How vigilant is our vigilance?

Every now and then our leaders and other prominent personalities keep on preaching the masses to be honest and truthful. But have they ever thought whether they practise what they preach?

We have a vigilance department at the centre and at all state level but the cases of corruption is going on day by day. If the vigilance agencies are working properly how come that so many cases of corruption are coming to light with a lot of more cases remaining behind the curtain.

It is also a fact that the number of corrupt people are very few. But it is unfortunate that they dominate the scene. The personality of a man is judged by his financial status and not by his character. During our school days we were taught that "If wealth is lost nothing is lost, if health is lost something is lost and if character is lost everything is lost". But in this modern era the vehicle is running in the reverse gear. Nobody bothers for maintaining a good ideal character and very few people think of honesty,integrity and sincerity as an integral part of human character.

A couple of days back one watchman of the state Government was found to have property disproportionate to his assets. He owns 3 buildings in the capital city of Bhubaneshwar apart from a farm house of several acres, a posh and modern guest house in Puri leased out to some company. He is also the owner of 3 luxury cars and has got several lakhs of rupees in various banks. Though it is unbelievable but is it not true that he did not create these assets overnight. When he was busy in accumulating all these assets what were those people doing who are supposed to keep a watch over such people. I suppose they were also having their share in this process. We may think of Madhu Koda who was in the headlines for such cause sometime back. Should we not think why he was not exposed when he was in power?

This is a solitary example, we may come across many such incidents throughout the country everyday. This clearly proves that our Vigilance agencies are either not working properly or alternatively working under pressure. Only GOD knows who is responsible for such state of affairs, which endangers the country's economy. When we think of this disastrous action of a handful of people, who have firm belief that they can escape with money power, as has been seen a number of times, we can only sing a old Hindi film song- "KISE DOSH DEN JAB MALI HI APNA CHAMAN JALAE" Oh God save our garden from such treacherous people. Amen......