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India fares better, but…

Oddly enough, India's improved ranking coincides with an extraordinary discord within the premier investigative agency called the Central Bureau of Investigation and between the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India. Fringe elements in the political spectrum have disrupted business activity in Gujarat, Maharashtra and elsewhere, upsetting free movement of labour.

Tainted public entities

Administrative inaction and sabotage of criminal investigation even in cases of corruption are distressing features of governance at the State level. Citizens' rights are trampled upon without any accountability. Public representatives assault public officials with impunity and get away without political or legal accountability. Abuse of public office in administrative matters like transfers, promotions, disciplinary action, in appointments to corporations, committees, commissions, boards is rampant.

Garrulous Governor

Common parlance has every gubernatorial appointment being hailed as someone being “elevated” to that exalted position, in the Indian system…