Corruption in Bangladesh is characterized by various scales and forms, including petty, grand, and systematic corruption, with significant impacts in public and political sectors. Factors contributing to corruption include deep-rooted political culture, mass illiteracy, and weak civic responsibility, resulting in economic hinderance and a negative global image for the country. Transparency International Bangladesh works to monitor corruption, and while it may be challenging to eliminate, efforts can be made to reduce its negative effects through media and public awareness initiatives.

1. Corruption in Bangladesh

2.  Wrong doing on the part of an authority or powerful party
through means that are illegitimate ,immoral , incompatible
with the ethical standards
 Corruption can occur in difference scales. There is corruption
that occurs as small favors between a small number of people,
corruption that affects that govt. on a large scale and corruption
that is so prevalent that it is part of the everyday structure of
society

3.  There are three types of corruption. Given below
1. Petty corruption – petty corruption occur at a smaller scale and with
in established social farm works and governing firms.
2. Grand corruption – Grand corruption is defined as corruption
occurring at the highest levels of government in a way that requires
significant subversion of the political legal and economic system.
3. Systematic corruption – systematic corruption is corruption which is
primarily due to the weakness of an organization or process.

4.  There are five types of corruption we can see in different sector of in our country.
Such as govt. /public sector , political corruption, judicial corruption, police
corruption, Unions.
Now we describe Public sector and political sectors corruption
1. Govt. corruption : Day by day corruption increase in GOVT. sector because of some
corrupted officer’s and people’s. public sector corruption includes corruption of the
political process and of government agencies such as the police as well as
corruption in process of allocating public funds for contracts grants and hiring “
recent research by the world bank suggests that who makes policy decisions (
elected official or bureaucrats ) can be critical in determining the level of
corruption because of the incentives different policy-makers face”
2. Political corruption – Political corruption is the abuse of public power, office or
resources by elected government officials for personal gain a political cartoon from
Harper’s weekly January 26th 1878 depicting U.S . secretary of the interior Carl
Schurz investigating the Indian Bureau at the U.S department of the interior. The
original caption for the cartoon is “ THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
INVESTIGATING THE INDIAN BUREAU. GIVE HIM HIS DUE AND GIVE THEM
THEIR DUES”

5.  cause of corruption are basically rotted deep into
the political culture of BANGLADESH also due to
the mass psychology under this types of political
rule mass people of BANGLADESH are mostly
illiterate, uneducated and there are common cause
of corruption that is lack of civic senses.

6.  There is a bad effect of corruption in our country. Many
people of our country are hampered from corruption now
in our country every sectors are corrupted by some people
who try to take the advantage from this and for this reason
our government our economic system are hampered and
for this reason we are TWO times champion in corruption.
That is so insulting for our country, for corruption our
country can not prosper. Bangladesh is a lower developing
country and for corruption there are some problem we are
faces from corruption to developing our country

7.  ADB losing lots of money cause of Corruption In
Dhaka WASA, DWSSDP In different projects. ADB and
Dhaka wasa management needs to focus on the
corruptions going on different projects specially
different purchasing

8.  ACC will have to seek permission from the government
to investigate or file any charge against public servant
and politicians.
 Transparency international Bangladesh ( TIB ) is a
non governmental organizations that monitors and
publicizes corporate and political corruption in
Bangladesh

9.  we can not stop corruption but we can try reduce
its bad sides. We can take the help of media and
we also can make public awareness for corruption
 we hope one day our country free from corruption