Indian democracy is majorly flawed due to its intermixing with socialist bureaucratic yoke... A multi-tiered bureaucracy in Socialist/Communist states were made with the precise intentions to make govt impervious and inaccessible to common man....
And when Indian Constitution Drafters drafted the constitution,they tried to mix everything and make a cocktail Governing body...
I believe that Ideal democracy is one in which citizen can easily reach out to the govt. Which is why,I believe, a democratic form of governance should have thinner bureaucratic strata... By developing such a heavy and complex network of bureaucracy, Indian Drafters made the democratic vision counter-productive... We have become stagnant because we are a potpourri of multiple systems,and do not really represent a single system as a whole,and each system seems to be working against another...
A simple example of this can be viewed by the fact that, a completely bankrupt economy was revived by removing the Socialist Protection Laws, and making India a freer market and economy...
Now I believe that is the same approach one must use to actually eradicate corruption too... The unnecessarily extensive bureaucracy must be clipped off its vestigial excesses and trimmed into a thin and far simpler system which just forms a single tier interface between government and the citizens...
As long as Indian system is ailed by this extensive bureaucracy, there is no way that one can hope to remove corruption...
Secondly, the next step would be to decentralize the authority as well as funds to deal with issues... State matters should be increased and Central matters minimised...
Decentralization helps in reducing the bureaucratic levels and hence the attenuation or melting of funds due to corruption at various levels... A completely federalised structure is very important to this context...
Here again, Indian drafters went wrong... They did not make India completely Federal, neither did they make it completely Centralised Govt.
It is just the same way the Panzer divisions were awarded by Hitler after D-Day... Half to Roemmel and half elsewhere... Neither could utilise them well, as neither had enough to use and hence the efficiency of beachhead defense and inland defence,both weakened...
Similarly, Center and State partially shared the power,making neither have a full executive control and hence effective decisions were not possible and instead the decision became a matter of mutual agreement (over self interest)...
Complete centralization can be dangerous so complete federal structure is what I think is better in this context,except for military control...
The Cabinet ministry is more or less again a mixture of any Communist Politburo and British styled Cabinet...
They must be removed and replaced with autonomous Departments which specialise in the particular field, and they should have a common Representative Committee with the more empowered President heading the Committee...
Total removal of Cabinet and replacement with American styled 'Secretaries',viz., Secretary of Treasury,Secretary of Defence etc, is a better option,according to me, as they will have technical know-how as well as be more informed and efficient... Though such 'Secretaries' exist even now, again a level of Cabinet Ministers seems a complete waste...
Biggest flaw of Indian Constitution is that while Bureaucracy, Judiciary and such positions require eligibility in terms of educational qualification, the executive has been stripped of its worth by allowing ANYONE irrespective of their track records to contest...
The third correction would be to make a procedural entrance system to enter into Ministerial service...
As a conclusion, all I would say is, the bane of Indian System is its complexity with its unnecessary twists and turns which make it convenient for the vile foxes to get the lambs to stray and in darkness pounce and prey upon them...
A democracy can only work in a more decentralized, federal structure which is fairly simpler in its built-up...
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