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News:India Corruption Survey 2019 has been released by the Local Circles,a social media firm and the Transparency International India.

Facts:

Key takeaways from the survey:

Rajasthan tops corruption chart in India.As per Survey, 78% of people in Rajasthan, participating in the survey admitted to paying a bribe to get work done.
Bihar follows Rajasthan and was placed at second spot.In Bihar, 75 % of citizens admitted to paying a bribe to get their work done.
Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand were ranked third in the list with 74 % of citizens admitted to paying a bribe to get their work done.
In South India,Telangana has topped with 67% of citizens admitted to paying a bribe to get their work done.
On the other hand,Kerala was ranked as the least corrupt states where only 10% of people admitted to paying a bribe to get their work done.
Besides Kerala, Goa, Gujarat, Odisha, West Bengal, Haryana and Delhi were among the least corrupt states.

Additional information:

About Corruption Perceptions Index 2018:

India has been ranked at 78th place out of 180 countries in ‘Corruption Perception Index(CPI),2018.
The index is released by the Transparency International.It ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and business people.
It uses a scale of 0 to 100 where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
Denmark has topped the index followed by New Zealand and Finland.On the other hand,Somalia has been ranked last in the index.

About Transparency International:

Transparency International is an international non-governmental organization.It was founded in 1993 based in Berlin, Germany.
Its purpose is to take action to combat corruption and prevent criminal activities arising from corruption.
It publishes various reports such as the Global Corruption Barometer and the Corruption Perceptions Index.