Even poor forced to pay bribe to get kids into school: Survey

  • 14/07/2008

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)

Even India's poorest are being forced to pay bribes to ensure their children go to school. A Transparency International India-CMS survey, that looked at corruption in India's school education sector, specially focusing on BPL households settled in rural India, has thrown up shocking conclusions. Around seven lakh BPL households in India paid bribe in the last one year to avail services related to school education of their children