Say No To Crackers

As all of you know when Diwali is round the corner, people let off tons and tons of
toxic pollution into the environment. In the name of celebrating the festival they
are making life dangerous. We must celebrate Diwali differently. Our cities have
already become polluted to the maximum. Let’s not pollute them anymore!
Cannot we celebrate Diwali without crackers? Is it compulsory to fill our already
polluted environment with more poison? Are we wise in doing so? Why do we
precipitate the process of our own fall and sufferings? Bursting fire crackers has
only disadvantages! Wastage of money, poisonous smoke, unbearable noise, fire
accidents, garbage, litter, etc! And still we want to burst them!

Crackers often contain elements like copper, cadmium, sulphur, aluminium and
barium to produce the vibrant colours once ignited. The harmful gases produced
from the bursting of crackers, such as Nitrous Oxide, remains in the air for a long
time if the city doesn't get enough rain or strong winds. Inhaling the fumes
emitted by firecrackers increases the chances of asthma attack among patients.
Heart patients and patients of chronic bronchitis and low immune system are at
high risk too.

Let’s join hands to say no to crackers while celebrating Diwali. Let’s not poison
the air our children breathe. We have the responsibility of bequeathing a cleaner
and healthier future. If we won’t ensure their safety and happiness, who else will?

Is Diwali the Festival of Lights Or Crackers?

Diwali is the festival of lights. It is also known as’ Deepawali’. It is
celebrated in our country which joy and happiness every year. It is
one of the biggest festival of Hindus. Usually it comes in the month
of October and November after twenty days of Dussehra, on the
13th day of the dark fortnight of the month of Ashwin. It is
celebrated in the memory of coming back home of Lord Rama
along with his wife Sita & brother Laxman after 14 years of exile. It
is believed that on this day, Lord Rama returned to his kingdom,
Ayodhya, after killing the demon, King Ravana and people lighted
earthen diyas all around their house and celebrated his victory over
Raavan. It is asymbol of victory of good over evil. Since then, the
festival is celebrated by lighting diyas and candles to drive away
the darkness of Amavasya and the dark of ignorance. Homes are
decorated on the day of diwali and sweets are distributed. Laxmi
Puja is performed in the evening and blessings of Goddess of
Wealth is seeked. People present diwali gifts to their near and dear
ones. Earlier, it was celebrated with diyas but slowly it took the
form of lights, lighting lamps, candles and crackers. Now a days,
people burn dangerous fire crackers limitlessly. Crackers have big
hand in polluting our environment. The toxic substances used in
the firecrackers release toxic gases that are harmful to the health of
all living beings. The noise of the crackers cause immense
suffering to birds and animals. Diwali is the festival of lights and
not burning of the limitless crackers which takes the form of air and
noise pollution. We should minimize the use of firecrackers during
diwali celebrations and other celebrations. Noiseless diwali has
become the concept for the last few years. It is slowly gathering
momentum too. But it has not yet reached that level to which we all
can say that yes, we celebrated a noiseless safe and pollution free
diwali. A festival must be treated like a festival not like enjoyment
or nuisance. There is no need to pollute the environment for this.
We must take steps to make ourselves and others aware to put an
end to noise through rallies and hoardings. We must not buy
unlimited crackers instead of that we can help a poor with that
money. These days, trend of diwali greetings, diwali messages,
diwali cards, diwali ecards, diwali calendar, diwali greeting cards,
diwali flash,diwali themes, diwali screensaver, diwali images, diwali
rangoli, diwali scraps, diwali designs, diwali painting is going on. It
seems and feels very nice to wish each other by different means.
But we must also make each other aware of the harms of the
pollution caused by the firecrackers that leads directly or indirectly
to global warming. Hence, Say ‘NO’ to Crackers and play a safe,
noiseless and pollution free Diwali.

ESSAY ON CORRUPTION
Corruption is the use of unethical methods to get some advantage by others. It has become one of the
big factors of obstructing the development of the individual and country. You can use this Corruption
essay for your kids and school going children for essay writing purpose at home or schools. Following
Essay on Corruption are written using very simple and easy to understand English language.

CORRUPTION ESSAY 1 (100 WORDS)

Corruption is a poison which has been spread in the mind of wrong people of the society, community
and country. It is the mistreatment of public resources just for getting some unfair advantage to fulfil
little wish. It is concerned with the unnecessary and wrong use of both power and position by anyone
whether in the government or non-government organization. It has affected the growth of the
individual as we well as the nation and reduces income. It is a big reason of inequalities in the society
and community. It affects the growth and development of the nation in all aspects like socially,
economically and politically.

