The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has drastically brought down the pendency of disciplinary matters against Central Government employees and carried out an exercise to review pending cases so as to ensure that all cases reach a logical end within a reasonable time.
This was conveyed by Central Vigilance Commissioner Suresh N Patel and vigilance commissioners Arvind Kumar and Praveen Kumar Srivastava when they called on Union Minister for Personnel Jitendra Singh on Thursday.
Citing figures, Patel informed Singh that the pendency of 2,099 disciplinary matters for the period prior to December 2018 had been reduced to 227 by June 30, 2022 due to a special campaign initiated by the commission in 2020, an official release said. Similarly, overall outstanding disciplinary matters which on an average as on December 2019 used to be around 5,000 at a given point of time has come down drastically in the range of 1,700 now due to cooperation of the authorities at different levels, it said.