Corruption in India : an Empirical Study
CORRUPTION IN INDIA : AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
Over five thousand citizens of India were interviewed in the house to house survey carried out to assess the citizens perceptions on corruption prevalent in ten sectors, Education, Health, Police (Law & Order), Power, Telephone
(Communication), Railways (Transport), Land & Building Administration, Judiciary, Taxation and Ration (Public distribution system).
An estimated sum of Rupees (Rs.) 26,768 crores are extracted from citizens who interact with these ten sectors.
Lower strata with lower earnings are hit harder due to corruption.
As per perception of the people, Police is the most corrupt sector. However, the impact of corruption is on a much larger scale in the Health and Education Sectors involving far greater number of population.
Corruption in Health and Education deprives people of these basic facilities and affects human development. These are, co-relates of Human Development. Cross country data of 102 countries show that there is a high rank correlation
(0.788) as well as coefficient of correlation (0.766) between Human Development Index (HDI) and Corruption
Perception Index (CPI). Countries with low scores in CPI have low HDI. See Annexure ‘A’.
Many avenues of corruption cannot be dealt with under the Prevention of Corruption Act,1988.
In many cases the citizen is not even aware that the practices can be classified as corrupt (eg., When patients are directed to specific pathological laboratories for conduct of tests).
Citizens are resentful of the existence of corruption and are willing to talk about it openly. Formation of interest groups of citizens interacting with various departments can channelize the resentments of the citizens constructively.
Pressure groups so formed can take up matters with concerned authorities and seek redressal.
In such areas Civil Society organizations can raise awareness among the populace and acts as catalysts.
Cause for corruption is certainly containing not
Over five thousand citizens of India were interviewed in the house to house survey carried out to assess the citizens perceptions on corruption prevalent in ten sectors, Education, Health, Police (Law & Order), Power, Telephone
(Communication), Railways (Transport), Land & Building Administration, Judiciary, Taxation and Ration (Public distribution system).
An estimated sum of Rupees (Rs.) 26,768 crores are extracted from citizens who interact with these ten sectors.
Lower strata with lower earnings are hit harder due to corruption.
As per perception of the people, Police is the most corrupt sector. However, the impact of corruption is on a much larger scale in the Health and Education Sectors involving far greater number of population.
Corruption in Health and Education deprives people of these basic facilities and affects human development. These are, co-relates of Human Development. Cross country data of 102 countries show that there is a high rank correlation
(0.788) as well as coefficient of correlation (0.766) between Human Development Index (HDI) and Corruption
Perception Index (CPI). Countries with low scores in CPI have low HDI. See Annexure ‘A’.
Many avenues of corruption cannot be dealt with under the Prevention of Corruption Act,1988.
In many cases the citizen is not even aware that the practices can be classified as corrupt (eg., When patients are directed to specific pathological laboratories for conduct of tests).
Citizens are resentful of the existence of corruption and are willing to talk about it openly. Formation of interest groups of citizens interacting with various departments can channelize the resentments of the citizens constructively.
Pressure groups so formed can take up matters with concerned authorities and seek redressal.
In such areas Civil Society organizations can raise awareness among the populace and acts as catalysts.
Cause for corruption is certainly containing not