Officers are finding increasingly creative ways to practice corruption.
Meet Pradyumna Dixit, Jt Director in the Dept of IT at RajComp, Govt of Rajasthan.
He awarded govt tenders to two private companies on the condition that they hire his wife, Poonam Dixit, as a consultant, only on paper, and pay her a monthly salary. The companies complied.
Over two years, during the companies contract period with Govt, Poonam Dixit received nearly тВ╣40 lakh without ever visiting either office. Really innovative, but sadly got caught.
I'm impressed. In my opinion, GoI should constitute a Rashtriya Chatur Bhrashtachari Sammaan to award such innovative ways of doing desh-seva.