Corruption in Poverty Alleviation Programmes: An Introspection

Corruption can adversely affects the development programmes in the country. There is a close relationship between corruption and governance. As a result, corruption affects poverty by the channels reducing governance capacity such as reduces the services that are provided by the government. Though in India, both the Central and State Government are implementing a number of programmmes in rural areas for poverty alleviation, employment generation etc. but both Central and State Government are not able to reduce poverty up to the expected level due to the prevalence of corruption. Keeping this view, the book makes an attempt an assignment of various poverty alleviation programmmes and factors associated with corruption at the grassroot level in rural areas of Assam. This book will be relevant to the policy making in the Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Statistics and Programmme Implementation, Department of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) as well the Government of Assam. The book will be valuable source of information to academician, policy makers and researchers.…