Corruption is root cause of social inequality: CM

Corruption is the root cause of the social inequality as it bars mainly the poor people from getting access to government services, said chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on the foundation day of the state’s Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB).

- HT Correspondent

“Corruption is not something that is limited to taking bribes but it also affects the people at the ground level. The impact of the corruption is beyond a mere degradation of moral value of the officers. It bars people standing in the end in our society from getting access to our schemes and other services. Corruption is the root cause of the social inequality,” Sharma said on Tuesday while addressing the event at Jaipur's Rajasthan International Centre.

Pointing out that corruption starts from one’s home, he said that the ones committing such crime must be used to it at their home and nearby locality as “it’s an illness”. “But it is enough to generate a distrust among the public of the administration. We don’t want to make Rajasthan such a state which is not trustworthy and is suffering from inequality. The one that we want to make Rajasthan requires a zero tolerance to such corruption,” he said.