Topic: Democracy: Professional Ethics

Professional Ethics
Individual Assignment
POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT

PGDM (M) Term-III Batch 2019-21
Topic: Democracy
Under the Supervision of:
Prof. Maneesh Pandeya
Submitted by:
Vipul Tuteja, PGMA1947
Democracy means rule by the people to ensure that every citizen takes part in the decision
making process either directly or indirectly through elected representatives. India is the largest
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democracy in the world. In the last more than 6 decades it has worked successfully well to
some extent. But in modern India it has to face many challenges that need to be tackled in
order to ensure true democracy. These challenges may include: social and economic
inequalities, poverty and unemployment, Illiteracy and ignorance, casteism, communalism,
population explosion, regionalism, corruption and terrorism, etc. India needs to develop new
proposals to reform democracy. Law plays important role in political reformation and may help
to prevent wrong practices and encourage good ones. But mere legal changes alone do not help
as the changes in laws may sometimes prove counterproductive and may result into negative
impact on society. Therefore, the best laws empower people to carry out democratic reforms.
The Right to Information Act is the best example that serves as a watchdog against abuse of
democratic principles. The challenges to the democracy may be tackled by way of movements
of activist or by the politically conscious citizens. Some of the measures that can be taken to
sustain a true parliamentarian democracy in India include: achieving 100% literacy; educating
the masses about democratic rights; ensuring better protection of fundamental rights, and to
ensure freedom of press, etc.
Though India claims to be one of the biggest democracy in the world, but in reality there are
various challenges that are responsible for creating hindrance in the true functioning of
democratic republic of India. The lack of awareness of true values of democracy amongst the
Indian Citizens is also another cause which prejudices the minds of the people towards
exercising their participation in the formation and functioning of the Government. Further, that
most of the politicians venture into politics with a sole motive of maximization of their personal
wealth by whatever means they can knowing very well that someday they may be prosecuted
for their acts for example, ministers involved in scams such as 2G Spectrum, Common Wealth
Games, Coal Block allocation, etc. This shows that these political leaders make many promises
during their election campaigns but fail to exercise their duties in true parliamentarian spirit.
Political parties make all the efforts to mold public opinion for their personal gains.
Finally it can be concluded that it is very sad that our democracy after 72 years of
independence has given us some illiterate and corrupt ministers who are ready to do any kind
of scams for their welfare. Our Autonomous agencies like CBI, Income Tax and Sales Tax
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Departments, are seem to be paper tigers in dealing with these scams and are unfortunately
acting only on the guidelines of corrupted ministers. Some politicians have also tried to divide
our country on religious grounds only to full their vote banks which have gave rise to various
communal violence. These and many more activities have caused the Indian democracy to lose
its respect in the world. However, at the same we must be also fortunate enough to live in a
democratic country like India because it is only democracy that can provide us equal rights and
duties. Thanks to the Constituent Assembly. It is equally true that Indian is the only country in
the world where people are united together in spite of the fact that we belong to many
religious, cultural and traditional backgrounds. So, finally I can be said that that no
government or country is perfect. There is nothing wrong in the Indian Constitutional Law, in
fact it is the responsibility of citizens to make efforts to actively participate in the functioning
of the government and make their country perfect.
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POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT

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