Citizens of India experience corruption in their everyday lives through almost any interaction. For reasons such as it being the root of poverty, resulting in injustice, and being detrimental to the relationship between the people and the state, corruption needs to be taken out of India’s political and economic system. Although the costs and hardships of removing corruption from India will be great, resolving and extracting it from the system will benefit a majority of the citizens.…
Once chanakya had said that honey would be kept on your tongue and you would not be allowed to taste; it is impossible. Corruption is the misuse of public power for private profit. It involves those behaviours on the part of government officials, whether politicians or civil servants, where they improperly and unlawfully enrich themselves or those close to them, by the misuse of the public power entrusted to them. Corruption in any where is threat to every here as the saying one rotten apple spoils the barrel. Harshad Mehta, Sukhram, Tehelaka, Telgi cases are the great example of corruption in India. Literacy and corruption are interlinked. Most literates are more corrupted in most of the cases and the most illiterate are the victims of corruption. As in India most of the people are illiterate so they are becoming the easy victims of corruption. Every patriotic Indian realizes that if there is one factor that is keeping India under the spell of perpetual poverty and which makes the life of the common citizen miserable, it is corruption. A citizen faces corruption practically at every level and every sector of life. It could be the local rationing department, police, municipal authorities or educational institutions like schools and colleges. In the industry inspector-raj has become a code word for regular bribes collected by the public servants at the cutting edge of administration of the various departments of Central and State governments.…
Corruption in India is a major issue and adversely affects its economy.[1] A study conducted by Transparency International in year 2005 found that more than 62% of Indians had firsthand experience of paying bribes or influence peddling to get jobs done in public offices successfully.[2][3] In its study conducted in year 2008, Transparency International reports about 40% of Indians had firsthand experience of paying bribes or using a contact to get a job done in public office.[4]…
With a booming economy in the 2000s, it seemed like India was on the fast track to becoming a developed nation. However, recent slow growth has not only reigned in this optimism, but it has also revealed just how rampant government corruption is throughout the country. Major scandals in the telecommunications industry and the coal mining industry have come to light in the past year, rocking the country. Hundreds of billions of rupees of taxpayer revenue have been wasted as a result of such corruption, and many fear this is only the tip of the iceberg. Some reports suggest that as much as fifty percent of government money intended for welfare programs and subsidies ends up in the pockets of politicians, bureaucrats, and influential businessmen instead. With 600 million people living in poverty, 300 million living without electricity and 65 percent of the entire population under thirty-five years of age, most without any marketable skills, India cannot afford to waste any of its resources IT it WANTS to improve the welfare of its citizens.…
2006), robbery has declined by 28.85% (from 8,407, rate of 2.24/100,000 in 1953 to 18,456, rate of 18,456 in 2006)…
Corruption is one of the main reasons for the various problems in the country. The effect of corruption has many dimensions related to political, economic, social and environmental effects. In political sphere, corruption impedes democracy and the rule of law. In a democratic system, public institutions and offices may lose their legitimacy when they misuse their power for private interest. Corruption may also result in negative consequences such as encoring cynicism and reducing interest of political participation , political instability , reducing political competition, reducing the transparency of political decision making, distorting political development and sustaining political activity based on patronage, clientelism and money, etc. In Social sphere, corruption discourages people to work together for the common good. Frustration and general apathy among the public result in a weak civil society. Demanding and paying bribes becomes the tradition. It also results in social inequality and widened gap between the rich and poor, civil strive, increased poverty and lack of basic needs like food, water and drugs, jealousy and hatred and insecurity. To avoid corruption there should be an independent body to tackle and chech corruption. Lokpal is one of such institution.1…
India is at 87th position in the list of 178 countries as far as corruption is concerned in Transparency international’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). It includes both political and bureaucratic corruptions. Transparency International has estimated the annual worth of great Indian corruption market is US$5 billion. And 75% of them are corruptions made by politicians. That is the reason why we live in a rich country but we are poor.…
Corruption does not stop here only...we came across with corruption right from our birth...when we were kids...parents used to tell us they will but you new dress or toy if we stood 1st in class...that was also a corruption only...so we see this corruption is everywhere around us.…
These words of aptly describes the scale of damage of corruption. The article “No business like politics in India” provides us just with the tip of Iceberg. It shows a clear evidence of politicians amassing huge wealth during their tenures which is not possible through their government salaries. It should be noted that the ADR has only analyzed the assets records which are publicly available. The black money & assets is the part of Iceberg hidden from the sight of public & media. Thus the representatives which we are electing for ourselves are stealing from us only. This situation has been growing worse in the present times. Let us analyze this phenomenon and try to understand under what categories it falls. Let us first understand all the key phenomenon’s mentioned in question…
In India, corruption is something we all learn to live with. We have been breast-beating over the sorry state of affairs from the times India marched on a Sovereign nation.…
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Corruption in India is a major issue and adversely affects its economy.[1] A 2005 study conducted by Transparency International in India found that more than 62% of Indians had firsthand experience of paying bribes or influence peddling to get jobs done in public offices successfully.[2][3] In its 2008 study, Transparency International reports about 40% of Indians had firsthand experience of paying bribes or using a contact to get a job done in public office.[4]…
Corruption is defined by the World Bank and Transparency International (TI) as “the misuse of public office for private gain.”1 Though the defination is too narrow in meaning but Corruption is a global phenomenon. It articulates the whole system from primary to secondary level government and non-government officials. It is so involved in our social system that is today necessity to have it for development of low economic disables. The graveness of this menace can be observed from the fact that India is ranked 85 out of 179 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, although its score has improved consistently from 2.7 in 2002 to 3.4 in 2008.2 Study by Transparency International (TI) in India in 2005 found that more than 50 per cent of the people had first-hand experience of paying bribe or peddling influence to get a job done in a public office. Its impact on today society is such that it can’t be eradicate from the system and it is modern requirement of the low wage class officials surviving and fighting against the fast growing inflation. Therefore it serves both, a problem for one class and a solution for other and to eradicate it is required that the big sharks must be caught and scandals must be taken in commission monitering it as an evil and solutions must be searched to improve the social system.…
Corruption in India is a major issue and adversely affects its economyIn 2011 India was ranked 95th out of 178 countries in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index.…
Corruption is a global phenomenon. Corruption is a disease in both endemic and epidemic. It marks mockery of administration, development and democracy. Corruption in public life has reached an alarming stage and has enraged. Globally a sensitive issue the level of corruption has also increased substantially in India. Corruption breeds out of dishonesty and illegal behaviour of the people who misuse their official position and authority.The World Bank defines corruption as the use of “Public office for private profit”.…