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Mon 06 Jun 2008India's poor forced to pay bribes to access public services
INDIA:MILLIONS OF Indians living below the poverty line, earning €1 or less a day, paid an estimated €140 million in bribes over a three-month period recently to avail of basic public services, a study revealed at the weekend.
In its survey conducted between November 2007 and January 2008, Transparency International India found that 8.83 billion rupees had been paid as bribes by the country's poor for 11 types of services, including police, healthcare, revenue and education.
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