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This is the outcome of corrupt Indian rulers. Now it is need of the hour that Hindu Rashtra must be established, which will have righteous and patriotic rulers who will be able to wipe out corruption and other malpractices completely !
By Abhinandan Mishra
The Central Bureau of Investigation, the main investigating agency that can take action against corrupt government officials, is not able to do anything substantial since the Central government is delaying giving the order to prosecute its officers.
Until mid June 2011, action against over 157 corrupt bureaucrats was pending because of want of sanction. Between 2007 and January 2011, the CBI booked 108 bureaucrats for corruption, including 19 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, six Indian Police Service (IPS) officers and 35 Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers. The figure for 2010 was 42 bureaucrats. In 2008, the number of officers booked was 16.
A former IPS officer who retired as Director general of police (DGP), Madhya Pradesh feels that unless the bottleneck is removed, corruption amongst top officials will go on unabated. "The CBI needs prior permission from the Centre to lodge even an FIR against officials above the level of joint secretary. After the probe, the CBI has to seek sanction to prosecute the officers from the Central government."
The CBI, however, is not complaining. An official with the agency said that the government was taking steps to tackle corruption: "The setting up of 71 additional special courts exclusively for the trial of CBI cases in different states has been approved. The appointment of 43 special prosecutors and assistant special prosecutors and 45 technical experts have also been done," he said.
Corruption among bureaucrats can be gauged from the case of the IAS couple from Madhya Pradesh cadre, Arvind and Tinu Joshi. An investigation into their income revealed that they owned assets worth Rs 350 cr, disproportionate to their known sources of income. The Income Tax Department later served them notices for tax dues of Rs 45 cr. "The Joshis were obviously close to their political masters. That's why they continued to flourish," the officer added. Tinu Joshi was a deputy secretary in the Prime Minister's Office from 1988 to 1990, while Arvind Joshi was a joint secretary in the Ministry of Defence in 1999 during the Kargil conflict.
Retired IPS officer and former CBI director Joginder Singh said, "The laws are such that the babus fear no one. They know that they can get away with anything. The accountability of the bureaucrat should be fixed."
According to Transparency International's (TI) 2011 annual corruption perception index, India is ranked 95 among the 183 countries where TI measured corruption. Transparency International vice chairman (India) S.K. Agarwal said, "The fight against corruption is long and full of harassing legal process. Unless there is some kind of deterrent and exemplary punishment, babus will continue to be prone to corruption."
The state of affairs at the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), the apex body to address government corruption, is bad. In 2009, the CVC received 5,783 complaints of corruption in 330 government institutions. However, it acted against only 2,429 officials. The nature of the action taken was generally mild. Serious penalties such as dismissal and compulsory retirement from service were taken only in select cases.
In the same year, not one corrupt officer out of 331 in the Ministry of Finance was punished. In the Central Board of Direct Taxes and the Central Board of Excise and Customs, 422 corrupt babus were let off.
The CVC in its annual report of 2010 stated that 222 government organisations and departments were sitting on its advice for over six months to act against 2,346 corrupt officials. Indian Railways was the worst offender. Despite the CVC recommending action against 320 Railway officers, none was taken.
Joginder Singh said, "It is clear that the government does not want to take action against the erring officials. They are not investing resources in recruiting prosecutors, special courts, which will go a long way in curbing corruption."
The Department of Personnel and Training, in response to an RTI last year, revealed a list of 13 corrupt babus. Among these, three are from Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre. Two each are from Punjab and Orissa.
The officers include Karan Bir Singh Sidhu (Punjab), R.K. Shrivastava (AGMUT), Kavaddi Narsimha (AGMUT), J.S.L. Vasava (Assam-Manipur), R.S. Shrivastava (Rajasthan), L.V. Subramaniam (Andhra Pradesh), Mandeep Singh (Punjab), Sanjeev Kumar (Haryana), Subhash Chand Ahluwalia (Himachal Pradesh), Rakesh Mohan (AGMUT), Prafulla Chandra Mishra (Orissa), Sudhir Prasad (Jharkhand) and Vinod Kumar (Orissa). Shrivastava has eight different cases against him and Vinod Kumar six.
