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By Our Special Correspondent
COIMBATORE, DEC. 15. In its crusade against corruption, the Central Vigilance Commission plans to involve "credible non-governmental organisations and media groups" to get public feedback on the functioning of government departments, the Central Vigilance Commissioner, P. Shankar, said here today. This is to "monitor the system." "The objective is to create pressure on the public officials so that they discharge their duties honestly." Besides, he planned to invoke his powers under Sections 11 and 12 of the CVC Act "under which I can call for any file from any official if a suitable reply was not received on a complaint passed on to him by the Commission." The Parliament should discuss the CVC report as in the case of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General. "I have already made this request and submitted a report," he told presspersons after addressing the valedictory of the Platinum Jubilee of the local chapter of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Filtering mechanism
Out of about 1,250 complaints to the commission a month, only 50 deserved action. It had now formulated a "filtering mechanism" to accept or reject complaints. "I should be able to convince an independent authority why action was initiated or not initiated and on what grounds." On the names of the officials (considered corrupt) put on the website, Mr. Shankar said they were those against whom charges had been framed. However, many of them had been acquitted. "Hereafter, I will put on the website only names of those officials who have been found guilty." As purchases of the Government and public sector undertakings were found to be the breeding grounds of corruption "I have decided to subject to inspection all purchases above a certain cut-off level."
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