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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 contacts/middlemen, to access the public services @@ • According to the CMS-ICS 2017 study, the states where percentage of households experiencing corruption in 2017 round was more than ‘combined state average’ of 31 percent are Karnataka (77 percent), Andhra Pradesh (74 percent), Tamil Nadu (68 percent), Maharashtra (57 percent), J&K (44 percent), Punjab (42 percent) and Gujarat (37 percent) @$ • India's Corruption Perception Index score has improved from 36 out of 100 in 2013 (also same score of 36 in 2012) to 38 out of 100 in 2014. The country ranks 85 among 175 nations in terms of Corruption Perception Index. China ranks 100 among 175 nations with a score of 36 out of 100 @ • India's Corruption Perception Index 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 very clean). The country presently ranks 94 among 177 nations. What is more surprising is that its neighbouring countries like Bhutan (Rank: 31; Score: 63), China (Rank: 80; Score: 40) and Sri Lanka (Rank: 91; Score: 37) are better performers in terms of Corruption Perception Index. Pakistan ranks far below at 127 # • 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 the level of corruption has increased a lot $ • 86 percent of respondents in India felt that political parties were corrupt/extremely corrupt. 75 percent of Indian respondents felt that police were corrupt/extremely corrupt. However, only 20 percent of respondents felt that military was corrupt/extremely corrupt $ • 45 percent of the rural households opined that ‘corruption has increased’ in public services in the previous one year (preceding the India Corruption Study 2010)* • 11.5% respondents in the India Corruption Study 2010 had paid a bribe for PDS, 9% for hospitals, 5.8% for schools and 4.3% for water supply. On an average in a year, a rural household paid around Rs 164 as bribe to avail of these four public services* • Rs. 8,830 million, in all, was paid as bribe by below poverty line (BPL) households in 2006-07** • The poorest households of India paid Rs. 2,148 million to police as bribe in 2006-07** @@ CMS-India Corruption Study 2018: 2015 to 2018-How well are states placed? , please click here to access @$ CMS-India Corruption Study 2017: Perception and Experience with Public Services & Snapshot View for 2005-17, please click here to access @ Corruption Perceptions Index 2014, prepared by Transparency International (click here to access link1, link2 and link3) #Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by Transparency International, http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2013/press/ http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2013/results/ $ Global Corruption Barometer 2013 prepared by Transparency International, http://www.transparency.org/gcb2013/report http://www.transparency.org/gcb2013/country/?country=india
* India Corruption Study 2010, Centre for Media Studies ** India Corruption Study—2007, Transparency India International and Centre for Media Studies
OVERVIEW Is corruption a livelihoods issue? According to a World Bank study, the cost of corruption in India is around 3 per cent of its GDP. In other words, corruption erodes the gains of overall national growth, slows down economic activity, and gets in the way of investments and job creation. It also undermines the rule of law by making it possible for the rich and powerful to subvert the system by paying bribes. All this weakens the society’s moral fibre and sets off a vicious cycle of more crime and more corruption leading to more inequalities and more miseries for the poor.
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