CORRUPTION ESSAY 2 (150 WORDS)

Corruption is the misuse of public property, position, power and authority for fulfilling the selfish
purposes to gain personal satisfactions. Corruption is the misuse of authority for personal gain of an
individual or group. It is the unfair use of public power for some private advantages by breaking some
rules and regulations made by government. Now a day, it has been spread deeply in the society and
has become very strong because of its lots of roots. It is like a cancer which once generated cannot be
ended without medicine and spreading its roots continuously.

One common form of corruption in our country is receiving cash money, through online transfer or in
the form of costly gift etc. Some people wrongly uses someone else money for their own sake. Some
people recruited in the government or non-government offices have been involved in the corruption
and can do anything to fulfil their wishes.

CORRUPTION ESSAY 3 (200 WORDS)

We all are well familiar of the corruption and as it is not a new phenomenon in our country. It has
taken its roots so deeply in the people’s mind. It is a very common poison in the society since ancient
time. It is available from the history time of the Mughal and Sultanate period. It is reaching to its new
height. It has affected the mind of people to a great extent and become so common that wrong people
can play with the public life. It is a type of greediness which corrupt human mind and destroy one’s
humanity and naturalness.

Corruption is of different types which has been spread in every filed like education, sports, games,
politics, etc. Because of the corruption, one does not understand his/her responsibilities at work place.
Corruptions are like theft, dishonesty, wastage of public property, wastage of time unnecessarily,
exploitation, scams, scandals, malpractice of responsibilities, etc are the various types of corruption. It
has made its roots in both developing and well developed countries. We need to remove corruption
from our society and country in order to get real freedom from the slavery. We all need to be loyal
towards our responsibilities and strict for any type of greediness.
CORRUPTION ESSAY 4 (250 WORDS)
Now-a-days, corruption is seen everywhere in the society just like an infectious disease. The great
leaders of the India who have fought their whole life for removing corruption and other social issues
completely from the society. It is the very shameful condition for us that even after losing various
great lives, we are not able to understand our real responsibilities. Corruption has been spread in the
common public lives, politics, central governments, state governments, businesses, industries, etc. It
has not left any field. Corruption is increasing day by day instead of decreasing or steadying because
of the continuous increase in the appetite of people for money, power, position and luxury.

We have forgotten the real responsibility of being a human just because of the money. We need to
understand that money is not everything and it is not a stable thing. We cannot keep it forever to us, it
can only give us greediness and corruption. We should give importance to the value based life and not
money based life. It is true that we need lot of money to live a common life however it is not true that
just for our selfishness and greediness; we should play someone’s life or money in some unfair ways.

CORRUPTION ESSAY 5 (300 WORDS)

As we all know that corruption is very bad thing. It inhibits the individual growth as well as society
and country growth and development. It is social evil which is playing humans body and mind
socially, economically and intellectually. It is continuously making its roots so deeply because of the
increasing human greediness towards money, power and position. Corruption is the misuse of
authority, public position, natural or public resources, power, etc by someone to gain his/her personal
gratifications. According to the sources, it has been identified that India ranks three in the highly
corrupted countries.

Corruption is highly spread in the field of civil service, politics, business and other illegal fields. India
is a famous country for its democracy but it is corruption which disturbs its democratic system.
Politicians are highly responsible for all type of corruption in the country. We chose our leaders by
having lots of expectations to them to lead our country in the right direction. In the starting they make
us lots of promises however, just after the voting they forget all that and involve in corruption. We are
sure that our India would be corruption free a day when our political leaders would be free of
greediness and use their power, money, status and position in right direction to lead the country, not
their own luxury and personal wishes.
We should select very honest and trustworthy leaders to lead our India just like our earlier Indian
leaders such as Lal Bahadur Shastri, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, etc. Only such political leaders can
reduce and finally end the corruption from India. Youths of the country should also need to be aware
of all the reasons of corruption and get together to solve it in group. Increasing level of the corruption
needs to take some heavy steps to get control over it.

CORRUPTION ESSAY 6 (400 WORDS)

Corruption is the highly infectious social disease which has spread its roots to the mind
of the bad people. No one take birth to do such type of bad activities in the society
however some bad conditions of their life forced them to do so. Gradually they become
habitual for all of these bad activities. However, people suffering from any problem,
disease, etc should keep patience and trust on themselves and never do anything bad in
life. As, one negative step of anyone may harm the lives of many people. We are not a
single entity on this earth, there are many like us, so we should think a little about
others and live life happily and peacefully with positive thoughts.

