To give credit where due, Financial Express, reported on the OECD findings correctly, saying that India is at the third position on “Trust in government” chart, following Indonesia, which is at second position with around 79 per cent people’s confidence. While Switzerland has been placed at the top with a whopping 80 per cent people having trust in their government.

OECD is an intergovernmental economic organisation comprising 35 countries, and India is not even a member of OECD. Apart from a few sections in the 282-page report, India has largely not contributed to data for statistical analysis in the report.As far as other data heads are concerned, confidence of citizens in Indian systems seems poor. Only a little over 60 per cent of Indians were satisfied with the country’s healthcare system, while in countries like Switzerland and Belgium, levels of satisfaction reach up to 90 per cent. The citizen satisfaction with education and schools in India has dropped from 80 per cent in 2007 to 75 per cent in 2016. According to the World Justice Project statistics in the report, India scored 0.5 on index value for fundamental rights protection, fourth last after Turkey, China and Russia, while countries like Denmark scored over 0.9.

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