India climbs 3 spots on global anti-graft index

India has improved its ranking on Transparency International’s global corruption index in 2018, while China lagged far behind. India rose by three points to 78 in the list of 180 countries on the annual Corruption Perception Index released by the anti-graft watchdog on Tuesday, while China ranked 87 and Pakistan 117 in 2018. “As India gears up for its elections, we see little significant movement in its CPI score, which moved from 40 in 2017 to 41 in 2018,” the global watchdog said. It added that despite spectacular public mobilisation in 2011, “where citizens demanded that the government take action against corruption... these efforts ultimately fizzled and fell flat, with little to no movement on the ground”. Denmark and New Zealand topped the list, while Somalia, Syria and South Sudan were at the bottom.

Source: Times of India, 30/01/2019