India Ranks 95th On Transparency International’s Corruption Index

According to the Corruption Index released recently by Transparency International, an international organisation against corruption, India occupies the 95th position in the rankings. (The higher the number, the more corrupt the country is.)

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The Index deals with 183 countries.

New Zealand ranks first – making it the least corrupt country. (Hmmm … should we be making a beeline for New Zealand?)

Denamrk is ranked second and Singapore is ranked fifth. Australia and Switzerland are ranked eight. China ranks 95th while Pakistan ranks 134th. Somalia and North Korea are rated the most corrupt countries in the world.

On an index of 10, New Zealand scored as much as 9.5 while its neighbour Australia scored a fairly respectable 8.8 while Somali and North Korea shared the honours (if one call it that) at the bottom of the index with a measly 1.0.

Will some brilliant mind come up with the idea of sending our politicians and bureaucrats to New Zealand for studying the state of corruption in New Zealand? No, no, we shouldn’t send any anti-corruption activist; he just may come back, to the utter dismay of one and all, with ideas that can actually help root out corruption.

Is anybody wondering “If we can’t beat New Zealand, can’t we beat Somalia at least?” Take heart; we might soon make it there.

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