Corruption rate in India

So, I turned 18 7th February a few weeks ago . Feels pretty good you know you get to have you own bank account, driving licence, college etc etc . The fun . So me and my parents always had a policy that I’ll not drive before I turn 18 and that was followed relatively. As I turned 18 my parents decided to apply for Learning Licence. When they went in so and so procedure was done for me but but but, as soon as the time came for the main thing the officers openly told try getting a license without an agent. So my parents said wtf and they were refused the license for me, they ended up paying 4k cash to an agent. Same thing happened in 2021 and 2022 when we decided to renew our passports as finally after COVID tourism had opened and we were planning a trip after 3 years. As my dad has a transferable job ( Average corporate world ) our expired passports were registered at Lucknow, the officers said we will reject your passports, so ultimately we had to hire an agent and after applying in October 2021 we got our passports in Nay 2022 after giving nearly 15k for 3 of us. Now I feel that’s bullshit and that should not at all happen, at this stage if I want to do something legally I cant I’m actually forced into doing something illegal and giving black money to these folks. I believe this should not happen, cause in every case until the office work it’s fine but when it’s police verification you get stuck at that. We should really take a stand against that . Just my thoughts.