Hi Ashu-ji, in fact you have raised quite interesting question, which doesn't have specific answer to treat it. However, people may have different opinions about it. Only in my mind, there are several thoughts which could be helpful for reducing corruption. I mention here to reduce than uprooting, while later is just an ideal term and the definition of corruption is really vague. The ways to reduce corruption also depends upon how you are going to define corruption. e.g. is corruption a process through which people misuse the government or state property, without following the system i.e. not making bills or vouchers, then what about informal payments? One important thing to note is that corruption in Nepal is only regarded as financial terms, where its crux of the matter is to abuse the specific rights at ones specific position. It may include bribery, graft, extortion, nepotism, ticket-fixing etc. 1. In my opinion, the root cause of the corruption is not at the point where corruption takes place, but at the top level. There are several obvious examples in Nepalese bureaucracy. Therefore, everybody should be bounded with the law and order not only in written form but also in practice. Nobody should be exempted from the defined law: best example was the DIG surpassing the traffic rules only has to pay 60 Rs. And King can do anything, Parsas is allowed to do anything he wants. 2. Secondly, the corruption in Nepal is culturally and traditionally supported. How? I have already mentioned in one of the threads that we have a tendency to respect how one has made house, how big is his house, whether he has car or not. Nobody cares how he earned so much money. Nobody excluded such corrupt people rather offered higher position in society, and even in the Government. Rather our culture and society excluded who try to bring positive changes in society, such as elliminating intouchability from society, socalled forced witches charges and so on. We respect one person with no identity arriving on car than the one Prof. coming to College on public bus. Therefore, this culture to respect money has to be somehow changed. 3. The basic cause of the corruption is also a poverty and low income. At the same time, people donot have social security and insurance. Since the available income is not enough to feed family and relatives. As we are living in joint family structure, we have to take care of our family plus the people around, unlike in western culture. Therefore, people are tempted to have extra informal income, who have access. Though it is not right or previlage. Hi, all, after talking about corruption now, I felt like I became 486. I will comeback later.