About ghus
घूस (ghus) is the Nepali word for a bribe. This site is a free, crowdsourced record of bribes demanded by government offices in Nepal — how much, which office, for what, and when.
Why it exists
Petty corruption is common knowledge and almost never written down. Everyone knows roughly what a file "costs" at a given counter, but that knowledge stays as rumour, so nothing can be argued from it. Enough anonymous reports turn it into something with a shape: a median, a department ranking, a time of day.
What the numbers mean
Each report is an unverified account submitted by a member of the public. Nothing here is checked against official records, and no one named has been contacted or offered a right of reply. These are allegations.
The data is also a self-selected sample. It reflects who chose to report, not a survey of the country. A department at the top of the list may simply deal with more of the public, or serve people more able to file a report online. A district with no reports is far more likely to be under-reported than to be clean. Please do not read these charts as a corruption index for Nepal.
How the timing charts work
Hour, weekday and month all come from when the incident happened, in Nepal local time (UTC+05:45) — not from when the report was filed. The parts are computed once at submission, so a reader in another timezone sees the same numbers.
Built with
Next.js and Appwrite, with maps from OpenStreetMap contributors. It is a hobby project, built on free and open tools, inspired by bribes.fyi in India.