Corruption in the private sector

Almost 9 percent of those surveyed consider business and private sector to be corrupt

The private sector uses bribes to influence public policy, laws and regulations, believe over half of those polled for the survey. The business related findings of the Barometer send a powerful signal to the private sector to prove that they are clean and to communicate this clearly to the public.

45 per cent of those polled felt that the existing channels for making corruption-related complaints were ineffective.

Very few lodge formal complaints, demonstrating serious defects in the perceived legitimacy and effectiveness of channels for reporting and addressing bribery.

"The institutional anti-corruption framework generally suffers from the lack of coordination, overlaps and conflicting mandates between the myriad of institutions fighting corruption in the country" said Anupama Jha, executive director of Transparency International India.