Corruption as a serious Development Challenge in India polity

Corruption is rampant in India and India is badly plagued by this disease. Society in a way has started to appraise success on the parameters of the monetary and materialistic gain. Therefore corruption has become an accepted fact and a part and parcel of life. Resultantly, rampant growth of spillage in the context of government programmes has become a norm. The corporate sector has always been benefiting from obnoxious nature of the regulatory laws and tax evasion has also difecto truth of the white collar society.

Tax evasion reduces the capabilities of the government to help the deserving blocks of the society. There is so much spillage in the government programmes, that once ex Prime minister late Rajiv Gandhi had said that for every rupee spent by the government, only 15 paisa goes in the hands of the deserving.

In the present scenario corruption has increased at an alarming rate. Recently even Dr. Manmohan singh has to accept corruption as a major challenge in Indian polity. Not only in bureaucracy but mainly in political establishments, the corruption has strong roots, helped and promoted by individuals and groups interests. Criminalization of politics and politicization of crime are due to maximization of corruption in systems of Indian polity and governance. Resultantly, India is showing downward movement in corruption perception Index of Transparency International time and again.

Therefore we can say corruption not only poses a fatal challenge to the development of India but it is rampantly degrading the next generation also.

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