Srinagar:In many ways the system seems to have beendesigned to do the exact opposite, to allow corruption to seep into everycorner. But perhaps worst of all, because Kashmiris have had to suffer thiscorruption for so long now, it has blurred the line between wrong and right,perhaps even irrevocably so. In Kashmir the terms like ,'Zaan' and 'chai' haveinstitutionalized corruption. To be acquainted with someone means that you donot have to shell out too much money to get your things done. The things likechai and zaan work in a culture where the government machinery is slow andlacks agility to get things done within stipulated time. This culture thrivesin places where files take months to move from one table to another. With thecomputerization of almost two-third of official documents one was expectingdynamic changes to arrive. However, the core human nature hardly changes.Things are moving at a snail's pace. The corruption is exactly where it was adecade ago. With monitoring agencies vaguely present and inaccessible to commonman , the undisguised commoners are facing problems on all fronts. There arehuge queues outside government departments and people have to travel hundredsof kilometers to get what is due to them several times in a week. Even for the basicnecessities of life people are made to wait and things hardly materializeunless palms are greased. The common man who does not know any governmentfunctionary, or does not know even the man who knows that clerk in thatparticular department suffers the most. What does government think to solve theproblems of those thousands of undisguised commoners on the streets