[kakashi_]

You don't get the whole point of it.

In India, it is known that officials in the government slack during office hours. Delaying of process for unworthy reasons. Numerous time-breaks and other infinite 'small' but aggregatively deterrent forms of behaviours in the office.

The camera moves the whole system a step forward. Transparency is more easily perceivable to the public now. The necessity of a sting operation in the office does not emerge. People can have a fresh perspective on the laws for the government officials.

Psychologically, this might build a better work environment. It has been shown that adding monitoring video cameras does add a certain form of placebo effect.

I hope the 'mantra' should be improvement, no matter how small it is. A complete revamp of the system is more like dreaming about humans taking over all the nine(eight eh?) planets, and that too in an year.

[GiraffeNecktie]

"In India, it is known that officials in the government slack during office hours."

It's been known to happen in North America too. :)

[digamber_kamat]

The corruption in India is a bit different. If you need a electricity connection for you home you need to pay a bribe. If you need water connection more bribe. If you want to run a hotel you need to take 375 permission and for each you have to pay a bribe (all these 375 permission need to be renewed every year, well most of them). Even the poorest people who live less than $2 per day have to pay a bribe to get a certificate that says they are poor enabling them to take benefit of various social security schemes.