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Corruption at low level....Can we do something?

First of all, let me congratulate Anna Hazare (here onwards referred as ‘Anna’) for success in his first step on eradication of corruption in our country. Lots of people are raising their voices and supporting both verbally and in writing on this Anti-corruption movement. Social websites are being poured with long status updates, you tube videos on Anna’s commentaries, statements asking us to support Anna, etc. But honestly I am still dubious for how long will this contribution stay in effect. The government after accepting the demands from Anna, Lok pal bill will be submitted. Then what? Will it stop from the people shelling out bribe for a traffic police constable who picks you up for not wearing a helmet while riding your bike? Will it stop from a government hospital attender/clerk who demands money for providing basic needs which should be offered free for a father desperately waiting for some medical help for his ill son or wife? Will it stop from ration store keeper to divert the Poor man’s allocated ration for some private grocery store owner? No I don’t think this bill would stop them.

Anna’s approach, can take care of high level corruption but I sincerely doubt whether it causes any commotion for low level baboos. A common man is mostly concerned to get free medical help in government hospital without any corrupted medical clerks/attender involvement to save his sick child’s life OR to save his quota of food ration in a government scheme that is being diverted to different sources by corrupted ration store keeper. This low level corruption is mostly encouraged by a common people like us. There is neither a record to investigate nor any interest to consider this as a crime. The known fact here is that the count of people who are shelling bribes is far more than the ones who are taking it. So that makes the contribution to corruption is coming more from the ones who are shelling money out than the corrupted ones. Then are we the ones blaming ourselves when we are stating that we need to kill this corruption daemon. Everyone are raising their outer voices to eradicate the corruption in our country but we need to raise our inner voices too. We need to ask ourselves, if what about I pay chalan to the policeman if I did something against the rule rather than bribing him. What about I study well to get my seat in a Government college rather than bribing the principal to reserve a seat? What about I refuse and fight for righteousness when an employee/clerk in the government office asks you for a bribe to move your file from one department to other for your pension approval? Start from here. Ask yourself in addition to giving emphasis on raising your outer voice. Blame and admit yourself if you have been involved in this crime (and I did it!). We as an initiators of this low level corruption should be able to end this. You might be alone at this time but you will have lot more companions if you maintain some patience and start realizing the realm of non low level corruption. So people its ‘you’ who should stop ‘you’.

Anna’s fight can be considered successful not only by accepting this bill by government but also by amending ourselves to eradicate corruption at lower levels. Realize and Pass this message on if you like, otherwise think that you overslept 15 minutes and add it to your bucket of time you wasted for today! Adios!

What is your CSE rating....?

Do you know what your CSE rating is? I believe before getting to know about your rating you might be wondering on what CSE stands for and how it is calculated. I did kind of invented (or discovered) this term so I would be the one to reveal what it stands for. CSE stands for 'Contribution for Safe Environment'.

By this time many of you already heard about Global warming, Ice ages, Deadly Hurricanes & Earthquakes and all such stuff which are caused because of the potential harming agents released into our environment. There are lot more theories in explaining all these factors but the conclusion of everything is that "Save our environment". Yes - Save trees, reduce pollution, reduce toxic gases release, keep control of Lethal gases polluting our proto spheres......so on

Lot more info on -- Globalwarming survey

Now lets come to the point on CSE rating. This rating reflects your contribution towards Safer and Cleaner environmental policies. Before getting onto this discussion, I would like to share my thoughts on what propelled me to think about the term CSE rating. If you want to know this history click here - Inspiration.

Naaah....want to jump straight into details about CSE rating click - CSE Rating .

CSE Rating details

CSE calculation is simple and the formula is below:

CSE rating = (Number of contributions X 100) / (Your age)

Contributions here mean any activity you have started every year which contributes for saver environments. Activity I mean here need not be anything big….even the small things like reducing your consumption of paper napkins, reducing your power consumption, reducing your printing….etc are all considered activities and so contributions.

Let’s explain this with an example to get a clear idea:

Shaun is an environmentalist and his age is 25 at this point. He started his contributions in his 22nd year. His statistics are as below:

In 22nd year his contribution is – Saving paper
In 23rd year his contribution is – Saving power
In 24th year his contribution is – Trying to use products made of recycle strategy.
In 25th year his contribution is – Organizing/Participating/Educating seminars or programs or activities related to Safe environment.

SO until now he has 4 contributions and his age is 25 years. So his CSE rate is calculated below:

CSE Rating for Shaun = (Contributions X 100) / Age
= (4 X 100) / 25
= 16

CSE rating always stands between 0 – 100

Shaun stands here in this CSE scale.



There is nothing like good or bad score for this. But your score would go on increasing once you implement your plans each year. I would say any score > 0 is good which says that you had contributed at least an year for delivering safer environments.

I think I am clear on how the ratings and scores are calculated. Now whatz your score people....? What is your contribution to our safer environmental policies? I believe these contributions are not tough ones to ask.

Feel free to post any comments on this post. Thanks!

Inspiration behind the CSE rating

I do have a kind of annoying habit of using lots of paper napkins (Paper cloth, tissues....whatever you want to call). In fact I use them a lot more that what the usage supposed to be. The reason for this massive usage I can say is they are cheap and available in plenty. One day (in march'09) I was travelling to Florida and I had a stop Atlanta airport. I was using a restroom and when I entered, saw a lot more used napkins fell on the ground(quite awkwardly) as the trash bin is filled completely up to its brim. And when I was washing my hands I notice everybody using napkins ,in fact heavily, though there are electronic dryer machines installed. Perhaps every body is busy and want things to be quick and conveniently done. I felt quite bad on why people are not using electronic ways of cleaning their hands so that at least they will not be responsible to waste that many napkins and make the floor disgusting. Then I saw a person in front of me using about 6-7 napkins to clean his hands and further more.... I felt really bad about that person and thought he is not doing that right. 2 - 3 napkins should suffice his need to dry his hands after washing. I questioned him straight away whether is there a need to use so many napkins? Further asked him that does he think what he is doing now is right? Does it not make him feel bad? He was so em brassed when I was questioning him and so do I. Why me embarrassed..? The other person is no other but me standing in front of mirror holding about 7-8 napkins in my hand.

From that moment I felt I need to stop this kind of usage on paper napkins. Also decided that I need to do something from my side which contributes for safer environment policies. People , this environment is huge and my single handed contribution might not be good enough for it.....but I would at least have satisfaction on my contribution that I am a part for delivering cleaner environments. To continue this practice through out my life I decided that I would choose one item every year from now on which would contribute for Clean environment practices...anything which helps to reduce the effects on all type of disasters I mentioned above.

So, I started this year with saving paper napkins as far as I can. This would contribute further on saving trees , further on reducing corbon-di-oxide levels in air, further reduce temperatures , further reducing the effect of environmental disasters. It’s like a chain reaction.

So this year I started with controlling my usage on Paper napkins(Its not like I will not use them at all, you should use them definitely, but in an optimum way). I will decide starting next year on the next item contributing for safer environments. You might think that with this plan I would save paper napkins (and so trees) only for this year but that’s not true. As I am practicing this from an year and will get habituated to it and so would continue with the additional contribution items I would decide to do in coming years.With this approach, I would be helping to maintain cleaner and safer environments in about 50 - 60 ways (Right know I am 25 and based on the stats of average human life I got this approx. number) which makes me pretty much satisfactory.

Victory is Me!!!