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December - 2010 - issue > In Focus
IIM-A Students with Helpline Against Corruption
ST Team
“When the students mooted the idea of starting a corruption helpline, I thought that the idea was excellent in present context when the situation in the country is such that common people think that their work cannot be done without giving bribes,” said Gupta. The country recently got shook by 2G spectrum scam, Commonwealth Games scam and Adarsh society scam, which have brought the issue of corruption in focus. “At present, most people do not know where to complain against the corrupt officials and some of them even fear that if they complain their work will never be done. It is a very complex issue,” added Gupta.
The complaints will be scrutinized thoroughly to avoid any fabricated ones. According to Ravi Yadav, who is a part of the project, “In our proposed model, the complaints received shall be pre-screened by retired officials, before being fed into our on-line complaint data base.” Other than Yadav, the students who are part of the project are Udit Goyal, Saurabh Singh, Nikhil Bhaskar, Shantanu Sekhar and Daniel De Luna, an exchange student from Italy.
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