Corruption dents India's image: PM
Manmohan Singh
NEW DELHI: Corruption dents India's image, hampers good governance and needs to be tackled "boldly and quickly", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said yesterday.
"Corruption strikes at the roots of good governance. It is an impediment to faster growth. It dilutes, if not negates, our efforts at social inclusion," Manmohan Singh said, two days after former communications minister A Raja was arrested for his suspected role in the 2G spectrum scam, billed as the country's biggest to date.
"It dents our international image and it demeans us before our own people," the prime minister said, addressing the second annual conference of chief secretaries of states here.
He said the challenge of corruption needed to "be faced frontally, boldly and quickly".
His government has been under attack over the 2008 2G telecom spectrum license allotment, irregularities in the organising of the Delhi Commonwealth Games and irregular allocation of apartments in an elite Mumbai housing society, which was meant for the families of war heroes.
"We have set up a group of ministers to look into all measures, legal or administrative, to tackle this menace," he said referring to the group of ministers headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee, adding that two bills have already been introduced in parliament relating to judicial accountability and the protection of whistleblowers.
"Along with legislation, the necessary revamp of administrative practices and procedures needs to be fast-tracked," Manmohan Singh opined.
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