Here's an interesting comment, that perhaps cements India's world-wide perception as the corruption and incompetence capital of the world:

India’s food bureaucracy is a byword for inefficiency and corruption. People steal from the cheap-food shops of the Public Distribution System (PDS) on an industrial scale. Newspapers call a case of theft now under investigation in Uttar Pradesh “the mother of all scams”. At one point, the country’s top investigative agency said it had given up even trying to cope with the 50,000 separate charges. [Source]

It came to my notice just as Sonia Gandhi is getting personally accused of corrutpion (as if that was a surprise).

Mera Bharat Mahaan.

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