Government must walk the talk on preventing corruption

If Bangladesh is to succeed in corruption control, impunity must be challenged, and the powerful in particular must be brought to justice.

Bangladesh has dropped two notches in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2023 of Transparency International and now ranks 10th from the bottom.

Since Bangladesh's admission in the index in 2001, it has consistently scored low in terms of transparency and ranked high among the most corrupt countries in the world

The country has ranked 149th in the CPI 2023, a list compiled by anti-graft watchdog Transparency International