Knowledge Themes

Prevention of Corruption Act 1988

Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002

Right to Information Act 2005

Central Vigilance Commission

Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act 2013

Whistleblowers Protection Act 2014

Second Administrative Reforms Commission (Ethics in Governance)

United Nations Convention against Corruption

Probity in Governance

Citizen's Charters

Social Audits

Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics

Santhanam Committee Report

Conflict of Interest

Integrity Pact

Structural Subtopics

Five-row typology of corruption (petty
grand
systemic
political
crony capitalism)
Kautilya’s views on corruption in Arthashastra
Institutional checks including CVC
CBI
and Lokpal/Lokayuktas
Provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988
Role of the Right to Information Act in enhancing transparency
Whistleblower protection mechanisms and the 2014 Act
Second ARC recommendations on ethics in governance
Social audits and citizen’s charters as accountability tools
Impact of corruption on the social contract and democratic trust
Ethical dilemmas of civil servants in corrupt institutional structures
Use of e-governance and digital interfaces to reduce human chokepoints
International benchmarks such as the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International

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