Surinderjit Singh Sandhu The world observes Anti-corruption Day on December 9, but this spring of gutter continues to flow perennially. During a training programme at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, a woman IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh said ministers and senior officers generally, when they visited districts or sub-divisions, never spent a penny from their pockets and rather enjoyed the hospitality of the local administration, which is invariably based on the resources collected by officials by resorting to corrupt ways. All officers agreed that the same conditions prevailed in other states, too. The revenue department was considered as the major victim of this greed.