There's also the issue of the historical economic legacy of the Licence Raj - state planning often leads to built in corruption as circumventing state bureaucra

There's also the issue of the historical economic legacy of the Licence Raj - state planning often leads to built in corruption as circumventing state bureaucracy becomes the only way to get something done. It gets overlooked semi-officially because officials like the results it yields. Just because you change to a more freer economic system system doesn't mean that ingrained culture of corruption goes away. Russia was very similar in the 90s.