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| Vol. 4, Issue 2 February 2012 |
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Goings On |
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Paperwork |
Bribed with a Zero-Rupee Note
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| An Indian physics professor at the University of
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Published :1 March 2010 |
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| An Indian physics professor at the University of Maryland first thought up the idea when he realised how bribery had infiltrated the system in India: zero-denomination notes printed in their thousands and handed over to officials who demanded bribes. An Indian NGO, 5th Pillar, then actually took the professor’s idea to heart and printed a batch of 25,000 notes, which have been met with such demand that it has ended up distributing one million of them. In fact, you can now go to the 5th Pillar website and download the images in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam and print them through your home desktop printer. 5th Pillar says that the notes—masterpieces of humiliation—have worked in shaming several officials into returning the bribes they had taken.
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