India ranked 93 out of 180 international locations on the international corruption perceptions index for 2023 launched on Tuesday by NGO Transparency Worldwide.
Whereas the nation’s rating fell by eight locations as in comparison with 2022, its rating dropped by one level.
India’s rating in 2023 was 39, as in opposition to 40 in 2022. The nation was ranked at eighty fifth place in 2022.
Transparency Worldwide ranks international locations on a scale of zero (extremely corrupt) to 100 (very clear) primarily based on their perceived ranges of corruption within the public sector.
India shares the rank with the Maldives, Kazakhstan, and Lesotho.
“India exhibits rating fluctuations sufficiently small that no agency conclusions might be drawn on any important change,” the Transparency Worldwide report stated. “Nevertheless, forward of the elections, India sees additional narrowing of civic area, together with by way of the passage of a invoice [Telecommunications Bill] that could possibly be a grave risk to elementary rights.”
The Telecommunications Invoice, handed by Parliament final month, permits the Centre to quickly take management of telecom companies within the curiosity of nationwide safety.
The Transparency Worldwide report added: “Because the Asia Pacific area faces a giant 2024 election 12 months, with folks popping out to vote in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Solomon Islands, South Korea and Taiwan, the 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index [CPI] reveals one other 12 months of little to no significant progress in the direction of curbing corruption.”
Denmark, with a rating of 80, topped the index for the sixth consecutive 12 months. The nation was adopted by Finland, New Zealand, Norway and Singapore.
The underside 5 international locations on the listing had been Somalia, Venezuela, Syria, South Sudan and Yemen.
The worldwide common rating on the index remained unchanged at 43 for the twelfth straight 12 months, with over two-thirds of nations scoring lower than 50 factors.