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Scale Of Corruption In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 2, 2011: the anti-corruption agency called Transparency International (TI) has made its report on corruption scale for the year 2011 public yesterday. According to the report, Nepal has scored 2.2 out of the corruption index 10 placing its position at 154 out of 183 countries included in the survey.
Any country scoring 10 would be called corruption free country but none of the countries has scored such a figure. New Zealand has scored 9.5 means there is some corruption.
Among the SAARC countries, Bhutan has scored 5.7 and Afghanistan 1.5, other countries in between. Any country scoring less than 3 is called the country with rampant corruption. India scoring 3.1 has been just above such countries.
Corruption is quite visible in Nepal. For example, a former finance minister had openly wanted to save the large business houses that had presented fake VAT bills. At the land registration office, nothing happens without paying premium to the officials. Political leaders openly make money while in power. Every body knows such corrupt politicians but none of the political parties have fired them rather they have been in the leading positions.
The results are roads are always in very bad condition, water supply has been once a week, electricity is only for certain time of a day. The highly hyped Melamchi Drinking Water Project is never competed but the government continues to provide it with an annual budget, the fast track between Kathmandu and Hetauda never initiated in building although the news media sometimes give the impression of completing such projects soon.
According to the media reports, a number of hydropower projects are at the various stages of construction but none of them completes. Leaders of political party such as CPN-UML did not permit the then government led by Prachanda to build a thermal plant with the capacity of 200 MW stating the cost of production would be very high.
The government spends an annual budget but the development work except directly done by the donors rarely successful. So, the state money directly goes to the pockets of the people in power.
The irony is that even the state employees need to pay certain premium to the politicians in power to get transfer to the lucrative positions means where they could amass a huge fortune.
