HRDC Bhopal in association with Vigilance department the other day organized a guest lecture at Career College, Bhopal, as a part of the Vigilance Awareness Week celebrations. The faculty for this lecture was Asutosh Kumar, DSP, CBI (ACB).
Sanjay S Dhavle AGM (Vigilance), PK Jha DGM (vigilance), Swagata S Saxena DGM (HRD), Tarun Kumar Kaushik Sr Engineer (HRD) and KL Shruti Deputy Office graced the occasion. From career college, PN Tiwari, principal Career College was present.
Vyas, Principle Law Dept. Career College welcomed the distinguished guests and students. He briefed about Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is an apex statutory body created in 1964 to address governmental corruption. He emphasized on the theme of this year ‘Eradicate Corruption- Build a new India’ by quoting a slogan ‘Apna Apna Karo Sudhar, Tabhi Mitega Bhristachar’.
Sanjay S Dhavle, AGM (Vigilance) briefed about the theme for this year ‘Eradicate Corruption- Build a new India’ and the role of Central Vigilance Commission. He shared that vigilance awareness week is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel on October 31.
Asutosh Kumar DSP CBI (ACB) presented power point presentation on the Eradicate Corruption; he mentioned that each individual could play a vital role in curbing corruption. He shared various measures taken by the government to minimize corruption. IT-enabled systems, citizen charters etc. help in bringing transparency in existing systems thereby curbing corruption at various levels.
As per Report of Amnesty International 2017, India stands at 81st Rank in comparison to new Zeeland, which rated best. The ranking of India has changed from 81 to 85 during 2008 to 2017 with leaps and bounces. He said corruption effects all irrespective of wealth, in form of disparity, town-planning, pollution damaged roads etc. He said, Cause of corruption is putting your own interest over nation’s interest, unregulated power could be other reasons, he said power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
He appreciated BHEL for bringing Transparency in systems by means of e-Tendering, e-Procurement; GPS enabled system and biometric system etc. He added that in today’s world RTI is a big tool to extract information and fight corruption and requested everyone to bring any case of bribery demanded to CBI; he assured swift action from CBI. He insisted that the learnings of today would lay the foundation of tomorrow. Pankaj Jha, DGM (Vig.) proposed the Vote of Thanks.