No place for corruption, middlemen: PMO (Lead)

New Delhi Aug 18 (IANS) The Prime Minister s Office (PMO) said on Friday that "there is no place for corruption and middlemen" in the country.

It said the National Democratic Alliance government s priority was to create a corruption-free India and it had taken several initiatives for "uprooting corruption from the system".

"There is no place for corruption and middlemen. The NDA government s priority is a corruption free India. It is uprooting corruption from the system " the PMO tweeted.

The tweet posted with some news clippings came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed entrepreneurs here and expressed regret over corruption and said that the government cannot stop graft without setting up "counter-institutional arrangements".

Modi also said that the government was trying to create institutional arrangements so that if people falter the system would take care of the situation.

--IANS
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