awazaapki/archives/14132 The Extent of Corruption In a UN Study in 2002 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). The study found that an estimated sum of Rupees 26,768 crores is extracted from citizens who interact with these ten sectors. Lower strata with lower earnings are hit harder due to corruption. A 2005 study done by Transparency International (TI) in India found that more than 50% of the people had firsthand experience of paying bribe or peddling influence to get a job done in a public office. Taxes and bribes are common between state borders; Transparency International estimates that truckers pay annually 22,200 crores in bribes. A 13th August 2010 report in Business Line, a Hindu Group publication stated “While there is no official estimate available for the magnitude of India’s black money, unofficial estimates put the figure at around $1.4 trillion (over Rs 70 lakh crore). This amount is more than one year’s GDP. Most of this money has been stashed away in banks in ‘tax havens’ abroad over the last 60 years by politicians, industrialists, bureaucrats and middle-men.” In 2012 India was ranked 94th out of 176 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. Mega Scams Corruption however was not limited to the lower levels of officialdom but had infected the bastions of power at the very highest level. The incredible mega scams that rocked India 2010 onward shocked the conscience of the masses arousing the anger and contempt of a dismayed nation. It showed the glaring extent to which loot was taking place. What left the people exasperated was the sheer scale of these scams and the brazen impunity with which they were committed. The 2G spectrum scam involved politicians and government officials in India illegally undercharging mobile telephony companies for frequency allocation licenses is estimated to be INR176,645 crore . (US$33.39 billion), as valued by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India based on 3G and BWA spectrum auction prices in 2010. The CWG scam was worth Rs 35000 crores. The CoalGate scam caused a loss of Rs186000 crores. The Irrigation scam of Maharashtra was estimated at Rs.70000 crores. Then came news about the incredible Thorium scam that dwarfed all the earlier scams put together. A scam estimated to be to the tune of 60 lakh crores. In fact, innumerable other scams couldn’t make it to the headlines because the scale of these mega scams overwhelmed them
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:42:54 +0000
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