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I will say that it is my fault for sanctioning the bribe and not filing an RTI.
But I am a businessman living abroad and to me, the cost of time and delay is way more than 5 lakh. So yes, for me its much easier to pay off than seek justice. In a way I am part of the problem, but just wanted to give you an example of how loopholes in checks and balances are being exploited.
For me it may be a minor inconvenience, but imagine what the bloody common man must face!
You are not alone Sir ji! We all are the part of the problem. For quite sometime I am wrecking my head around this and I can think of few ways in which these issue can be managed and I am merely an untrained undergrad. Corruption is like diabetes, you cannot cure it but it is certainly possible to live normal life with a bit of lifestyle changes: Changes in our own lifestyle. There are few patterns around the world which keep the people honest, like: transparency, anti-monopoly, giving decision power to those who have Skin-in-the-game and so on.
I read about Chinese land reform from 1978 or so. A very simple idea based on Skin-in-the-game principle but it rooted out mis-reporting of produce and increased produce so much that it is considered as the reason of bringing out over 800 million Chinese out of poverty in 20 years. On the other hand USSR which never did it ended up in such a huge economic mess that it was broken. Chinese didn't have people with higher intelligence than Russians, they took one right step which changed the course of their history and weeded out corruption in land and agriculture. Fun-fact, it was initiated by a bunch of village farmers and few cadres of CCP.