Question: What actions, if any, should be taken by Indian Government at the centre to control corruption by Members of Legislative Assembly in the constituency of Delhi?
Client: This problem is affecting every individual who is a citizen of India, living in Delhi, and should be getting benefits from the central government but is not able to receive the benefits because of corrupt government officials who are responsible for disseminating the funds.
Description: Common man in Delhi is not getting the benefits of funds allocated to him by the centre. The centre allocates fund and distributes to MLAs who are responsible to conduct welfare activities. Most MLAs use corrupt means to direct government funds into their own accounts. The problem does not stop here. If an anti corruption law is to be passed in the parliament, it has to get majority votes from MLAs. There have been attempts to introduce anti-corruption bill but it failed to pass because most of the MLAs did not support the bill. There is a need for the center to put a check on MLAs, their balance sheets and expenses and make them more accountable to the public.
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Varun,
ReplyDeleteYou have the beginning of an interesting topic here but I would urge you to do two things, first make it very explicit what precise problem you are trying to address, corruption is a huge issue affecting many aspects of government, commercial, and private activities in India, but it sounds like from your background description that you are interested in a particular aspect of corruption, namely certain welfare activities that are funded centrally (as most government funded things are in India) and then managed regionally by the MLA's. What sort of activities does this cover? Are these distinct from activities that are funded centrally but managed regionally by the regional governments? Is Delhi treated differently than other constituencies in India? What proportion of government spending is included in this?
The second thing I would urge you to do is try to be more careful about writing policy neutral. The professor will cover this in greater detail in class I am willing to bet, but it seems here as if you are getting somewhat political with terms like "Common man" also it seems like you are advocating a particular policy (an anti- corruption law) in the description of the problem.
You offered an interesting question on "What actions, if any, should be taken by Indian Government at the centre to control corruption by Members of Legislative Assembly in the constituency of Delhi?". And the client you pointed out is that "This problem is affecting every individual who is a citizen of India, living in Delhi, and should be getting benefits from the central government but is not able to receive the benefits because of corrupt government officials who are responsible for disseminating the funds". I think the blog is well written and discuss well about the situations that if an anti corruption law is to be passed in the parliment, it needs majority votes from MLAs, and many anti-corruption bill is necessary.
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