Hyderabad is the most corrupt city in India, former director general of police T S Rao said at a seminar on `Corruption: its preventive measures’ organised by Raksha, an organisation floated to work for a corruption-free society, here on Sunday. Rao said India has two problems, one of them being terrorism and the other corruption. “We need a people’s movement to get rid of this problem and but Hyderabad is not responsive to such movements,” he said. Justice J Chalameshar of the Andhra Pradesh High Court lamented that corruption has become a way of life in the city. “Corruption is not just restricted to taking money, but even when you recommend someone, it is an act of corruption,” he said. Having stated the problem, the meeting took up solutions. “We should begin the cleansing of society from the ground level,” L V Subramanyam, vice-chairman and managing director of the Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh, said. “When politicians are corrupt, the public punishes them by not giving them votes in the next election. But if bureaucrats and lower-rung officials are corrupt, then the people must take some action and complain to the Lok Ayukta,” Subramanyam said. B Prasad Rao, director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau and K G Shankar, law secretary of Andhra Pradesh also spoke at the function.