Comment Piece | Tainted Educational Processes
India has got all chances to excel in the field of education but the increasing rate of corruption is dampening its prospects in the field. Corruption in education adversely affects society as a whole.
The reports on our website are a live testimony on how corruption has reached an all-time high in all educational regularity bodies, which is detrimental for India’s growth.
A Bangalorean sharing his experience on our website wrote that he had to pay Rs.3,500 as a bribe to get his revaluation result from his university. The person first paid Rs.2,500 to an officer who left the university without providing him his result. When he contacted the Principal, he got the response that he cannot provide the result as it’s too late. Yet again, the person paid a bribe of Rs.1,000 to another officer of his university to procure his revaluation result, which is pending for the past four years.
Here is an eye-popping report submitted by a respondent from Agra (Uttar Pradesh) who had to pay a bribe of Rs.500 to a professor of his college for obtaining his roll number and marks sheet. As the respondent has written, “After waiting for hours, she (the professor) asked for a bribe of Rs.150 for roll number and Rs.350 for an application form. I had no choice but to give in to the demand and paid a bribe.”
Another person from Gandhinagar (Gujarat) got his SSC result two days before the actual result day by paying a bribe of Rs.5,000 to the Education Department.
Education is a major parameter for the development of a country and a platform for fair opportunity. If corruption will have a stamp on this, then our growth will not sustain. What does the future hold for us?