After reading Scandal Poses a
Riddle: Will India Ever Be Able to Tackle Corruption I recognize there are
ethical dilemmas for Mr. Jayaswal and Mr. Dadra. Mr. Jayaswal had an ethical
dilemma because he had a decision to break rules and become wealthy or follow
rules and not be so wealthy. Mr. Jayaswal behaved unethically because he owned coal
fields and sold them illegally for millions of dollars and used the money to
benefit him and his family instead all of India who is in need of money and
even the coal. According to this article, in India it seems the people believe
that in order to be wealthy, you have to act unethically. Mr Dadra being apart
of the Indian government had the decision of following the rules or get
involved with a businessman who is taking illegal actions. Both Mr. Jayaswal
and Mr. Dadra knew what they were doing was illegal but were only concerned
about the millions they were going to profit.
An advantage for Mr. Jayaswal
committing this act was he became very prosperous. His daughter was on “My Big
Fat Indian Wedding” that her father paid for 350 friends, business associates and politicians to attend. I believe the only advantage was having a rich lifestyle.
Disadvantages for Mr. Jayaswal's decision are that he has ruined his reputation and embarrassed his country,
himself and his family. Instead of helping India financially he only cared
about himself, which shows no respect for the people of India who are suffering. There is an electricity shortage in India where over 300 mil. people are living without electricity. Mr. Jayaswal was being selfish; this money could
have greatly helped India. Nobody will want to do business with him due to this act he
committed and the trust he has lost.
Moral reasoning that possibly
motivated Mr. Jayaswal was from article 23; “Everyone has the right to work, to
free choice of employment, to just and favorable condition of work”. He
probably thought since this was work for him, he could do it. He was apart of
coal mines, so if these mines were around, and nobody is using them, I will put
them to use. Mr. Jayaswal may have believed he was working hard, producing
money, making people happy and helping his family.
According to an article I read
there was a study “2010 India Corruption Survey” by the Centre of Media
Studies, a non-profit organization that showed there was corruption between 2001-2005
in hospitals and currently the number has dropped 40%. In schools it has
dropped from 45% to 35% in the last 5 years. The CMS is still asking themselves
why we cannot get to 0% corruption but the situation stands and there is hope
for the future as the numbers slowly decline.
http://cmsindia.org/mediacoverage/believeitornot.pdf
I think most of the people in our society comes to a point where you have to choose to do the right thing or get more profits or benefits.
ReplyDeleteI think India's corruption will take long time for them to correct the system becuase many people will face this time to choose between good and bad, since politicians are very powerful in their country.
I totally agree with you that people in India think in order to be wealthy, they have to act unethically. In terms of the corruption, it may be dropping in schools and hospitals but not in government. Schools and hospitals are a small margin, but then again, it's definitely a start.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe the Mr. Jayaswal did what he did for selfish reasons alone - he also actually believed that he would be able to help India with it's situation. Just that he was the only one that really made a profit out of it and fast. His advantage is greatly showed with the money that he received and how he used his money as you stated with his daughters wedding . But the way he flaunted his money was a downfall to himself because he made it obvious that he had all the money he had and of course people are going to question it. It is also true with what you say, that all the money that he received could have helped India a great deal - he was selfish in this sense because the money that he profited, he kept for himself. I saw that same article of the survey and from reading that article I believed that they would hopefully continue to go down, but when I was looking up articles regarding corruption in India and lot came up that were slightly recent - more recent than the survey. So unfortunately corruption continues to happen but hopefully the percentage continues to decrease.
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