45 % Indians given Bribe Once in Last Year
45 % Indians given Bribe Once in Last Year
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A corruption related to an enquiry conducted by the non-government organisation Transparency International has exposed that 45 % Indians paid a bribe to a government authorized to get their work done in last year. The survey, conducted among 34,696 communicators, stated that the citizen of Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal felt there is a lowercase reduction in levels of corruption in past one year.

Amazingly, the residents of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh find that the level of corruption has decreased in their states. The poll showed that 21 percent and 28 percent respondents in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi felt corruption has subsided.In the state of UP, about 21 percent of the respondents said that corruption reduced in the state.The number of those who think that corruption reduced was strikingly low in the state of West Bengal, where only 3% of the respondents think that corruption came low in 2016.

In Punjab, some 20% of the answer shows that corruption increased in the last one year. An equal percentage of respondents replied that they could not say whether corruption increased in the same period. The remaining 60 percent believed that corruption levels were the same as before.The research showed that 84 percent of the graft transactions relate to localized level bodies and wings of the local government, i.e. municipality, police, tax, power, property registration, tenders etc. only 9% said most of the bribes were paid to the central government departments, i.e. PF, income tax, service tax, railways etc.Only 2 % said it was paid to the private sector and 5 percent said it was paid to other parties like for school admissions, NGOs, courts etc.In two separate parallel polls, 51 % of the citizens replied that their state did not take any action in the last 1 year to reduce corruption while 45 % submitted that they paid a bribe at least once in the last 12 months, to get their work done.

 

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