I remember once, the govt has built new houses for the poor living on the streets, the intention of the government is to move them from the streets to the new houses, so that they can extend the road...but the people who got them, rented out those new houses and found a new street to build their new shelter.... who's problem is this here... the system or the people....
Who should be held responsible for the problems like corruption, hygienic conditions, backwardness, power misuse, etc... that we smell every day in India. Is it the problem with The System or it is more deep and is the problem with the peoples mind set. It is one of the popular discussions that my self involved in several times......
In India, if I step out
I see people cleaning their house and throwing the waste onto the roads....
I see people spitting on the chairs and roads
I see people giving bribes to get things done
I see people finding shortcuts to get rid of long Que...
bribe for license, bribe for certificate, bribe to get gazetted officer signature, ......
Most of the times in my discussion, I get majority of the people showing finger at The People as the reason for most of the problems. They say 'people pointing at the system are only finding ways for the excuses for their deeds.......' Ideally speaking a society which respects human values and follows Dharma shall flourish irrespective what system they are following...... are all of us sages to be like that...NO.
I tried to get my birth certificate, it took me almost a month to find out whats going on with the application...the next day i gave 500Rs to the attender, the certificate is in my hands with in next one hour.this happened in Kukatpally some office. Now whose problem is this? mine or system? I am sure I would have got the certificate if I wait for few more days...But if you do so, people looking at you will say that you are stupid.....
You can say, I should be strong and follow Dharma, then you are only expecting a Perl from the shell taken out of mud. I am from a society that embraced the shitty system. I just cant resist it even if I want to be good... Its is important to clean the mud before you expect Perls from it.
My point is always, "if there are problems in a nation, that means there are serious problem in their institutions/systems". Our police system is spoiled, civil system is spoiled, political system is spoiled, educational system is spoiled, health system is spoiled etc... but on the same land we have comparatively best judicial system, best election commission....So its not the people that's the problem, but the surrounding/systems/institutions are bad.
One simple example, when I was in India, i throw stuff on the roads, I followed shortcuts, I jumped the traffic signals...but why I am not doing any of those in USA, is it because I changed suddenly as soon as my feet touches holy soil of USA, No, the systems here doesn't allow me to do any of those.
Its great if we have all people follow ethics, but do you wanna spend next 100 years to educate and change the people, then start thinking about progress.....The best option to make things change fast is to implement the reforms they all sitting and waiting in the store rooms of govt of India. Lokpal bill is waiting to curb the corruption, police reforms, educational reforms, political reforms and many other reports with detailed plans are waiting. Huge responsibility on law makers to make all those changes, but there is no political will or they intentionally ignoring it for their benefit.