Dear Mr. Barve,
Sameer Kelekar seemed to miss the point that I was
making...........that in about 48 years of joining the Indian
Union many of our state civil servants, minor bureaucrats,
mamlatdars, panchayat officials and some politicians seem to have
learnt well from our Delhi masters the practice of extorting
bribes with a standard operating attitude of " Bribe me
handsomely or I shall stymie your efforts to access services to
which you are entitled and frustrate your getting anywhere whether
it is a driving licence, attestation of a birth certificate or
other documents leading to establishing your title to ancestral/
family property. "
W.r.t. to Sammeer`s comment that democracy is not meant for
the faint of heart I detcect a laissez-faire attitude of
accepting bribery and corruption as the cost of democracy. Why
is it that in western countries applicants for services like
driving licences do not have to grease a gov. clerk`s palm to
proceed with an application and it should be considered
acceptable in Goa ?
SHRIKANT BARVE wrote:
If you want it easy, it is better to be a slave. Sameer Kelekar
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-May/177825.html
Are we inclined to be slave? or Is it better to be slave with no expectations
except MOKSHA!
Shrikant Vinayak Barve
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