Parliament, law-making bodies

About 10 per cent of the respondents feel that Parliament and law-making bodies are corrupt

The 2009 Barometer shows the poorest families continue to be punished by petty bribe demand. Across the board, low-income respondents were more likely to be met with bribe demands than high-income respondents.

While only 9 per cent of the respondents reported having paid bribes, Transparency International India's India Corruption study 2008 that surveyed corruption in the below poverty line sector shows that the poor are forced to cough up about Rs 900 crore (Rs 9 billion) as bribe to avail basic and need based services.

"Petty corruption denies people their entitlement to basic and need based services, as a result of which the poor find themselves at the losing end of corruption" said TII Chair Admiral (Retd) R H Tahiliani.