Who is more corrupt?
I disagree with the comment below.
In Sri-Lanka every child is trained to lie at year five.It is 95% (in education department) which is 40% more than India.
Every principle or vice principle has taken a bribe sometime in his or her life.
I thought the Water Board was on top of the list but one of my friends corrected me and said, top in the list is not the Water Board but Cricket Board.
My Engineer Friends in the university and later in the public service were instrumental in getting the Nillambe Water Project (under Gaminie Dissanayake) completed. I was in the Public Service and did all what I could to help my friends.
I told my friends that everybody in our neighborhood should get water not only UNPers.
Before completion of the project I went to UK.
There were 60 in my neighbourhood who could not get pipe borne water until the demise of R. Premadasa.
Then, D.B. Wijetunge (Doing Bloody Well- we used to call him) came into power (his neighbourhood did not have pipe borne water) and within a year (Nillambe was Completed) and everybody got Water Supply.
I gave a call from London (only three people in our neighborhood had land phones then) and in passing I asked my BIL who was only 16 years, how is the water supply?
He said OK but all 60 of them had to pay a bribe.
That means 100%.
Reason for penning this was to highlight water scarcity in Kandy and how Kandy Municipality steal water from (90%) Nillabe Project and pump the remaining water to us.
We were without ENOUGH water for three days.
This happened under Chandrika.
Worse when MR was in Kandy for his pilgrimages.
It is happenings under Maithree and Ra Nil.
When rouges tie the nuptials the outcome is visibly worse!
I suppose late Minister Gaminie Dissanayake must be turning in his grave.
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Study Finds India Is Asia's Most Corrupt Country, While Japan Comes In Last
One of the main objective of the current Indian government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been to make India corruption free. But it seems the country still has a long way to go. A recent survey by Transparency International (TI), an anti-corruption global civil society organization, states that India has the highest bribery rate among the 16 Asia Pacific countries surveyed.Nearly seven in 10 people who accessed public services in India had paid a bribe.
In contrast, Japan has the lowest bribery rate, with 0.2% respondents paying a bribe.
Approximately 900 million -- or over
one in four -- people across 16 countries in Asia Pacific, including
some of its biggest economies like India and China, are estimated to
have paid a bribe to access public services. For its report titled
"People and Corruption: Asia Pacific", TI spoke to nearly
22,000 people in these countries about their recent experiences with
corruption.
Even massive economic players
like China aren't that far behind India. The biggest economy in the
region has a lot to do in terms of fighting corruption. Nearly three
quarters of the people surveyed in the country said corruption has
increased over the past three years, suggesting people don’t see
much work happening against corruption.
People in the survey were also asked
to rate their government in terms of how it was performing in
fighting public sector corruption.
More than half the people living in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia felt that their government was doing a good job in fighting corruption.
In contrast people in South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia didn’t think highly of their government in its fight against corruption.
Services people pay forMore than half the people living in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia felt that their government was doing a good job in fighting corruption.
In contrast people in South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia didn’t think highly of their government in its fight against corruption.
Across the region, nearly two in five
said that they thought most or all police officers were corrupt.
Unsurprisingly, just under a third of people in the region who had
come into contact with a police officer in the past 12 months had
paid a bribe.
While citizens of Pakistan were the most likely of any country to be asked for bribes in law and order institutions (around seven in 10), for India the police bribery rate is 54% and for China a low 12%.
While citizens of Pakistan were the most likely of any country to be asked for bribes in law and order institutions (around seven in 10), for India the police bribery rate is 54% and for China a low 12%.
India had the highest bribery rates of
all the countries surveyed for access to public schools (58%) and
healthcare (59%), suggesting serious corruption risks when people try
to access these basic services. In comparison these numbers for
Pakistan and China for public schools are 9% and 29% respectively. In
terms of healthcare, the rate for China is 18% and for Pakistan 11%.
Ilham Mohamed, regional coordinator
for Asia at TI feels that people in these regions find it tough to
access basic services. “People don’t pay bribes for quicker
access to services,” says Mohamed. “The problem is most don’t
have access to basic services like healthcare, school or law and
order. What the data across Asia Pacific shows is that the poor are
disproportionately affected by petty bribery,"" says
Mohamed.
Mohamed says low civil service
salaries coupled by systems that allows little or no access redress
mechanisms are main reasons behind corruption. “In other words
people with limited resources are further disempowered by an
additional hurdle in accessing public services through having to pay
bribes. This cycle continues when redress mechanisms are
inaccessible,” she says.
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