This document discusses corruption in India on multiple levels. It begins by summarizing India's constitution and founding principles of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. It then discusses both India's achievements and ongoing problems like unemployment, illiteracy and poverty exacerbated by population growth. It notes a "pathetic contempt of rule of law and ethics in public life." The document also examines corruption indexes, definitions and typologies of corruption, as well as examples of recent corruption scandals in India. It discusses the role of groups like the CVC, CBI and proposed Lokpal in addressing corruption. Overall, the document provides a wide-ranging overview of corruption challenges in India from different perspectives.

1. Usher in good ethics in public life of our India
Challenges to enact and enforce Compliance
of Indian Anti-corruption Laws

2. Remember our CONSTITUTION?
"WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute
India into a SOVEREIGN
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, and to secure to all its
citizens :
JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them
all;
FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity of
the Nation:
IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949,
do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND
GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.―
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3. In the Republic of India there is a widely shared desire in the country to
consolidate the gains made now as also to assess our future.
• Undoubtedly, the people of the country and the
managers of society can be congratulated on many
counts for India's achievements,
• (i) self-sufficiency (in fact surplus generation) in
food-grains,
• (ii) a strong industrial base,
• (iii) a rising expectancy of life,
• (iv) a higher percentage of literacy,
• (v) a united and better integrated India and
• (vi) a growing recognition by the world of our
capabilities and potential.
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4. On the negative side, one can‘t ignore the
nagging problems of
• unemployment, illiteracy and poverty,
• accentuated by an ever increasing population.
Also, a low per capita income, inadequate
infrastructure, feudalistic tendencies and worst of
all a pathetic contempt of rule of law and ethics in
public life.
Finally, an administration which is perceived as
self seeking and citizen unfriendly.
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5. • The Transparency International (TI) Corruption
Perception Index (CPI), ranks countries in terms of
the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist
among public officials and politicians. It is a
composite index derived from 15 different polls and
surveys from 9 independent institutions carried out
among business people and country analysts.
• CPI defines corruption as the abuse of public office
for private gains. The index provides an annual snap
shot of the views of business people and analysts
like bribing of public officials, kickbacks in public
procurement or embezzlement of public funds.
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6. • Of the 102 countries surveyed in 2002, seventy countries
– including many of the world‘s most poverty stricken –
score less than five out of a clean score of ten.
• Corruption is perceived to be rampant in Indonesia,
Kenya, Angola, Nigeria, and Bangladesh, countries with a
score of less than two.
• Countries with a score of higher than 9, with very low
levels of perceived corruption, are rich countries, namely,
Finland, Denmark, New Zealand, Singapore, and
Sweden.
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7. • There is nothing to be proud of India's ranking in the
Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index
2009.
• The country ranked low also in the Bribe Payers Index
among emerging economic giants.
• The use of public funds for private gain is common.
• The misuse of power, position and privilege is widespread.
• Corruption seems to be a fact that affects all sections of
society
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8.  Corruption is defined as the use of public office for private
gains
 Scales of corruption can be Grand, Middling or Petty
and payment of bribes can be due to collusion
between the bribe taker and the bribe giver, due to
coercion or even anticipatory. Easy solution to
personal issue.
 Existence of corruption implies that there are corrupt
people, there are also corrupt practices, and there is
a corrupt system.
 Therefore, all the three have to be fought
simultaneously to eliminate the vice of corruption.
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9.  As a recent editorial in a leading newspaper
observed: Corruption in public life is one of the
most daunting issues facing the country.
 Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for the forces
of evil to triumph in the world is for enough good
men to do nothing.
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Aberrations in public life in India
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10.  Corruption will be out one
day. The public can, as its
right and duty, in very
case of justifiable
suspicion, call its servants
to strict account, dismiss
them, sue them in a law
court or appoint an
arbitrator or inspector to
scrutinize their conduct,
as it likes.
Mahatma Gandhi:
(60 years ago)
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11. India will go on … Are you aware corruption
accentuates poverty, aggravates economic disparity,
thwarts development, undermines democracy and is
a threat to national security and, destroys the moral
fibre of the Nation? No, corruption will NOT destroy
India. Why Not? Because, much of India functions,
'oiled' by corruption. It damages India, for sure. But
just as the average Indian has more of a 'natural
immunity' to TB, Asthma, Dengue, Malaria,
Conjunctivitis, 'Delhi-Belly' and other 'gastro viruses
and bacteria', than other peoples, Indians have
found ways of continuing to work around this
corrupt system.
