Who prepared this report? :-)
The latest India Corruption Study 2007 conducted jointly by Transparency
International and Centre for Media Study and released by Vice President Hamid
Ansari on Saturday is embarrassing news for Assam, where corruption level was
described as ‘alarming’.
Another attempt to make Assam state (a colony?) toe the line. :-)
Dilip Deka
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From: Dibya [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 10:11:10 AM
Subject: [asom] Assam ranks as 'most corrupt' State
Time for Gogoi sir with cronies to settle at Bangladesh..
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Assam ranks as 'most corrupt' State
NEW DELHI, June 29 – Assam has earned the dubious distinction of being the most
corrupt State in the country, on the basis of corruption in 11 vital services.
Corruption level was alarming in four other States, as well. The latest India
Corruption Study 2007 conducted jointly by Transparency International and
Centre for Media Study and released by Vice President Hamid Ansari on Saturday
is embarrassing news for Assam, where corruption level was described as
‘alarming’. The four States, which follow Assam include Bihar, Jammu and
Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. The grouping of States on corruption
reflects position of States in the context of eleven services. The eleven
services included ‘basic services’ like PDS, hospital service, school
education, electricity and water supply services and ‘need -based services’,
like land records, registration, housing service, forest, NREGS, banking
service and police service (traffic and crime)). The study does not include
operational irregularities in the system and even corruption that does not
involve citizens directly.The study covered all 31 States and Union Territories
and is focused on the poorest and rural areas. It included below the poverty
line people (BPL) in both rural areas and urban slums.The level of corruption
in all the 11services studied in Assam and Madhya Pradesh was alarming. In
Delhi and West Bengal, for example, corruption level was moderate in most
services surveyed. Among smaller States of the north-east, like Nagaland and
Goa, corruption level was alarming, whereas in Meghalaya and Sikkim, it was
very high. In Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur the level was high, while in
Tripura and Mizoram it was found to be moderate. The total bribe amount
involved in a year in BPL households availing the eleven services is estimated
at Rs 8,830 crore. Based on the incidence of bribe paid by sample BPL
households, an estimate is made for the total amount paid as bribe by BPL
households in the country during the last one-year in the eleven services.
School education (up to class XII and government schools) among the 11 services
studied stands last in the ranking meaning the level of corruption is the
lowest among all. While police service stood number one. The land records and
registration and house and plot, which are specially tailored for BPL
households, stand at two and three respectively in the rank. The level and
extent of corruption in police service was high in all States, as if it is
universal – but the ranks of other services show variations across the States.
Given the nature of need-based services, which are monopolistic or involve
asset creation or volume, these services ranked high on corruption as compared
to basic services.Releasing the report, the Vice president said the report
brings to light the negative impact of competitive politics on targeted schemes
aimed at the poor. It has reported instances of BPL, SC/ST and other vulnerable
households of being told by political activists of a linkage between benefits
and electoral preferences. “This, to the extent it is true, amounts to
political corruption in its damaging form since it undermines the very
institutions of democracy at all levels. A national consensus at its avoidance
is thus imperative,” he opined.
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