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It is going to be a formidable challenge to ensure that these huge outlays are converted into outcomes and are not just siphoned off, and this will rightly be yet another area of concern for corruption...,&amp;quot; he said, referring to social sector schemes like National Rural Employment Guarantee and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. Sinha spoke about increasing FDI in infrastructure projects in the same vein.
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There is also a pending law to give retired babus 'protection' of prior sanction for prosecution, but Sinha advocated scrapping the provision even for serving officers in graft and disproportionate asset cases. &quot;The proposed Right to Food Bill is going to cost the public exchequer an astounding Rs 1 lakh crore every year.
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It is going to be a formidable challenge to ensure that these huge outlays are converted into outcomes and are not just siphoned off, and this will rightly be yet another area of concern for corruption...,&quot; he said, referring to social sector schemes like National Rural Employment Guarantee and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. Sinha spoke about increasing FDI in infrastructure projects in the same vein.
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&quot;Mobilisation and management of FDI are going to be facets of governance that will attract kickbacks and corruption, if not handled with care,&quot; he said. While the UPA has been talking of its efforts to open up the country to globalisation, Sinha said these developments might have contributed to the problem of corruption.
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<em>NEW DELHI: </em>CBI director Ranjit Sinha has said infrastructure building through the public-private partnership model could lead to a spike in corruption cases as the potentially lucrative contracts may encourage collusion between big firms and state officials.
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&quot;This route is full of pitfalls and it has opportunities for corrupt activities with big scope for collusion among promoters of consortiums to whom such projects are awarded and corrupt public servants at the decision-making level,&quot; Sinha said while addressing a training academy in MP on November 6.
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Food Bill, NREGA prone to corruption: CBI director Ranjit Sinha -Aman Sharma

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