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12. • As we look ahead to the next 10 to 15 years,
what is it that we can hope for on the corruption
front?
• It is very easy to be pessimistic. The pessimist
can always argue that corruption has always
been with us like the poor and it is a global
phenomenon.
• Nevertheless, the fact is that while corruption is
a global phenomenon, we have seen countries
which were corrupt, reforming themselves and
getting the benefits of corruption-free, good
governance in our own lifetime. Singapore is a
classic example. 12

13. Corruption is a threat to democracy and economic
development in many societies. It arises in the ways
people pursue, use and exchange wealth and
power, and in the strength or weakness of the state,
political and social institutions that sustain and restrain
those processes.
PEOPLES’ PERSPECTIVE
Indians think ( some even hope) that corruption
cannot be eliminated in India – at least not in
their lifetime. This pessimistic and cynical
perception of the people is largely an outcome
of confusing corruption with all kinds of illegal
actions and activities by individuals.

14. Most illegal actions, many of which are private actions, are
confused with corruption.
The Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 and
Indian Penal Code
clearly distinguishes between corruption indulged by public
servants for private gains and
illegal actions by individuals.
There are separate Acts in India for dealing with different
kinds of illegal actions of private individuals. For example, if
a public servant amasses wealth disproportionate to his
known sources of income then he can be tried under
Prevention of Corruption Act 1988.
However, if a business-person amasses wealth
disproportionate to his known source of income he will be
dealt under Income Tax Act for concealing his income and
not under Prevention of Corruption Act. 14

15. The Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 and Indian
Penal Code _ clearly distinguishes between
corruption indulged by public servants for private
gains and illegal actions by individuals.
Recent aberrations in India
Corruption has been defined by the World Bank as the ‗use of public
office for private profit.‘ In our country, there are five major players on
the corruption scene, interdependent, strengthening and supportive
of the vicious cycle. They are the neta, the corrupt politician; the
babu, the corrupt bureaucrat; the lala, the corrupting businessman;
the jhola, the corrupt NGO; and the dada, the criminal of the
underworld !

16. September 2000: Former President Rao was convicted of
criminal conspiracy and corruption in the 1993 vote buying
scandal and became the first Indian Prime Minister to be
convicted in a criminal case. He was acquitted on appeal,
however, in March 2002.
March 2001: Following the release by an Indian news website
of a videotape showing 31 politicians, high level officials,
bureaucrats and army officials taking bribes, the Defence
Minister and leaders of the ruling BJP party were forced to
resign. Four defence ministry officials were also suspended.
September 2005: Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav was
charged with misappropriating state funds in the long running
―fodder scam‖. He and Bihar Chief Minister were charged with
embezzling over US$ 40 million in state funds intended for the
purchase of animal fodder. In total, 170 persons were charged
in connection with this scandal.
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17. In January 2006: A reporter in Assam writing articles accusing
local forestry service officials of having links to timber
smuggling was murdered.
In March 2006: The BJP alleged corruption in a military
contract to buy six submarines from two French companies,
claiming that the government overpaid by approximately US$
113 million and used the excess to pay middle men that
helped secure the deal.
In January 2009: Satyam Computer Services Ltd was barred
by the World Bank from bidding for contracts for eight years
and top officials were arrested after a major financial fraud
over several years was disclosed.
In 2010: Telecom Minister Andimuthu Raja allegedly rigged
the sale of 2G telecoms licenses for lower prices to the
companies he favored.
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18. In 2010: Suresh Kalmadi, the organising committee chief of
Commonwealth Games in Delhi, also quit his post in the
Congress party.
In 2010: The chief minister of Maharashtra resigned over his
alleged role in a scam involving homes for war widows. He was
ordered by the ruling Congress party to resign while the matter
was investigated. Mr. Chavan's relatives, army officers and
bureaucrats are among those who allegedly acquired
apartments. An other housing loan scam involving state-owned
institutions and a private and listed Mumbai-headquartered
company Money Matters Financial Services Ltd has been
exposed. This has put independent directors under a cloud At
least three of the four independent directors in Money Matters,
whose CMD and two senior executives were arrested by the
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), are ex-bankers /
chairpersons of financial institutions.
