by Punjabnewswire4u (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, SEPT 6
In a bid to streamline the process
of getting Vigilance Clearance for the retiring employees or those who are
seeking the promotions, the Punjab government has introduced a new policy under
which the Vigilance Bureau (VB) would prepare department wise negative list of
the employees involved in any vigilance enquiry against whom FIR had been
registered by them.
Disclosing this here today a
spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office said that, Chief Minister Mr
Parkash Singh Badal cleared the proposal mooted by the Vigilance Department
based on the recommendations of a three member committee comprising Secretary
Personnel Mr Anirudh Tiwari, Special Secretary Vigilance Mr Arun Sekhri and
Additional Legal Remembrancer (LR) Mr BR Garg. Mr Badal directed the Vigilance
Department for implementing this policy expediously to prevent the employees
from the inconvenience caused due to inordinate delay in seeking Vigilance
Clearance Certificate.
The
spokesperson said that in accordance of new policy the VB would supply a
department wise negative list of the government employees against whom FIR had
been registered by them at any point of time. The VB would be required to update
this list after every fortnight for sending it to the respective administrative
departments through the Vigilance department. The copy of this list would also
be forwarded to the Administrative Secretary of the concerned department for
information and the necessary action. In
between the period of these 15 days the VB would inform the administrative
department regarding any significant development about the government employee
of their department involved in the FIR.
Under
the new policy the employee seeking Vigilance clearance for his retirement or
promotion would have to submit a self declaration regarding his involvement/
non involvement in any case. After receiving the declaration the Head of the
Department (HOD) of the concerned employee would check the negative and the
updated lists provided by the VB and decide the case at his level if the name
of employee does not figure in the negative list. However if the name of the
employee figures in the negative list then the HOD would refer the case to VB
for getting the latest status before taking any final decision regarding the
employee.
The new policy stipulates a response
time of 10 days, which include four days for the Vigilance Department and six
days for the Vigilance Bureau, fixed for processing and sending reply to the
administrative department. However if no reply is sent to the administrative
department then it would be presumed that no case was pending against the
concerned employee, the responsibility of which would be fully that of the VB.
The VB would also upload the negative list of the employees and update it on
daily basis on its under construction website having limited accessibility
mainly comprising of the CVOs of the various departments.
It
may be recalled that earlier it was mandatory for the concerned administrative
departments to send the cases for getting pension clearance certificate for the
retiring government employees to the Vigilance Department one year prior to the
date of his retirement. However as it was a long drawn process which consumed a
lot of time and energy so all the retiring employees of the state government
along with those seeking promotion had to face plethora of problems while
seeking the Vigilance clearance certificate from the Vigilance Bureau (VB). Realizing
the hardships faced by of employees and to ensure minimal inconvenience to them
on this count, the state government had taken this path breaking initiative in
continuance of its endeavor to pursue its flagship program of Governance
reforms.
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