In 2015, India was ranked 85th out of 175 countries in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, compared to its neighbors Bhutan (30th), Bangladesh (145th), Myanmar (156th), China (100th), Nepal (126th), Pakistan (126th) and Sri Lanka (75th). This is the second least corruption rank for India in the whole of South Asia.[5] In 2013, India was ranked 94th out of 175 countries.[6]
Most of the largest sources of corruption in India are entitlement programmes and social spending schemes enacted by the Indian government. Examples include Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and National Rural Health Mission.[7][8] Other daily sources of corruption include India's trucking industry which is forced to pay billions in bribes annually to numerous regulatory and police stops on its interstate highways.[9]
Indian media has widely published allegations of corrupt Indian citizens stashing trillions of dollars in Swiss banks. Swiss authorities, however, deny these allegations. The Indian media is mainly owned by corrupt politicians and industrialists who also play a major role in most of these scams, thus misleading public with wrong information and using media for mudslinging against their political and business opponents.[10][11]
The causes of corruption in
India include excessive regulations, complicated taxes and licensing
systems, numerous government departments each with opaque bureaucracy
and discretionary powers, monopoly by government controlled institutions
on certain goods and services delivery, and the lack of transparent
laws and processes.[12][13]
There are significant variations in level of corruption as well as in
state government efforts to reduce corruption across India.
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