Vigilance Awareness Week is being observed at various organisations with an aim to maintain the highest standards of honesty and support the fight against corruption

NSIC

Vijayendra, IAS, CMD, NSIC, administered the “Integrity Pledge for Organisations” on the Vigilance Awareness Week. P Udayakumar, Director (P&M), Gaurang Dixit, Director (Finance), NSIC and Rajan Trehan, CVO, NSIC along with the company’s employees were also present on the occasion. The campaign affirms their integrity and probity through citizen participation. All employees have been advised to adhere to COVID-19 guidelines and focus on internal (housekeeping) activities which are to be taken up in campaign mode. The week, started from Tuesday will be observed till November 2 with the theme of ‘Satark Bharat, Samriddh Bharat’ (Vigilant India, Prosperous India).

NHPC Limited

Hydropower company and a ‘Mini Ratna’ Category-I enterprise of the government, NHPC Limited, commenced the observance of Vigilance Awareness Week themed Vigilant India, Prosperous India on  Tuesday at its corporate office in Faridabad and various power stations/ projects/ regional offices and field units. It will go on till November 2.

On this occasion, A.K. Singh, CMD, NHPC administered the oath of “Integrity Pledge” to the senior officers and employees. Ratish Kumar, Director (Projects), N.K. Jain, Director (Personnel), Y.K. Chaubey, Director (Technical), R.P. Goyal, Director (Finance) and A.K. Srivastava, CVO, NHPC were also present along with other senior officers and employees of the company. Speaking on the occasion A.K. highlighted on the theme and appealed all employees to follow all procedures and guidelines to ensure transparency and accountability while working.

He also released Chetna, the e-magazine of the company’s vigilance division. During this week, the company is organising activities such as quizzes, debates, essay writing, poetry competitions etc. for its employees across all its locations. The competitions shall be conducted on an online platform in view of the ongoing pandemic.

Kolkata Metro

Metro Railway, Kolkata is observing Vigilance Awareness Week till November 2. As a part of this programme, S.K. Srivastava, Additional General Manager, Metro Railway, administered the “Integrity Pledge” to his officers and staff at Metro Rail Bhavan on Tuesday in order to maintain probity and rule of law in all walks of life.

Srivastava emphasised on eradication of corruption in order to ensure economic, political and social progress of our country.  He called upon all to be vigilant and show honesty and integrity and support the fight against corruption. Integrity Pledge was also administered at other offices of metro railway.

NDMC

“The citizens and organisations must look inwards at a time when the world is facing an unprecedented crisis. All organisations should focus on improvement of internal processes and activities during this year. Systematic improvements may be carried out to improve the delivery of public services in all organisations. Training and capacity building of staff is an important component supporting this object.” This was remarked by Central Vigilance Commissioner, Sanjay Kothari in his keynote address in a webinar organised by New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on the theme of Vigilance Awareness Week — ‘Sarthak Bharat, Samridh Bharat’ — from October 27 to November 2 at Palika Kendra on Tuesday.

Chairman, NDMC, Dharmendra said that only those organisations that can manage their resources efficiently and effectively achieve success. “So, it is our responsibility to ensure transparency, accountability, fairness and objectivity so that NDMC’s resources can be utilised optimally to the benefit of the public at large without any leakage,” he added.

The webinar was attended by the heads and senior officers of all urban civic bodies of Delhi like North MCD, East MCD, South MCD, DDA and Delhi Cantt. Additional Chief Secretary (Urban Development), Delhi Government shared his experience on the best practice and innovation to increase the transparency.

Secretary, NDMC, Amit Singla presented his vote of thanks and the welcome address was given by Chief Vigilance Officer, Sanjay Kumar Tyagi on the occasion.

Former senior diplomat, quiz master and motivational speaker, Dr Deepak Vohara talked about ‘Ethics in Public Life’, and said that the entire society is being affected by corruption and breach of integrity at many levels.

Chief Technical Examiner of Central Vigilance Commission, Shailendra Singh interacted in another webinar with the employees and officers of NDMC on the technical issues of transparent tendering process and their specifications. He stressed upon the importance of self-explanatory provisions of the tender to avoid the delay in execution of work.

PFC

The Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC) began observing the Vigilance Awareness Week 2020 from Tuesday, which will go on till November 2. Ravinder Singh Dhillon, CMD, PFC along with P K Singh, Director (Commercial) & Addl Charge of Director (Projects) and Parminder Chopra, Director (Finance) administered “Satyanishtha Pratigya” (Integrity Pledge) to all employees of the corporation to mark the beginning of week. PFC’s Vigilance Unit is organising various events/workshops and competitions on the theme, ‘Satark Bharat, Samriddh Bharat’ to raise awareness among its employees.

PNB

The Punjab National Bank (PNB) participated in the Integrity Pledge taking ceremony, commencing the Vigilance Awareness Week on Tuesday. The pledge was administered by CH SS Malikarjuna Rao, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, and Vijay Kumar Tyagi, Chief Vigilance Officer.

Messages from President of India, Prime Minister of India, Vice-President of India and Central Vigilance Commission were echoed during the ceremony by Executive Directors. Rao said, “Everyone must imbibe the quality of being vigilant in day-to-day routine to protect against untoward incidents. Preventive Vigilance is basically a checkpoint to understand if we are adhering to the laid down guidelines.”

NFL

Virendra Nath Datt, CMD, National Fertilizers Limited (NFL), administered the Vigilance Oath to employees, commencing the Vigilance Awareness Week, on Tuesday. Lalit Mohan Pandey, CVO, Nirlep Singh Rai, Director (Technical), YP Bhola, Director (Finance) were also present on the occasion.