Prisoner's dilemma root cause of the corruption: CVC

Even as the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is working on the National Anti Corruption Strategy Paper, the commission is trying to involve different strata of society for opinions on curbing corruption. In the recently organised The Gujarat NRE National Integrity Theme Presentation Contest at the Institute of Technology, Nirma University in Ahmedabad, the commission stressed upon need to speedy disposal of files & transparency

Commenting on the CVC's National Anti Corruption Strategy Paper, K Subramaniam, OSD to CVC said, "Corruption can be tackled easily provided all the stakeholders act as envisaged in the Strategy Paper. Corruption has emerged as a strong social evil as the entire society is caught in prisoner's dilemma of – if I don't do it (get into corrupt practices), other will do it and get benefitted."

The Gujarat NRE National Integrity Theme Presentation Contest, aimed at giving comments and suggestions on CVC's National Anti-Corruption Strategy Paper, concluded on Thursday at the 'I-FEST 2010' being held at the Nirma University. The contest saw Diwakar Jhurani, a student of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) and Manika Agrawal, a final year student of computer engineering from Nirma University, being adjudged as the first and second winner of the contest, respectively.

Apart from Subramaniam, members of the jury included DR Kaarthikeyan, Advisor Law – Human Rights and Responsibilities, Former Director General of National Human Rights Commission and also Former Director, CBI, Ajay Tomar, Chief of Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), Ahmedabad, and Sunil Parekh, corporate advisor, Zydus Group.

Kaarthikeyan said, "Level of corruption has increased to a worrisome level. Time-consuming nature of litigation process and loopholes in the laws makes it difficult to combat corruption. Further, we also lack political will to fight corrupt practice. We can still tackle the corruption. As far as I believe, if speedy disposal of files and transparency to the utmost level are ensured, scope for corruption can be reduced by 90 per cent."