India Dips in Global Corruption Ranking

Bangalore: If there's a question that what is holding back India's growth, corruption is the obvious answer. With worsening corruption rate over the past few years, India drops 11 positions to 95 in the Global Corruption Rankings, reveals the new study by Transparency International (TI), a Berlin-based anticorruption group.

India scored 3.1 on a scale to 0 to 10, according to the Transparency International's corruption perception index. India scored 3.3 last year, and anything below five is a bad news. Whereas, the neighboring countries like Pakistan and Nepal ranked at 134 and 154 respectively, apparently being the most corrupt nations in South Asia.

Being ranked at 95th position in the list, India is below China that scoring 3.6 points and ranked 75. The common Wealth Games last year and 2G spectrum allocations are the recent strings of corruption that have deteriorated the image of India.

183 countries were ranked according to the level of public sector corruption. India has only fared among the BRIC countries. But compared to South Asian region, India has done miserable when compared to Sri Lanka that ranked 86 and small Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal that ranked 38.

Rukshana Nanayakkara, acting director of Transparency International's Asia Pacific division quoted in an interview to Zeebiz, "It's not a good score at all for India." Amongst so much of negativity, there are few positive aspects of this evaluation. People are now enthusiastic to speak up against corruption and the limelight is on the movement that fights for a strong anti-corruption law in the country. The upper middle class in India has become intolerant towards corruption as they are most exposed to cases like bribery and are becoming outspoken of late.