Angry Indians take anti-corruption fight online
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NEW DELHI — After decades spent deploring the daily blight of bribery in private, thousands of Indians are taking the anti-graft fight into their own hands and going online to shame the guilty.
India is no stranger to graft, whether it be a billion-dollar corporate fraud case or absurdly inflated toilet paper contracts for the athletes’ village at last month’s Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
But corruption is most vividly felt in people’s everyday lives, with seemingly endless requests for backhanders to secure everything from phone connections to birth certificates and school admissions letters.
A Bangalore-based non-profit organization, Janaagraha, responded to the problem in August by setting up a Web site, IPaidABribe.com (IPAB), a cathartic forum for angry citizens to vent their frustration and share experiences.
In February, a lobby group called 5th Pillar printed and distributed a zero-rupee note, urging people to hand them out whenever they encountered a greedy bureaucrat..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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