Ending waste and corruption - 26 Jan 2020 (Sunday Observer)

Ending waste and Corruption

  26 January, 2020

The upcoming five years under the foremost president Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksha will be the most challenging period for corruptions and briberies since he has already taken required steps to minimize corruptions and cut off unnecessary wastes of government sector. As he regularly mentions, government sector must be the supremacy of all other institutions as state servants abide with providing a genuine service for the community. He expect his subordinates to be more transparent than ever before when utilizing public monetary resources.

Is it reasonable to shift government institutions for rented apartments, paying millions of rupees as monthly rent on behalf of their close relatives as previous government did, when it already has a comfortable place for the administrative activities? Can anyone accept these kinds of apparent corruptions? The problem is that the way of utilizing and managing the public resources. They didn’t utilize tax income properly. Therefore it is not a quiet surprise to say that our country has a significant income gap between high-income groups and low-income groups when these allegations are being occurred. The opportunity cost of these extra expenses could be utilized for a fruitful task if they effectively used those scarce resources as the current president proposes to do. Moreover, the former government could have the ability to pay due foreign loans by withdrawing those unnecessary costs. Current president started his first attempt by moving Agricultural ministry back to the Govijana Mandiraya after ending the contract with private entity. His second attempt was to limit monthly salaries of ministry heads up to 100,000 rupees, suspending the extra income they earned during the past government period. Then these saved money can be utilized for rural education where the children of low income families are studying. And also these corrupted money can be shifted to supply purified water for those who are regularly being distressed by unending kidney problems. We are lucky enough if we could live in a society that totally eliminate these deplorable circumstances at least in five years.