Source : Sunday-Guardian
This is the outcome of corrupt Indian rulers. Now it is need of the hour that Hindu Rashtra must be established, which will have righteous and patriotic rulers who will be able to wipe out corruption and other malpractices completely !
By Abhinandan Mishra
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Until mid June 2011, action against over 157 corrupt bureaucrats was pending because of want of sanction. Between 2007 and January 2011, the CBI booked 108 bureaucrats for corruption, including 19 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, six Indian Police Service (IPS) officers and 35 Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers. The figure for 2010 was 42 bureaucrats. In 2008, the number of officers booked was 16.
A former IPS officer who retired as Director general of police (DGP), Madhya Pradesh feels that unless the bottleneck is removed, corruption amongst top officials will go on unabated. "The CBI needs prior permission from the Centre to lodge even an FIR against officials above the level of joint secretary. After the probe, the CBI has to seek sanction to prosecute the officers from the Central government."
The CBI, however, is not complaining. An official with the agency said that the government was taking steps to tackle corruption: "The setting up of 71 additional special courts exclusively for the trial of CBI cases in different states has been approved. The appointment of 43 special prosecutors and assistant special prosecutors and 45 technical experts have also been done," he said.
Corruption among bureaucrats can be gauged from the case of the IAS couple from Madhya Pradesh cadre, Arvind and Tinu Joshi. An investigation into their income revealed that they owned assets worth Rs 350 cr, disproportionate to their known sources of income. The Income Tax Department later served them notices for tax dues of Rs 45 cr. "The Joshis were obviously close to their political masters. That's why they continued to flourish," the officer added. Tinu Joshi was a deputy secretary in the Prime Minister's Office from 1988 to 1990, while Arvind Joshi was a joint secretary in the Ministry of Defence in 1999 during the Kargil conflict.
Retired IPS officer and former CBI director Joginder Singh said, "The laws are such that the babus fear no one. They know that they can get away with anything. The accountability of the bureaucrat should be fixed."
According to Transparency International's (TI) 2011 annual corruption perception index, India is ranked 95 among the 183 countries where TI measured corruption. Transparency International vice chairman (India) S.K. Agarwal said, "The fight against corruption is long and full of harassing legal process. Unless there is some kind of deterrent and exemplary punishment, babus will continue to be prone to corruption."
The state of affairs at the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), the apex body to address government corruption, is bad. In 2009, the CVC received 5,783 complaints of corruption in 330 government institutions. However, it acted against only 2,429 officials. The nature of the action taken was generally mild. Serious penalties such as dismissal and compulsory retirement from service were taken only in select cases.
In the same year, not one corrupt officer out of 331 in the Ministry of Finance was punished. In the Central Board of Direct Taxes and the Central Board of Excise and Customs, 422 corrupt babus were let off.
The CVC in its annual report of 2010 stated that 222 government organisations and departments were sitting on its advice for over six months to act against 2,346 corrupt officials. Indian Railways was the worst offender. Despite the CVC recommending action against 320 Railway officers, none was taken.
Joginder Singh said, "It is clear that the government does not want to take action against the erring officials. They are not investing resources in recruiting prosecutors, special courts, which will go a long way in curbing corruption."
The Department of Personnel and Training, in response to an RTI last year, revealed a list of 13 corrupt babus. Among these, three are from Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre. Two each are from Punjab and Orissa.
The officers include Karan Bir Singh Sidhu (Punjab), R.K. Shrivastava (AGMUT), Kavaddi Narsimha (AGMUT), J.S.L. Vasava (Assam-Manipur), R.S. Shrivastava (Rajasthan), L.V. Subramaniam (Andhra Pradesh), Mandeep Singh (Punjab), Sanjeev Kumar (Haryana), Subhash Chand Ahluwalia (Himachal Pradesh), Rakesh Mohan (AGMUT), Prafulla Chandra Mishra (Orissa), Sudhir Prasad (Jharkhand) and Vinod Kumar (Orissa). Shrivastava has eight different cases against him and Vinod Kumar six.
Source : Sunday-Guardian
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