India beats China at tackling corruption, but not by much

India trails China when it comes to economy and growth but  it turns out we may now be a just a little less corrupt, but not by much.

Anti-corruption organisation Transparency International in its latest findings has revealed  that India is ranked 85 while China is ranked at a relatively distant 100. While India scored 38 on the corruption index, China scored 36. ( Higher the score, higher the ranking.)

While India saw its score rise from 36 to 38, China saw its score fall from 40 to 36. China was ranked above India in 2013 and 2012.

O n its blog on the findings, Transparency International said that China’s fall in the rankings was just proof that despite the Chinese government and premier promising to take on corruption, it hadn’t necessarily shown an improvement on the ground.

“Given the penetration and impact of colossal corruption to every scale of state and society, the 2014 index score shows the need for a wide range of reforms,” the organization noted on its blog.

About India’s rating, the organization noted that the score revealed “India’s bitter reality of political corruption: the inadequacy of structures of accountability and transparency to deter the corrupt and the access to such mechanisms by the people. The problem urges the conversion of political commitment to concrete action at the highest level of government.”

The organization also noted that it had already pointed out that India needed “stronger law enforcement agencies, corruption watchdogs and protection of whistleblowers.”