corruption

The Big Picture – Prevention of Corruption Act: Should it  be amended? Summary: The provisions of the prevention of the corruption act have always invited a lot of debate among people in government and officials. The union finance minister has revived the debate again by stating that there is a need to review and amend […]

Today’s The Hindu newspaper reports that there are 1,622.8 government servants for every 100,000 residents in India. It also says that Indian Railways employs 44.81% of entire Central government workforce. Also, 59.69 per cent public servants belong to Group C and 29.37 per cent to Group D. In USA there are 7,681 servants for every […]

Draft Lokpal Bill, 2011  (Click to see the PDF)

The draft Jan Lokpal Bill must include even the media, NGOs, private businesses and their owners. Biggest corruption of recent times have invariably included big business houses and also persons associated with the media. Corruption is universal and those who try to bribe the officials and politicians to get their clearances for big businesses like mining, […]

“Saar, I have lost 2.3 lakhs to win this election, I am in debt now. If you issue checks directly to the beneficiaries, I won’t get a penny. Please, let me bring them to you so that I can extract some commission from them……….” This was a honest admission and a request from the Gram […]

A minister who is fond of reciting poems in press conferences and literary festivals; fond of announcing premature, impractical reforms in the education sector; fond of showing the world that he’s an intellectual par excellence adept in literature, science and technology and law – suddenly in hysterical urgency defends the father of ‘mother of all […]