New Delhi - In a drive to control graft among civil servants, Indian customs officials posted at airports, who are counted among the country's most corrupt, now have to "declare" the amount of cash they carry to work each day. Under a new "cash-andsign" order, this amount is entered in a register and later tallied with money that all customs officials, irrespective of rank, leave the airport with at the end of their working day, Rahul Bedi reports.
The new directive introduced by the Central Vigilance Commission, India's national corruption watchdog, has been met with antagonism by cus-resisted closed-circuit television cameras by covering them with chewing gum and their uniform caps.