This document discusses corruption in India, defining it as the misuse of power or lack of integrity for dishonest gain. It outlines several major corruption scandals in India involving politicians and bureaucrats, such as the 2G spectrum scam and Commonwealth Games scam, estimating billions of rupees lost. The types and impacts of corruption on the economy are described. Steps taken by the Indian government to reduce corruption are also summarized, including the Right to Information Act and actions of anti-corruption organizations.
2. CONTENT
Definition
Sources of corruption
Top 10 scams
Types of corruption
Impact of Corruption
Steps taken For reduce Corruption
Conclusion
3. DEFINITION
” MISUSE OF POWER”
“LACK OF INTEGRITY OR HONESTY;USE OF A POSITION
OF TRUST FOR DISHONEST GAIN.”
5. Gambling
False Income Statement
Drug trafficking
Weapons trading
Terrorism
Selling counterfeit or stolen goods
Selling pirated versions of copyrighted items such as
software and musical recordings and
Through any other act forbidden by law.
6. 2G Spectrum – Rs. 176,00,000 Cr.A.Raja
CommonWealth Games – Rs.70,000 Cr. Suresh Kalmadi
Stamp Scam – Rs. 20,000 Cr.Abdul KarimTelgi
Satyam Scam – Rs. 14,000 Cr. Ramalinga Raju and members of
his family
Bofors Scam – 16 Million US $
Chara Gotala – 900 Cr. Laloo PrasadYadav
Hawala Scandal – 18 Million US $ in 1996
IPL Scam – Latit Modi
Harshad Mehta and Ketan Parikh Capital Market Scam
7. Top 10 Scams
IN 2005
Transparency International in India found that more than 50% of Indians had
first-hand experience of paying bribes or influence peddling to get
jobs done in public offices successfully.
India tops the list for black money in the entire world with almost
US$1456 billion in Swiss banks in the form of black money
2G spectrum
resulted in heavy
loss of 176,379
crore rupees.
9. CWG
OnApril 25, 2011 Suresh Kalmadi was arrested by
CBI for awarding illegal contracts to a Swiss firm for
Timing-Scoring-Result (TSR) system for the 2010
Commonwealth Games causing a loss of Rs 95 crore.
11. The Bofors scandal was a major political
scandal that occurred
between Sweden and India during the 1980s and 1990s,
initiated by Indian National Congress (Congress party)
politicians and implicating the Indian prime
minister, Rajiv Gandhi, and several other members of
the Swedish and Indian governments who were accused
of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a
bid to supply India's 155 mm field howitzer.[1] The
scandal relates to illegal kickbacks paid in a US$1.4
billion deal between the Swedish arms manufacturer
Bofors with the government of India for the sale of 410
field howitzer guns, and a supply contract almost twice
that amount.
13. BUREAUCRACY
In 2009 survey of the leading
economies of Asia, revealed Indian
bureaucracy to be least efficient
out of under developed economies.
It was also found that
working with India's civil
servants was a "slow
and painful" process.
15. In 2016
Income Tax officials searching wealth of Surat-based tea and snacks vendor-
turned-financier Kishore Bhajiawala have in all unearthed property worth Rs
650 crore
16. TYPES OF CORRUPTION
SYSTEMATIC: Permeate an entire government or ministry.
e.g. DDA & MCD
INDIVIDUAL: Isolated and sporadic.
e.g. Traffic constable & sanitation inspector
GRAND: Senior officials, major decisions or contracts, and the
exchange of large sums of money and involves transnational.
e.g.2G Scam & CWG Scam
PETTY: Low level officials, the provision of routine services
and goods, and small sums of money.
e.g. licensing & enforcement
17. EFFECT
INFLATION
INCREASE IN POVERTY
UNHEALTHY CLIMATE FOR
INVESTMENT
SLOW GROWTH RATE OF ECONOMY
Reduces Development.
Illegal transfer of funds from India
to other countries.
19. Right to information act
In 2006
Transparency International puts India at the 70th place and states that
significant improvements were made by India in reducing corruption.
in2016
The Berlin-based corruption watchdogTransparency International (TI)
has put India at rank 76 out of 168 countries in its latest Corruption
Perception Index.
20.
21. How to remove corruption
laws fixing accountability and encouraging
transparency combined with efficient judiciary and free
press provide ideal atmosphere to tackle the menace of
corruption.
22. ANTI-CORRUPTION POLICE AND COURTS
BHOOMI PROJECT
Bhoomi is a project jointly funded by the Government of India
and the Government of Karnataka to digitize the paper land
records and create a software mechanism to control changes to
the land registry in Karnataka.
Shri K. Santhanam Committee
23. ANTI-CORRUPTION ORGANIZATIONS
Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, a
former I.A. S. officer and
renowned activist from Andhra
Pradesh, India.The movement was
started in 1996 with the founding
of Lok Satta, a non-governmental
organization. In 2006, the
movement transformed into Lok
Satta Party.
Goals
Democratization of political parties to make them open, transparent, and accountable
in all aspects.
Electoral reforms to make elections truly democratic, fair and transparent; to facilitate
and promote participation of the best men and women in India's political process;
Effective decentralization of governance through empowerment of local governments as
participative tiers of constitutional.
Effective functioning of legislature.
Measures to make bureaucracy truly accountable, responsive, and efficient at all levels.
Institutional checks to prevent abuse of office.
freedom of information for transparent governance;
24. The Right to Information Act (RTI) of 2005 helped civilians
work effectively towards tackling corruption. It allows Indian
citizens to request information, for a fixed fee
of RS.15(US$0.22), from a "public authority" (a body of
Government or "instrumentality of State"). In turn, this
public authority is required to reply to the request within
thirty days.Activists have used this to uncover corruption
cases against various politicians and bureaucrats – one
consequence being that some of those activists have been
attacked and even killed.
25. Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare believes Prime
Minister Narendra Modi’s decision on Tuesday night to wipe
out black money by scrapping the currency notes of Rs 500 and
Rs 1,000 was a revolutionary step. And could lead to the
beginning of a “new India marching towards a corruption-free
society”. The 79-year-old says the next step should be towards
electoral reforms to check black money in the poll process.
30. Black money has created a big black hole
in Indian economy & the entire burden is
beared by the common people of India.
To stop corruption which creates black
money, we the people of India have to come
forward to fight against corruption.