Subsidised Oil For Burning Humnas

The burning alive of the Nasik Additional Collector Yeshwant Sonawane in Maharashtra by the well-oiled Oil Mafia shocked the entire nation. The brutal killing of the senior officer points to the extend to which the mafia can go to frustrate any official intervention into their illegal business. The honest officers in the present Official dispensation are finding it increasingly difficult to cope up with the corrupt system around them. They are constrained to fight the enemies both within and outside. While the dishonest officials do not allow ht honest to function within the framework, the Mafias outside can even physically eliminate the honest officers. No official can successfully ward off the challenges posed by the nexus. Honest people are haunted in India from various corners. The existing system is abused by the corrupt to frame the clean officials. The brutal killing of Mr. Sonawane abundantly establishes that the incentive for honesty is the unavoidable. The oil-mafia may be known to everyone from the local Police to the Mantralaya. But few had the courage to call it a day. The heinous crime also points to the harsh economic reality that subsidies in India are sordid boons for the corrupt and incorrigible to pocket super profits. Any subsidy must be sufficiently protected with an equally effectual control mechanisms. Given this, a CBI probe into the sordid event would be well advised.