What this is
This is an anonymous public ledger of bribe demands in India. People report what they were asked to pay, at which office, for which service; the reports are aggregated into a live map and department rankings.
It is an awareness project, not an investigator. Nothing here is a legal accusation against anyone — reports describe offices and services, never individuals, and the site refuses to store names. Its theory of change is simpler: extortion depends on secrecy about the rate, and public numbers destroy that secrecy.
Privacy: the whole list of what we store
A report is exactly these fields, nothing else:
- ·State and district
- ·Department and service
- ·Month (never the exact date)
- ·Amount demanded / paid
- ·What happened (paid / refused)
- ·How it was to be paid
- ·Who asked (role, not name)
- ·An optional note, auto-scrubbed
There are no accounts, no cookies for tracking, no analytics and no advertising. IP addresses are used only as a salted one-way hash, in memory, to slow down spam — they are never written to storage, so the stored data cannot identify you even if the entire database were published. Notes are filtered for phone numbers, IDs, vehicle numbers, emails, handles and name patterns before being saved.
How the numbers work
Medians, not means. Bribe amounts have a brutal long tail; one land-deal report would poison an average.
Only real payments set the numbers. Demands that were refused count toward report volumes and refusal rates, never toward amounts. Payments for out-of-turn favours are recorded for honesty but excluded from service medians.
Unverified, and labelled as such. These are anonymous self-reports. Individually they prove nothing; in aggregate they reveal patterns no verified dataset of this kind exists to show.
Demo data is labelled. During development the site can be seeded with clearly-marked demonstration records, excluded from statistics the moment real reports exist.
The rules
No names
Reports naming individuals are scrubbed. This is a map of a system, not a pillory.
No verification theatre
We do not pretend to verify what we cannot. Everything is labelled as what it is.
No money in the loop
No ads, no data sales, no premium tier. The data belongs to everyone.
Report only your own experience
Second-hand stories and campaigns dilute the signal that protects everyone.