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19. In fact, R N Bhardwaj, non-executive independent
director on the board of Money Matters was the
chairman of LIC and LIC Housing Finance for more than a
year till May 2005. He has served in LIC since 1968 till
his retirement in 2005. Money Matters, the CBI has
alleged, bribed senior officials in LIC and LIC Housing
Finance while mediating and facilitating loans for
builders and corporates from these institutions. Among
those arrested include the chief executive of LIC Housing
Finance. The other two are the former chairman and
managing director of state-owned Allahabad Bank and a
former CEO and chairman of state-owned financial
institution IFCI Ltd.
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20. Given their understanding and clout in the financial
services sector, experts wondered if they took their role
of 'independent directors' seriously and asked the right
questions. The fourth non-executive independent
director in Money Matters is Sanjiv Kapoor, a chartered
accountant, who has audited the books of the state-
owned insurer LIC.
Who will investigate these allegations?
• Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)
• Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
• Comptroller and Auditor General
(C & AG)
What is the role of proposed Lokpal?
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21. • The present system provides for taking on the
corrupt persons through a legal mechanism,
which has not been found to be very effective.
• Many corrupt practices fall outside the
purview of existing laws and need to be
tackled by people themselves.
• The responsibility for dealing with corrupt
people, corrupt practices and corrupt systems
devolves equally on individuals, civil society
institutions, legislature, executive, and the
judiciary.
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22.  India is one of the most regulated economies of
the world with powers concentrated in few hands.
It is a poor country with scarce resources where
demand is always more than supply. The receivers
of the public services are largely poor, ignorant,
and illiterate.
 There is also absence of transparency and
accountability of the public servants. There is no
system of rewards and punishments for the public
servants.
CORRUPTION IN INDIA: A scenario-1
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23.  There was also no right to information. The license-
permit-quota-inspector regime was pervasive in India
since independence and continues under a different
nomenclature even after liberalization and
globalization of 1991.
 In addition, there are 3000 central statutes and 10
times as many state statutes plus subsidiary and
administrative laws (most of them archaic), with
several exemption clauses and discretionary powers
sans accountability. All these conditions were fertile
breeding grounds of corruption
CORRUPTION IN INDIA: A scenario-2
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24.  The growth of civil society networks engaged in anti-
corruption work has played a useful role.
 The last decade has seen the rise of NGOs involved in
a broad range of anti-corruption activity at the village,
city, regional and national levels.
 These organisations are active on many fronts and are
increasingly networking and provide useful role models
for anti-corruption campaigners throughout the
country.
 The rise of civil / judicial activism has been
accompanied by demands for greater transparency in
public life.
 Electronic media with ‗Crime news‘ plays an active
role now 24X7.
Good Governance Agenda
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25. Success OF INDIAN CEOs IN SOME OF THE
FAMOUS Multi-National COMPANIES / institutions
1.Indra Nooyi- Pepsico
2.Amarthya Sen - Economic laureate
3.Ajay Banka- City Bank
4.Arun Sarin - Vodafone
5.MS Banga -Unilever
6.C K Prahladh - University of Michigan
7.Raghuram Rajan - International Monetary Fund
8. Padmasree Warier- Motorola
9.Jagadessh Bhagawati - Colombia University
10.Vyonesh Joshal - Hewlet Packard
11. Deutsche bank(German Company) – Mr. Anshu Jain as CEO.
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26. 1556 - 1605 A.D. An example
from history:
AKBAR, EMPEROR OF INDIA
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27.  Akbar "the Great," who governed
India for half a century (1556-1605)
and by a wise, gentle and just reign
brought about a season of prosperity.
This man, whose memory even to-day
is revered by the Hindus, was named
Abul Fath Jelâleddin Muhammed. And
truly he justified the epithet, for great,
fabulously great, was Akbar as man,
general, statesman and ruler.
AKBAR, EMPEROR OF INDIA-1
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28.  Akbar succeeded in establishing order, peace, and
prosperity in his regained and newly subjugated
provinces. This he brought about by the
introduction of a model administration, an
excellent police, a regulated post service, and
especially a just division of taxes.
 Up to Akbar's time corruption had been a matter of
course in the entire official service and enormous
sums in the treasury were lost by peculation on the
part of tax collectors.
