Govt is sincere in curbing corruption: Singh

From V Mohan Narayan
On Board PM's Special Aircraft
(PTI) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the Government
is sincere in its efforts to curb corruption and admitted that
there have been some "aberrations".
He said the Government will support new ideas that
will help clean Indian politics of the scourge of corruption.
"Corruption is something that concerns all citizens
and I share that concern. There have been aberrations that
have been brought up. We are very sincere in our desire to
curb corruption," Singh told reporters while returning home
from a 6-day trip to Ethiopia and Tanzania.
He was responding to a question on the impact of
recent arrests in 2G Spectrum and Commonwealth Games scams.
"We are open to all new ideas, whatever will help to
clean Indian politics of the scourge of corruption, will have
full support of our government," he said.
To a question on coalition politics compulsions coming
in the way of good governance, he said the Government's basic
agenda remains to accelerate the tempo of economic growth, to
ensure that the country grows at the rate of about 9 to 10 per
cent per annum, and also in the process, to ensure that the
growth benefits all sections of the society.
"This is our commitment to empower our youth, to give
them employable skills whereby they can gain productively job
opportunities and increase investment in education, increase
investment in health, increase investment in rural development
and agricultural development - these are the key priorities of
our government. They have not changed," he said.