Height of corruption? India’s poorest paid Rs 883 cr as bribe!
Dr. Teeth 30 June, 2008
(7) Comment The level of corruption is “alarming” in the states of Assam, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, says a new survey based on experience of BPL households in availing various public services last year.
The ‘India Corruption Study 2007′, brought out by NGOs Transparency International India (TII) and Centre for Media Studies (CMS), found that about one-third of Below Poverty Line (BPL) households in the country bribed officials to avail a total of 11 services — from police to PDS.
According to the survey, which covered 22,728 households in all states and Union Territories, Rs 883 crore (Rs 8,830 million), in all, was estimated to be paid as bribe by BPL households last year.
The report grouped states into four levels on extent of corruption — alarming, very high, high and moderate. While five states come into the “alarming” category, the corruption level is “moderate” in states like Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Haryana and West Bengal, the survey found.
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Chikungunya cases reported again from Kerala
Dr. Teeth 10 April, 2008
(1) Comment Chikungunya, a viral disease that spreads through the bite of infected mosquitoes, has struck Kerala again. The first cases this year have been reported from Kozhikode district.The outbreak was reported Tuesday, following heavy and untimely rain. Last year, the disease had ravaged the southern and central districts of the state. Kozhikode is in Kerala’s north.
Chikungunya is characterised by severe, sometimes persistent, joint pain as well as fever and rash.
‘There are six confirmed cases in Vatakara and nine in Maruthonkara,’ A. Baburaj, district medical officer, told IANS.
He said the source of the outbreak was a person who had travelled to the area from Tamil Nadu.
Baburaj added that the places from where the disease was reported have a high density of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the carrier of Chickungunya virus.
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