What is meant by Anti-Social Activities and Corruption? Explain in detail

Anti-Social Activities

        The illegal act or behavior of a person or a group is known as antisocial activity. Antisocial act is harmful to the society in many ways. Therefore, the society and the government make special attempts to curb it. However, we find certain antisocial activities like corruption, smuggling, hoarding, black marketing, drug trafficking and smuggling of weapons done on a large scale.

Now, we will try to understand in brief, corruption as an antisocial activity.

Explain the term corruption?

        Corruption is a global phenomenon. It is such a wide-spread evil that it is found everywhere. It hinders the progress of the State and weakens democracy. Corruption has reached its peak and it has become a world wide sensitive issue.

        Corruption is the result of people's dishonesty and their illegal dealing. People misuse their status and power and hence corruption results. According to the definition given by the world Bank, Corruption means the misuse of the public position for personal benefits. Corruption includes gifts, cheating and biased attitude. Corruption affects us in daily life in one form or the other. It is not to the corrupt politicians, corrupt government officials, trade or industry but it has spread in all the fields of the society. Corruption enhances criminal mentality.

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        In India also the level of corruption has reached up to the dangerous level. An international organization named "Transparency International" has published a report on the corruption at public level in the world, with data's after a close scrutiny. In the year 2001 India was 69th most corrupt nation among the 90 countries. The least corrupt country of Asia is Singapore, followed by Hong Kong and Japan. There are five countries in the world where corruption is found the least. These countries are Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, Sweden and Canada. Hiding one's income and wealth for the fear of tax gives birth to black money, which hinders the national progress. Black money adversely affects our social and moral values. It leads to the loss of faith in the state laws and the authority. This is an anti-national act. A corrupt person should be declared as a traitor. Corruption gives birth to injustice by doing away with human rights. If India wishes to be a superpower, it has to eradicate the evil of corruption at once.

Which laws have been framed to curb the anti-social activities?

        Indian government has made efforts to stop corruption at different levels. The objective of the anti-corruption act of 1988 is to make administration clean. For this purpose the misuse of power and accumulating more wealth than one's income are considered as punishable acts. This rule applies to all government employees. The central Anti-Corruption Bureau was established in 1964. Its chief function was to investigate the allegation of corruption against the government employees, and to punish them if they are found guilty. In this context, the government has issued a handbook of guidelines for the citizens. It provides hints to the citizens about the dos and don'ts. This effort is made to create awareness among the citizens about corrupt practices and to create social awareness for abolishing corruption. If we follow these handbooks we shall succeed in curbing corruption.