Madurai Passport Office Corruption - Officials arrested

The news yesterday about Madurai Passport office is that there has been arrests of couple of passport officials for corruption and passport racket.

Can you imagine the corruption officials include women also? These officials have corrupted with bribes almost Rs.25 lakhs and produced passports on Tatkal.

The 3 officials involved in this were arrested yesterday by CBI. What a disgrace!

Such an important position and this might involve any national threat also, by issuing passports illegally. How could this happen?

This incident arises a question in my mind - Does Madurai need a passport office or any kind of branch office - if the officials behave in this way? (This article is aiming at only corrupt officials and I am sure there are majority of sincere and clean officials).

Anyway, Grow up Madurai!!

News about Madurai corruption in passport office.

Our blog post for Madurai Passport Office details.

Madurai Corporation is in debt trouble

It is not only "United States of America" in debt trouble, but also Madurai!

The City Corporation, which is one of the six corporations implementing Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission programme in the country, may have problem in implementing projects after April 6, if they did not settle the dues to the Contractors to the tune of Rs.46-Crores.

About 300 contractors are not paid by the corporation and all the work is going to stop due to the lack of funds very soon.

Is it because of corruption or why did this happen? There is no transparency at all.
Also, we are not going to know anytime why this happenned...Probably all the 'incoming funds' crores to be paid to contractors are in different pockets....

Searching for ways to make money - even illegal ways! - Madurai Culture

Searching for ways to make money - even illegal ways! - Madurai Culture

There are n number of ways to make money in this world.
However, few of our maduraiites choose illegal ways.

Money by force, money by cheating...

Money by cheating:
Being genuine is a good karma. If you give someone you know with some 1000s of rupees and tell him/her that you will get it back after 1 year. There is only 50% probability that you might get it back. The other party might give n number
of reasons to avoid you and say that he will give the money later.

There are some horror stories of illegal acquisition of lands and houses for
rent, which comes under both the categories - money by force and money by
cheating.

Another example of money by cheating - In temples like Meenakshi Amman Temple,
there is cheating and corruption. When a ticket counter fellow issues you a
ticket, that same ticket is torn into two pieces and given back to you, as a
receipt. Lately, the ticket is not torn or other half of the ticket is not
issued back to the temple visitor. Instead the same ticket is sold again and
again. Can you imagine, what all ways you get to know for making money?

Money by force:
Kandhu vatti, Meter Vatti, Rocket Vatti, Katta panchayath? Have you heard these terminologies? Thesea are all popular terms among Madurai folks. You can hear stories like - you give the house for rent and you come back to the tenant and tell them to vacate the house in 1 month. The tenant would say I can leave the house only after 1 year. This happens only in India and places like Madurai. Money by force and money by cheating...

Why is all these happenning? Poverty? Illiteracy? Great Rich and Poor Divide?
God knows...these are the discussions, everyone gets into easily and end up no
where.

Last but not least -
In SpiderMan movie, the hero is advised by his uncle that - "With Great Power
comes Great Responsibility", but you know how does Madurai folks perceive it?

"With Great Power comes Corruption and with Great Power comes Cheating Money"!!