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Social
Evils In India
“The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke
It is very ill-fated that social evils
in our country have settled into institutions. Now we find a great many social
evils surrounding us like diseased trees that no one dares to cut down. The
carriers of social evils are human beings who are like disease carriers with
little hope of recovery. Let us describe some of the most common social evils
in our society.
Firstly,
bribery and corruption are found in quick growth and speedy development in
important government departments, offices, law courts, police stations, and all
those places where public problems are supposed to be solved.
“When
I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for a look you, good gifts evermore make a way for the worst persons.”
John Webster
Bribery, favouritism, and nepotism
(favour shown to relations) are common like cheating and fraud. These have put a
sojourn to true growth, impartiality, progress, and hope for a better future.
For example, the public offers bribes to officials working in the taxation and
excise departments for quick disposal of their cases. The public is fed up
with the ways in which public servants get bribes in ordinary matters like the
issue of new electricity connections and approval of building plans for houses.
Bribery is a
way of life with our public and many government functionaries (persons with
official duties). This critical and serious situation has caused the world
agencies like the UN rank India as one of the most corrupt countries.
Secondly,
hoarding and black-marketing are the identical evils that cause the anomalous rise
in prices and suffering of the people. In order to become rich swiftly, big
traders hoard huge quantities of tutelages or merchandises of daily use like
grains, onions and potatoes and other requirements of life like medicines in rapid
supply to vend them later at higher amounts.
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