Corruption in India is high by default. Just like security often can't be an after-thought in software development, anything new in India should not leave anti-corruption measures as an after-thought.
While there is tons of corruption in India; this isn't an example of it. It's just another example of a policy that doesn't gel well with the western business models. This isn't something that you can brush aside with a bribe, it's a policy created for a reason. Not to extract bribe money.
I agree with you 100% . A program, for example to do property transaction will solve problems in that sector. Unfortunately its a chicken egg problem. policy maker won't let a program replace manual processing which has high opportunity of doing wrong and get away with it.
On a side note Yes, Train reservation system is much better now compare to what it was back in 1990s. There is no room left of corruption. I guess India need a strong leader which is not in for profit and he/she may do such small deed which will help India evolve out of current state
Corruption is hardly a technology issue, especially in an environment where corruption is so passe and enjoys patronage from the entirety of the polictical spectrum. Example, to disrupt the blackmarket of kerosene they started dyeing it, and that mattered zilch, because people were selling and buying dyed kereosene in the blackmarket without batting an eyelid. Everyone looked the otherway... wink wink.
As a foreigner living in India I wish I could throw money at someone to make the process of securing documents like police clearance easier. That's simply not the case though.
I have no doubt that corruption is rampant but your examples don't square with my experience.
Unsurprising for anyone that has done business in India. This is not a dig on Indian people, but the society they operate in is incredibly incredibly corrupt, on a scale which is basically unthinkable to anyone who hasn't been directly exposed to it. I cannot imagine doing business of the precision that Apple is trying to achieve in India. There are many other lower precision arrangements that can be worked out in India, but something like an iPhone seems impossible without a complete sea change in how Indian society operates at every level.
Anybody who has done business in India is never surprised by the number of spam, scam boiler rooms, and other nefarious global criminal organizations operating in India. It's all part of the same pervasive corruption within Indian society.
Several departments in many states of India are far behind in their digitisation goals.
Because they want to keep avenues of corruption open.
The one that comes to mind is mutation of land type- very easily implementable solution, but it remains traditional, not analog.
Digitization does not do away with corruption. One example is the drivers' license office. There are "brokers" who take non-trivial "fees" so that you pass your driving tests and you do not face any hindrances or waste your time by having to go many times for a single task. The officers take cuts from these brokers.
Without them, only local people with no value of time will be able to get drivers' license.
There are also road signs tests. While hard for many, I found it trivially easy.
If your solution for corruption at higher levels is to make a billion (or hundreds of million, since we now know that there are ghost entries in the Aadhaar database too) people suffer, not have access to food, die of starvation, not get their pensions, etc., then it's a useless solution that has no place anywhere in the world, more so in a democracy!
No it’s not. This is to eliminate all the fake notes and illegally collected money (via bribes) as depositing the money or exchanging them will force corrupt politicians and others to have to show tax receipts for where did they earn it from. Hahahaha. This is so awesome. Indian culture is full or corruption where you have to bribe to get anything done.
India has a deep corruption problem. There's a real incentive to make money off scams and the government is giving a blind eye. A guy infiltrated some of the scam companies, who where all in India, using their remote desktop software against them and got feeds of all the webcams and microphones in the building. Multiple reports to police and most companies still runnning to this day.
500 and 1000 rupees case is very welcome and in this most of them will get caught particularly
1)corruption
2)cricket players & bookies
3)celebrities & politicians
4)Black money & Fake moneys
not only this in every office they should stick the phone number of vigilance if any one is asks for the bribe immediate action should be taken only then in next couple of years we can proudly say that India is a developed country. Finally I appreciate that Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi for a great job.
India tried to “see into every government action” by eliminating cash, thereby forcing all bribes onto the books (probably still in an obfuscated form, but one you can find anyway through network analysis.)
This sounds like a great tool in theory for spreading awareness about bribery but solving systemic corruption won't necessarily be that easy (which is the root of this problem in India). Indian society is used to bribery and at times prefers it. It's a system where the primary source of income earned by people in power is through "under the table deals". The steps to fixing the corruption also have to be systemic which should include better wages for government employees and higher accountability of the funds allocated for government projects. AFAIK accounts, land records etc. still haven't been digitised completely in India. Once this process starts, there should be a noticeable change not just wrt corruption, but also in streamlining of govt. processes.
I am an Indian expat and can rant endlessly on government corruption in India. Most Indians living in the US are well-aware of the graft in their mother country but many Indians in India choose not to acknowledge it. A truly remarkable corrupt event occurred recently - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis...
This whole thing is such a phenomenally stupid idea in nearly every way. Foreign companies have had longer to develop and are superior in nearly every single way. Why supress them? The data protection laws are a good idea, though I suspect corruption and surveillance, which the Indian gov wants to keep, will largely nullify any and all benefits of such laws.
A lot of people here saying that the India govt is too incompetent to do this.
This is naive thinking. The indian govt might be slow and corrupt but rest assured when it comes to implementation they are actually quite decent. See the amount of work that has gone into computerization of various things like personal tax, property tax, education etc. Other governments can move much more quickly because they only have 1% of India's population. India has so much paper records and most of them lost. For example, can you imagine what it takes to move the property tax system online? Most land records don't exist on paper with the goverment. This is not just a data entry and technology problem anymore.
No, what I am worried about is that if they pull if off, you cannot keep the politicians off this. And it's guaranteed to be misused. It's dangerous to build a monitoring system because a security hole in such things endangers everyone. If the richest companies in the planet like apple, google, sony cannot build secure governments, I highly doubt government can.
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