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[Global Corruption Report 2005]The costs of corruption

Jha, Raj Kamal
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Jha, Raj Kamal
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corruption
aggression
precautionary principle
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Community ethics
Lifestyle ethics
Social ethics
Family ethics
Sexual orientation/gender
Education and ethics
Ethnicity and ethics
Minority ethics
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Corruption and Transparency
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"To many in India’s construction industry, this had a familiar ring. Such goings-on are commonplace, especially when it comes to contracts. Bribery of officials and musclepower to browbeat other contenders are often used to win contracts. Substandard works are churned out and public money drained. ‘Works are usually being awarded at high cost and contractors are assuring the best quality in the execution of projects. However, when it comes to the actual execution of works, it is found that most of the works (sometimes even up to 100 per cent) are being sublet or subcontracted to small petty contractors who are not at all capable of executing such big projects ... I would like to mention here that the above phenomena of subletting and subcontracting is known to all from top to bottom but everyone is maintaining a studied silence ... These petty contractors are bringing poor equipment and material, giving a big setback to the progress and quality of work’, he wrote. Dubey requested that his name be kept secret, but at the same time he let his identity be known. He had reason to. ‘Since such letters from a common man’, he wrote, ‘are not usually treated with due seriousness, I wish to clarify ... that this letter is being written after careful thought by a very concerned citizen who is also very closely linked with the project ... [K]indly go through my brief particulars (attached on a separate sheet to ensure secrecy) before proceeding further.’ Just the opposite happened. Dubey’s letter was riddled with signatures and scribbles of officials, indicating that it had done the rounds of Delhi’s bureaucracy. His request for anonymity was apparently ignored, and the letter was sent to his superiors at the highways authority with a copy to the organisation’s chief vigilance officer who, it later transpired, had admonished Dubey for writing directly to the PMO."(pg 10)
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2005
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0745323979
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