GUWAHATI, July 9 � A majority of the people find it difficult to move the court to seek justice for themselves. Reluctance is also there in most of the people to approach the police seeking legal help for safeguarding their interests. All such facts have come up during a survey conducted by the Assamese youth magazine Jeevan in May-June last.
The findings of the survey are being published in the ensuing issue of the magazine. The magazine is published by the voluntary organization Jeevan Initiative.
Significantly, reflecting the awful level of corruption in public life, most of the people were found during the survey feeling insecure to assert themselves and get their works done in the government offices without bribing the officials.
Similarly, an overwhelming majority of the job seekers are apprehensive of their prospects being affected by corruption in the job market.
During the survey conducted within a sample size of 3,465 as per the random sample survey method, it also came to light that 68 per cent of those surveyed do not feel themselves to be free to move the court seeking judicial remedies to their problems.
On the other hand, 53 per cent of them suffer from lack of freedom to file an FIR with the police, lest they become victims of any harassment in consequence.
Of them, 47 per cent people do not feel free to inform the Government of their opposition to any political decision that may affect the people, while 31 per cent of them do not feel themselves to be free to boldly tell the media what they think to be just.
Seventy two per cent of the people surveyed are found to be apprehensive that their job prospects may be affected by the corruption prevailing in the job market. Thirty seven per cent of them do not feel themselves to be free to voice their protest against any injustice they are witness to.
Fifty five per cent of those surveyed do not feel themselves free to make their opposition against an unethical act, known. Similarly, 39 per cent of these people are not found to be free to register their protest against the injustices at their places of work.
Fifty two per cent of these people said that women are not free to safely travel by the public transport system.
Those surveyed included the teachers and students of Gauhati University, Dibrugarh University, Tezpur University and several colleges, besides, many other people beyond the age group of 14 years, in various urban and rural areas of the State.
