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** Corruption in India**
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Indian visitors in Paklink forum try to prove that India is great country and is heaven in comparison with Pakistan. Although my thread is for different purpose but for them I have collected some corruption details from the Indian websites. So please just check the corruption volume of your own country. A 2005 study conducted by Transparency International](Transparency International - Wikipedia) in India found that more than 15% of Indians had first-hand experience of paying bribes or influence peddling to successfully complete jobs in public office.
Taxes and bribes are a fact of daily life and common between state borders; Transparency International estimates that truckers pay US$5 billion in bribes annually.[3]](Corruption in India - Wikipedia) In 2010 India was ranked 87th out of 178 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on March 18, 2011.
Criminalization of Indian politics is a serious problem.In July 2008 The Washington Post reported that nearly a fourth of the 540 Indian Parliament](Parliament of India - Wikipedia) members faced criminal charges, “including human trafficking, immigration rackets, embezzlement, rape and even murder”.
India tops the list for black money in the entire world with almost US$1456 billion in Swiss banks (USD 1.4 trillion approximately) in the form of black money. According to the data provided by the Swiss Banking Association Report (2006), India has more black money than the rest of the world combined. Indian Swiss bank account assets are worth 13 times the country’s national debt.
Independent reports have recently when calculated India’s traditionally ruling family’s (Gandhi’s) financial net worth to be anywhere between **$9.41 billion (Rs 42,345 crore) to $18.66 billion (Rs 83,900 crore), **most of it in the form of illegal monies. Harvard scholar Yevgenia Albats cited KGB correspondence about payments to Rajiv Gandhi and his family, which had been arranged by Viktor Chebrikov, which shows that KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov sought in writing an “authorization to make payments in US dollars to the family members of Rajiv Gandhi, namely Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Paola Maino, mother of Sonia Gandhi” from the CPSU in December 1985.
“The recent scams involving unimaginably big amounts of money, such as the 2G spectrum scam, are well known. It is estimated that more than trillion dollars are stashed away in foreign havens, while 80% of Indians earn less than 2$ per day and every second child is malnourished. It seems as if only the honest people are poor in India and want to get rid of their poverty by education, emigration to cities, and immigration, whereas all the corrupt ones are getting rich through scams and crime. It seems as if India is a rich country filled with poor people", the organizers of Dandi March II in the United States said.
The Controller and Auditor General of India said, “As on March 31, 2010, unutilized committed external assistance was of the order of Rs.1, 05,339 crore.”
In a most recent example of corruption, even as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) probes US$8 billion worth transactions allegedly involving suspected money launderer Hasan Ali Khan, evidence available with a news source in India shows that he had transactions of over 112,000 crore (US$24.86 billion) between years 2005 and 2006. This amount is enough to fund the national drinking water project in all the six lakh (600,000) villages in India for the next 10 years.
Armed forces Corruption.
The Indian Armed Forces have frequently witnessed corruption involving senior armed forces officers from the Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian Air Force. Many officers have been caught for allegedly selling defence stores in the black market in the border districts of Indian states and territories. Recent sukhna land scandal involving four Indian Lieutenant Generals has shaken public faith in the country’s growing military at a time when large sums are being spent on modernising the armed forces. A string of eye-popping fraud cases has damaged the institution in recent years. The latest Adarsh land scam is another example of the nexus between the armed forces, bureaucracy and the politicians in the embezzlement of government property.
Corruption in Medicine
In Government Hospitals, corruption is associated with non availability of medicines (or duplicate/fake medicines), getting admission, consultations with doctors and availing diagnostic services. There have been cases of diversion of medical supplies from government hospitals and clinics as well as supply and distribution of medicines of inferior quality some hospitals are charging extra amounts from rich people. In India there is an unfair co-operation for medi-insurance companies and hospitals.
Top 10 Corruption Scams in India
- 2G Spectrum Scam
- Commonwealth Games Scam
- Telgi Scam
- Bofors Scam
- The Fodder Scam
- The Hawala Scandal
- IPL Scam
9, 10) Harshad Mehta & Ketan Parekh Stock Market Scam
Remember: This is just a very small overview of Indian corruption.