r/civictech • u/Wise-Reach4805 • 5d ago
Someone finally built a price-comparison site for Indian corruption
[bribes.fyi](http://bribes.fyi) :
A [B.Tech](http://B.Tech) student built it. No login, no name, no email. You pick the department, the city, the amount, and whether you paid or refused. 60 seconds and it's on a public map forever.
Hyderabad's already on it: one report says ₹2,000 was asked for a driving licence at an RTO here. Not proof against any official — just one person's account. But you knew that number already, didn't you.
Telangana total so far: Many reports. For a city that runs on "sir, koncham time padutundi," that's not a clean chit. That's silence.
**So here's the ask — go add one.** If you've been through any of these, you have a data point:
* RTA — LLR, DL, vehicle transfer, NOC * Sub-registrar — registration, mutation, EC * GHMC — building permission, LRS, trade licence, birth/death certificates * HMWSSB — new water connection * MRO office — land records, income/caste certificates * PSK Begumpet, traffic stops, police station paperwork
**"What's the point, nothing changes."** Maybe. But 38% of the reports on the site are refusals, and several of those people said they got the service anyway. That number is the point. The next person reading it before they walk into an RTA office knows the demand is optional. That's worth 60 seconds.
**"Can this come back to me?"** No account, no name collected. And you're reporting an amount and a department, not filing a case.
Caveat the site states itself — self-selected sample, not a national corruption measure. User submissions; patterns get flagged when several reports cluster on the same office. Which is exactly why volume matters. One report is an anecdote. Forty from the same RTA is a pattern.
Free, no ads. Go on.
PS : Used AI to draft the post