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IJSREM64962
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Jun 2026
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1-10
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Artha-Niti Institute for Governance
This paper examines India's likely anti-corruption and governance reform deficit during the strategic window from 2030 to 2047, when the country will attempt to combine high economic growth, social protection, infrastructure expansion and democratic legitimacy. The paper uses a prospective institutional analysis based on present reform trajectories, comparative governance indicators, and sectoral risk mapping. It argues that India has built important transparency and delivery instruments, including digital procurement, direct benefit transfers, financial management platforms, grievance systems, audit institutions and statutory anti-corruption bodies. However, these reforms remain uneven because enforcement capacity, procurement law, whistle-blower protection, political finance transparency, local government capacity, data governance, judicial timeliness and federal coordination have not matured at the same pace. The central finding is that corruption between 2030 and 2047 is likely to mutate from petty extraction to higher-order capture of contracts, platforms, environmental approvals, welfare data and regulatory discretion unless institutional capacity is expanded. The paper proposes a 2047 integrity architecture built around independent enforcement, open contracting, proactive disclosure, protected reporting, algorithmic auditability, professional civil services, social accountability and state-level capacity compacts.
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India has built important tools for transparency, welfare efficiency, digital finance, procurement and grievance redress. These reforms should be recognised as significant. Yet the period from 2030 to 2047 will test whether these tools can become institutions. The central challenge is not whether India has anti-corruption laws or digital platforms; it is whether those laws and platforms are backed by autonomy, expertise, open data, timely adjudication, protected reporting, local capacity and credible sanctions. If the reform deficit persists, corruption is likely to become less visible but more systemic. Petty bribery may decline in some services, while high-value capture in procurement, land, climate finance, regulation and digital platforms may expand. If India treats corruption control as a core component of state capacity, however, the country can build an integrity architecture suited to its 2047 ambitions. The policy choice is clear: corruption can be managed episodically through scandal response, or it can be governed structurally through institutions designed for prevention, detection, enforcement and democratic accountability. The paper therefore recommends a 2047 reform agenda built around open contracting, independent oversight, operational whistle-blower protection, RTI revival, algorithmic auditability, federal capacity compacts, fast-track integrity adjudication and transparent political finance. India's centenary will be judged not only by the size of its economy but by the quality of its public institutions. A developed India must also be an accountable India.
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6/14/2026
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