DomainK Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 http://www.ibnlive.com/news/corrupt-and-proud-of-it-we-are-like-this-only/74292-3.html Some interesting points: 1. India ranked 72 in the Corruption Perception Index 2007 and slipped to 85 in the same index for 2008. 2. India's integrity score on a scale of 10 has gone down marginally from 3.5 in 2007 to 3.4 this year 3. The police, the political establishment and the lower judiciary are the most corrupt institutions in the country. 4. Indians living below the poverty line paid Rs 9,000 million as bribes in 2007 to avail need-based services."These services were related to the police, land records, housing, banking, hospitals, PDS, school education, water and so on," 5. Our neighbors Oakistan, BD and Afganistan are more corrupt than us, but Bhutan is ranked 45 and has an integrity score of 5.2. 6. India and China shared the same rank in 2007 but the communist nation has retained its position of 72 with a slightly higher integrity score of 3.6. Are we going back to stone age?
PaiN_KiLLeR Posted September 26, 2008 Posted September 26, 2008 Corruption has become so deeply entrenched in our mindset that we have started accepting it as a way of life. I was recently talking to a manager of a Construction co and I was taken aback when he said "Chalo acha hai, BMC waale bribe toh lete hai ...isliye hamara kaam time per hoja ta hai. warna kya pata kitne saal laga dete kaam poori karne mein". And he wasn't kidding when he said. Later today I'll be getting my dose of government corruption when I go to pay stamp duty on my house agreement.
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