The level of corruption in five projects that are backed and overseen by the World Bank. Everyone is guilty - from bank and government officials and private companies to non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The projects where money was stolen are:
1. The 114-million-dollar Malaria Control Project. 2. The 82.1-million-dollar Orissa Health Systems Development Project. 3. The 193.7-million-dollar Second National HIV/AIDS Control Project. 4. The 124.8-million-dollar Tuberculosis Control Project 5. The 54-million-dollar Food and Drug Capacity Building Project.
What%u2019s shocking is that many lives were ruined because of inferior AIDS testing kits which resulted in healthy people being labelled HIV positive.
Corruption in these projects has come to light only because an outside agency like the World Bank is supervising. When our own government supervises, whether central or state, it gets easily hidden.
There are other instances, where lakhs of rupees collected by Red Cross societies in Punjab for Kargil War Relief, Orissa Cyclone Relief and Gujarat Earthquake Relief never reached the victims.
All in all corruption affects the common man more than hidden corruption in developed countries.
I doubt that germans have to pay bribes to Income tax officers, road transport authorities, government contract work etc.
What Mr Vekatesh says is tax evasion not a fraud or corruption, as rightly pointed out to evade very high tax rate.
