MORAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Can you imagine one thing that would have made a big difference to the current pandemic? It could have saved us all the trouble, saved so many lives and given us freedom from corona!   The first time when it started, people coming from outside did not have the Integrity to check themselves for the infection and they simply walked into the country.   Later as the infection started spreading and we had a method of checking the temperature of people at the airport, what did they do? The people who were well-to-do and well educated, showed absolute lack of character and took paracetamol Tablets to hide their fever.!! One small pill for a man but a big pillage for the mankind! Whom have they fooled?   - their countrymen or their own selves? The individual character of a person could have been be the first step to arrest the coronavirus!   Honestly , how many of us have the moral courage to tell our neighbours or our friends or anyone on the road, to wear a mask? Nobody want

ENHANCING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE ORGANISATION  BY  IMPROVING  INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER     INTRODUCTION     1.            The prayer at National Defence Academy starts by asking God to help us keep ourselves physically strong, mentally alert and morally straight. These three parameters are essential for a leader.  In fact, the moral factor is the vertebral column, which supports both physical and mental capabilities.  Moral fibre enables a person to put to use what one has learnt and acquired by experience. Though the Indian Army and other services are well known for high integrity, there have been several cases in the recent past to prove otherwise. Media has been periodically highlighting several cases like fake encounters, illegal sale of liquor and rations, leakage of information, ill-treatment of women, suicides etc. There are several other cases, which never come to light. There is no doubt that moral values