Jayaprakash Narayan called for a total revolution when he started his nav nirman movement in Bihar when Indira Gandhi was replacing Chief Ministers at her will. It was Kedar Pandey in the morning, Abdul Ghafoor in the evening. then it was Dr.Jagannath Mishra.  The Nagarwala episode, the licence scandal and consequent elimination of Lalit Narayan Mishra at Samastiput all annoyed the LokNayak that he called for a second war of independence. Had he been alive today, I am sure he himself would have armed and punished all present day politicians. Ironically one of his disciples, Lalu Yadav is involved in the fodder scam. We had the Telecom scam of Sukh Ram from whose bed, wads of currency were unearthed, telecom scam of late Mahajan( he was responsible for converting the fixed licence fee to revenue sharing regime obviously to collect funds for the party post Kargil but under the pretext of protecting a nascent industry) and now the telecom scam of Raja( Swan and Unitec licences were sold for a song much against TRAI recommendations) 

One should admit that there is much more awareness now than earlier thanks to RTI. RTI is the brain child of Magsaysay award winner Arvind Kejriwal. Sonia Gandhi takes the credit for enacting this monumental piece of legislation. We have amidst us people like Sunderlal Bahuguna who fought against felling of  trees through his CHIPKO movement., Medha Patkar, Mamta Banerjee are a few of our people who care for people;s issues. We have socially consicious actors like Aamir Khan. 

Corruption can be avoided to a large extent if powers are decentralised and e-governance is given priority. Panchayati Raj is an effective way to empower people and large scale e governance measures will bring down the level of corruption. Our corruption laws must be made more stringent and only one opportunity of appeal should be given to corrupt officials convicted for corruption. Confiscation of property, extended imprisonment terms, heavy penalties should be imposed on corrupt officials. Lok ayukta should cover all elected members and there should not be any exclusion. 

By and large we have a society which believes in morals and it should not be difficult to change the system. Decentralisation is the key to success for any effort to curb corruption