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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India drops to 87th rank in Integrity Index

India drops to 87th rank in Integrity Index

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published Published on Oct 27, 2010   modified Modified on Oct 27, 2010

India has fallen three places to 87th in Transparency International's latest Corruption Perceptions Index, in which 178 countries were surveyed.

India's integrity score has fallen to 3.3 out of 10 in 2010 while it was 3.5 in 2007 and 3.4 in 2008 and 2009. Transparency International India chairman P.S. Bawa on Tuesday said the recent damaging revelations in the Commonwealth Games contracts seems to have increased the perception about corruption and caused the country to further drop in the CPI ranking.

India's score of 3.3 places it slightly above its 91st ranked neighbour Sri Lanka, and below China which is ranked 78th with a score of 3.5. Among the countries that make up the bottom of the table are war-torn Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Myanmar, all of whom have scored between 1.1 and 1.5. The countries in the South Asian region have performed miserably with Bangladesh at 134, Pakistan at 143 and Nepal at 146. Bhutan is the sole exception, scoring a creditable 5.7 and ranked 36th in the world.

Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore have the highest Integrity Index of 9.3. The United States is at the 22 {+n} {+d} position with 7.1. The CPI is based on corruption in the government and public sector and is calculated on corruption-related data from 13 source-surveys published between January 2009 and September 2010. The criteria used to arrive at the score include perception-related questions like the government's capacity to punish and contain corruption; transparency, accountability and corruption in the public sector; extent of corruption; implementation of anti-corruption initiatives; and encouragement of corrupt officials.


The Hindu, 27 October, 2010, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article851579.ece


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