Dipak Kumar Dash & Abhinav Garg, TNN, May 2, 2010,
NEW DELHI: You may think that politicians top the corruption charts in India, but ask the parliamentarians — they have their own take! A recent survey, involving 100 sitting MPs, carried out during the ongoing Budget session has thrown up some interesting views. According to them, the babus, the judiciary and media should rank much higher than politicians when it comes to indulging in graft. Only one MP shares the aam admi's view!
Conducted by well known thinktank CMS Transparency, the report throws up other nuggets — for instance, it shows that 14 Lok Sabha MPs from Andhra Pradesh, 13 from Karnataka and 18 from Maharshtra, who are members of different House panels have declared their interests in business, industry and trade. The study points that this forms a clear-cut case of conflict of interest (CoI).
The survey report observes that after PM Manmohan Singh issued stern directive to his Cabinet ministers to desist from the pernicious practice of favouring individuals in return for temptations, it was presumed that cases of conflict of interest would diminish. But MPs interviewed, felt that this initiative "would not make much difference".
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