How to fight corruption in our countries?

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Fighting corruption is not very easy. People don't really understand the importance of being corruption free. If every individual is worried about the consequences of corruption, I would say that then only we will be able to become a country that is corruption free. There are few things that can be done to achieve this goal. 

Strict rules: Without strict rules no one will bother about living without corruption. There is no use in blaming the corrupt people are corrupt politicians. The only way to fight corruption is to strengthen the rules eliminating loopholes in the rules. Every individual who would like to cheat or become corrupt are always in the look out for loopholes in the rules. That is the reason why today even if we are able to catch someone corruption, they easily come out of the case using the loopholes in the law. 

Increasing education: Education against corruption should be given to every individual. In my country most of the big heads who do corruption fall in both educated individual category as well as illiterate category. But if we train the new and younger generation with good knowledge about corruption, we will be able to mitigate the risk of corruption in the future. At the same time we should also be promoting the importance of being a person with clean hands. This will gradually help in reducing corruption. 

Solving basic needs: In any country if the basic needs are satisfied, people without those basic things will not go in the wrong direction or will not try alternative methods to do corruption or cheat someone. The focus of every country should be towards solving basic needs of every individual. At the same time the people should also know the consequence of corruption and try to lead a happy life with a corruption free source of income. Greed can sometimes induce a person to earn some extra income in the form of bribery. This can be changed only with changes to the way people think. 

Digitalizing the transactions: Most of the countries are now moving towards digital transactions. This is the best way to go. If the transactions are digitized, everyone will have a clear visibility on what is happening. Even the politicians should be bold enough to showcase their income and expenses. In any country when a politician starts as a common man and stands in the election for the first time, they will not have so much of money. But as they grow, their money also grows and after few years they become one of the most financially powerful person in the city. All this happens because there is no track of the source of income for the politicians. This is not just for politicians alone. 

Blockchain can be really helpful for this. Any transactions happening in blockchain can be easily tracked and can be viewed by anyone with right access. The government of the corrupted companies can start using blockchain to create visibility to showcase the transactions of powerful politicians. By doing so, a great visibility will be created and people will know about the person and next time when they think of voting them during elections, they will consider all these factors and vote accordingly. 

Start from Individual: Eradicating corruption starts from every individual. We might have a thought to remove corruption from the country completely but all the great steps start only from the individual. As a responsible citizen of the country I should first take oath that I will not end up becoming a corrupted individual just because someone in my country or in my locality is doing it. There can be cases where we might become a  prey to corruption even though we are not directly involved. In such situations we have to make sure we can mitigate such things and stay a good person with clean hands. 

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