specially when it comes to running the system and that is where the real worry lies.
India has seen an uprising against corruption in last 10 months like never before, Indian economy is severely dented by high volume high profile scams wherein common men suffers from corruption at lower level. You ask anyone and s/he will be able to recall many such recent incidents happened in society, to their dear one’s and even to themselves too. 8 out of 10 govt. servants are dishonest and corrupt, clearly not able to maintain the whole system up and running if not denting it further.
Fault lies somewhere in the system, a system which allows most to play part in scams and forgery with minimum of fuss. Hence majority (80%) is involved in corruption. No significant change to the current system is made apart from some pseudo amendments/alterations.
I salute these 20 percent who are assuring us an up and running system but aren’t these guys the real culprits! These are the people who are not letting this outdated and ill system fully collapse. A dead system will lead to a new system, a strong and corruption immune system.
But we Indians are brought up learning lessons to adjust, whatever the case may be we taught not to raise voice and before thinking of replacing something we must try to repair the existing again and again, whether it is a TV, a Scooter or a System country runs on.
It is eminent that we normally don’t replace most of the things till complete breakdown and in this case our 20% loyal and honest people are not letting our current system to attain a complete breakdown. But a country running on a system which encourages corrupts to loot with both hands is only hurting the entire country. Prevention of such an ill system is not in country’s benefit because it is hard to change the mind set than to follow a new system.
Your observation is good. But I doubt how far the euphoria against corruption will sustain. The public coming onto the streets was a result of other socio economic reasons that crippled their daily life and the protests were an excuse to vent out their frustration. If we can stay on course, we will do a lot of good to our own. I hope for the best.
ReplyDelete@ Tituraj : Thanks for the comment, I couldn't agree more with you how ever even if we are trying to bring some change than we should be very clear about what that change would be... and that is where my emphasis is. :)
ReplyDeletebuilding something new requires courage but crashing the old ones demands something more than courage. it demands the new dimensions of thoughts, the vision and clarity of choices.. Bro, the way you have observed the system and visualized its reconstruction, seems that it will take years to the people to touch the same level.
ReplyDeleteThis post inspired me to begin writing about the jumbled up problems. the beginning of your blog is a new start for me too..
Keep sharing.. :)