New Delhi: The ‘India Corruption Survey 2019’, conducted by LocalCircles and Transparency International India, has revealed that property registration and land are the two sectors where demand for bribes didn’t change in 2018.
Among other things, the survey also showed a break-up of how things have changed in the last 12 months with regard to demand of bribes.
The survey gave five options to respondents when asked about the change in demand of bribes — ‘Bribery is continuing like before, Bribery has reduced, Bribery has increased, Did not have a need to bribe in the last 12 months, Not Applicable’.
According to the survey, 49 per cent respondents said that bribes in property registration and land issues have continued as before. But 12 per cent said bribery has reduced, and 8 per cent felt it has increased.
In work related to municipality and local bodies, 44 per cent said that bribery demands have remained the same. Meanwhile, 13 per cent said bribery has increased in local bodies and 10 per cent said it has decreased.
As many as 42 per cent people said that bribe demand from police has not changed. But eleven per cent people said it has increased and another 11 per cent said it has decreased, according to the survey.
Thirty-eight per cent people said that in the last 12 months, demand for bribes by tax officials has continued like before, while 17 per cent are those who said it has reduced. A mere six per cent said it has increased. But 33 per cent said that they did not feel the need to bribe at all, the survey stated.
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30% said bribe demand in power dept has remained same
With regard to Regional Transport Office, 37 per cent said that frequency of bribery has remained the same in the last year, while 19 per cent believed it has reduced and only 9 per cent said it has increased.
The survey also stated that 33 per cent believed that demand for bribes from officials in local water department has remained the same.
In electricity department, bribe demands have continued like before, said 30 per cent people in the survey. Whereas, 12 per cent believed it has reduced and seven per cent said it has increased.
The ‘India Corruption Survey 2019’, released Tuesday, was conducted to check the level of ‘domestic’ corruption in India. It was conducted in 20 states across 248 districts and saw the participation of 81,000 people.
The survey had 64 per cent men and 34 per cent women taking part. Forty per cent of the 1,90,000 responses were from tier-I cities, 33 per cent from tier-II cities and 18 per cent from tier-III cities and rural areas.
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