 "India's slow march against corruption")
Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption, has ranked India 81st out of 180 countries in its global corruption perception index for 2017. The body advocates putting in place, among other things, laws that promote transparency and accountability, whistle-blower protection and setting up anti-corruption agencies to reduce corruption in public life.
Unfortunately, though India has all the relevant laws, their implementation has been flawed.
In 2017 the Supreme Court questioned the government as to why it had not set up the Lokpal at the Centre and the Lokayuktas at the state level as mandated by the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act,
