India is right now young and poor. If 3 decades it will be old and poor. Cannot escape population explosion consequences.
https://tradingeconomics.com/india/corruption-rank
These days people want luxurious life. Those days are simply gone where people would be satisfy wit basic needs + education. And with the advent of social media like facebook/instagram where people tends to show off a lot this will make the situation more worst.
One example is passport. Previously it took few months and you had to bribe multiple offices to get a passport faster. Now you get passport within a week. And the only physical link left is the police verification. Vehicle registration, transfer etc also moved online recently and reduced the scope of bribe there. Land registration and records are also in the process of moving online.
But on the other side, corruption at political level etc are not reducing .
The 70's called. They want their boogeyman back.
70s were full of boogeymen. Not that other decades were / are much better. The methods shift, the profit stays.