By Punjabnewswire4u.blogspot.com
CHANDIGARH, JULY
19
In
a bid to achieve its objective of zero tolerance towards corruption for
bringing far more transparency and efficiency in the state administration, the
Punjab Government has issued detailed guidelines to all the Chief Vigilance
Officers (CVOs) designated in various departments to curb corruption thereby
keeping a close tab on the activities of the corrupt officers in their
respective departments.
Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the Chief Minister's Office said
that the CVOs have been asked to comply with these instructions meticulously to
ensure good governance, keeping in view the larger public interest. The
guidelines issued by the State Vigilance department called upon the officers to
help the state government in detection of corruption and corrupt officers in
their departments, to prepare lists of corrupt officers who enjoyed bad
reputation and to ensure effective supervision on them and to so regulate their
posting that they do not have scope to indulge in corruption. The CVOs had been
asked to pass on information to the Secretary Vigilance regarding such officers
so that they could also keep a strict vigil over them besides ensuring prompt
and effective departmental actions/ prosecution in courts of corrupt officers
when evidence was available, keeping watch over proceedings against the
defaulters so that delay did not allow the defaulters to escape punishment.
It
was also mandatory on the part of the CVOs to check and review the procedures
adopted in the department, if necessary, with the Assistance of the Vigilance
department to plug loopholes whenever existing which facilitates corruption
apart from providing assistance regarding departmental rules and procedures to
the investigation officer of the Vigilance department. The CVOs had also been
instructed to refer difficult and complicated cases to the Vigilance department
for investigation besides scrutinizing cases of compulsory retirement of the
corrupt officers at the age of 55 years, to check up cases of compulsory retirement
of corrupt government servants even earlier, if permitted by law and rules. It
would also be bounden duty on the part of CVOs to scrutinize property returns
of the government servants to detect corruption or unreasonable accumulation of
property.
They have also been authorized to scrutinize reports and have the items
included in them investigated, which appear to involve an element of
corruption. The CVOs by virtue of these instructions would also act as a
liaison officers between their own department and the Vigilance department,
including the Vigilance Bureau. The CVOs had also been directed to monitor
progress with regard to grant of prosecution sanctioned in the cases referred
to their department under advice to the Secretary Vigilance. They have also
been asked to ensure that any information, date, advice, record etc. asked for
by the Vigilance department/ Vigilance Bureau was made available without any
loss of time. The spokesman further said that it has been often observed that
the CVOs were not discharging their duties in the right earnest and therefore
they have been now asked for strict adherence to these instructions.
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