Manan BhatAIR 231 · CSE 2022 · 471 wordsTheir whole copy
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d) Ways to tackle slums & encroachments in Urban areas
i) Sustainable city growth & planning → following schemes like PM Awas Yojna in letter & spirit. → development of Counter magnets to ease pressure in cities.
ii) Affordable rental complex for weaker section to ensure better livelihoods.
iii) Slum Redevelopment Program (Ex→ Dharavi redevelopment project) to ensure better facilities for all.
Hence, with better earning and confidence building with the migrants, slum proliferation can be stopped.
Given case depicts a scenario of fake beneficiaries garnering the welfare fund of scheme leading to financial loss of exchequer. It also shows the collusive corruption where even some officers are involved.
| Stakeholders | Issues |
|---|---|
| i) Government / State | → Loss of public's money |
| → needy & poor is not getting their due share. | |
| → Prevailing corruption dismantling trust of people | |
| ii) me as Director of Dept | → To tackle corruption and ensure that only legible beneficiary get funds. |
| iii) Public | → Loss of taxpayers' money in prevailing fraud. |
| → Issue of their data privacy if scrutiny is to be done. |
| Justified | not justified |
|---|---|
| → As per Bentham's Utilitarianism for greater happiness for greater number of people it is a viable option. | → As per Kant's deontology there can be no wrong means to achieve right aim. |
| → To ensure proper functioning of scheme. | → Right to privacy is fundamental right Art 21 :- Puttaswamy judgement |
| → some government has bonafide intention, hence Art 21 is not absolute | → because till date, we don't have any data protection law, hence difficult to ensure data breach safety. |
c) Reasons for such frauds:-
→ Subculture of corruption & erosion of moral values (Ex → Parents asking their ward to give bribe to ensure better seat in school) → Lack of public scrutiny and proper audits. → Less rigour to speak against such frauds hence Whistleblower spirit is missing. → Lack of power with institutes like Lokpal & Lokyukt, hence less deterrence.
(d) Means to prevent such fraud:
Proper Social Audit & Departmental Audit to ensure proper usage of funds.
Technical solutions like: → Jan-Dhan - Aadhar - Mobile trinity.
Values inculcation among stakeholders:- → Civil/Public servants: Mission Karmyogi → Students/Citizens :- awareness via role modeling etc.
Honoring honest dissent like:- → Whistleblower must be duly protected. → RTI Activists can serve as model for others.
Proper functioning of institutes like → CAG = power of propriety audit → CVC → CIC = all vacancies must be filled asap. → State vigilance etc.
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Above ways can be fruitful to ensure proper functioning of governmental organisation and curb the penalty frauds in schemes.