Rewire,

I understand what you are trying to say, and I partially concur with it. But isoalte examples are not going to prove anything. I can just give you an example from Nepali press-- A Member of parliament was arrested and he lost his MP position yesterday for taking bribe.

Homeyji,

When I said "Schooled Approach", I should have  been clearer. What people lack in Nepal is an integrated vision of what they are doing. For example, when I talk to leadership, lots of them are trying to do things that will benefit society and  bring good name to them, but then they have no structured approach in their pursuit and they generally don't know where they and their work fit in the larger context. Works and initiatives die out as they retire or leave the public office, since even when they were honest and meant good, they didn't train their successors to adopt their mindset. Good leaders of different ministries often ignore the oppositions who , when they went to run the ministries, started things from the start or ignored the past initiatives partially because they were not privy to the previous initiatives and their assumed trajectory to achieve their goal . To see the proof of such "orphaned" projects, one can just go to Singha Durbar, Yojana Ayog, and see that the departments are littered with good, but dead, initiatives.

"Educated Men", like those who could have earned a lot abroad and lived in luxury, upon joining government sector could

(i) pursue the corrupt officers

(ii) leave better and well identified legacy, whether in terms of setting up an institute or starting an institutional approach that endures as they retire

(iii) should have no issue with money as they voluntarily left the foreign countries to work for government sector

rather than indulging in nebulous phraseologies of current leadership and an overall confused, even when well meaning, approach. They also would, presumably, not hesitate to send the corrupt men to jail. They will also put their "principle" ahead of everything else, because it is not the principle itself that they care but the goal to attain which they would think the principle to be inviolable.