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The Department of political Science Rajiv Gandhi University in
collaboration with Indian Council of Social Science Research, Shillong is
organizing National seminar on “The Trends and Danger of corruption in
Arunachal Pradesh” on 18th and 19th March 2015 at Rajiv Gandhi University.
Rationale of the Seminar
Corruption may occur in different scales, like grand corruption, petty
corruption, political corruption, religious corruption, government corruption,
military corruption etc. The corruptions generally are - 1. Embezzlements/misuse
of public property. 2. Non performing of legal public duty. 3. Any action which
violate the legal jurisdiction.4. Bribe. 5. Favoure.6. Nepotism etc. The corruption
that occurs as a small favors between a small numbers of people is called petty
corruption. The petty corruption occurs at a smaller scale and occurs within
established social frameworks and governing norms like exchange of small
improper gifts or use of personal connections to obtain favors. The corruption that
affects the government and society on a large scale is called grand corruption. The
grand corruption is corruption occurring at the highest levels of government in a
way that requires significant subversion of the political, legal and economic
systems. This form of corruption happens in all level like legislative, executive and
judiciary.
The corruption that is so prevalent in the every day structure of society is
called systemic corruption. The systemic or endemic corruption is primarily due to
the weaknesses of an organization or process. The systemic corruption include
conflicting incentives, discretionary powers; monopolistic powers; lack of
transparency; low pay; and a culture of impunity. Such corruption includes
"bribery, extortion, and embezzlement".
Corruption may occur in public or private industry or even NGOs. The public
sector corruption is one of the more dangerous forms of corruption as lead to
widespread effects. Political corruption is the abuse of public power, office, or
resources by elected government officials for personal gain, e.g. by extortion,
soliciting or offering bribes. It can also take the form of office holders maintaining
themselves in office by purchasing votes. Military and police are not free from
corruption, they indulged in misconduct designed to obtain financial benefits,
other personal gain or career advancement in exchange for not pursuing, or
selectively pursuing, an investigation or arrest.
Corruption in judiciary like
misconduct of judges, through receiving or giving bribes, improper sentencing of
convicted criminals, bias in the hearing and judgments of arguments and other such
misconduct are daily gossip matter. Many a time judiciary became mere agent of
party in power.
The abuse of discretion power in decision-making like judge improperly
dismissing a criminal case or a customs official using their discretion to allow a
banned substance through a port or check gate is a corruption. Favoritisms,
nepotism and clientelism to a friend, family member or member of an association
like hiring a family member to a role they are not qualified for or promoting a staff
member who belongs to the same political party regardless of merit is a corruption.
Arunachal Pradesh is not free from any form of corruption. Great ideologue
late Baken Pertin ones said “Arunachal is land of Khusi- Khusi (means land of
lawlessness). Arunachal ones known as “island of peace” now turned into land of
most trouble due to Favoritisms, nepotism, clientelism and corruption. There was
interesting news article published in national news paper with headline
“Arunachal Tribal record consumed 100kg rice and 20 kg salt per head per
months”. This is related to multi corer PDS scheme case against many politician,
businessmen and officials. As it is alleged, the bureaucrat, technocrats and
politician are the three valid license holders to become corer pati within short span
of time. Many bureaucrat and technocrats entered government job without having
bank account, but turned corer pati within a year or two. They become public
master instead of public servants. They are people who owned any latest model
luxury vehicle. Most of the moveable and immoveable resources of Arunachal
Pradesh are owned by them. Unionism and association stood in second place of
corruption. The Arunachal capital Itanagar itself, there are more then five
thousands union and associations for capital city having less then one lakh
population. Maximum of these union and association are owned by those
unscrupulous vested interest people. The corruption is daily needs of Arunachal
state, status of person is known by number of corruption committed and earned
wealth out of it. The corruption is rule rather than exception in Arunachal society.
Due to rampant corruption the criminal rate is also increasing and ones classless
society has turned into class society.
The proposed seminar is a humble attempt to identify the actual prevailing
situation of corruption in Arunachal Society. The out come and understanding of
the seminar will add to our existing knowledge in the area. The knowledge
acquired through this seminar is likely to serve as feedback to the planners of the
state and country. It will also boost and encourage public about the corruption.
Sub-theme of Seminar- Theoretical aspect of corruption, Cause and consequence of corruption,
personal experience of corruption, like political corruption, corruption by government
organization, religious corruption, Corruption in education, students Union and corruption,
corruption in employment sector or any related issues.
Call for paper
The Learned scholars/journalist/ RTI Forum and activist are requested to contribute original
research paper on the theme. The paper should be typed in MS-Word format.
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Last date of Submission of abstract- 20th January 2015(restricted to 500 words)
Scrutiny of abstracts and notification of selected abstracts 31st January 2015
Last Date of submission of full paper along with abstract- 25th February 2015(restricted
to 15 pages including note and references)
Those who submit complete and full paper within stipulated time only will be called for
presentation in the seminar.
Abstract/ Paper may be sent to – nabamnakha@yahoo.co.in or nn.hina@rgu.ac.in
No TA/DA shall be given by the organizer except for resource person. However free
accommodation (for out station Guest) & food will be provided by organizer during the
seminar.
Dr. Nabam Nakha Hina
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Seminar coordinator
Application Form
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