According to the committee: ‘In its widest connotation, corruption includes improper or selfish exercise of power and influence, attached to a public office, or to the special position one occupies in public life. In this sense, the problem would have to be viewed in relation to the entire system of moral values and socio-economic structure of society.’ The interim reports of the Santhanam Committee were received in 1963, while the final report was received in April 1964.
