TI report

NEW DELHI: Transparency International (TI) on Tuesday said corruption in India has come down over the last one year. The TI?s Corruption Perception Index, 2005, has placed India at the 88th position among 159 nations, down by two ranks from last year. Pakistan has been placed at the 144th position.

Berlin-based TI has placed China and Sri Lanka at the 78th position while Afghanistan and Nepal share the 117th rank. Myanmar is placed at 155th position. Iceland is the least corrupt country while Bangladesh and Chad are the most corrupt, the report says. The United Kingdom has been placed 11th with Netherlands while United States has been placed at the 17th position.

The survey not only deals with petty corruption but also ranks public services and states. ?The study also looks into systematic aspects of corruption in public services,? Transparency International India?s working chairman S D Sharma said. ? PTI

Hope no corruption was done during the result publishion!!! If nepal is 117th what must be the condition of Bangladesh and Chad....

Probably it would be better to title "Nepal 117th least corrupt country" 0r 41st most corrupt contry in the world.

Corruption has increased than in last year. Don't worry, we will soon pass Bangladesh and Chad!


ँभ्रष्टाचार बढ्यो?


कान्तिपुर संवाददाता

काठमाडौं, कार्तिक १ - ट्रान्सपरेन्सी इन्टरनेसनलले माघ १९ को शाही कदम र यसपछिको राजनीतिक अस्थिरताले नेपालमा भ्रष्टाचार बढेको औंल्याएको छ ।
ट्रान्सपरेन्सीको मंगलबार सार्वजनिक वाषिर्क प्रतिवेदन २००५ ले नेपाल व्यापक भ्रष्टाचार हुने ७० मुलुकमा परेको देखाएको छ । प्रतिवेदनअनुसार यसपालि उच्च भ्रष्ट मुलुकको सूचीमा नेपाल ११७ औं स्थानमा छ । अघिल्लो वर्ष ९० आंै स्थानमा थियो ।

भ्रष्टाचारविरुद्धको अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय पहरेदार संस्था ट्रान्सपरेन्सीको बर्लिनस्थित प्रधान कार्यालयले मंगलबार विश्वभर आफ्नो प्रतिवेदन सार्वजनिक गरेको हो । जननिर्वाचित सरकारको बर्खास्ती, कमजोर शासन पद्धति, जारी हिंसा, प्रेसमाथि नियन्त्रणजस्ता कारणले नेपालमा भ्रष्टाचार बढेको प्रतिवेदनमा उल्लेख छ । 'जननिर्वाचित सरकारको

बर्खास्ती, माघ १९ को शाही कदम, मुलुकमा जारी हिंसाका कारण शासन पद्धति कमजोर भएकाले नेपालमा भ्रष्टाचार बढेको हो,' प्रतिवेदनमा भनिएको छ- 'शासन पद्धतिमा जनताको विश्वास घटदै गएको छ ।'

भ्रष्टाचार बढ्नुमा प्रतिवेदनले शासनमा पारदर्शिताको कमी र प्रेस स्वतन्त्रता अभाव औंल्याएको छ । संविधानमा अभिव्यक्ति स्वतन्त्रता ग्यारेन्टी गरिए पनि व्यवहारमा हस्तक्षेप भइरहेको र भ्रष्टाचारसम्बन्धी समाचार प्रकाशनमा कठिनाइ भएको उल्लेख छ । 'नेपालमा प्रजातान्त्रिक स्वतन्त्रतामाथि बारबार आक्रमण भइरहेको छ,' प्रतिवेदनमा

भनिएको छ । भ्रष्ट मुलुकको सूचीमा नेपालकै हाराहारीमा अफगानिस्तान, बोलिभिया, इक्वेडर, ग्वाटेमाला, घाना, लिविया, फिलिपिन्स छन् । छिमेकी मुलुक भारत ८८ औं स्थानमा छ । त्यहाँ गत वर्षभन्दा भ्रष्टाचार घटेको उल्लेख छ ।

सबैभन्दा कम भ्रष्टको सूचीमा आइसल्यान्ड, फिनल्यान्ड, न्युजिल्यान्ड, डेनमार्क, सिंगापुर, स्विडेन, स्विट्जरल्यान्ड, नर्वे, अस्ट्रेलिया, अस्टि्रयाजस्ता विकसित मुलुक छन् । सबैभन्दा भ्रष्टमा बंगलादेश, चाद, तुर्किमेनिस्तान, म्यान्मार, हाइटी, नाइजेरिया, इक्वाटोरियल, अंगोला, ताजकिस्तान छन् ।

Let's create peaceful and corruptless Nepal. We don't have to go other countries to look for the strong socioeconomic.

Neta ra Raja milera desh bechni bahye aba.

Why we worry, we have powerful Shahi commission.

No Nepali who is wishing good of his/her country is happy to see Nepal being high on the list corrupt countries.

However, is it fair to say that over 70% of the population are not involved in corruption but they are victims of the corruptions perpetuated by the politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen and their pimps, day in and day out?

What is hard to digest is that Switzerland is among the least corrupt countries. All the ill gotten wealth is said to be kept safely in the Swiss Banks. Would the Swiss Banks disclose the accounts and their deposits from Nepal in the last 60 years?

What kind of standard is this where the secret accounts and secret deposits continue in the Swiss Banks (and elsewhere too) and those who deposit the monies by snatching from the mouths of hungry, poor and sick think that their money is safe and the banks happily use the monies so deposited. What an irony??

Isn't the keeper of the money is also equally corrupt?

If the Swiss Banks were to disclose the individual accounts and deposits from last 60 years from Nepal, this will create a political bhukampa equivalent of 9.9 rector scale with its epicenter in Kathmandu.

Our leaders never raise this issue because they know ---lahara tanda pahara garjine...

117/193 does not seem too bad...we fared much better than the US.

of course, one hopes that things get a lot better.