it's an around the world phenominum

NEW DELHI: Even India's poorest are being forced to pay bribes to ensure their children go to school. Paying to get educated (TOI Photo)


A Transparency International India-CMS survey that looked at corruption in India's school education sector, specially focusing on below poverty line (BPL) households settled in rural India has thrown up shocking conclusions.

Around seven lakh BPL households in India paid bribe in the last one year to avail services related to school education of their children - the total amount paid as bribe being estimated to be around Rs 12 crore. Another nine lakh BPL households used contacts to get their child admitted or promoted in school. However, another five lakh BPL households weren't that lucky - their children couldn't avail such services because they were either too poor to pay bribe or had absolutely no contact or influence to use as an advantage.

The survey - that covered 22,728 randomly selected BPL households across 31 states and union territories - said a majority of those who paid bribe did so for getting their children admitted in the school or for getting promotion of their children from one class to another. Issuing school-leaving certificate was another lucrative business for corrupt schools authorities. However, the amount bribed was highest when it came for allotment of hostel. In comparison, a higher proportion of urban BPL households (40%) paid bribe for new admission and issuance of certificate as against rural areas (33%).

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• To be precise, google one example for US, -whatever1234- ♂ (38 bytes) () 06/23/2009 postreply 08:38:01

• so it is a worldwide thing. donot blame china alone :-) -sh136- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/23/2009 postreply 08:41:12