Special lecture: Students, teachers, educators and administrators are expected to focus their efforts on strengthening value-based education in schools and colleges and university campuses so to arrest falling moral standards and make the society secure, happy and achieve all-round prosperity, the Karnataka Lokayukta, Justice Bhaskar Rao, has said.
He was addressing the participants at an event organised at the Institute of Management Education and Research in Belgaum city, where he delivered a special lecture on the topic “Fight Against Corruption in Democracy” on Thursday evening.
The event was organised by Forum Against Corruption (FAC).
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Reminding how the national heroes of the past held a very high degree of conviction for values in both their public and private lives, he pointed out that the present society was deviating from its time-tested value systems and rich cultural ethos in its blind fancy for modernity and fashion. Weakening moral standards was resulting in growth of offences and crimes and there was hardly any field left untouched by corruption:
“Around 86 per cent of politicians, 75 per cent of the police and 65 per cent of public servants in the country were corrupt and there were incidences wherein even the institution of Lokayukta was found helpless, thanks to complainants turning hostile. Even death sentences had not brought down murders and other heinous offences, including sexual and murderous assaults on women and girls.”
Mr. Rao felt that timely moral and value-based education in schools and colleges would go a long way in strengthening self-confidence among youth and prevent them from social deviations.
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