Anti-corruption-move: good

The initiative taken recently against corruption is good. All those behind the Bhutanese refugee scam should be penalized after completing a fair legal procedure in the court. None, no matter how powerful and wealthy the people concerned are, should be left unpunished. The government particularly the Home Ministry along with the police should find out all details about the organized crime which intends to make Nepalis non-citizen and then export them abroad as Bhutanese refugees. The way the scheme has been developed suggests the broad network of wrongdoing in the country. It includes among others the high level policy makers. The country which has such an ill-minded network running parallel to the government can in no way deliver public services in the best interest of the people. In its presence, offering an example of good governance remains just a dream. The case under investigation should open eyes of all those who are in the chain of governance right from the federal government to the municipality level administration. Transparency and the will not to get into any type of corruption should be ensured to make all levels of governance in the country fair and service-centric. History demonstrates that in the past several serious corruption cases had been traced and highly placed powerful and wealthy people were found to be involved in it. The same however could not be pursued to the fair end of justice system. Somehow or the other the sensational but serious cases of corruption were left halfway – unpursued under one excuse or the other or forced to be discontinued through unknown sources. This time the same trend should not be allowed to be repeated. If it is repeated, people will lose trust in those who scrutinize against corruption.  Prime Minister Dahal and other senior leaders – ruling or opposition – recently saw how people in general expect performance from the authority concerned. Nonperformance, people warned through general elections and the byelections, would be noted and penalized. That is why the traditional parties lost so many votes during the polls and new political parties could emerge in the hope that they would make a difference in governance. Corruption of various kinds, seen and unseen, has actually made Nepalis suffer most in various fields. It is because of the corruption that their cost of living has been so expensive and they have been rendered unable to meet most basics of their needs. Public service delivery system has also been affected adversely because of corruption. It is none but corruption that has played crucial in making all infrastructure of Nepal vulnerable, substandard and poor. The fresh move towards anti-corruption has in the meanwhile provided some base for optimism.