Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad   

Former Vigilance chief hits out at politicians

HYDERABAD: A senior IAS officer, R. C. Samal, who has just retired as Vigilance Commissioner, hit out at his colleagues and the politicians on Friday at what he called their ignorance of the role of the Vigilance Commission in prevention of corruption.

In a 56-page statement, Mr. Samal touched upon the ills plaguing the bureaucracy and the political leadership and how corruption had become an all pervading phenomenon.

He said though the Andhra Pradesh Vigilance Commission was formed along with Central Vigilance Commission in 1964, the present day civil servants and the politicians had not even heard about it. “Their character, lack of understanding of the rule of law, false notion that executive is supreme, their desire to make quick buck, the habit of not achieving anything except their own objectives and agenda and accumulations make them unable to apply to issues like what is the Vigilance Commission.”

Mr. Samal, said he would be failing in his duty if he did not introduce himself and the Commission to “the babus and the politicians in power who were busy in the loot and to the honest few in the civil services in the business of quality administration and the general public of Andhra Pradesh who were sufferers at large in the name of big development administration.” He said the wealth of society in the shape of land and what was called family silver accumulated through centuries was vanishing fast in the name of this development administration. The senior bureaucrat said shortage of truly competent officers to man the highest levels in major departments had resulted in tremendous leakages in expenditure.

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