Corruption In Bureaucracy: Inside Stories (Hardcover-2023)

About the Book

Information provided in this book is crucial for public to know how decisions were/are cooked inside the corridors of power. Corruption in Bureaucracy: Inside Stories exposes the multifarious facets of public administration, what are laws and how bureaucrats implement them by conniving with politicians and the corporate sector to sustain self-serving goals. Systems inside real stories expose the nexus of bureaucrat-politicians-corporate houses at the cost of the common man’s sufferance. Only when the public knows the real face of bureaucracy, they can adopt a cautious approach to avoid corruption- infested situations or humiliation. Stories mentioned in this book expose the real workings of the public administration. The book exposes the operational lacunae in the institutional framework of anti-corruption measures/ vigilance wings. This book will help anyone to everyone in the public including every stratum of our social systems, e.g., individuals/ companies/ citizens/ institutions/ organizations/ research and training institutions/ educational institutions/ media/ NGOs to know how to avoid the nexus of corruption while dealing with bureaucracy. Hopefully, revealing these stories will create mass awareness against corruption. Information provided in this book will also be helpful to the bureaucrats/organizations/companies/institutions and government departments to wake them up to strengthen their anti-corruption measures in such a way that it helps the common person. Higher awareness among the masses can help people to diminish pervasive immorality/corruption in our systems. Corruption can be mitigated only when everyone decides to stop it.

About the Author

Dr. R.P. Balwan (Swami Gyananand Saraswati), M.Sc. (Psychology and Geology), M.S. (Psychotherapy and Counselling), M.A. (Philosophy and Religion), Ph.D. (Business Administration), Fellow of Association of Professional Psychologists, Fellow of Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, P.G. Diploma in Human Resources Development, Advanced Diploma in Management Research, Associate of Indian Forest College (AIFC), Diploma in Training and Development, is a retired IFS. He started his career as lecturer and worked with the Department of Atomic Energy as Scientific Officer and left the job to join Indian Forest Service. He took voluntary retirement and took Sanyas Diksha (sainthood) from Swami Vigyananand Saraswati, Rishikesh, immediately after taking voluntary retirement. He has written a large number of papers and reports for government publications. His research work on All India Service was published as Bureaucratic Decision: A Complicated Process.