You recently received an MBA from the prestigious Management Institute of the country. You have received Gold Medal from your institute. After acquiring a degree in management, you feel that if you pass the Civil Services exam, you can work better for the society. This was the reason that you gather in preparation for civil service and become selected for the IAS in your fourth attempt. You get a cadre of Uttarakhand state and you are appointed as a district collector in a backward hill district. You are very excited about your appointment. But your enthusiasm changes in despair when you find that people in your department are involved in corruption. The money that comes to the common masses comes from the collusion of corruption by mutual collusion. When you inform your high officials about these incidents, they do not pay any attention to it. At the same time, they try to convince you that things were always the same, so compromise and work within the framework available. You are much more frustrated than this and you want to quit the job. (a) Will the job of leaving a job be appropriate? (b) What other options do you have besides leaving a job? Submit proper arguments.

This matter is related to departmental corruption. In this corruption all people are involved in corruption from high officials to low employees. In such a situation, surely it would be difficult to work for an honest officer.

Although it is difficult for an honest and dutiful officer to work among the corrupt people, it is difficult to escape from this position, i.e. the option to quit the job.

If such honest officials started leaving the office then only corrupt people will survive in the system, which will be fatal to the country and society.

Although you cannot improve the corrupt attitude of your high officials but you can definitely make the arrangements in your jurisdiction clean.

In this way, instead of leaving the job, efforts should be made to control the corruption of its junior officers and employees.

Instead of leaving the job, I have the following options:

Regarding my department, I should seek help from the political executive. I have to keep all those things clearly I want to apply in my department.

I have to wait, after reaching a higher position; I can take steps for change myself. For example, former Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai patiently faced the situation, but when he became CAG, he did the work of exposing corruption.

Setting up a political party with retirement or voluntary retirement and taking steps against corruption and misdeeds after coming to power.

Thus, the above mentioned problem can be solved with patience, courage and intelligence.