(with courtesy Indian Express)
India ranks 94th Denmark places first
India's image on tackling corruption
has not improved with Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index
(CPI) placing it at 94th rank out of 176 nations this year.
Though India was ranked at 95th
position last year, the international watchdog said it has started evaluating
the positions through a different formula beginning this year and hence this
cannot be compared to last year's ranking.
However, the last year's rank of 95
would be 96 if it is calculated using the new methodology which implies there
was a "slight improvement" in the index.
This year, India has a score of 36
out of 100 on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean) which is a
result of an average of 10 studies including World Bank's Country Performance
and Institutional Assessment and Global Insight Country Risk Ratings.
India was ranked 72 among 180
countries for the first time in 2007 and since then the country's rankings have
been showing a decline. While India was placed at 87 in 2010, the position was
95 in 2011.
This year, India is ranked below neighboring countries like Sri Lanka and China, while Afghanistan, Iran,
Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh fared much worse than India when it came to
corruption in public sector undertakings.
Sri Lanka, which is slowly limping
back to normalcy after a three-decade civil war, is ranked at 79 while China is
ranked at 80.
Denmark is placed at the top spot
with a score of 90 while Finland and New Zealand follow very closely. Countries
that occupy the bottom ranks in the index are Myanmar, Sudan Afghanistan,
Somalia and North Korea.(with courtesy Indian Express)
