Governor seeks lists of corrupt officers within 15 days: JAMMU, January 20: Determined to curb the menace of corruption, which has assumed alarming proportion in the State, Governor N N Vohra sought lists of all the corrupt officers and officials in the State administration within a period of 15 days. He has also issued directions for maintaining special watch on public service delivery system to ensure its functioning in responsive and transparent manner besides encouraging people to come forward to report every case of dishonest functioning by the public servants. The Governor passed these directions while reviewing the functioning of State Vigilance Organization and State Vigilance Commission at Raj Bhavan separately. With these directions, the Governor has dropped enough hints that axe would fall on the dishonest officers and officials besides deadwoods in the State administration. Governor while evaluating vigilance functioning with Director Vigilance Organization, Sheikh Owais Ahmad and Secretary, General Administration Department, Mohammad Ashraf Bukhari gave enough indications that he would not tolerate corruption at any level in the State administration and all those indulging in such practices would have to face the music. Expressing serious concern over the intensity of corrupt practices at different levels in the administration and subsequent harassment to the common masses, Governor directed the Vigilance Organization to ensure that the public service delivery system is kept under special watch for its responsive and transparent functioning. He said that all the corruption cases should be dealt with sternly and on zero tolerance basis. “Governor directed the General Administration Department Secretary to submit lists of corrupt officers and officials in the State administration within a period of 15 days so that necessary action is taken against them for bringing disrepute to the Government in the eyes of the public”, sources informed. Mr Vohra even sought separate list of those officers, who are repeatedly indulging in corrupt practices and are not ready to mend their ways besides the list of deadwoods in the Government departments, they further disclosed. He directed that all the cases due for compulsory review under Article 226 should be placed before the designated committee for time-bound action. “The investigation and prosecution of all pending cases should be completed within notified time frames”, the Governor stressed. In the meeting, Secretary GAD informed that a total of 16 cases were pending for sanction of prosecution, which included 7 cases relating to the Public Sector Undertakings/ Autonomous Bodies. The Director Vigilance informed that last year, 79 cases were registered against 240 public servants, including 106 Gazetted Officers and 30 public servants were caught red handed while accepting bribe. He informed the Governor that Vigilance Organization sends alert notices to bring to the State Government’s notice cases of deviations and violation of Codes and Rules. While reviewing the functioning of State Vigilance Commission separately, the Governor urged the Chief Vigilance Commissioner, Kuldeep Khoda to regularly monitor all pending enquiries and prosecution sanction cases in accordance with the provisions under the State Vigilance Commission Act, 2011. He also asked Mr Khoda to take all necessary measures to enhance awareness amongst people and encourage them to come forward for reporting every case of dishonest functioning by public servants. He asked the Chief Vigilance Commissioner to hold monthly meetings with the Departmental Vigilance Officers to ensure time-bound action on all enquiry cases. “Departmental Vigilance Officers mechanism too has a vital role to play in checking corruption and mal-administration and this mechanism should be strengthened to achieve the desired objective”, Mr Vohra stressed. CVC Kuldeep Khoda and Vigilance Commissioner R K Jerath informed the Governor that 1157 complaints were received by the State Vigilance Commission in 2014, out of which 64 cases have been referred for Departmental/ Administrative Action while registration of FIRs has been directed in respect of 26 cases. Mr Khoda also informed that during the last 5 years, 8372 Enquiries/Complaints have been referred to the Departmental Vigilance Officers.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 04:14:00 +0000
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