The Hindu Business Line : Central vigilance panel to strive for more transparency

Hyderabad, July 7 The Central Vigilance Commission is looking at leveraging the use of technology to bring about more transparency and objectivity in the system.

According to Mr Pratyush Sinha, Central Vigilance Commissioner, the idea behind this is to reduce the contact between citizens and service providers.

“There is also greater emphasis being given to improve the systems and bring about systematic changes in the organisation so that greater levels of transparency can be achieved,” he said while talking to the media after attending an event to mark the fifth anniversary of Vigilance Study Circle here on Monday.

The Commission, Mr Sinha said, is also looking at the entire supervisory structure in an organisation, where there is any misconduct found.

“One cannot leave or push the entire blame on the lowest official in the formation as there is a whole system of inspection and internal audits. So where there is a misconduct found we will see if the responsibility fixed on the seniors has been discharged in ensuring integrity in the system,” he added.

Earlier, in his address, Mr Sinha said that vigilance or fighting corruption is something that cannot be left to the Governments or certain institutions alone. “Unless it becomes a public movement it will not succeed to the extent to be considered desirable for a country that wants to play a world role,” he said.

He also said that ethical governance cannot be outsourced or imposed from outside but has to come from within the organisation and merely changing the ownership to the private sector one cannot change the moral context of corruption.

“If we are able to reduce corruption to the level of some of the South-East Asian countries, our GDP is likely to go up by 1.5 per cent. Also the type of corruption that we have tells most heavily on the poorer sections of the society and these two factors are the most worrying,” Mr Sinha said.

Corruption, he said, is not marginal but the core issue in India and it is important to innovate ways for fighting it.

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