Pay Commission Scales; good salary - no incentive against corruption
Corruption is not need based but often greed based and so just by giving a good salary, you can't expect the Government Servants to be honest, of course some of them can be weaned away by good pay packets. It's not even a month since the Government employees got a fairly good Pay Commission arrears and about 40% hike in salary – and already two Central Excise officers are in the CBI net. This week the CBI arrested an Assistant Commissioner and a Superintendent in Ahmedabad while accepting a bribe of Rs. 2500/-. It seems the officers demanded a bribe of Rs. 5,000/- for issuing a Central Excise Registration! Seems pretty cheap – it seems in other places the going rate for registration certificate is upwards of Rs. 50,000