Nice guys don’t finish second

Interesting story about penalized but eventually promoted for being honest here.  Link

 It’s pretty slick I would say – I would love to make him a great symbol and find more ways to give him visibility, just to serve as an example for the society.

Some nice excerpts:

* Mukesh asserts that there was nothing extradordinary in being honest. “Aren’t we supposed to be honest?”, he asks, while regretting modestly “it is the prevalence of widespread corruption in our department that makes an ordinary person like me look extraordinary”.

* Mukesh Kumar has chosen to be honest on purpose. Some people are honest because they do not get the opportunity to resort to corruption. But for a naib tehsildar or tehsildar, being honest is something unusual and incredible. Deservingly, Mukesh has been posted as tehsildar, Ludhiana West, the most sought after job in the whole of Punjab, where people claim to offer bids for the posting.

* Unlike his other colleagues, he does not own a car. He lives in a modest house with his two brothers. Theirs is a joint family. He purchased a mobile phone only recently. He still travels by bus or a three-wheeler. Thankfully he has got a supporting wife and children. His two children study in a public school. “If you have not so many desires, you can live a respectable life with your honest earnings”, he says, adding he does not think that his family members are in anyway less privileged than those of his colleagues.