Corruption: A Major Social Problem

Corruption means to use the state machinery, authority and a power in an illegal and unauthorised way to get personal benefit in the form of commission or misusing public fund or budget. Corruption can be found in four ways. They are Bribery, Relatives tend, Misappropriation of government property and Exploitation policy.

Effects of Corruption:

• Government loses credibility.
• People are forced to pay undue money even for fair work.
• Poor and socio-economically deprived people don't get justice.
• It causes conflict and violence in the society.
• The Economic and social process of development will be affected.
• It hampers overall day to day in the administration of the country.

Measures to control corruption:

• Implementation of good governance, accountability, transparency and effective rules, and regulations.
• General awareness against corruption.
• Strict law, rules and monitoring.
• Civil society, media, etc. have to discourage the corruption by bringing it into the public.
• The corrupt officials and people against whom the charges of corruption are proven should be socially boycotted.