AKBAR, EMPEROR OF INDIA-2
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29. • AKBAR, EMPEROR OF INDIA - 3
• The corruption in the finance and customs department was
abolished by means of a complicated and punctilious
system of supervision (the bureaus of receipts and
expenditures were kept entirely separated from each other
in the treasury department).
• Akbar himself carefully examined the accounts handed in
each month from every district, just as he gave his personal
attention with tireless industry and painstaking care to every
detail in the widely ramified domain of the administration of
government.
• Moreover the Emperor was fortunate in having at the head
of the finance department a prudent, energetic, perfectly
honorable and incorruptible man, the Hindu Todar Mal, who
was not a vizier or minister of state, yet had assumed all the
functions of such an office. 29

30. Corruption flourishes in our system because of
five basic reasons(besides the ignorance of
the victims). These are: (i) scarcity of goods
and services (urgency in availability); (ii) red
tape and complicated rules and procedures;
(iii) lack of transparency in decision -making;
(iv) legal cushions of safety for the corrupt
under the „healthy‟ principle that everyone is
innocent till proved guilty; and (v) tribalism or
biradari among the corrupt who protect each
o t h e r. 30

31. N. Vittal spent a four-year term as
Central Vigilance Commissioner and
he is aware of the challenge which the forces of
corruption in our country pose to those who want to
fight it. India pays lip service to the principle of
honesty. Gandhiji told us: truth and non-violence were
the fundamental principles of existence. Vedic dictum
is , ‗Satyam vadha - dharmam charah‘. Our nation‘s
motto is ‗Satyameva Jayate‘ or ‗Truth will triumph‘.
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32. The role of the Chief Vigilance Office, may broadly be
divided into two parts. i.e. preventive and punitive.
The Chief Vigilance Officers have so far been
concentrating mainly on the punitive side, i.e. dealing
with actual vigilance has not received adequate
attention. The word vigilance”mainly implies
watchfulness. But the role of Vigilance Officer is
predominantly preventive. While detection and
punishment of corruption and other malpractices is
certainly important, what is even more important is
the taking of preventive measures which could
reduce the number of vigilance cases considerably.
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33. Book by N. Vittal:
Corruption in India: the roadblock to national
prosperity
Publisher Academic Foundation, 2003,
Length 188 pages
ISBN 8171882870, 9788171882878
Subjects: Bribery –
Corruption investigation –
History / Asia / India & South Asia
– India –
Misconduct in office - Political Science / General -
Political Science / Government / International –
Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration –
Political corruption - Political corruption/ India –
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Book by N. Vittal:
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35. Corruption is a two-way street. For every bribe taker,
there is a bribe giver. While the debate on
corruption in our country has focused on the
demand side of corruption, i.e., on public servants
and politicians who demand bribes, there has been
a thundering silence on the supply side of
corruption, i.e., around the business community
which bribes the public servants and politicians. It is
therefore interesting to note the business
community‘s focus on the issue of ethics in
business. Recently the CII organised a session on
ethics and corporate integrity.
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36. Corruption is like malaria, handled by either
giving medicine to those affected or by
preventing the breeding of mosquitoes.
Many of our rules and procedures breed
corruption. Orders have therefore been
issued to check and simplify procedures.
One example is a ban on post-tender
negotiations in government purchases,
except with the lowest bidder. Such
negotiations are a flexible source of
corruption.
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37. Given the integration of global markets and the
increasing application of information technology,
billions of dollars can be transmitted from one
market to another at the click of a computer
mouse. When foreign financial institutions invest
in an emerging market, they want to be sure that
not only will the management functions be
performed effectively, but that decisions will also
be taken in a transparent manner and principles
of corporate ethics observed. When the chips are
down, integrity and corporate ethics do count in
global trade today.
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38. The level of security in the financial
institutions becomes especially important
because ultimately, as Oscar Wilde said, the
thief is the artist and the policeman only a
critic.
Business frauds
Preventive and Predictive Maintenance
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39. Is eliminating corruption a myth or reality? If we
believe corruption can be eliminated, it can be; if not,
it will remain a reality.
When Vivekananda went to meet Ramakrishna Paramhansa,
he asked directly, ‗Does God exist? Do you believe in Him?‘
Ramakrishna Paramhansa supposedly replied, ‗Yes, not only
do I believe in Him, but I can also make you see Him?‘
Vivekananda has also described the experience where as
Ramakrishna touched him, he felt the presence of God.
