When kautilya says corruption is hard to detect -- same way as one cannot find out if one is tasting the honey and not eating it and the same way revenue officers are like fishes inside water, one cant tell if they are actually drinking the water.
In the present age the problem remains fundamentally the same despite all technological progress. Talk of e governance to the rescue and you have VYAPAM, talk of PC act 1988 and u have amendments waiting 13 D.
Corruption is notoriously difficult to track because you are essentially trying to measure something that is itself trying really, really hard to be hidden and not to be measured. As I discuss in another Quora answer, even institutions that earnestly try to measure corruption such as Transparency International rely almost entirely on opinions from sources that are at best, not representative and thus skewed. True to its name, its Corruption Perceptions Index is based on measuring perception, which does not necessarily sync with reality, and does not do a good job differentiating between the different types of corruption
In the present age the problem remains fundamentally the same despite all technological progress. Talk of e governance to the rescue and you have VYAPAM, talk of PC act 1988 and u have amendments waiting 13 D.
Corruption is notoriously difficult to track because you are essentially trying to measure something that is itself trying really, really hard to be hidden and not to be measured. As I discuss in another Quora answer, even institutions that earnestly try to measure corruption such as Transparency International rely almost entirely on opinions from sources that are at best, not representative and thus skewed. True to its name, its Corruption Perceptions Index is based on measuring perception, which does not necessarily sync with reality, and does not do a good job differentiating between the different types of corruption
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