Now-a-days, lots of benefits are given by the government of India to the poor people on
the basis of various rules and regulations to bring social awareness among common
people as well as equality in the society. However, poor people are not getting benefited
of those advantages given by the government as many officers doing corruption secretly
in between the channel before reaching to the poor people. They are doing corruption
against law for just fulfilling their own pockets with money.

There are many causes of corruption in the society. Now-a-days political leaders are
making interest oriented programmes and policies instead of nation oriented
programmes and policies. They are just wishing to be famous politician for completing
their own interests instead of citizen’s interests and requirement. There is increasing
level of change in the value system in the human mind as well as decreasing ethical
qualities of human being. The level of trust, faith and honesty is decreasing which gives
rise to the corruption.

The number of common people with increased tolerance power towards corruption is
increasing. There is a lack of strong public forum in the society in order to oppose the
corruption, widespread illiteracy in rural areas, poor economic infrastructure, etc are
the reasons of endemic corruption in the public life. Low salaries norms of the
government employees force them towards channel of corruption. Complex laws and
procedures of the government distract common people to get any type of help from
government. During election time, corruption become at its highest peak. Politicians
always take support of poor and illiterate people by dreaming them big in future during
their governance however nothing happens after win.
CORRUPTION ESSAY 7 (500 WORDS)
Corruption has been spread like a disease all over the India as well as abroad. It has become one of the
most speedily increasing social issues in the Indian society. It is generally initiated and promoted by
the opportunistic leaders. They never think about the nation’s benefits and do lots of damage to the
nation through their corruption even for their small advantage. They sell their country properties in
the wrong hands and spread wrong beliefs about India in the people’s mind living in other countries.
They are spoiling the old traditions and cultures of India for their personal benefits. Now-a-days
people who are working in right direction using right principles considered as foolish in the modern
society and the people who are working wrong and making wrong promises are good for the society.
However, in turn it is true that corrupted people cheating the simple, ordinary and innocent people.
They are ruling the mind of innocent people.

Corruption increases in India day by day because there is a strong connection between the officials,
politicians and criminals who are making this country weak and so weak. India got independence in
1947 and it was slowly becoming strong and developing but in the mid way the disease of corruption
started and stop India to grow ahead. In India there has been a trend of give and take means give some
money in order to get your work done whether in the government offices or private sectors offices.
And now the condition is getting worse and worse, as earlier, the money was paid for getting wrong
works done or only work to be done, but currently money is paid for getting works done in right ways
and at right time. Even after paying complete money according to the demand, there is no full chance
of getting things done at time and in right way.

Corruption is everywhere in every department whether it hospitals, education, job, government

offices, nothing is left of corruption. Everything has become a business and the source of earning
money in wrong way. Educational institutions are also involved in the corruption and they give seat to
those students only who have paid for, whether they are good students with good marks or not. Very
weak students are given admission in the top colleges and universities only on the basis of money paid
for wrong admission and the topper student with good marks and lack of money gets back in the life
or take admission in any simple college.

Now-a-days, private sectors companies are so good in comparison to the governmental jobs. Private
companies are giving job on the basis of candidate’s skills, ability, technical knowledge, good
percentage of marks and all the educational records. However, it has become tough to get job in the
government offices as they need lots of bribe to give any type of job (high level or low level) like
teaching, clerk, babu, nurse, doctor, sweeper, etc. And the amount of bribe increases in the market as
the level of job increase like IAS, PCC, police, etc ranks jobs.

“Corruption is a tree, whose branches are of an immeasurable length;

they spread everywhere.”

—- Beaumont and Fletcher

Corruption, in one form or another, is a worldwide

phenomenon. But everyone admits that corruption is something ugly,
immoral and detestable. Unfortunately, in our country, corruption has
become a part of life. It has entered the very roots of the Indian society.
Corruption, nepotism and dishonesty have tarnished every fabric of our
social life. Our ministers are corrupt; our officers are corrupt; our people
are corrupt. Every politician, without exception, is corrupt. Even our
anti-corruption departments fall an easy prey to the vile of the corrupt
persons and they let them go scot free after minor punishment. The law
of a land is too weak to deal with the corrupt elements with an iron
hand. The vested interests rule the roost. Everybody feels helpless in
such a state of affairs. Some people have even started talking of the
nationalization of corruption in the country. They argue that we should
frankly admit that we are a corrupt nation and that we cannot do without
it. It is a matter of shame and regret for all thee who care to hear the call
of their conscience. One feels like crying out with Shakespeare.

“O that estate degrees and offices were not derived corruptly.

And that clear honour were purchased by the merit of the

wearer!”