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40. When it comes to business frauds, it is always
better to adopt preventive and predictive
maintenance principles rather than the breakdown
maintenance principle, which is like locking the
stable doors after the horse has bolted. A classic
example is the Harshad Mehta scam where
because of lack of computerisation in the Public
Debt Office of the Reserve Bank of India, a Rs
l8,000 crore scam was perpetrated. It was only
after the fraud was unearthed that the RBI
computerised the Public Debt Office.
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41.  Tata did not enter the  ―We went through three
airline business prime ministers, and each
because he wasn‘t time there was a
comfortable with the particular individual that
notion of paying a bribe thwarted our efforts to
of 150 million rupees form another airline,‖ Tata
($3.3 million) to an un- said. He even quoted
named government another industrialist that
official. said, ―You people are very
stupid. The minister wants
Rs 15 crore. Why don‘t
you just pay it? You want
the airline.
Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata
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42. • Tata‘s revelation follows the resignation of
Telecom Minister Andimuthu Raja.
• The government released a report on
Tuesday that Raja had allegedly rigged
the sale of 2G telecoms licenses for lower
prices to the companies he favored.
• The cost to the Indian government in lost
revenue has been estimated at 1.76
trillion rupees ($39 billion).
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43. The need for training in computerisation and using information
technology for enhancing the level of security in the financial
institutions becomes especially important because ultimately,
as Oscar Wilde said, the thief is the artist and the policeman
only a critic.
What computerisation does is provide a means of processing
a vast amount of data, which inter alia also give an idea about
the modus operandi of fraudsters. Intelligent application of
these concepts can help in preventing corruption and fraud.
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44.  One method of minimising frauds is to put in place
effective punishment systems. Our legal systems
are so dilatory that the guilty often escape and
even if punishment is meted out, it takes a long
time. Often, the fraudster has so many resources
at his command that he can engage the best legal
brains to buy his way to freedom.
 Who should rework the punishment regimen and
our legal system to ensure speedy punishment to
the corrupt and the guilty?
Ah! put in place effective punishment
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45.  The truth is that governments and citizens are fully
aware of the corruption which pervades their country.
The problem is that the people are ‗powerless‘ to stop
corruption.
 Information, knowledge and patience are critical for
realizing all the human aspirations, such as,
improvement in quality of life. In the knowledge
society, in which we live today, acquisition of
information and knowledge and its application have
intense and pervasive impact on productivity gains.
Democratization of information and
knowledge:
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46. The concept of Citizen Charters has been introduced to improve
the quality of public services. It ensures
accountability, transparency and quality of services provided by
various government / business organizations.
It enables citizens to avail of services with minimum hassle, in
reasonable time, and at a minimum cost. Effective
implementation of Citizens Charters will go a long way in
controlling corruption.
The Government of India has launched an ambitious
programme for formulation and implementation of Citizens
Charters in all government departments.
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47. There is need to re-examine our culture, which has
normalised corruption in its many different forms.
We in India need to acknowledge the need for
introspection on our acceptance of the abuse of
power. The ―Seven Nolan Principles of Public Life‖
— selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability,
openness, honesty and leadership by example —
should form the standards for holding public office.
There should be regular and independent reviews
of individual and organisational functioning. The
challenge is to inspire and change individuals and
to transcend and transform societal norms.
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48. A pluralist society with high ethics
in public life: Awake to it, India
Vice of corruption can be overcome
Jai Ho

49. INDIA can become a Nation, which is best described in the
words of Rabindranath Tagore
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by
narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards
perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into
the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led by thee into ever widening thought
and action- Into that heaven of freedom, Oh Citizens, let our
country awake."
Source: Gitanjali, verse XXXV.
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51. Shanti: Self control
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54. Vichara Inquiry
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56. Santosha Contentment
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57. Satsanga Association with the Good
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58. "We are responsible for what
we are, and whatever we wish
ourselves to be, we have the
power to make ourselves. If
what we are now has been the
result of our own past actions,
it certainly follows that
whatever we wish to be in
future can be produced by our
present actions; so we have to
know how to act. "
-- Swami Vivekananda
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59. Book Details
Title: Corruption in India- Ramifications and Remedies
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Author: S M Joshi
Edition: Hardcover
ISBN: 8171542425
About the Book:
This is the second J. P.Memorial lecture delivered by S. M.Joshi, the well-known socialist
leader on a topic of national concern - Corruption in India. S. M.Joshi advocates the fight
against corruption on three fronts - the mass front, the educational front and the political
front on the guidelines given by J. P.
