Reform Efforts Show Result

There is some real good news at last:

Over the past one year, India has improved its ranking on the Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) from 88 to 70. It is being attributed to some of the Government's initiatives, in particular the Right to Information Act.

It just shows that if public policies are framed on good governance values, and sincerely implemented, the entire country stands to gain... over time, naturally.

At the same time, one cannot ignore the fact that we have a really long way to go before we can even think of resting. The recent shameful news about "Indians" getting the top rank in corruption in exports is still fresh in our minds. It is time our various chambers of commerce, export promotion bodies, and above all the Government, started the clean-up act in this important area without any further delay, lest the selfish misdeeds of some of our countrymen cause a lasting damage to the entire country's reputation and hurt us all, and also our economy, in the process.

Why do so many of us chose to never imbibe the simple lesson taught to all of us in school that honesty is the best policy? Isn't it because hypocrisy has been ruling in and around our lives??