Corruption is prevailing at all levels – economic, social, administrative,

moral and spiritual. During the past few years, the images of the country
has been defaced beyond redemption. A large number of scams,
involving top politicians, administrators and VVIPs have come to light.
These scams, most of them unearthed by the Central Bureau of
Investigation, involve huge sums running into thousands of crores. They
have shaken the entire conscience of the country to the bones. The law
enforcing agencies are seeking the help of the judicial process to bring
the culprits to book. The judicial system however, is full of flaws and the
culprits do not find it very difficult to cleverly escape the legal net. The
skeletons in a large number of cup-boards are however, coming out and
many mightly ministers, politicians and bureaucrats and being exposed.
Law might take decades to assert but it has been fully established that
we are a nation full of corrupt elements.

Strongholds of corruption are the departments like the P.W.D.,

Railways, Tele-communication, Banks, department dealing with exports
and imports, taxes, quota-permits and licences. Documents and office
files to not move unless we grease the plam of the concerned officials.
One cannot get the official copy of court judgment from the copying
agency in a court unless one pays a fat sum to the agency typist in
addition to the official court fee. One can get one’s seat in a train
booked easily if one is prepared to pay an extra tip to the booking clerk.
An honest man’s application is subjected to delay by red-tapism.
Corruption in administrative offices has reached the saturation point
Banks, too are, not free from corruption. People are beginning to take
corruption for granted. The root cause of corruption is red tape or
delay. Persons found guilty should be punished severely. Exemplary
punishments should be given to corrupt officials, national character
should be improved. Smugglers, black0marketeers and hoarders should
be severely dealt with.

Social and spiritual organizations can give a good healthy

education to the public. Strong boards like the U.P.S.C. should be
organized to deal with anti-social elements. Persons of strong character
should be employed. The Government employees must be told to
withstand any temptation while discharging their duties. Such officials
as lay down noble standards of honesty and efficiency, should be
encouraged and honoured at public functions. Dishonest public
servants should not only be dismissed, but should also be publicly
flogged and put behind the bards. The education system of the country
should be re-oriented to inculcate a spirit of honesty amongst the
people.
 All ministers and public servants should be made to declare
their assets. The vigilance department should keep a constant eye on
the corrupt officers and other public servants. Ministes and senior
officials must set noble examples of an honest living free from
corruption, brivery, nepotism and immorality. The law of the land should
be provided with more teeth to deal with the corrupt elements.
Corruption, at any level, is bad. The Government should launch a
vigorous campaign against this social evil. Charity, however, must begin
at home.

Evils, it is said, percolate in any society from the top. The

topmost people in the country must present model examples of conduct
and behavior. They should be completely above board in their dealings
and should be honest to a fault. One must not only be honest but one
must also be above doubt. Once we are able to curb. Corruption
nepotism and bribery in high places, we shall be soon able to root out
the evil of corruption from the entire society. May God help us in our
object !

Corruption is not a new phenomenon in India. It has been prevalent in society

since ancient times. History reveals that it was present even in the Mauryan
period. Great scholar Kautilya mentions the pressure of forty types of corruption
in his contemporary society. It was practised even in Mughal and Sultanate
period. When the East India Company took control of the country, corruption
reached new height. Corruption in India has become so common that people now
are averse to thinking of public life with it.
Corruption has been defined variously by scholars. But the simple meaning of it is
that corruption implies perversion of morality, integrity, character or duty out of
mercenary motives, i.e. bribery, without any regard to honour, right and justice. In
other words, undue favour for any one for some monetary or other gains is
corruption. Simultaneously, depriving the genuinely deserving from their right or
privilege is also a corrupt practice. Shrinking from one’s duty or dereliction of duty
are also forms of corruption. Besides, thefts, wastage of public property constitute
varieties of corruption. Dishonesty, exploitation, malpractices, scams and
scandals are various manifestations of corruption.

Corruption is not a uniquely Indian phenomenon. It is witnessed all over the world
in developing as well as developed countries. It has spread its tentacles in every
sphere of life, namely business administration, politics, officialdom, and services.
In fact, there is hardly any sector which can be characterised for not being
infected with the vices of corruption. Corruption is rampant in every segment and
every section of society, barring the social status attached to it. Nobody can be
considered free from corruption from a high ranking officer.

To root out the evil of corruption from society, we need to make a comprehensive
code of conduct for politicians, legislatures, bureaucrats, and such code should
be strictly enforced. Judiciary should be given more independence and initiatives
on issues related to corruption. Special courts should be set-up to take up such
issues and speedy trial is to be promoted. Law and order machinery should be
allowed to work without political interference. NGOs and media should come
forward to create awareness against corruption in society and educate people to
combat this evil. Only then we would be able to save our system from being
collapsed.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working
man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing
promises that we know they'll never keep.