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An Insignificant Man, a 2017 Hindi/English Indian socio-political documentary, was co-produced and directed by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla, and was also co-produced by Anand Gandhi. [158] [159] The documentary is about the rise of anti-corruption protests in India and the formation and rise to power of the AAP. [160]
Zero-rupee notes have been issued in five of the 22 scheduled languages of India: Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu. [9] This concept for use in the fight against corruption has recently been adopted from 5th Pillar to few other nations suffering from endemic government bribery problems including Yemen, Ghana, Benin, Mexico and Nepal ...
Corruption in India is an issue which affects economy of central, state, and local government agencies. Corruption is blamed for stunting the economy of India. [1] A study conducted by Transparency International in 2005 recorded that more than 62% of Indians had at some point or another paid a bribe to a public official to get a job done.
Corruption includes industrial corruption, consisting of large bribes, as well as petty corruption such as a poacher paying off a park ranger to ignore poaching. The presence of fuel extraction and export is unambiguously associated with corruption, whereas mineral exports only increased corruption in poorer countries.
India's Chief Vigilance Commissioner later added that of the remaining, "40 paise perhaps can be accounted for administrative overheads and 45 paise is pure corruption". [ 5 ] It has also been felt and politically stated that even less than 15 paise is a truer estimate in some cases; 10 paise, [ 6 ] even less than 5 paise. [ 7 ]
In 2003 corruption charges were raised by Hazare against four NCP ministers of the Congress-NCP government. [44] He started his fast unto death on 9 August 2003. He ended his fast on 17 August 2003 after then chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde formed a one-man commission headed by the retired justice P. B. Sawant to probe his charges. [ 45 ]
Aseem Trivedi (born 17 February 1987) is an Indian political cartoonist and activist, known for his anti corruption campaign Cartoons Against Corruption.He is a founder member of Save Your Voice, a movement against internet censorship in India.
Raag Darbari is a satirical Hindi novel written by Sri Lal Sukla, published in 1968. [1] [2] He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award, the highest Indian literary award, in 1969 for this novel. [3] The novel illustrates the failing values present in post-Independence Indian society. It exposes the helplessness of intellectuals in the face of a ...