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By: Sreejith K Menon

Sreejith K Menon — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:14:39 +0000

Corruption has come between India and its Development for a long time. Corruption has prevailed in places where there is no moral sense of duty or any legal setbacks.

India is deciding whether to constitutionalize Jan Lokpal bill or not. But the people are forgetting that India is after all a Democracy. Your vote is your right and your duty.

Support India against Corruption by casting your votes in http://www.indiaagainstcorruption-vote.com . Voting results will be forwarded to The President of India. Forward this message to people who think like you.

By: Thou Shall Not Be Corrupt

Thou Shall Not Be Corrupt — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:28:27 +0000

[...] Sanjay Uvach – an entrepreneur from Bihar - decided that all he wants to do is blog about corruption. A great initiative proving that social media and online communication is the new [...]

By: sanjay

sanjay — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:07:14 +0000

This is really good. If we unite online, one we will be able to through the corrupt in Arabian sea

By: anurag

anurag — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:29:34 +0000

I am impressed by you initiative ,please check “corruption in drdo”, a man’s fight aginst the system

By: avinash kumar(roshan)

avinash kumar(roshan) — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:29:09 +0000

the best way to stop corruption is to bring mental revolution at all level it’s a social problem so it needs a social solution in society if every individual understands his/her responsibilites then i think there would be no corruption

By: uvach

uvach — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:23:34 +0000

@Vishal Presence of a credible online Bribe Rate Chart will negate the sense that ‘all is well’ and the money spent by Government is largely to the benefit of the poor, forcing Government to take note of Corruption. It would be the equivalent of publishing a ‘leaked’ examination Question paper in a Newspaper forcing the annulment of the exam. Hopefully a Bribe Rate Chart too would force the Government to act against Corruption before continuing to pour money in the name of Social good. Moreover it will also enlighten all of us about the extent and volume of Corruption and bring us out of our general apathy against Corruption.

By: Vishal

Vishal — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:06:27 +0000

Hey I am not able to understand one thing, that is how would recording bribes taken on blog would stop corruption?
And did this step take us any further till now?
I want to be a part of something like this from a long time, its good see you take an initiative.

By: Sridhar

Sridhar — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:15:44 +0000

Thanks Sanjay/admin. You has covered there almost all I have in mind. Also found valuable the social media roundup post.

One of the things I would like to dream of happening in India is abolishing use of paper money transactions over a certain limit (could be Rs 10k). The idea is to design a deterrent for those engaging in paying or receiving bribes or anyother illegal transactions. Instead, the medium of payment could be personal checks, demand drafts, money orders etc. where the identity of the payee is already established and tagged to the transaction. The highest currency denomination could be reduced from the current Rs. 1000 to Rs 50. Every adult citizen or family could be required to have a bank account. All the financial transactions be saved real time and an advanced data mining capability put in place to query or gain insights about the transactions.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:48:07 +0000

Sridhar, My own thoughts on this subject are included in an earlier post http://www.nobribe.org/emperors-clothes . Great comment though. Would encourage you to write a guest post yourself on the subject.

By: Sridhar

Sridhar — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:32:23 +0000

Glad to find this blog and admire your passion to do something about corruption in India. Loksatta party in AP has proposed a sophisticated Anticorruption bill in 2009 to give more tooth to the existing laws and bring elected legislative officials into the purview of the act. And not even one individual in the opposition supported it, let alone the ruling party. Such is the resistance in the country for top-down and spot-on approaches aimed to stifle corrpution.

I hope you can write about how technology can help in exposing the corrupt and their practices. When NREGA started going hi-tec by issuing biometric cards for beneficiaries or or let computers take control of the whole process or when the funds were allowed to be directly deposited into a smart card enabled accounts – the politicians and middlemen surprsingly did not attempt to wreck the technology in-roads into public administration. Neither did they go berserk when the UID project was commissioned or that it will be linked to all other citizen services accounts to enable effective delivery of public services or welfare. May be we should see a glimmer of hope in the increasing acceptance of technology in intelligence, decision making and administration. It appears that politicians are shy about directly opposing these policies and not that they really welcome these developments that could undermine their power and wealth creation. As ordinary citizens the best we can do is to campaign vigorously for further use of technology not only in public administration but also in technologies (and their legitimacy) that can track the fund flows between the fat cats within and outside the borders. In short, every corrupt act or transaction should be allowed to leave a trace and that can used to expose the individuals and ultimately prosecute them. Hope you can post your thoughts on this. Thanks!