A workshop on “Internal Vigilance as a Tool of Good Governance” was held at the Commissionerate Police office here on Tuesday.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Higher Education Minister Dr Pradeep Panigrahi, Chief Secretary AP Padhi, IIIT Bhubaneswar Director Gopal Krishna Nayak and Vigilance Director Dr Rajendra Prasad Sharma attended the inaugural function.
About 135 Chief Vigilance Officers of different Departments/ PSUs and senior Vigilance Officers were present, among others.
In his welcome address, Sharma highlighted about the crucial roles of Chief Vigilance Officers in eradicating corruption and stressed on better coordination between Vigilance Officers and CVOs for effective implementation of internal vigilance.
The Chief Minister impressed upon the CVOs to adopt methods of preventive vigilance in active cooperation with the State Vigilance for keeping corruption under check in their respective departments and public sector undertakings. He emphasised upon the roll of CVOs and Vigilance in contributing towards clean and efficient governance.
He released a booklet “Pratibadhh”, a compilation that explains role and function of CVOs and vigilance cases
During workshop, Vigilance DIG Narasingha Bhol gave a power point presentation on “existing structure and functions of CVOs”.
Former DGP Gopal Nanda spoke on the “legal and Administration issue relevant to CVOs.” DIG Amitendra Nath Sinha presented the “Best Practices on Internal Vigilance”.
Among others, Hindustan Copper ltd., Kolkata CVO Rakesh Kumar, retired IAS Sanjib Hota, Telecommunication CVO M Akhaya, former Information commissioner Jagadananda spoke
The workshop concluded with a resolution for establishing a better coordination between CVOs and Vigilance so that Internal Vigilance mechanism could be strengthened to prevent corruption.