About the Author(s):
S. M. Joshi, was a well known socialist leader on a topic of national concern - Corruption in
India.
Peoples Union for Civil Liberties
http://www.pucl.org/
Founded by Jaya Prakash Narayan in 1976, an organization free from political ideology in
which members of different political parties can come together on a united platform for
the defense of Civil Liberties and Human Rights. This organization led to the formation of
the Janata Party.
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60. M. G. Chitkara
APH Publishing, 1997 –
8170247993,
ISBN
9788170247999
Length 286 pages
Subjects
Bribery
Business enterprises
Law / Criminal Law / General
Misconduct in office
Political Science / General
Political corruption
Corruption "n" cure
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61.  The Right to Information Act (2005) and equivalent
acts in the states, that require government officials to
furnish information requested by citizens or face
punitive action, computerisation of services and
various central and state government acts that
established vigilance commissions have considerably
reduced corruption or at least have opened up
avenues to redress grievances. The 2006 report by
Transparency International puts India at the 70th
place and states that significant improvements were
made by India in reducing corruption
Right to information act
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62. Ombudsman [LokAyukta]
The LokAyukta is an anti-government corruption organization in
the Indian states. An amendment to the Constitution has been
proposed to implement the Lokayukta uniformly across Indian
States as a three-member body, headed by a retired Supreme
Court judge or high court chief justice, and comprise of the
state vigilance commissioner and a jurist or an eminent
administrator as other members .
Computerization
Bhoomi is a project jointly funded by the Govt. of India and the
Govt. of Karnataka to digitize the paper land records and create
a software mechanism to control changes to the land registry in
Karnataka. The project was designed to eliminate the long-
standing problem of inefficiency / corruption. Introduction of
smart cards for vehicle registration and drivers licenses by
Karnataka Regional Transport Organization. Enforcement
automation of traffic violations by Bangalore Traffic Police . 62

63. Anna Hazare’s Aandolan
• Talking at Rotary Club of Madras, Mr. Vittal said that Hazare‟s fast
turned into a big phenomena due to the confluence of several factors
such as
 his charisma,
 series of scams in the last one year,
 people‟s wrath against political corruption, ongoing elections in some
States, exposure by the media on a continuous basis and the
participation of youth through the internet, especially social
networking sites. Anna Hazare
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64. Second meeting dated 3-5-2011
• In the second round of discussions in the joint drafting committee on
the Lokpal Bill here on 2 May 2011 members of the civil society
invoked the U.N. Convention on Corruption to stress that the
underlying principle of the anti-corruption law should be to have an
independent body that covers the highest executive and the judiciary.
• The convention to which India is a signatory, but is yet to
ratify it, defines „public official‟ as any person holding a
legislative, executive, administrative or judicial office,
whether appointed or elected, whether permanent or
temporary, whether paid or unpaid irrespective of that
person‟s seniority.
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65. Lokpal bill was introduced 8 times
unsuccessfully earlier
 The adoption of the Lokpal bill [LKPB] alone will not end
the menace of corruption but it will help fill the lacunae in
our system. _ N. Vittal, a former CVC.
 “As of now, we have a deadline to the LKPB: June 30 &
Aug 15. We can‟t say whether these deadlines will be
met.”
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66. According to mr. Vittal …
• India is facing a „Multiple-organ failure,‟ and
required a battery of doctors such as the Judiciary,
Election Commission, Comptroller Auditor General
of India and Central Vigilance Commission to save
it. The print and electronic media and civil society
could help these doctors to save the system.
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67. • There is saving grace that the world view of an average
Indian is averse of vices. The broad masses of the people
has simple task to ask for transparency, accept the
verdict as the rule of the game what they otherwise do in
the name of their fate, burn the real life demon what they
do with the mythological ones.
• Get to zero tolerance for the perpetrators beyond all
bounds of personal links and likes. Operational side of
the campaign calls for making the institutions of
democracy efficient. It will handle much of the nexus of
political, bureaucratic and criminals.
• Jai-Ho
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