Must be Attack on system, not on Individual Must be Attack on system, not on Individual It is matter of great rejoice that the tempo of anti corruption environment in India has not faded yet, but at the same time it is matter of great disappointment that this anti corruption trend has become individual centric not the system centric, so it is not going to help anyway to cleanse this corrupt system. The present environment reminds us of era of allegation and counter allegation over corruption which we witnessed during Bofors scandal, which ultimately converted in leadership race between VP Singh and Rajeev Gandhi. Resultantly, there was change in political regime, but there was no change in the corruption regime of the country. It is very sad that in last 2 years, the country which witnessed churning of different anti corruption ideologies and polarization of different anti corruption movement, should have easily converted into an intellectual renaissance and it consequently preparedness for the series of socio political and socio economic reforms in the country in order to make the country free from all kind of corruption. But what all development took place in last 2 years whether i.e., battle for the formation of Lokpal under the leadership of Anna Hazare and latter on it's bifurcation and formation of political party under the leadership of Arvind kezriwal or fight for repatriation of black money deposited in Swiss bank under the leadership of Baba Ramdev, these all development were ultimately got focused on some individuals of ruling party or opposition party. Under this we saw person like Robert vadhra, Salman Khurshid, Nitin Gadkari and so on have been targeted and termed as corrupt. In order to cleanse the country from all kind of corruption, if we choose the path of targeting some corrupt individuals, it will be just repetitions of old politics of corruption, which have been taking place during election time, which ultimately help to change person, but not the Raj-Artha Countering corruption Kejriwal & Bhushan say they want to attack on corruption, not on the individuals, but they are doing just the opposite. They wear Gandhi topi but their working style is similar to tehalka . They completely lack vision how to remove corruption. Their publicity seeking attitude is not going to solve this gigantic problem of corruption. Politician corporate nexus is an established fact of Indian polity, suggest how to remove or curtail it. Reliance was ambitious like Kezriwal. It made alliance with Pranab Mukherji in 1980 and both help one another. In the same way kezriwal wanted to get limlight so he allied himself with Anna Hazare and once he g0t publicity, he leaved Anna and joined in race of dirty politics of allegation and counter allegation. System Change Manohar Manoj System Change Economy India November 2012 49 system, so what we see one corrupt person is replaced by another corrupt person and thus and at the end we have another corrupt person in driver seat. We have seen how some politician like Morarji Desai, Jagjivan Ram, Pratap Singh Kairo, Laloo yadav, Mulayam, Mayavati, Sukhram, Goerge Fernandez, etc. were targeted earlier by their rivals but this process never changed the system. In the same way we have seen how the ruling parties have made some individuals as scapegoat in spite of cleansing the system. If we attack individuals, it should not be done in at random manner. We should have systematic data of all corrupt practices, wealth making and misutilisation of powers of all top politicians, bureaucrats, corporate, Judges of the country and then we have revelation of facts of each and every public figure, then it will help some cause of crusade against corruption in the country, otherwise the sporadic caught and targeted revelations over corruption, will never help in making our public life more fair. For the short span of time the rivals of the caught person will get benefit out of it, but it will never help the system to become cleaner and cleaner. The present trend is such one who is caught is thief and one who is not caught, he is not thief. Why not we have system, where all corrupt are caught at one point of time and all honest are rewarded at one point of time. We need a great resolve to become corrupt free nation. First we have to clarify that why we need curb on corruption, second we have to clarify that why non corrupt system have more beneficial affect over the masses and third we have to clarify that non corrupt system will give more opportunity and impetus to earn wealth and fourth we have to establish this facts corruption free system will have both macro and micro benefit. If we become able to build a strong national fervor and consensus on these 4 points, it will be easier to build consensus and frame a comprehensive measures to restrict all kind of corruption. For these we have to pick some fundamental area where correction and adjustment measures should be primarily brought out. We must know this fact that we have corruption of several institutions of the country and institutions of the corruption both. We have to search out the root cause of disease. If we took area by area, sector by sector, case by case whether in political sector, in administrative sector, in economic sector, in various institution of government and society, we have better result. I think we have to start four facets measures-1. Policy reform 2. Institutional reform 3. Induction of technology 4 ethical revolution 5 legal restructuring. We must not forget the government which is facing the music of corruption most, is UPA, is also given credit for coining the RTI act. This RTI act has been instrumental in repelling the secrecy of corrupt practices in administrative system. It consequently we have more breaking of corruption activities. But this breaking and dissemination of information come on the vagaries of the complaint. The question is that the breaking of corruption depends solely on some individual's yearning to get details and facts. Why should we not have a automatic transparent system with the help of technology. If we focused on at least a dozen major reform oriented around two mega classification 1. Political reform and 2. Economic reform, half of the problem will get solved. If our constitution curb all kind of identity politics and populist economy, majority of the problems would automatically solved. Second, if we want to eliminate corruption from the various walks of life, we will have to take several areas of corruption in holistic manner. If we discuss the corruption in health sector, we should start eliminate corruption very from policy matter followed by institutional reform, implementation and operational methodology, We know this that policy of competition has eliminated corruption in big way, but government is not uniform about it, it has a selective perception about it. If there are policy loopholes in the system, it will immediately attract corruption. If technology help Metro railway to ensure no without ticket and harassing of TTE, then why not we adopt technology in lieu of futile debate on corruption. in order to fight corruption to allege against some particular person and again counter allegation will not help at all. that is why the politigentia of this country have never been able to eliminate corruption in this country. because their objectives have always been to prove their rival culprit and vice-versa.