Corruption
According to the CMS-India Corruption Study 2018: 2015 to 2018-How well are states placed? please click here to access: • The CMS-ICS 2018 has covered both rural and urban locations of 13 states and 11 public services. • The present report finds that 75 percent households have the perception that the level of corruption in public services has either…
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KEY TRENDS • According to the CMS-India Corruption Study 2018, among states, 73 percent households in Telangana, 38 percent in Tamil Nadu, 36 percent in Karnataka, 35 percent in Bihar, 29 percent in Delhi, 23 percent in Madhya Pradesh; 22 percent in Punjab and 20 percent households in Rajasthan experienced demand for bribe or had to use…
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Kindly click here to access the document titled Overview of corruption and anticorruption developments in India (released in January 2022), which has been prepared by Kaunain Rahman of Transparency International. The main points of the document are: • Corruption remains an endemic problem for India, pervading all levels of governance.• The violation of human rights in the Indian…
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According to the CMS-India Corruption Study 2018: 2015 to 2018-How well are states placed? please click here to access: • The CMS-ICS 2018 has covered both rural and urban locations of 13 states and 11 public services. • The present report finds that 75 percent households have the perception that the level of corruption in public services has either…
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According to the CMS-India Corruption Study 2017: Perception and Experience with Public Services & Snapshot View for 2005-17, please click here to access: • Between 2005 and 2017, there is a definite decline in both perception and experience of citizens about corruption in availing public services. • The 11th round of annual CMS-ICS 2017 brings out that nearly…
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The Corruption Perceptions Index is based on expert opinions of public sector corruption. Countries’ scores can be helped by open government where the public can hold leaders to account, while a poor score [on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean)] is a sign of prevalent…
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According to the report titled: Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by Transparency International, http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2013/press/ http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2013/results/: • India’s score stands at 36, the same as it was in 2012. It is among majority of the 177 countries in 2013 having index score below 50, on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be…
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According to the Global Corruption Barometer 2013 prepared by Transparency International, http://www.transparency.org/gcb2013/report http://www.transparency.org/gcb2013/country/?country=india: • 54 percent of respondents from India reported having paid a bribe in the last 12 months to one out of eight services-police, judiciary, registry, land, medical, education, tax and utilities. • 40 percent of respondents from India felt that over the past 2 years…
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According to Transparency International’s 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index, http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/: • Not many countries around the world are untouched by the scourge of corruption, according to Transparency International’s 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index. • Transparency International warned that protests around the world, often fuelled by corruption and economic instability, clearly show citizens feel their leaders and public institutions are…
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