Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Corruption... there and here

In Mumbai, Anti-Corruption Bureau director general Dr P S Pasricha has listed the "most corrupt" departments as follows -- Revgenue, Police, Sales Tax, the municipal corporation (BMC) and the Maharashtra State Electricity Board. Says the Indian Express: "It leaves names like the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority, the Road Transport Office and the Excise Department -- they make up the rest of the list." Would anyone have listings relevant to Goa? Maybe the Planning and Development Authorities (recently scrapped, but that doesn't necessarily mean the Congress was fighting corruption!), the Police, and above all the political leadership could figure in the list. (If you wanted to take a look at some official links to cyberspace in Goa, see this hurriedly put together link. Any suggestions?